Clean Energy Finance Forum

A long November 17 audio report details one grant from a $350 million Federal batch to develop recycling and reuse of car batteries in a troubled Chicago neighborhood.

On September 23, this roundup leads with a note on Avangrid delaying a wind deployment several months because of supply issues.

This September 23 recap sees California's pressure-cooker heat wave as a preview of future perils facing the un-updated grid.

After invoking the Defense Production Act for critical clean-energy inputs, US President Joe Biden used bandwidth on March 29 to trumpet a new EV factory in North Carolina.

Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.

On January 25, the New York Times dug into plans by General Motors, Toyota and Ford to build and operate factories for electric vehicles and their batteries in the United States' manufacturing corridor.

This January 20 story captures electric vehicles' ascendancy powering a new, higher target from North Carolina's governor. It also quotes a Republican legislator as saying: "I don't think this is a partisan issue. Taking a stand against this is like taking a stance against the sun coming up tomorrow."

A smallish company's CEO held forth to CNBC on December 9 about a partnership with a slightly bigger outfit called General Motors to source and supply EV battery components from a site in California.

Venture investors and auto-company directors rarely take strategic pointers from urban-planning activists. In light of this November 19 essay pinpointing electric SUVs' sustainability failings, perhaps they should.

We wrote last year about Beam, the startup with plans to run electric-vehicle charging stations on on-site solar and pay for itself with advertising. Amid a call for a national mandate that would electrify half of the United States' cars, Beam kept reporting orders from cities and ran a test EV aircraft flight. This July 17 TV dispatch offers some details.