Last week, California regulators OK'd adding flat monthly charges (and dropping per-kWh rates) for residential customers of the state's big three utilities. But that doesn't take on the central problem — unsustainable utility costs, particularly at PG&E:
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First it was wind, then solar. Now, Texas is leading the nation on another key clean energy technology: grid batteries. For Canary Media, Julian Spector looks at the Lone Star State's battery buildout — and explores whether the good times will last canarymedia.com/articles/energ…

Vermont's Senate just passed a measure that would require all utilities to provide 100% clean energy by 2035. The move puts VT on track to be among the first states to fully decarbonize its power grid, Akielly Hu writes for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/clean…

All-electric skyscraper is committed to the theme

For years we've been hearing how great grid batteries can be, but it was hard to see in action.

Now California's got 10GW online and they're visibly reshaping grid activity. I broke down some of the major trends, as visualized by the folks Grid Status canarymedia.com/articles/batte…

California’s record 10 gigawatts of grid batteries are finally pushing solar generation into post-sunset hours at a meaningful scale, new data shows. Reporting by Julian Spector: bit.ly/3wuIVHQ

U.S. U.S. Department of Energy wants to use a long-dormant — and controversial — federal authority to fast-track transmission projects that are crucial to the clean-energy transition. Jeff St. John has the details on where those projects could go: canarymedia.com/articles/trans…

Today Climeworks officially switched on Mammoth—the world's largest Direct Air Capture facility—from a lava plateau in Iceland. The project lays the groundwork for the much bigger DAC plant that Climeworks is planning in Louisiana. Me for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/carbo…

Over 1,000 startups & research teams worldwide are working to remove CO2 from the sky or ocean and permanently lock it away. Now, 20 of those projects are advancing to the final round of XPRIZE's $100M carbon removal competition. Me for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/carbo…

Journalism in 2024, a story (in a 🧵) about chutzpah.

Nine months ago, I wrote a story about what I called the Great Sweetwater Blade Boneyard. It was about a company that promised it would recycle wind turbine blades, but … didn’t.

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Massive congrats to my Bloomberg Green and Bloomberg colleagues for their Pulitzer finalist in explanatory reporting. This is the series that won and it's now free for all to read: bloomberg.com/green-water-gr…

Next week, @FERC is set to announce what could be the most important nationwide transmission grid reform in decades, following two years of work. The implications for the clean energy transition are huge, Jeff St. John writes
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Powering airplanes with alternative jet fuels—aka 'sustainable aviation fuel'—can be an immediate way to start slashing CO2 emissions from air travel. What role should crop-based biofuels play in all of this? That's up for debate. Me for Canary Media
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A year ago, state-owned New York Power Authority was authorized to build & own clean energy projects for the 1st time—a move celebrated by enviro justice & climate groups. But NYPA's progress to date has been spotty, Akielly Hu writes for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/clean…

Elon Musk's move to lay off the 500-person team that built the biggest and most reliable U.S. fast-charging network doesn't just matter to Tesla. It's also a shock to a U.S. EV industrial complex that's centered its future plans on Tesla's charging tech:
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Nice point by Emily Pontecorvo: In the world of carbon dioxide removal, there's growing excitement for 'the dumbest, most primitive solutions companies can come up with' — i.e. low-tech solutions like burying waste (Vaulted Deep) & pulverizing rocks (Lithos) heatmap.news/technology/vau…

One of the largest solar projects in the United States is moving closer to completion, and it’s not in a famously sunny state — it's in Minnesota, on former potato farms near the site of a retiring coal plant, Eric Wesoff writes
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Vaulted Deep is one of 100's of startups now working on CO2 removal. It's also among the growing subset of companies focused on biomass waste — an approach that, in general, is driving broader discussion about how the world should use its finite resources canarymedia.com/articles/carbo…

Frontier, the Stripe-led carbon removal fund, just announced one of its biggest deals to date. The coalition will pay Vaulted Deep $58.3M to remove +152,000 tons of CO2 by injecting carbon-rich organic waste deep underground. Me for Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/emiss…