Chart: Wind and solar overtook coal on the US grid in 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column.. In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024.The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while ...
Was 2024 a breakout year for next-generation… | Canary Media
Dec 20, 2024 · Worldwide, next-generation geothermal might represent as much as 800 GW of clean electricity capacity by 2050 — or roughly 50 times the world’s current geothermal capacity, according to a new analysis by the International Energy Agency and Project InnerSpace, which advocates for geothermal heat and power use globally.. For all of the progress in 2024, the geothermal industry still faces ...
Enel X Way abandoned its US EV charging customers.… | Canary …
Oct 23, 2024 · There’s no good way for a company to abandon its customers. But Enel X Way, the EV-charging subsidiary of Italian utility and energy conglomerate Enel Group, may have picked the worst way to go about it — and critics say it’s running out of time to choose a better path.. On October 2, Enel X Way abruptly announced it was shutting down its North American charging business.
Chart: US solar installations hit record high, but… | Canary Media
Dec 6, 2024 · That’s because this year’s “ uniquely high” installations were driven by the expiration of a two-year moratorium on tariffs targeting solar panels made in Southeast Asia, S & P wrote. That pause, which ended in June, allowed companies to stockpile cheap panels, but developers were required to use up that inventory by December 3 to avoid paying duties.
The cleantech companies that didn’t make it through 2024
Dec 12, 2024 · Richmond, California–based Moxion Power laid off 101 workers in June and shuttered its doors, following a wave of hype for its 75-kilowatt portable lithium-ion batteries that it hoped would replace diesel generators.The company attracted more than $ 110 million in funding from investors including Tamarack Global, Amazon, Microsoft, and Energy Impact Partners.
Illinois looks to continue clean energy progress under Trump
Jan 3, 2025 · The last time President-elect Donald Trump took office, Illinois had just passed the Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA), creating an ambitious renewable electricity mandate, solar incentive programs, green job training, and equity provisions to propel the state’s clean energy economy.That progress is offering both a blueprint and a source of hope for Illinois clean energy and environmental ...
California’s rooftop solar is a benefit, not a cost,… | Canary Media
Nov 15, 2024 · Utilities across the country have used this same cost-shift argument to fight various state-level policies that benefit rooftop solar. The aim is typically to water down or roll back net-metering programs, which pay customers for the power their rooftop solar systems send back to the grid.. Rooftop solar supporters dispute the cost-shift argument, which originated from the Edison Electric ...
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A new solar project in Brooklyn could offer a model… | Canary Media
Jan 6, 2025 · Households that subscribe to the solar array will receive about a 20 percent discount on their utility bills, resulting in a combined $ 1. 24 million in savings over 25 years — money that could help defray the rising energy expenses that many families face. UPROSE said that the array is expected to cost at least $ 2. 7 million to build, which the partners plan to finance through grants ...
Google plans to build gigawatts of clean power and… | Canary Media
Dec 10, 2024 · Over the past year, tech giants have been eyeing nuclear power as a potential source of round-the-clock carbon-free energy. But an effort by Amazon to secure existing nuclear power for a data center recently ran into a hurdle, and Kimber points out that new nuclear plants can’t be built quickly enough to meet near-term demand from data centers.He fears the emphasis on nuclear power is ...