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Ana Maria Dimand, Boise State University The U.S. Congress passed an infrastructure bill that funds more than a trillion dollars in nationwide federal spending on Nov. 5, 2021. The bill puts about US$240 billion toward building or rebuilding roads, bridges, public transit, airports and railways. More than $150 billion is slated for projects that address…

Originally published at Alt Energy Stocks Monthly Performance Returns for the Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2021 model portfolio are shown below.  It was a good month for clean energy stocks as well as the broader stock market, with the portfolio up 4% for a 20% total return through the end of October.  Its clean…

PJM is pursuing generator interconnection reforms to file at FERC in early 2022. PJM had three stakeholder meetings in October alone. In addition to learning from MISO’s experience, PJM should work with its transmission owners to build substations where renewables connect to the transmission grid. Prefabricated substations are readily available from some of the leading…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project has taken another step forward in its quest to, eventually, generate enough clean energy to power 660,000 homes. Dominion Energy submitted construction plans for the 2.6-gigawatt project with the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval. The step builds on recent announcements that Siemens Gamesa will build the…

Contributed by James Viray, Gregory Carli, Michele Villa — GHD How can we radically collaborate to make the right choices – and the right investment decisions – to mobilize global markets and accelerate the establishment of a sustainable, low-carbon economy? In many ways, the climate change challenge we face in the next 10 years is…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip The City of Ithaca, New York has voted to electrify its entire building stock — the first large-scale, city-wide decarbonization effort in the U.S. Ithaca’s Common Council gave approval to Mayor Svante L. Myrick to negotiate a contract with BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup focused on greening aging urban buildings. Installation of…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip Pine Gate Renewables will build Utah’s first stand-alone battery storage project, the company announced this week. The .125 MW/.5 MWh battery energy storage system will provide grid stability for the City of Logan and will be integrated into the city’s System Operational Control Center, which monitors the municipal electricity distribution system, power plants,…

Bahamas Power and Light Company Limited (BPL) will leverage a battery energy storage system supplied and installed by Finnish firm Wärtsilä to optimize the operations of its Blue Hills Power Station in Nassau. The energy storage system will provide spinning reserve services to enhance the reliability and efficiency of BPL’s 132MW dual-fuel power plant. Whitney Heastie, the…

A new report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “An Examination of the Hydropower Licensing and Federal Authorization Process,” reveals ways to streamline the licensing process for hydroelectric projects. As oil supplies plummeted in the early 1970s, prices skyrocketed. Congress compelled electricity companies to buy local hydroelectric energy at luxurious prices, launching a frenzy to…

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group As the fossil fuel industry rages against the dying of the gas light, they continue to work to plant doubt about an economy centered around solar and wind paired with battery storage. Since it is hard to cast doubt on the abundance of sun and wind, they instead target…