Solar Power has seen a huge growth in installations - from residential neighborhood rooftops to large installations along highways throughout the country.
Tesla's Model 3 launch saw unprecedented and unpredicted preorders come in around 400,000 - for a car that isnt even out for about 2 more years!
Topics: electric vehicles, tesla
Batteries had a great year in 2015 - with costs going down and large scale installations occuring, primarily in the utility sector. The United States energy storage capacity grew by 221 megawatts in 2015, which is triple the capacity added in 2014.
Topics: Solar, renewable energy, energy storage
2015 was a banner year for Renewables. The EPA finally finalized RFS volumes for 2014-2016 in November. In December, Congress passed the tax extenders package which included both the $1 per gallon biodiesel blender credit and cellulosic blending credit of $1.01 per gallon, retroactively.
Topics: Biodiesel, EPA, renewable energy
A comprehensive state by state analysis of 5 specific threats: wildfire, extreme heat, drought, inland flooding and coastal flooding by Climate Change Central and ICF International has ranked New England states in order of preparedness. Once again, Massachusetts comes in on top.
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Climate Change
As of November, the EPA finally released its final renewable volume obligations for 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Topics: Ethanol, Biofuels, RFS, renewable energy
Despite the horrific ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris this past weekend and the fact that France will still officially be in a State of Emergency, as declared by French President Hollande, the Global Climate Change Council Meeting is still slated to take place in Paris on November 20th.
Topics: EPA, Climate Change
As of this morning, the Obama Administration has officially rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline on the basis of Climate Change concerns. As we discussed with the TransCanada "pause petition" delivered Monday, many had thought the President would “kick the can” to the next president and decline to rule on the proposal before the end of his term.
Topics: Keystone XL
In a surprise move Monday, TransCanada issued a request to the U.S. State Department that they pause the ongoing review of the project until the legal challenges in Nebraska are settled. (Interestingly and somewhat ironically, this is the exact same reason Secretary of State John Kerry gave for why the review was taking so long when asked last year.)
Topics: Keystone XL, TransCanada, Climate Change, obama