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Acadia and Microsoft plan $9 billion worth of U.S. renewable energy projects

December 11, 2024

(Oil Price) – U.S. clean energy investor Acadia Infrastructure Capital is launching a coalition with tech giant Microsoft as an anchor investor as part of plans to develop $9 billion worth of clean energy projects in the United States, Acadia’s Vice President Brian O’Callaghan told Reuters. Acadia is leading the Climate and Communities Investment Coalition (CCIC) to which other companies apart from

Many US solar factories are lagging. Except those China owns

July 17, 2024

Yahoo Finance Construction of U.S. solar-manufacturing plants by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the nascent industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies. Chinese companies will have at least 20 gigawatts’ worth of annual solar panel production capacity on U.S. soil within the next year, enough to serve about half the U.S.

Clean Energy start-ups are struggling as they wait for government aid

November 21, 2023

Oil Price Some American clean energy and technology startups are struggling to keep afloat while waiting for the U.S. Administration to disburse the pledged loans and funds under the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Several startups have already filed for bankruptcy, others have flagged the ability to continue as a going concern or hired advisors to evaluate financing and strategic

Oil, gas, clean energy groups unite to reform “broken permitting system”

March 28, 2023

World Oil (WO) — Fossil fuel and green energy groups alike have joined forces, in an effort to reform what they call a “broken permitting system,” according to Fox News. A coalition that includes the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association of America and the American Clean Power Association sent a letter on Monday morning, urging Congress to pass “meaningful

U.S. pushes forward on clean energy with plan for record offshore wind sale

January 12, 2022

Nasdaq Jan 12 – The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined a range of measures to speed the growth of clean energy on the U.S. power grid, including the government’s largest ever sale of offshore wind leases in waters off the coast of New York and New Jersey. The announcement, which seeks to advance President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate change

Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to global push to clean energy

August 13, 2021

Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif./BRASILIA/SHANGHAI – Severe droughts are drying up rivers and reservoirs vital for the production of zero-emissions hydropower in several countries around the globe, in some cases leading governments to rely more heavily on fossil fuels. The emerging problems with hydropower production in places like the United States, China and Brazil represent what scientists and energy experts say is

Dominion Energy advances hydrogen as next frontier of clean energy

April 19, 2021

Dominion Energy advances hydrogen as next frontier of clean energy – New clean …

Clean Energy, Total sign JV for renewable natural gas production

March 4, 2021

Reuters U.S. alternative fuels supplier Clean Energy Fuels Corp and its largest shareholder, European oil and gas producer Total SE, announced terms of a new joint venture on Thursday focused on renewable natural gas (RNG) production. Clean Energy’s shares rose 7.5% to $13.15 in pre-market trading. The joint venture, owned equally by both firms, will have an initial firm commitment

Green is the new black in boom for clean energy funds

November 18, 2020

Reuters LONDON – Investors are pouring money into green funds, banking on a Joe Biden presidency in the United States for a further boost to the renewable and alternative energy industry at the expense of traditional oil and gas businesses. Shares in solar and wind energy businesses, electric vehicle companies and environmental technology pioneers have been on the rise for

Analysis: Biden’s clean-energy ‘revolution’ faces challenge to match fossil-fuel jobs, pay

October 30, 2020

Reuters WASHINGTON/NEW YORK – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seeking to allay concerns that his plan to fight climate change would harm the economy, has promised a “clean energy revolution that creates millions of unionized middle-class jobs” if he’s elected. That vision, however, would require policy makers and clean-energy companies to overcome some major challenges in replacing the number and

As the coronavirus pandemic bites, EDF lowers its nuclear output projections for 2020

April 16, 2020

CNBC In the latest example of how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the energy sector, French utility EDF said Thursday that it was sharply revising down its projected nuclear output for this year. In a statement, the company said it expected its nuclear output for 2020 to be “in the region of” 300 terawatt hours (TWh) — a steep downwards revision to

U.S. oil boom vs Europe’s renewables focus? Big Oil’s gap widens — in words

March 6, 2020

Reuters NEW YORK/LONDON – Exxon and Chevron boasted to investors this week about booming U.S. oil production, illustrating how the gap has widened – at least in words – between top American oil and gas companies and their European rivals over efforts to transition to clean energy and fight climate change. World crude oil and natural gas production is running

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