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New Podcast Tackles Clean Energy Topics in New York

Angela Calcagno

The Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY) has launched a new podcast, Plugging In: Powering our Way to a Brighter and Healthier New York, available on all major platforms. This is an effort to mobilize climate-conscious New Yorkers.

“We have been seeing a troubling trend in recent years at many town […]

NYSERDA Announces $2.5 Million Awarded for Clean Energy Workforce Training

Projects Will Develop a Pipeline of Skilled Workers to Meet Needs of Clean Energy Sectors

On February 13, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced $2.5 million in awards to three clean energy workforce training projects. The training contracts were awarded through the State’s $45 million Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship […]

American Biogas Council Celebrates Record Number of Projects

Small-scale biogas facility. (Richard Mayer, CC-BY-SA 3.0, tinyurl. com/RMBiogas) Original article: GET_Oct-2024_p10.pdf

The American Biogas Council released new data showing that 2024 was a record year for the industry in terms of new biogas projects coming online: 125 projects added bringing the total in the US to nearly 2,500 and producing 10% more […]

Five Common Myths about Renewable Energy: Time to Set the Record Straight

Amina Shaw

Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful tool in shaping narratives, and renewable energy critics have wasted no time using it to spread misinformation. One of their latest tactics involves an AI-generated image of a dead whale positioned near wind turbines, aimed at spreading the deception that wind turbines are triggering whale deaths. It […]

The EIA Solar and Wind Forecast for 2025

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2024

The EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) posted this forecast for 2025 on February 24, 2025.

We expect 63 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid in 2025 in our latest […]

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 […]