Air travel
United plans to electrify airport operations with sodium-ion batteries
United Airlines is making a strategic equity investment in sodium-ion battery maker Natron Energy as the aviation industry works to curb emissions.
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.
-
-
Marine transport
How to clean up the dirty ports that handle our Black Friday junk
A new initiative gives report cards to the world’s top ports to show how they’re leading, or falling short, on efforts to decarbonize cargo shipping.
-
Air travel
Major airlines are teaming up to tackle planet-warming plane contrails
American, Southwest and United are joining with Airbus, Boeing, RMI and researchers in an effort to mitigate heat-trapping condensation trails.
-
Wind
World's largest floating wind farm just started producing power
The first of 11 floating wind turbines in Equinor’s project off Norway is now generating clean electricity — which will be used to power an oil platform.
-
Marine transport
The race is on to build the world's first ammonia-powered ship
Startup Amogy is retrofitting a tugboat in New York, while several Nordic companies are testing out different ammonia technologies for cleaning up the shipping industry.
-
Heat pumps
Heat pumps now required for new homes in Washington state
New-build residences will have to install energy-efficient heat pumps starting in July as part of Washington’s ambitious efforts to curb carbon emissions.
-
Solar
7.000 sistemas solares vinculados van a ayudar a la red central en Puerto Rico
Sunrun está desarrollando la primera planta de energía virtual en la isla utilizando sistemas solares y de baterías ya instalados.
-
Solar
Puerto Rico will link up 7,000 solar systems to help its shaky grid
Sunrun is developing Puerto Rico's first virtual power plant using rooftop solar and battery systems across the island.
-
Air travel
Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice — and 'carbon-free' flights?
Icelandair plans to use only hydrogen- and battery-powered planes for in-country routes by the end of this decade.
-
Electric vehicles
Electric buses are ready for takeoff at US airports
Airports nationwide are investing millions in federal grant money to electrify their bus fleets, cutting both carbon emissions and diesel pollution.
Sponsored