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New Hampshire Will Finally Fix Its Property Assessed Clean Energy Law

(Connecticut Green Bank)

Sam Evans-Brown

After more than a decade of trying, New Hampshire is on the verge of adopting a powerful new tool that will help unlock a wide array of measures that will save energy, save money, and reduce carbon emissions. This tool is called Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, or […]

Expanding Clean Energy Investments and Lower Costs for Low-Income Communities

Final rules establish program that expands on $7.5 billion in clean energy investments in low-income communities and on Indian Lands to date; next round of program scheduled to open for applications on January 16

U.S. Department of the Treasury

On January 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released […]

Energy Prices Drop Below Zero in the UK

Baillie Wind Farm, Scotland (Statkraft/Flickr)

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Reprinted with permission from Ecowatch’s December 19, 2024 blog at https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-prices-below-zero-uk-wind-power.html

Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain’s power prices below zero.

Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high […]

Yes, in My Backyard – Implementing Vermont’s 100% Renewable Energy Standard

(VPIRG.org)

Jonathan Dowds

The election of Donald Trump means that states, cities, and towns must once again lead in the fight against climate change. At the same time, the shifting balance of power in the Vermont legislature is also tempering what is politically feasible here at home. Fortunately, Vermont’s updated Renewable Energy […]

$22m Is Now Available To Strengthen NY’s Electric Grid

(Chris Hunkeler/Flickr)

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Reprinted with permission from Ecowatch’s December

19, 2024 blog at https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-prices-below-zero-uk-wind-power.html

Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain’s power prices below zero.

Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set Sunday […]

An Innovative Iron-Air Battery Installation in Lincoln, Maine

Martin Wohl

In August, Form Energy received a $149,000 grant from the Department of Energy to build an 85-megawatt demonstration project in Lincoln, Maine to show how an iron-air battery installation could provide grid-level support by meeting power storage demands. Form Energy, founded by former Tesla employees who built their battery business, will […]

The Greenwashing of Hydropower

The Dam. Allen Watkin via Wikipedia.

Halsey Snow, NECAPA member

In our clean energy transition, it has become easy to think of the main culprit as our voracious appetite for fossil-fuel energy, and the resulting CO2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which are, without a doubt, one of the biggest factors creating climate change. […]

Accomplishments to Be Proud Of in Our Fight Against Global Warming

Peter Sterling

Though the tragic and costly impacts of changing weather extremes on Vermont continue to (justifiably) make headlines, they shouldn’t totally overshadow recent accomplishments in the fight to reduce global warming before it is too late. This progress is happening because New Englanders have demanded real leadership and action in the face of the […]

USDA Invests in Local Rural Communities to Lower Energy Costs

On Oct. 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) State Director for Rural Development (RD), Sarah Waring, announced that the agency is investing $2,698,024 million in grants through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to support six small businesses in Vermont and New Hampshire. The funding is made possible by President Biden’s Inflation […]

$1.5 Billion Invested to Bolster the Nation’s Electricity Grid

Transmission towers. (Lucas van Oort, Unsplash)

Intent to Deliver Affordable Electricity to Meet New Demands – DOE Will Improve US Grid Reliability

In support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda and to reduce costs for American families, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced in September two critical actions that support […]