“Banks want to make loans to creditworthy customers. But if those projects are burdened by unreasonable climate risks, they may get rejected. That gives the edge going forward to clean energy investments.”
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Form Energy Raises Another $70M for Long-Duration Storage
Although Form Energy hasn’t named all of its investors, the newly raised $70 million brings the total raised for energy storage to $120 million.
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Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon
“Nuclear energy has always been a very clean form of energy and extremely effective,” he said. “Realistically, it will be pivotal to deep space exploration, and more importantly, to humanity becoming a multi-planetary species. This new dawn of space exploration will see a resurgence in the nuclear industry until the next form of efficient, clean energy is discovered.”
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At $16 Billion, Australian Solar Project Would Be Biggest In The World
“This project would combine the world’s largest solar farm, the largest battery, and longest undersea electricity cable. The 10 gigawatt (GW) solar farm would cover 30,000 acres in Australia’s sunny Northern Territory. That is about the equivalent of 9 million rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. The solar farm would be paired with a 30 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery storage facility to enable round-the-clock dispatch of renewable power.”
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Regulators can help clear the way for entrepreneurial energy companies to innovate
“How regulatory policies are implemented can make a huge difference for entrepreneurs in clean technology. In a study, we found that giving state-level regulators more discretion in approving hydropower facilities in the United States led to faster adoption of this clean energy source.”
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The Coming Energy Shocks Under A Biden Administration
“Whether the energy shock emanates from the eclipse of the US as the world’s leading oil and gas producer (leading to high oil and gas prices) or from the collapse of the OPEC+ production cut agreement brought about by the re-emergence of unconstrained Iranian exports (leading to very low oil and gas prices), a Biden presidency presents some highly disruptive scenarios in global energy affairs, scenarios no less disruptive than any under Trump’s watch.”
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America’s forest sector is ready for climate action and rural America can benefit
“So why do America’s forests deserve such a strong role in climate action? America’s forests and forest products already sequester over 750 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually. That is nearly 15 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, and represents by far our largest land-based carbon sink. With the right actions, our forests can do even more.”
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Charles Koch congratulates Biden and says he wants to work together on ‘as many issues as possible’
“'Let's get together and make that happen so we can start helping each other, rather than hurting each other,' Koch said. 'This is crazy! Are we going to have a civil war? I mean, this is madness. We see the results of that: We see that in countries where that’s going on, where people are killing each other. I mean, this is crazy, and we've got elements of that from both sides. So let's get away from that!'"
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Emissions from U.S. Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% in 2019
"The drop is consistent with a decade-long downward trend in greenhouse gas releases from large stationary sources, partly propelled by the power sector’s ongoing shift away from coal to renewable sources and cleaner-burning natural gas."
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Here’s what congressional Republicans are thinking on climate following the election
“Potential areas of agreement include clean energy spending in a pandemic-related stimulus package, infrastructure investments, including transmission lines for renewables and chargers for electric vehicles, extensions of solar and wind tax credits, and additional subsidies for battery storage, and legislation phasing down hydrofluorocarbons, a potent pollutant used in cooling systems.”