"The typical project built in 2022 took five years from the interconnection request to commercial operations, compared with three years in 2015. The backlog is worsening as more projects are attracted due to the incentives in the IRA, according to the report."
"Heat pumps don’t just make heating and cooling easier, they also cut the very carbon pollution that is making extreme heat more intense. The switch from propane heaters to heat pumps can cut a household’s annual carbon emissions by 6.3 tons, according to one analysis from Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to electrifying homes across the U.S."
"The abundant seawater surrounding Guam provides an enticing energy source: hydrogen. Through a process called electrolysis, energy from electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. This generates a fuel that can also be stored and used when renewable electricity is not available."
"There’s never been a better time to work in our industry, and I’m excited about the possibilities that await us as craftsmen in the years ahead. However, we also face some critical challenges – helping the general public gain a greater understanding of what we do, maintaining their trust by ensuring that low-carbon concrete works in the real world as well as it does in the lab, maintaining our independence and ability to prescribe the right product for each job and protecting the market ecosystem that helps our industry contribute to this economic transition are all big tasks."
"The key is to drive down the green premium and make green product prices competitive against fossil-based product prices – and that’s going to require more than just government subsidies. Financing these projects requires thinking beyond the traditional market to overcome the investment risks involved. It’s going to require the public and private sector working together to deploy these projects."
"Blumreiter and Johnson co-founded ClearFlame Engine Technologies to market engine technology that allows trucks, generators and other motors to run on a variety of low-emissions fuels such as ethanol, methanol or liquid ammonia. While these fuels are not zero emissions, various studies have shown pure ethanol’s life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are roughly 40 percent to 50 percent less than petroleum-based fuel."
"We cannot afford to build a clean energy future that makes us more dependent on the likes of Russia or China. Rather, we must bolster our national security by building out our nuclear fleet with abundant and secure supply chains."
"A lot of the drivers for recent protests of copper mines, and of the companies producing them, are due to ESG concerns. It remains unclear if the connection will be made that without copper there will be no energy transition, or if the snake will simply keep eating its tail."
"Other carbon removal companies, from Undo Carbon in London to Noya in San Francisco, have also started selling services to individuals. Climeworks, for its part, has attracted nearly 20,000 individual buyers to participate in its carbon removal program since 2019. As it takes time for companies to build out infrastructure to remove carbon and undergo a third-party validation of their work, it’s not uncommon for buyers to wait for years until their purchases can be delivered."
"CarbonBuilt spun out of UCLA’s engineering school in 2019. In May, the company began commercial production of its sustainable concrete at a partner facility in Alabama, where an on-site biomass furnace captures and supplies CO2. The company says it now plans to produce its Portland-cement-free blocks at 'commercial volume' in Alabama starting in 2024."
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