Renewable Tuesday: Double, Double, Make Good Trouble

The Fossil Fools have lost round after round in the Global Warming debate, but they aren’t going to give up on oil and gaslighting until their last lone megabuck is gone. It’s not fair, you know. You and I are trying to steal

$10! trillion!! DOLLARS!!!

of ill-gotten market valuations that they weaseled the world out of fair and square. Poor paskudnyaks.

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Canary Media: Chart: The US grid battery fleet is about to double — again

Hooray! Ohio's largest solar plant just came online, joining global solar tsunami. The 577 MW giant has three phases: 150 MW Fox Squirrel 1 now online; the 250 MW Fox Squirrel 2 online in mid-2024: and the 177 MW Fox Squirrel 3 online end of 2024.https://t.co/il2x4eXZO3

— John Raymond Hanger  (@johnrhanger) January 14, 2024

Where better to obtain geothermal electricity than from heat in the magma chamber of a volcano?

Because of the high temperature, "we can drill one hole instead of 10 for same power output"

Iceland scientists to drill 1.3 mi into volcano's magma chamber https://t.co/afiuUs1lCr

— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) January 14, 2024

We’ve announced $32.5M for 16 projects to expand EV deployment and support charging infrastructure across the country.  

Projects will reduce installation costs and implement regional deployment. https://t.co/TQ7H6C2gwz

— U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) January 14, 2024

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• American Renewable Energy—@ACORE Washington, D.C. 2023 State of Black America Report: A Climate in Crisis

Working in collaboration to help illustrate the path toward a just and equitable clean energy future, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has partnered with the National Urban League on the release of its 2023 State of Black America^® report, “Democracy in Peril: Confronting the Threat Within.”

For the first time, the report includes a special section focused on clean energy and climate, A Climate in Crisis: Solving the Challenge and Addressing Historic Inequities. This section helps chronicle the history of environmental justice in the United States; highlights current reforms underway nationally; and summarizes the clean energy workforce, economic investment, and restorative climate justice opportunities enabled under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for Black and Brown communities.

• BloombergNEFA Power Grid Long Enough to Reach the Sun Is Key to the Climate Fight

Imagine it’s 2050 and the world has managed to reach net-zero emissions. If you deconstruct the electricity grid and lay it out in a single line, those cables will stretch all the way to the Sun.

A 152-million-kilometer supersized grid is what’s needed to power a greener future and avert climate disaster, according to BloombergNEF. That’s more than double the length of the grid today.

• Carbon Brief Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada Emissions from mining cause ‘up to £2.5tn’ in environmental damages each year

• CleanTechnica—@cleantechnica

  Find out how @VolvoCE_NA's off-road electric equipment is advancing the green cause:https://t.co/h3Ve9EVUbo

  — CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) January 15, 2024

  US EV Market Grows 29% in 4th Quarter, Tesla Holds 56% Market Sharehttps://t.co/WPTXAvtWIk

  — CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) January 15, 2024

• Climate Reality @ClimateReality U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows

The drop was big, but emissions will need to fall three times as fast for the rest of the decade if the country wants to meet its climate goals.

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• DeSmog

• Dark Money, CCS Bonanza, Corporate Comms Offensives: What to Watch in 2024

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• Energy & Power

  Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100: Long-Term Development Vision For Next Generations

Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 is a visionary step towards fulfilling the commitment of achieving a safe, resilient, and prosperous Bangladesh, and it would ensure an optimistic future for the next generations. The potential of deltaic Bangladesh even faced the long-term challenges of climate change impacts and natural disasters. The government adopted the plan with the cooperation of the Netherlands government, taking their delta experiences.

The plan aims to ensure long-term water, food, and energy security, with economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability, reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, and building resilience to climate change and other deltaic challenges in Bangladesh, the largest delta in the world. The plan also defines the short-medium, and long-term goals, targets, and strategies as steps to achieve the vision and make the plan successful.

