The future is looking bright for green jobs in the solar industry. According to the latest National Solar Jobs Census, published by the nonprofit Interstate Renewable Energy Council, solar jobs in the U.S. grew by nearly 6% in 2023. With this growth, U.S. solar industry jobs reached 279,447 last year, a record high, Reuters reported. […]
The Biden-Harris administration announced on Thursday the finalization of a plan for solar energy expansion on federal lands in the Western states of Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. As part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda and a wider plan to decarbonize the power sector […]
Jobs in the clean energy industry are taking off, with jobs in this field growing at twice the rate as the overall job growth rate in all industries in the U.S., according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) revealed that employment in […]
According to two new reports from BloombergNEF (BNEF), the global clean energy transition has reached significant milestones and is poised to continue at its current pace. Last year for the first time more than 40 percent of the planet’s electricity was generated by zero-carbon sources — 14 percent from solar and wind. In 2023, nearly […]
The Biden-Harris administration has announced $521 million in grants to go toward further development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure as well as infrastructure for alternative fuels. The funding will help deploy more than 9,200 EV charging ports, and the grants will be applied to projects across 29 states, eight Federally Recognized Tribes and Washington, DC. […]
Norwegian shipowner Eidesvik and Wärtsilä, a Finland-based engine manufacturer, have signed a contract to make a platform supply vessel (PSV) that can run on ammonia fuel. Wärtsilä — the company supplying the equipment to convert the ship — said the Viking Energy vessel will be the first in the world to run on ammonia. “Together […]
The first half of 2024 saw new coal-fired power plant approvals fall significantly in China, a new report by Greenpeace East Asia said. A series of permits in the past two years had raised concerns about how committed the country’s government was to limiting climate change, reported The Associated Press. An analysis of project documents […]
Wind farm operators in Australia are being encouraged to use the simple method of curtailment — increasing the wind speed required for turbines to start rotating — which a new study has found can drastically lower how many bats are killed by the enormous blades. The tactic is already being used in the United States, […]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, the country has installed 20.2 gigawatts utility-scale electric generating capacity from January through June 2024. Of the newly installed generating capacity, solar and battery storage have taken the lead. The report determined that new solar utility-scale operations made up the largest […]
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