Clean energy
Puerto Rico's first community-led microgrid is ready to launch
The Adjuntas microgrid project is a high-profile example of how Puerto Ricans are devising solutions to the island's fragile and unreliable electricity system.
Maria Gallucci is a clean energy reporter at Canary Media, where she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the energy transition more affordable and equitable. She was most recently a contributing writer for Grist and IEEE Spectrum, and was previously a staff reporter for InsideClimate News, Mashable, and Mexico City newspapers. Her reporting has taken her across the Americas and inside cargo ships, power plants, and nuclear waste facilities. She was the 2017-2018 Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a 2021 TED speaker. Maria graduated from Ohio University and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Clean energy
La primera microrred comunitaria de Puerto Rico está lista para conectarse
El proyecto en Adjuntas es un ejemplo de cómo los puertorriqueños están ideando sus propias alternativas al frágil sistema eléctrico de la isla.
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Climatetech finance
How climatetech incubators rallied to help startups after SVB collapse
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank sent many climate-focused companies spiraling — and turning to their incubator and accelerator programs to navigate the crisis.
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Climatetech finance
California incubator aims to raise $30M to back climate startups
This week, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator launched its second impact fund, with a focus on supporting diverse entrepreneurs.
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Clean industry
DOE launches $6B program to slash emissions from heavy industry
The Biden administration announced it will help fund projects to clean up the production of steel, cement, aluminum and other hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
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Air travel
A hydrogen-powered airplane just made a record-setting test flight
Startup Universal Hydrogen says it successfully flew a 40-seat passenger plane powered mainly by hydrogen during a test flight in Washington.
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Marine transport
America's pandemic shopping haul arrived on dirty cargo ships
A new report assesses the environmental toll of transporting goods for Walmart, Target, Home Depot and other major U.S. retailers in the frenzied year of 2021.
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Geothermal
Fervo Energy’s new project will harness Earth’s heat to capture CO2
The geothermal energy startup says it will design and engineer a system combining advanced drilling technology with a "direct air capture" system to collect carbon.
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Batteries
This EV battery recycling plant in Ohio is planning a huge expansion
Bolstered by federal funds, Cirba Solutions is growing fast to meet rising demand for recycled metals and minerals. Canary Media gets a firsthand look.
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Ocean energy
After years of costly failures, is tidal energy finally catching on?
The MeyGen tidal power array in Scotland has generated 50 GWh of electricity so far, marking a significant milestone for the slow-going clean energy sector.
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