EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel, a Pueblo Colorado steel mill, will receive 90 percent of its power from a 300 MW solar facility, the largest solar project on-site for a single customer in the US. The …
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Hertz aims to be EV powerhouse with 100K Tesla cars
Article originally published by Hertz.com. Car rental company Hertz Corp. announced today [10/25/2021] it will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, making the Florida-based company the prospective owner of the largest EV rental fleet in …
Solar Storage Market to Grow 20-fold by 2030
Global energy storage is estimated to grow to 358 GW/ 1 TW-hours or 20 times larger in the next 9 years according to the 2021 Global Energy Storage Outlook (November 2021) by Bloomberg New Energy …
National Energy Storage Certification to be Created
An industry recognized Energy Storage Certification will be designed by the CREATE Energy Center in a new collaboration with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA). …
Ready for Electric Vehicles?
This publication from the UW-Stevens Point Center for Land Use Education is intended for Wisconsin local government officials and planning and zoning staff to provide an introduction to electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging outlets. …
BLM prioritizes renewable energy on federal lands
The Bureau of Land Management currently has more than 40 renewable energy projects in the permitting pipeline, making significant inroads toward meeting President Biden’s onshore green energy goal, a senior Interior Department official said today. …
Clean Hydrogen Research Proposed to De-carbonize Industry and Heavy Transportation
On the same November day the infrastructure bill was signed, legislation (H.R. 5965, The Clean Hydrogen Deployment Act of 2021) to create a clean hydrogen R&D program at the Department of Energy to advance clean …
Bifacial Solar Panels Exempt from Tariffs Again
An exemption from Section 201 tariffs was reinstated for imported bifacial solar panels as of November 16th, based on a decision in the US Court of International Trade. Tariffs that were placed on imported silicon …
Untapped potential: Rooftop solar could meet 2/3 of Wisconsin’s electricity needs, study finds
Wisconsin’s rooftops could support enough solar panels to meet two-thirds of the state’s electricity needs, generating more electricity than all fossil fuel sources combined last year. Yet a new study predicts fewer than 2% of …
Wisconsin’s First Net Zero School – Forest Edge Elementary
Oregon School District’s 126,000 square foot Forest Edge Elementary School is the first zero net energy school built in Wisconsin. The new $40 million school, designed and built by Bray Architects, HGA and Findorff with …