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.
If NextEra absorbs Duke Energy, would energy regulators demand concessions that support low-income families? And would the merged utility speed up its decarbonization?
Royal Dutch Shell Plc and EDP Renovaveis SA agreed to sell power from a wind farm they’re building in the Atlantic Ocean for a record-low price. The 804-megawatt Mayflower wind farm, located south of Martha’s Vineyard, will supply electricity to utilities in Massachusetts for $58 a megawatt-hour over the life of the contract.
Though 45% of utility employees surveyed in Utility Dive's 2020 State of the Electric Utility Survey see the transition's cost — including stranded assets — as a top risk for the sector, only 18% see generation retirements and stranded assets as a top concern and just 14% said stranded assets present a major challenge to a changing fuel mix.
A decade ago, entrepreneurs and investors alike believed that silicon wafer-based photovoltaics would soon be a relic. Tens of billions of venture and corporate dollars chased novel technologies that would surely replace silicon.
The fund has 70% less carbon emissions than its benchmark, the S&P/ASX 300 Total Return Index, because it’s typically underweight cyclical stocks in industries such as fossil fuels, steel and cement, transport and mining.
