Clean energy
Maria Virginia Olano is editorial producer at Canary Media, where she writes the Chart of the Week and Charging Up columns. She also covers climatetech workforce trends and leads editorial digital events.
Before joining the Canary team, she worked on state-level climate policy advocacy, specifically focusing on communications strategies. She previously produced the podcastPolitical Climate and hosted and produced the podcast Cooler Earth. She grew up in Colombia and now lives in Boston.
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Renewables, batteries and nuclear will add up to 96% of all new power capacity constructed this year, per federal data.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: This Birkenstock-wearing venture capitalist means business
Canary chats with Victoria Beasley, a partner at Gigascale Capital. Plus, updates on big cleantech career moves and tips on how to electrify your life. -
Clean energy
Chart: Wind and solar are closing in on fossil fuels in the EU
European grids are getting cleaner, fast. In 2023, wind overtook gas generation, coal plummeted, renewables rose at a record rate — and electricity emissions fell.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Food and farms
Cultivated meat could help decarbonize food. Florida wants to ban it
The state’s Republican-led legislature could ban the emerging tech, which some see as a long-term pathway to fixing the meat industry’s huge emissions problem.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Liquefied natural gas
Chart: How do voters feel about US LNG exports?
There’s been a lot said about U.S. LNG exports recently, but a poll by Data for Progress shows how the general public actually feels about the issue.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Catalina Oana Tudor, CIO of Noveon Magnetics
Plus, climatetech career moves at Voltus, RWE, Shoals, FirstLight, Kore Power, Kraken, Amazon Web Services and Arcadia. -
Hydrogen
Chart: Which countries are leading the green hydrogen race?
Right now, the world produces almost no green hydrogen. But around the globe, that’s set to change — here’s where it’s happening first.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Hydrogen
The dawn of the clean hydrogen economy — visualized
Thanks to generous subsidies, the world is about to start making a lot more low- and zero-carbon hydrogen. These charts show how. -
Liquefied natural gas
Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal?
Research suggests that liquefied natural gas can have a bigger emissions footprint than coal, undermining LNG's status as a "bridge fuel."By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Clean energy
Chart: The world is building renewable energy faster than ever before
Renewable energy installations jumped nearly 50% last year, the most rapid growth rate in two decades.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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