Toyotas plug-in RAV4 Prime small SUV with 42 miles of electric range earns the buyer a USD 7,500 credit, the largest available. Major automakers are asking Congress to lift the cap on how many people can receive tax credits for buying a hybrid or fully electric vehicle. Currently the number of tax credits allowed are […]
Clean-Power Developers Warn Billions at Risk in Plea to Congress – EQ Mag Pro
Almost 300 renewable power developers and manufacturers are appealing to congressional leaders to advance the climate provisions in President Joe… Read More… Source : bloombergquint
Mexico Senate passes energy bill favoring state, fossil fuel
The Senate must still vote on some objections, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appeared to have the votes to push the bill through. It passed earlier in the lower house of Congress MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s Senate passed an electrical energy bill that favors government-owned generating plants that largely run on fossil fuels Tuesday, putting […]
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 […]
Warnock, Ossoff Win Senate Seats in Georgia, Widening Potential for Clean Energy Policy From Congress
The Senate will be evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, giving a tie-breaking vote to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris. Democratic candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff clinched victories in Georgia’s Tuesday runoff races for the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press, giving Democrats control of both chambers of Congress as President-elect Joe […]
Trump administration agrees to help wind farms with subsidy tweak
In a letter to Senator Charles Grassley, Frederick Vaughn, principal deputy assistant secretary in the Treasury Department’s Office of Legislative Affairs, said the department “plans to modify the relevant rules in the near future” for the renewable energy tax credits The Trump administration on Thursday agreed to change rules governing key renewable energy tax credits, […]
AAP protests outside Punjab assembly over power hike
The protesters, including Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab unit chief Mann and party legislators, were demanding roll back of the hike Chandigarh: AAP activists led by Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann on Friday staged a sit-in protest outside the Punjab assembly here against the recent hike in electricity rates. The protesters, including Aam Aadmi Party […]
Cong leader seeks judicial probe into high rates of electricity supplied by private firms in Punjab
“We have promised that the old electricity power plants set up by the SAD government would be revisited because electricity was purchased at very high rates. Chandigarh (Punjab): Punjab Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa said here on Wednesday that he was in favour of an all-party resolution requesting the High Court to appoint a sitting […]
Will give relief for electricity consumption up to 600 units if we win: Delhi Congress unit chief
The Congress leader also said that if his party forms the government then small shopkeepers will not have to pay commercial charges of electricity New Delhi: In the run-up to Assembly polls scheduled early next year, Delhi Congress unit chief Subhash Chopra on Wednesday announced that if his party comes to power then it will […]
Tax Credits for Renewables Get Another Shot in Congress
Democrats in the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday unveiled draft legislation in the latest attempt to extend tax credits for renewable technologies. The Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now, or GREEN, Act would extend the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar and offshore wind for five years and keep a 60 percent […]