** Washington, D.C. spent $200 million on a two-mile light rail route in downtown DC and now they’re tearing it up. After less than a decade of operation, the D.C. Streetcar is set to be phased out and replaced by an electric bus that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called a “next generation streetcar” when …
Category: Wind Energy
Texas legislative efforts fail to curtail wind and solar development
The efforts of some legislators in Texas to rein in the state’s wind and solar industry are dead after several of their bills missed a deadline in the state House before Monday’s end of the legislative session. One of the bills would have put strict limits on where wind and solar farms could be …
Bill to limit eminent domain by wind developers in Oklahoma sent to Governor
Oklahomans fighting the expansion of wind farms through the use of the power of eminent domain are close to getting their wish for a strong anti-eminent domain law. House Bill 2752, if signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt or he allows it to become law without his signature, makes it clear. “The power …
Energy briefs
** EV battery recycling company Li-Cycle files for bankruptcy, putting up for sale an operation that includes a massive unfinished recycling center in western New York and five satellite battery shredding facilities. ** Meyer Burger lays off as many as 350 employees at its solar panel assembly facility that opened last year in Goodyear, Arizona. …
Sunzia transmission line project stalled again by courts
A federal court is giving another chance to a lawsuit by native Americans against the SunZia electric transmission line in southern Arizona. The 550-mile line, if approved, would be the largest renewable clean energy project in U.S. history and carry wind energy from New Mexico to California but opponents argue it will also destroy …
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** Unless new evidence emerges about how the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles started earlier this year, Southern California Edison and parent company Edison International Inc. are likely to incur “material losses,” Edison President and CEO Pedro Pizarro said earlier this week. Pizarro said company officials and other investigators have made progress of late on …
Energy briefs
** ENGIE North America announces a deal with an investment management company to build 31 battery energy storage facilities to strengthen grids in Texas and California. ** The White House proposes cutting the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provided utility assistance to nearly 60,000 families in West Virginia in 2022. ** New Orleans-area officials …
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** A research team based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says that solar could have the lowest levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of all energy sources in South Korea by the early to mid-2030s. ** In a groundbreaking move to bolster domestic critical mineral production, the U.S. Department of the Interior has greenlit the Velvet-Wood uranium …
What will come out of Texas legislative efforts to restrict renewable energy?
In the final weeks of the Texas legislature’s session, the fight remains underway against renewable energy including expansion of wind farms and solar farms. Others in the legislature have made attempts to protect the state’s historic legend as an oil and gas state. As The Hill reported, Texas has turned into what it described …
Legislator accuses Senate leader of ‘betrayal’ over wind setback bill
“A betrayal of Oklahoma’s rural communities.” It’s what Chandler Rep. Jim Shaw has accused Senate Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton of over the death of the so-called wind setback bill, SB2. He’s angry over the failure of the Senate to take up the bill he supported as part of his anti-wind stance. Shaw said the …