Clean Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said on behalf of the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), it plans to award $25 million to fund eight research and development (R&D) projects on wave-generated electricity.  The R&D projects are expected to improve wave energy converters (WEC) and other wave energy technologies. The goal is to deploy the…

The Group of 7 world leaders pledged over the weekend to protect the planet by supporting a “green revolution” to create jobs, reduce emissions and limit the rise in global temperatures.The G7, as it is better known, consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States. The seven countries in 2020…

Oil and natural gas companies can play a vital role in achieving President Biden’s ambitious climate change goals if they choose to embrace it. In remarks delivered at CERAweek by IHS Markit, which was held in early March, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said fossil…

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) said it would join forces with a coalition of alternative energy interests to assess how to transition natural gas-fired “peaker” plants in the nation’s largest city to low-carbon battery storage. The partnership between the public utility and the five groups that make up the Peak Coalition, which is pushing…

Clean Energy Future LLC has stopped efforts to build a third natural gas-fired power plant in Northeast Ohio, blaming the decision on nuclear power subsidies the state will provide to bankrupt subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp.

A group of organizations is challenging as unconstitutional provisions in New Mexico’s recently enacted renewable energy law and has asked the state’s high court to intervene.