The United States has a housing problem. Not only are there too few, but those that we have are also gluttons, using almost twice as much energy per home as those in Europe. Only Canada’s homes, most of which endure long and biting winters, use more. Our leaky, inefficient homes produce nearly one-fifth of the […]
NACFE Identifies Priority Regions for EV Deployments
The United States has five high-priority areas where the regional haul environment is inherently so well suited for moving freight economically with electric vehicles that fleet owners there should plan to deploy those trucks “even if just as a pilot project,” according to the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. The five locations NACFE identified […]
Senate Democrats reveal climate plan that could ‘almost entirely’ define clean energy policy under Biden admin
Senate Democrats on Tuesday released a report laying out policy recommendations Congress should adopt in order to bring the U.S. to a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The report, released by the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, calls on Congress to spend at least 2% of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) on climate actions, with 40% […]
Quidnet leverages drilling tech to provide pumped hydro type storage at half the price
Houston-based Quidnet Energy is combining conventional pumped hydroelectric storage technology with existing drilling technology to provide long-duration energy storage for utilities and renewable energy developers. Quidnet just secured $10 million in Series B financing and landed a contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for a commercial demonstration of its […]
Tesla Stockholder Meeting & Battery Day Go Virtual
Tesla has decided to make the stockholder meeting and battery day on September 22, 2020, mainly virtual. Because of the ongoing health concerns and restrictions, the events as planned had to be changed. Tesla is not the first to switch its Annual Stockholder Meeting to a virtual event. I recently attended the Fastned Annual Stockholder […]