WASHINGTON, D.C. : The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced nearly $350 million for emerging Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) demonstration projects capable of delivering electricity for 10 to 24 hours or longer to support a low-cost, reliable, carbon-free electric grid. Funded in part by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this […]
A State-by-State Model of the US Net-Zero-Carbon Future
A new study forecasts clean energy’s economic benefits for middle America as well as the East and West Coasts. Cutting U.S. carbon emissions to zero by midcentury will require trillions of dollars of investment and disrupt entire sectors of the economy reliant on fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil […]
General Motors Pledges a Zero-Emissions Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet by 2035
Biggest U.S. automaker will have 30 all-electric models by 2025 and zero out corporate emissions by 2040. General Motors plans to achieve companywide carbon-neutrality by 2040 and sell only carbon-emissions-free light-duty vehicles by 2035, a major step by America’s biggest automaker to align its future with the climate-change imperatives of the international Paris Agreement and […]
Can Biden Get a 100% Clean Energy Bill Through Congress?
Beating a Senate filibuster is unlikely, but some analysts see budget reconciliation as a way to enact a clean-energy transformation. Now that President Joe Biden has assumed office, he can get to work on his pledge to move the nation to 100 percent clean energy. During the campaign, Biden advocated a 100 percent clean energy […]