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Energy Storage Project at UC San Diego Repurposes EV Batteries
A California startup launched its 250 kW/500 kWh energy storage system that reuses batteries that powered electric cars. Carlsbad-based Smartville...
Keep Closer Tabs on DOE’s Billion$ for Nuclear Reactor Demonstrations: GAO
The Department of Energy awarded $4.6 billion last year to bolster emerging small modular and advanced nuclear reactor projects that...
CA Proposes $1.4 B Loan to Extend Diablo Nuclear Plant, Alternatives & Grid Reliability Questions Ignored
Pacific Gas & Electric would get a $1.4 billion loan to keep its 2,250 MW Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant...
DOE Extends Deadline for Slice of its $6B Nuclear Plant Subsidy
The U.S. Department of Energy extended by two months its application deadline for part of the $6 billion in federal...
Heat Pumps Drive Decarbonization, Barriers Impede Progress, Study Finds
The number of electric heat pumps to warm water and heat and cool air flowing in homes is expected to...
CEC Okays Green Hydrogen Development, Touts Morro Bay Offshore Wind AdvancementsÂ
This week, the California Energy Commission approved modifying the eight-year-old 250 MW concentrated Mojave Solar Project to add an electrolyzer,...
Biden Waives Tariffs on Imported Solar Panels
In response to a huge backlash by solar developers and clean energy advocates, President Joe Biden June 6 suspended for...
Bills Advancing Community Solar & Carbon Capture by Natural Lands Move Ahead
While the controversy over how much to pay owners of home rooftop solar projects for energy supplied to the grid...
Agreement Reached to Advance Dual Energy Flows from Vehicles and Chargers
Federal, state, and local officials, utility and labor representatives and carmakers have agreed to work together to commercialize bidirectional electric...
Energy Agencies Strive to Advance Cost-Effective, Long-Duration Grid Storage
Significant amounts of energy storage with continuous output of eight hours and far longer will be needed to reach a...
DOE Strives to Lower Costs of PV Panel Recycling; CA Law may be a Model
The U.S. Department of Energy released a plan on Friday that aims to increase the recycling of photovoltaic panels heading...
Bill Aims to Move Nuclear Waste Stored at San Onofre
Proposed bipartisan federal legislation seeks to move high-level radioactive waste from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station to a...
Long-Duration Storage Projects Gaining Steam
Just days after the California Energy Commission announced the first application in the state for storage using compressed air, another...
Energy Department Backs Community Solar
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that her agency has launched three initiatives to help drive significant new installations...
Steps Forward on DOE Share of Infrastructure Bill Funding
The $1.3 billion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Joe Biden signed last November must next pass through...
LA Green Hydrogen Hub Prospects Growing
HyDeal Los Angeles, a public-private renewable hydrogen advocacy consortium seeking to make Los Angeles a global renewable hydrogen hub, appears...
Green Hydrogen Development Depends on Funding
Public and private financial support is critical to attaining a viable green hydrogen industry, which is considered a key strategy...
LA Plans to Fully Decarbonize Electricity in 13 Years
Two weeks after the release of the dire International Panel on Climate Change report, the Los Angeles City Council voted...
What Biden’s $1.9 T Infrastructure Plan Does and Doesn’t Include
by Herman Trabish The Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion spending plan to make the U.S. power sector 100% clean energy by...
CEC Okays Big Green Energy Grants, More Diesel Backup Looms
The California Energy Commission approved $73 million in grants for clean energy projects, ranging from advanced communications within batteries for...