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Boise plans to tap its geothermal network to heat 300 affordable homes
Boise already knows how to tap the carbon-free heat beneath our feet. The city operates the country’s largest geothermal heating system, which pipes naturally warmed, 177-degree-Fahrenheit water from underground to about 100 buildings — including the Idaho State Capitol. Last…
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Meta strikes deal to help bring a low-carbon cement plant to Missouri
Tech companies say they're seeking low-carbon construction materials to limit the climate impact of their data centers. But very little clean cement or green steel is actually being produced in the U.S. today, and only in a handful of locations. To tackle that dilemma, Meta…
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5 ballot proposals that could drive or derail clean energy
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The midterm elections are upon us. While most of the country has its eyes on who will control Congress, there’s plenty at stake for clean energy at the bottom of some…
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Here's how much Trump's Iran war has added to Americans' fuel costs
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Donald Trump ran for his second term promising to “make America affordable again.” Two years later, the president’s war with Iran has his constituents paying through the nose for gasoline and diesel. In fact, per-person…
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California’s long road to make EV charging more reliable
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! Today’s topic is public EV chargers and California’s long and winding road to make them…
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From zoos to craft brews, Michigan looks to spur decarbonization
Re-creating polar habitats in Michigan is no small feat. Just ask the Detroit Zoo, where the polar bear and penguin centers require producing industrial levels of cooling from energy-intensive equipment. For the zoo, figuring out how to keep animals comfortable using less, and…
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PJM desperately needs grid batteries. Here’s a way it could get some.
PJM Interconnection is finally taking steps that could let a lot of new battery capacity connect to its grid without eons of delay. PJM is the biggest grid operator in the U.S., serving customers across 13 mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, and Southern states. Its grid is notoriously…
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The DOE announces $5B loan to Constellation for nuclear uprates
The pro-nuclear Trump administration continues to put its money where its mouth is. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 billion to boost the output of 15 reactors at eight nuclear power plants in Illinois, Maryland, and…
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How much are Trump’s pro-coal policies costing us?
The Trump administration loves coal plants. The rest of us are paying the price in higher electricity bills, poorer health, and worsening climate change. That’s the takeaway of an analysis out today from the Environmental Defense Fund. It finds the Trump administration is…
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More heat pumps would actually be good for the grid, researchers find
Heat pumps, superefficient sources of electric heating and cooling, are winners for the climate , air quality , and typically a household’s energy bills. But a common claim cautioning against their widespread adoption in the U.S. is that the electrical grid is too strained to…
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Ford’s new EV pickup will come with more affordable home-power backup
Electric vehicles can serve as home backup batteries. But so far, most EVs have needed expensive bidirectional chargers to do that — a tough sell for customers. Ford aims to remove this cost obstacle with its forthcoming Ford Fathom electric pickup truck . On Tuesday, the U.S.…
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Price hikes aren’t all that’s at stake in FirstEnergy Ohio’s rate case
Before a utility can raise electricity rates, it must get approval from regulators. In Ohio, some groups are looking to step into that process to make sure FirstEnergy, whose utilities supply power to over 2 million customers in the state, uses some of the money it will receive…
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This group-buy campaign makes it easier to switch to induction cooking
Word is getting out about electric induction ranges. More and more chefs say the appliances cook just as well as or better than their gas counterparts. The stoves don’t burn climate-warming fossil fuels or release harmful indoor air pollutants like gas ones do. And because…
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Massachusetts sets big battery goals — and the policies to back them up
Just outside Boston, a developer is getting set to build a 700-megawatt storage facility that is expected to dwarf every other battery project in New England. One town over, another energy company just closed on $850 million in financing to build a 250-MW battery. Down near the…
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The permitting deal collides with Trump’s war on offshore wind
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. It’s been years in the making, but the U.S. Senate finally has a bipartisan permitting bill on the table that could speed up the construction of much-needed energy and…
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As US grid batteries surge, risk of fires plummets
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Battery fires are like shark attacks: frightening events that loom cinematically large in the American psyche and almost never actually happen. As batteries have become America’s top choice for new on-demand grid power,…
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What kind of virtual power plant would you choose?
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everybody! Welcome back to California Wire. This week, I’m going to be talking about virtual power plants again — but…
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Google plans big virtual power plant in energy-strapped PJM grid
Google just upped the ante on its plans to leverage the energy use of thousands of homes and businesses to free up space on the grid for data centers. The tech giant and the California-based firm Voltus announced Thursday that they are going after a gigawatt of…
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Massachusetts bill could hinder push to weatherize lower-income homes
Massachusetts has made meaningful strides in recent years to get its robust energy-efficiency incentives into the hands of lower-income households who need them most. Now, a provision tucked into a pending energy bill could undermine that progress, environmental justice…
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Balcony solar bill introduced in Congress for the first time
Balcony solar legislation has finally arrived on Capitol Hill. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, introduced the first federal bill aimed at legalizing solar panels that simply plug into an outlet. The legislation would require all state public utility…