2018 has been a busy and effective year for Massachusetts' quest to advance Clean Energy within the State. Here are some highlights:
New England has some of the highest utility rates in the country, and a fuel-constrained infrastructure. Now the area is again looking at potentially losing two major energy sources simultaneously.
Topics: Utility Rates, Energy Infrastructure
Low commodity prices, plummeting RIN values, and talk of potential trade wars are all factors hitting the US Agricultural Sector hard this year.
Are self driving trucks the long term solution to the driver shortage? Or will autonomous vehicles simply change the way drivers do their work every day?
Topics: autonomous vehicles, driver shortage
Winter 2017/2018 was a rough one for New England, particularly in terms of power outages. Generators have become an increasingly prevalent and important part of companies' Emergency Response Plans and as a fuel company, its important to look at how you handle the sometimes unpredictable surges in demand that covering your generator customers can cause.
Topics: Safety, Emergency Generator Program, Emergency Fuel
Yesterday (November 30th) the EPA finalized renewable volume obligations for the RFS for 2018 and the RVO levels for 2019.
Topics: EPA Mandate, RINs, Biofuels, Cellulosic Ethanol, EPA, RFS
This August, Tesla employees receieved the first deliveries of the much anticipated Tesla Model 3. By all accounts, the Model 3 was met with fully positive feedback upon test driving. If you recall, the Model 3 got half a million pre production money down "reservation" orders in the absence of a test drive or really any standard marketing campaign in place. (For a refresher on the Model 3 debut, read this: Tesla's Model 3 Debut Stuns Industry)
Topics: EV Charger, electric vehicles, tesla
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Air conditioning, HFCs, Montreal Protocol, Kigali Amendment
"Bill Gates has said that to solve our energy problems, someday we need to do what photosynthesis does, and that someday we might be able to do it even more efficiently than plants...That someday has arrived" - David Nocera, Harvard University
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Solar, Carbon Emissions, bionic leaf
This March, President Trump signed an executive order to potentially roll back the Clean Power Plan, as part of a broader order regarding Energy Production & Independence in the US. The order directs the EPA to review the ruling and make a determination on whether to "rescind, repeal, or revise".
Topics: EPA, clean power plan