The Biden administration plans to begin a $3.1 billion effort on Monday to spur the domestic production of advanced batteries, which are essential to its plan to speed the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy. President Biden has prodded automakers to churn out electric vehicles and utilities to switch to solar, wind and other …
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing efforts to support transportation innovation, today issued a proposal that would authorize the first participant in its Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service Driverless Deployment program. With this proposed authorization, Cruise LLC may offer passenger service in AVs without a driver present in the vehicle. The proposal will appear …
Plans to install 60 square kilometers of solar panels in Vermont are suddenly on hold. In Maine, a solar farm that would power hundreds of homes is partly built but might not be completed. And a project in Texas that would have powered more than 10,000 homes was weeks away from breaking ground but has …
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To the editor: The utility companies claim that rooftop solar is unfair because it supposedly puts the financial burden of net energy metering onto the poor. Since when have the utilities cared about the poor or climate justice? Only since rooftop solar threatened their dividend stream to shareholders. To those who claim that rooftop solar …
When the California Public Utilities Commission proposed scaling back subsidies for rooftop solar in December, it cracked open a hornet’s nest of residential solar sellers, owners and advocates. Installation companies argued it would tank their profits and harm their workers. Solar homeowners and those who want to go solar said it would rob them of …
Op-Ed: Sorry, rooftop solar supporters, California incentives really do punish the poor Read More »
In a decision that could dramatically undercut President Biden’s ambitious climate goals, the Commerce Department said Monday that it is investigating whether imports of solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing anti-dumping rules that limit imports from China. Clean energy leaders said the investigation — which could result in retroactive tariffs as high as 240% …
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To the editor: I can appreciate Mr. Borenstein’s argument for altering the current net metering policy, but take issue with several of his arguments. I’m not asserting that Southern California Edison is greedy, but the company is beholden to shareholders, not customers. Let’s not forget the shameful San Onofre debacle, where customers were held liable …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former energy executive in California who took part in a $1-billion solar power fraud that bilked Warren Buffett’s company and many others was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison and ordered to pay $624 million in restitution. Robert A. Karmann, 55, of Clayton, Calif., was the chief financial officer for …
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Bill would have gutted net metering in Florida. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Exercising his first veto of the 2022 legislative session, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday vetoed HB 741, a bill that would have gutted net metering in Florida. Net metering is the policy which compensates solar owners for the excess electricity they generate …
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published Wednesday two separate Calls for Information and Nominations for suitable areas for possible offshore wind leases off the coast of Oregon and in the Central Atlantic. In the Atlantic Ocean near Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, BOEM is seeking information on six distinct areas comprising …
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