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NYC official urges BlackRock to clear up ‘alarming’ ESG ambiguity
The city's comptroller asked the asset manager to publish a plan that clarifies its net-zero emissions pledge, including concrete steps and a timeline. BlackRock’s ESG stance has also drawn fire from fossil-fuel advocates.
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Sponsored by POWER EngineersHow using building information modeling makes things better
BIM processes have the potential to benefit everyone who flips a light switch. Need to persuade a decision maker?
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New environmental justice office at EPA aims to raise the issue’s national profile
The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, which will employ about 200 people, is seen as another step by the Biden administration to prioritize environmental justice in its policies.
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FERC’s Glick has ‘significant concerns’ over proposed incentives for utility cybersecurity investments
Cyber threats may be better addressed through mandatory standards instead of via incentives that were proposed Thursday, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick.
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FERC commissioners pursue market, non-market answers to ISO-NE’s ‘dire’ winter reliability risks
“The region is still heavily reliant on [liquefied natural gas] imports, and that's just not sustainable,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick said.
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DOE opens $7B hydrogen hub funding opportunity, issues draft production standard
Six to 10 hubs are to be developed by the agency’s hydrogen hub program with funding through the bipartisan infrastructure law.
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FERC rejects complaint from generators seeking strict MOPR in New York
The agency’s decision “should be the final nail in the MOPR’s coffin,” Sarah Ladin, senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, said Friday.
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NYPA burns up to 44% green hydrogen in GE turbine in first such retrofit of a US natural gas plant
Fuel blends from 5% to 44% hydrogen were tried in the demonstration project.
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Manchin permitting-reform bill allows DOE to designate ‘national interest’ transmission projects
While it’s supported by renewable energy groups, the bill faces opposition from some House and Senate Democrats.
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OpinionIs the Inflation Reduction Act the end of the wholesale clean attribute market?
The IRA may reduce any real or perceived tension between wholesale markets and state policies and the need for other mechanisms to harmonize wholesale markets and state policies, the authors write.
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New York launches 2 GW renewable energy solicitation as natural gas prices drive up electricity bills
The solicitation encourages renewables paired with energy storage technologies, sets minimum U.S. iron and steel purchase requirements, and gives special consideration to projects benefiting disadvantaged communities.
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California needs to move on from net metering, advocates, industry and utility leaders say
Although helpful to jump-start the solar industry, net metering has begun to interfere with the state’s broader climate goals, panelists agreed at the RE+ conference in Anaheim.
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OpinionThe maxim of the SEC’s climate rule: What you don’t know can hurt you
The standardized disclosures of climate risks will effectively lay bare companies’ readiness to transition to low-carbon operating models and the mounting physical hazards they face, the authors write.
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Long-duration storage at the cusp of a breakthrough, but market constraints persist: RE+ panelists
The Inflation Reduction Act created incentives to spur the adoption of long-duration energy storage technologies, RE+ panelists said, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to connect new concepts to the grid.
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High electricity rates could jeopardize California’s electrification efforts: report
The analysis estimates that California’s rate structures raise the cost of operating an electric vehicle by roughly $600 a year, which could reduce EV adoption by between 13% and 33%.
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‘We want to ... get those EVs in the state as soon as possible:’ Wash., Mass. vow to adopt Calif. car plan
State officials detailed their policy plans on Tuesday. Separately, GM announced a big rental EV order and weighed in on federal clean car standards.
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More than 1M still without power in Puerto Rico as island assesses damage from Hurricane Fiona
Advocacy groups fear a repeat of 2017, when they say the federal response to Hurricane Maria was lacking and too little was done to build climate-resilient infrastructure in the wake of the storm.
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Solar power constituted half of all global capacity additions last year, followed by wind: BloombergNEF
However, coal-fired generation surged in 2021 to record levels, driving up the power sector’s carbon emissions by 7%, the research firm said Wednesday.
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Texas drives record growth in US energy storage market in Q2, despite challenges: report
The Inflation Reduction Act has and will likely continue to reduce the supply drag on large and small storage projects across the country, a new report from Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association finds.
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Competitive Power Ventures set to build $3B, 1.8 GW natural gas plant with carbon capture in West Virginia
The project was enabled by expanded tax credits for alternative energy projects in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Demand on the rise for electric vehicle charging at multifamily properties
EV adoption will accelerate next year thanks to new tax credits and expanding options from automakers.
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Republican AGs blast FERC transmission planning proposal, citing ‘major questions doctrine’
However, the attorneys general’s filing consists of anti-renewable energy talking points disguised as legal arguments, Ari Peskoe, director of the Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative, said Tuesday.
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DOE, federal agencies to draft plan for slashing transportation carbon emissions
The agencies aim to rapidly decarbonize the transportation sector through “sound policies, incentivizing industry action, and catalyzing private investments.”
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California could phase out gas heaters by 2030 to cut smog amid electrification push
The home and building appliances are “an underappreciated driver of unhealthy air quality in California cities,” nonprofit advocates said in a report Tuesday, as state regulators consider only allowing zero-emissions alternatives.
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SoCalGas, SDG&E outline plan for hydrogen blending demonstration projects in California
The utilities intend to use a phased approach to blending hydrogen into utility distribution infrastructure at a 5% level and above.
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OpinionSecretive committee of utility insiders could undermine Texas energy leadership and affordability
The Texas Legislature needs to ensure that self-interested electric generation actors are not sacrificing Texas families and businesses to protect their market share, the author writes.
