Even as Coronavirus disrupts business as usual, talks regarding the TCI (Transportation Climate Initiative) continue via video conference and email amongst the involved 12 States & Washington DC.
Local farms in Massachusetts are producing their own renewable energy, and they're doing it while diverting food waste and dropping their carbon footprint at the same time. How? By utliizing anaerobic digesters, produced by Vanguard Renewables.
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, methane, Carbon Emissions, renewable energy
The United States' largest privately owned coal company filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in late October. Murray Energy joins at least 7 other major companies as casualties in the move toward cleaner and more sustainable energy.
Topics: coal, renewable energy, Clean Energy
The Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill that would set up what would essentially be test geothermal projects to determine if what are being called "GeoMicroDistrict"s could be used going forward for heating & cooling of buildings and neighborhoods. The goal of this is that if it works, utilities would able to buy/source geothermal for energy supply in addition to (or instead of) natural gas.
Topics: Massachusetts Clean Cities, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, renewable energy, geothermal
University of Maine students experimenting with salt and high temperatures appear to have stumbled upon a way to create a sulfur free crude oil from wood pulp.
Topics: Waste Feedstock Biodiesel, Cellulosic Ethanol, RFS, renewable energy
Sales of electric vehicles (EV) in the US grew 80% over 2017 sales (2018 saw 361,000 sold), and the global sales number was over 1.7 billion, with China accounting for approximately half of that volume.
Topics: electric vehicles, china, renewable energy
The Sterling Municipal Light Department in Sterling MA is building the first utility scale battery storage system project in Massachusetts. It's not only the first in Mass, its also the largest in New England -a 2-megawatt, 3.9 megawatt-hour battery storage system to be exact. Its kind of a big deal!
Topics: Mass DOER, renewable energy, battery
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
As of November, the EPA finally released its final renewable volume obligations for 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Topics: Ethanol, Biofuels, RFS, renewable energy