Fossil fuels
Clean energy is cheaper than coal across the whole US, study finds
Almost every coal-fired power plant in the country could be cost-effectively replaced by local solar or wind and batteries, according to a groundbreaking new analysis.
Jeff St. John is director of news and special projects at Canary Media. He covers the intersection of technological, economic and regulatory issues influencing the global transition to low-carbon energy in the electricity, transportation and building sectors. He is the former managing editor and senior grid edge editor of Greentech Media, and he previously reported for The Fresno Bee, the Tri-City Herald and the Anchorage Daily News. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Tara Donoghue and his dog Lily, and enjoys hiking, gardening and playing guitar with his nieces and nephews.
His areas of expertise include renewable energy, smart grid, distributed energy resources, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicles.
He earned a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.
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EV charging
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Neither tenants nor landlords want to pay for EV chargers. Maybe third-party infrastructure finance can solve the conundrum.
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EV charging
Shell buys EV-charger operator Volta for pennies on the dollar
Volta went public via SPAC at a $2B valuation in 2021 but bled cash and sold to Shell for just $169 million. Building EV charging networks is a costly business.
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Clean energy
24/7 carbon-free energy is about to become a reality in California
Peninsula Clean Energy says it can deliver affordable clean energy to its Bay Area territory nearly every hour of the year by 2025. Here’s the data to prove it.
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Clean fleets
Ports need electric trucks. Forum Mobility has $400M to make it happen
The electric-trucking-as-a-service startup will build charging depots and make electric trucks available to freight haulers serving California's busiest ports.
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Batteries
Nevada lithium mine project gets $700M conditional loan offer from DOE
Federal loans for Ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mining project could expand domestic supplies of a key material for EVs and batteries.
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Fossil fuels
Can clean-energy advocates stop new gas plants in North Carolina?
Duke Energy wants new gas plants and limits on new solar. Regulators are going along for now. But opponents say federal incentives make clean energy the best choice.
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Solar
Qcells to invest $2.5B in building out US solar supply chain
Inflation Reduction Act tax credits spur Qcells to make a major investment in Georgia solar factories and to expand its U.S. polysilicon supply.
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Climate crisis
US carbon emissions rose in 2022. Can clean energy get them on track?
Historic investments in renewable energy will help the U.S. get closer to halving emissions by 2030, but there's a lot more work to do, a new report warns.
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Clean energy
Huge opportunities and huge threats loom for US clean energy in 2023
Wind and solar deployment fell steeply in 2022. Can the Inflation Reduction Act help build it back this year?
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