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New York Times ($): The Biden administration on Friday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to develop offshore wind farms in shallow waters between Long Island and New Jersey as part of its push to transition the nation to renewable energy. The proposed sale, the first of the Biden administration, […]
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Utility Dive: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, D, laid out ambitious offshore wind goals Wednesday as the state pushes toward its aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% below 2005 levels by 2030. Cooper’s executive order calls for the state to develop 2.8 GW of offshore wind projects by 2030 and 8 GW by 2040, […]
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New York Times ($): A constellation of 5,400 offshore wind turbines meet a growing portion of Europe’s energy needs. The United States has exactly seven. With more than 90,000 miles of coastline, the country has plenty of places to plunk down turbines. But legal, environmental and economic obstacles and even vanity have stood in the […]
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Wall Street Journal ($): A growing fight is unfolding across the U.S. as cities consider phasing out natural gas for home cooking and heating, citing concerns about climate change, and states push back against these bans. Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Several current and former policymakers expressed skepticism that hydrogen and renewable natural gas are mature enough to play a major role in their states’ transition from natural gas. “I know that there’s a lot of talk about fuels of the future like RNG and hydrogen,” former New York State Public […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): A flood of cheap power generated by planned U.S. offshore wind projects could find its way onto Canada’s power grid, reversing a long-standing trend of mostly one-way trade that sees massive exports of Canadian hydropower to the U.S. The Biden administration’s recent approval of the first major wind farm off […]
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Renewables Now: Mayflower Wind Energy LLC will bring offshore wind to Brayton Point, the site of a former coal power plant, in Somerset, Massachusetts, using transmission assets developed by Anbaric Development Partners LLC. The two companies said on Thursday they have signed an agreement to this end. Brayton Point will serve as a connection point […]
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CNBC: The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will develop offshore wind projects in the Pacific Ocean in partnership with the state of California. The move, which is the first of its kind, is a key stepping stone toward the White House’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. One earmarked area […]
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The Guardian: Kevin Good is the president of a small solar power company in Kansas – a state that tends to be so sunny you’d think he’d have it made. “I got into solar at maybe the worst point to do so in the last 50 years,” said Good, who runs Good Energy Solutions in […]
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S&P Global ($): The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s effort to update its permitting policy for natural gas infrastructure could result in a process that makes it more difficult to build pipelines, requiring developers to go further to show their projects will be needed and will not cause excessive impacts to people and the climate, according […]
IEEFA U.S.: Duke Energy IRPs for Carolina utilities overlook opportunities for savings from renewables
Integrated resource plans for Duke give short shrift to offshore wind, solar and battery storageApril 5, 2021 (IEEFA) ⎼ A pair of long-range plans for Carolina utilities owned by Duke Energy are all but ignoring potential savings from renewable energy sources over the next decade, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. The IEEFA report is the fourth in a series examining the […]