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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Clean energy is still the country's dominant new source of power, but the slowdown is concerning since climate goals demand record installations every year.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Charlin Bodley of RMI’s Energy Transition Academy
Plus, climatetech career and board moves at Nextracker, Tesla, Arcadia, American Clean Power, The Engine, Kevala, The Guardian, sonnen and more. -
Carbon capture
Chart: Carbon capture and removal projects hit a record high in 2022
But most new development is in the early stages, and only a fraction of projects are actually operational at this point.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Jen Betz, CFO at Element Energy
Plus, climatetech career moves at Palmetto, Verne, Rewiring America, Vision Ridge, Tierra Climate, American Clean Power and more. -
Electric vehicles
Chart: EV sales on pace to break 1 million in US this year
Electric vehicles are surging in popularity as the Biden admin pushes for rapid uptake, but EVs still made up less than 10% of new car sales last quarter.By Maria Virginia Olano .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Doseke Akporiaye, executive director of WRISE
Plus, climatetech career moves at SunPower, Silicon Ranch, Heila, Schletter, Sesame Solar, Mission Control Communications, Amasia and more. -
Clean energy
Chart: US clean energy backlog balloons to unprecedented 2 terawatts
The huge figure shows that developers are ready to build renewables, but it also underscores a key problem: The country doesn't have enough transmission capacity. -
Clean energy
Chart: The US got more electricity from renewables than coal last year
It's a major milestone, but fossil gas remains the market leader by a wide margin. -
Workforce diversity
Charging Up: An interview with Stacy Noblet, VP of transportation electrification at ICF
Plus, climatetech career moves at Intersect Power, Sol Systems, Rewiring America, EnergyHub, Onyx Renewables, BayWa r.e., Verra and more. -
Wind
Chart: Which countries added the most new wind power in 2022?
Supply-chain issues and market uncertainty slowed progress last year, but global wind power capacity still inched closer to the 1-terawatt milestone.
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