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Solar-powered microgrids add climate resilience in rural Vermont communities

Green Mountain Power’s new “resiliency zone” initiative is using outage and other data to pinpoint places in need of local grid upgrades. Its first projects consist of microgrids that will power remote villages during outages.

By Lisa Prevost . 30 November 2022
Batteries

Kore Power raises $75M to build lithium-ion battery cells in Arizona

Federal tax credits and incentives are driving a boom in U.S. battery manufacturing. This U.S.-based battery maker wants in.

By Jeff St. John . 30 November 2022
Transmission

NY project will use high-tech sensors to get more clean energy onto grid

National Grid and LineVision are expanding the capacity of New York’s grid to carry greater amounts of wind power. Why aren’t more U.S. utilities doing the same?

By Jeff St. John . 29 November 2022
Food and farms

Tomatoes and solar panels could go well together

Agrivoltaics — agriculture paired with solar arrays — could help the U.S. tomato industry in increasingly hot and dry regions, research suggests.

By Kari Lydersen . 29 November 2022
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Why Ohio’s top oil and gas producing counties continue to lag in jobs

A decade into Ohio’s shale gas boom, seven Appalachian counties still have unemployment rates that exceed the state average. Experts and local sources suggested four reasons why fracking hasn’t closed the gap.

By Kathiann M. Kowalski . 28 November 2022
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By Alison F. Takemura . 28 November 2022
Clean fleets

Schools scramble to prepare for $1B in federal money for electric buses

From small rural districts to statewide fleets, schools are figuring out how to put to use the biggest electric school bus investment in U.S. history.

By Jeff St. John . 28 November 2022
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.

By Maria Gallucci . 25 November 2022
Food and farms

Climate-friendlier meat just got a step closer to your plate

Upside Foods, one of more than 100 startups working on cultivated or lab-grown meat, is the first to earn a key approval from the U.S. FDA.

By Maria Virginia Olano . 23 November 2022
Workforce diversity

Charging Up: A chat with Thais Lopez Vogel, co-founder of the VoLo Foundation

Plus, new board members at Span and Arcadia, and cleantech career moves at Shell, PowerFlex, PosiGen, Mainspring Energy, Strategen, Clean Energy Ventures and more.

By Maria Virginia Olano, Eric Wesoff . 23 November 2022