Energy Archives

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

Adam Rollins

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

Strategic Partnerships

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

Amy Denney

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

Amy Denney

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

Strategic Partnerships

Despite cloudy outlook, more offshore wind leases proposed

Auctions proposed off Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico to help boost U.S. wind energy production

Miles Smith

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

Karn Dhingra

Texas town receives $29 million for water reuse project

Plant will use treated wastewater from the city’s existing facility

Miles Smith

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

Stacy Evans

$350 million in grants to help 14 states reduce methane emissions

Grants to help owners and operators of conventional oil and gas wells identify and eliminate methane emissions from low-producing wells

Suggestions

Energy - Page 37