Clean Energy Finance Forum

A report from the Rocky Mountain Institute and General Motors pushes for support to develop technologies in, and to help drivers buy vehicles fitted for, electric Ubers and Lyfts and Vias and such.

The United Kingdom's promising to phase out internal-combustion-engine vehicles, which means manufacture of car batteries needs to ramp - and, in the town of Blyth, already has. This credulous December 10 article sizes up plans to make batteries in a Northern town- in part thanks to the robust electric grid there.

Two YSE students pick up on a pledge in Joe Biden's climate plan, spelling out how it can reduce asthma and emissions by removing tons of pollution from the air each school day. (This depends on getting schools safely fully open again...)

Shocks can spark interest in secure sources of energy. For that reason, some insiders argue that distributed power can gain a surge of customers- even amid harsh financial conditions for solar and wind projects.

While the sector’s market share is small, Wood Mackenzie expects the 2020s to be a decade of battery electric vehicle growth. The group says it sees global battery electric vehicle market share increasing from 3% in 2019 to 14% by the end of the decade in its base case scenario.

FleetCarma launched its Charge the North study in 2017 to capture and analyze real world charging data from 10 electric utilities and a thousand EV owners across Canada, covering residential, public and workplace charging. Phase one ended in 2019 and phase two is expected to launch later this year.

In the Roadmap, the partners set a goal to move toward an additional 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and associated air pollution through accelerating transportation electrification by the time the world arrives in Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Utilities are eyeing vehicle-to-grid technology as a way to help fortify the grid and reduce operating costs while meeting renewable-energy goals, making use of the batteries in vehicles that spend more than 90% of their lives off the road and unused.