On the shore of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt., the beginning of a massive memorial to the city’s energy transition is emerging from a shuttered coal plant. Construction began last year on the Moran Frame project, which will convert Burlington's old Moran coal plant to a permanent art installation at...

Two bills intended to help decarbonize Washington’s transportation sector are headed to the governor’s desk for signature after passing both houses in the legislature. House Speaker Laurie Jenkins (D) signed the bills Tuesday before sending them to Gov. Jay Inslee, who is expected to approve both. The first, HB 1287,...

Renewable energy became the largest source of electricity in Minnesota in 2020 at 29%, BloombergNEF reported last week. At the same time, the share of zero-carbon electricity (renewables and nuclear) increased to 55% from 48% in 2019. How Minnesota compares with the U.S. average for key power system metrics |...

California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project is rapidly running out of money, a situation caused, in part, by a faster-than-expected rebound in electric vehicle purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said last week. Funding for the program will likely run out within the next 30 days, the California Air Resources Board...

Republican senators on Tuesday grilled members of President Biden’s cabinet over the president’s proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, saying it is too broad and too expensive. The exchanges over Biden’s American Jobs Plan came at the first meeting of the full Senate Appropriations Committee since Democrats took control of the...

Jim Matheson believes President Biden’s goal of decarbonizing the U.S. power system by 2035 is "overly ambitious." But the CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) said during a Monday press call that nonprofit co-ops should get a piece of the action if Congress passes tax credits and...

The U.S. Department of Energy Thursday unveiled a third funding cycle in its 12-year-old Super Truck initiative to spark innovation in the trucking industry. In Super Truck 3, DOE is offering $162 million in a competition to improve vehicular electric drive systems, develop better batteries and build charging stations. The...

FERC on Thursday rejected Michigan Electric Transmission Co.’s (METC) request to spend $15 million on a pilot project to build charging facilities for long-haul trucks, saying the company had not provided sufficient detail for the commission to evaluate the proposal (ER21-424). In November, METC filed a request with FERC to...

The key question about the electrification of U.S. transportation is no longer if it is technically or economically feasible, but how fast it can be accomplished and what federal, state and local policies will be needed to drive rapid and widespread consumer adoption. Berkeley  A new report from the University of...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) unveiled proposed rules Wednesday that would require manufacturers to meet increasing sales targets for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks in the state after 2025, to cut carbon emissions. The rules, which set out a system of credits and deficits governing the number...