The U.S. Postal Service announced on Tuesday that it will work toward electrifying its fleet of mail trucks, with a goal of all new mail truck purchases being electric by 2026. USPS expects to reach 66,000 battery-electric delivery vehicles by 2028.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Thursday it would channel nearly $600 million into helping the rural and agricultural U.S. transition to renewable energy and respond to the climate crisis.
Tesla has announced its launch of Tesla Electric, a utility service provided for homes that have the Tesla Powerwall installed. The service is first launching in Texas and will be available via invite-only for select customers. For customers with the Tesla Powerwall and Tesla Electric, the Powerwall will autonomously select when to charge and when […]
The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday dramatically altered the structures by which new solar customers are compensated for the energy their solar panels produce. The commission slashed net metering rates for new solar panels by about 75%, replacing the old rates with varying payment rates based on the time of day and electricity demand. […]
Bidirectional EV chargers called Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) chargers, can feed energy from the car battery back into the local power grid.
Nine wealthy, developed nations will help Vietnam accelerate its transition from coal to renewable energy under a $15.5 billion agreement announced Wednesday. The Just Energy Transition Partnership deal between the G7 nations, Norway, and Denmark follows a similar deal with Indonesia reached during COP27. The funding, mostly in the form of loans from both public […]
By Carolyn Kuranz American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. The U.S. Department of Energy said on Dec. 13, 2022, that for the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists have managed to get more energy out […]
The renewable energy movement still has ways to go to meet the ambitious climate goals set by the Biden Administration. But, we celebrate wins where we can. The U.S. currently produces the world’s second-highest amount of solar power, lagging only behind China. As of the end of 2021, the U.S. had produced 95,209 megawatts (MW) […]
The EU has reached a provisional agreement to institute the world’s first green tariff system. According to the deal reached Tuesday in Brussels following a negotiations all-nighter between the European Parliament and EU member states, the bloc will impose tariffs on the imports of carbon-intensive products like steel and fertilizers, as Reuters reported. “The agreement […]
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