USDOT provides $63.7 million jolt to support EV ports in California
Funds will help improve the state’s electric vehicle charging grid reliability by fixing and installing 1,302 charging ports
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Proposed plan would add 5 states, millions of acres to solar energy strategy
Updated plan necessary to make permitting faster, easier in priority areas and to improve the process by which right of way is secured for utility-scale projects
Rice University receives $12.5 million to develop decarbonization technology
Funds establish a five-year technology collaboration to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop lower carbon solutions
Pentagon to get rooftop solar panels as part of federal energy-conservation push
Department of Energy this week announced $104 million for net-zero projects at 31 federal facilities
Massachusetts offshore wind farm delivers first power to grid
Once fully built out, Vineyard Wind will have 62 turbines spaced 1 nautical mile apart. The first five will be fully operational in early 2024
DOE funds three projects to remove carbon emissions from power plants
Projects in Texas, California, North Dakota are anticipated to remove about 7.75 million metric tons of carbon emissions from being released
Despite cloudy outlook, more offshore wind leases proposed
Auctions proposed off Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico to help boost U.S. wind energy production
California spending $130 million to turn waste into compost and clean energy
Program will award grants to 23 projects that involve recycling organic material into compost
Texas town receives $29 million for water reuse project
Plant will use treated wastewater from the city’s existing facility
DOE investing in inertial fusion as a clean-energy source
$42 million grant program will create three research-and-development hubs that will focus on advancing inertial confinement fusion energy as a potential new source of clean energy