• IEA Massive expansion of renewable power opens door to achieving global tripling goal set at COP28

World added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 and next 5 years will see fastest growth yet, but lack of financing for emerging and developing economies is key issue

• IRENA—@IRENA

  We must rapidly mobilise investments to triple #RenewablePower capacity & double #EnergyEfficiencyby 2030.
  
  Learn more about the actions we need to take to keep the 1.5 ºC goal within reach in the @COP28_UAE, @IRENA & @GRA_Renewables report 🔗https://t.co/GOgt0gTtQA pic.twitter.com/8qo2pKZ8FP

  — IRENA (@IRENA) January 14, 2024

• Latest Solar News—@LatestSolarNews

  India is planning to achieve 50 GW of prodction from renewbale energy by 2028 #Solar https://t.co/TrvDPabf7e

  — Latest Solar News (@LatestSolarNews) January 12, 2024

• Mike Hudema—@MikeHudema

Scotland is generating energy from the power of the ocean. When the full project is finished it could provide electricity for over 175,000 homes.

We have the solutions. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #renewbleenergy #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/LpfgrXEOLW

— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) January 13, 2024

Microsoft has placed an order for 12GW of solar, enough to power 1.8 million homes annually in the US: https://t.co/qP9jLl3TfE

WE have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate#climate #renewables #go100re pic.twitter.com/zT8gdtzGd5

— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) January 16, 2024

• pv magazine—@pvmagazine Berlin, Germany Czechia records 970 MW of new solar in 2023 Hungary’s 2023 solar capacity additions hit 1.6 GW Exagen given green light for new 500MW / 1GWh battery storage project in Leicestershire
• Renewables News—@RenewablesNews

Bramble Energy launches the world’s first hydrogen-electric boat powered by a printed circuit board fuel cellhttps://t.co/XeX5aL4wjV pic.twitter.com/kqs5SSCUfG

— Renewables News (@RenewablesNews) January 15, 2024

• Science Daily

  Catalytic combo converts CO2 to solid carbon nanofibers

• Solar and Storage Industry—@SEIA

Solar State By State

Explore the latest solar market insights and policy updates in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. All market data is current through Q4 2023.

162.8 GW Total solar capacity installed nationwide.

263,883

Americans working in solar.

4,656,138

Solar energy systems installed nationwide.

• Solar Power World—@SolarPowerWorld

Charge your house with your car?! Bi-directional EV stations are ready for 2024. Our President and CEO was a part of yesterday’s @SolarPowerWorld story by Kelly Pickerel.https://t.co/gkxnfuOR0t#SanDiegoEV #HESsolar #HESsolarpowered

— HES Solar (@HESsolar) January 12, 2024

• Windpower Monthly—@windpower_m

  .@Vestas plans to establish a new blade factory in northern Poland as it feels the country can become an offshore wind hub in Europe @WindEurope @PSEW_PWEA#offshorewind #windpower #energytransitionhttps://t.co/HnG5YJNt5q pic.twitter.com/IPgSXEIiSn

  — Windpower Monthly (@windpower_m) January 11, 2024

From Daily Kos

Weekly Spotlight on Climate and Eco-diaries (1/14/2024)

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Earth Matters: Biden's IRA plan extends solar to low-income people, EVs surge by Meteor Blades

Earth Matters: Haley no climate friend; largest renewables project in U.S. history now being built

by Meteor Blades 77 Comments / 77 New  on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM EST  with 225 Recommends

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Biggest U.S. wind project under construction in New Mexico

When completed in 2026, the SunZia Transmission Project will be what the developer calls the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere with 3.5 gigawatts of electricity-generating capacity, 50 percent more than Hoover Dam, and enough to supply the needs of 3 million households in the energy-hungry Southwest. Ground was broken in September. This got zero major media coverage, although the Albuquerque Journal took note as did Climate Wire last week.

A wind project of the same capacity—Chokecherry Sierra Madre—is planned for 2029 completion in Wyoming (which is the windiest place I [MB] ever lived).

From the GNR Newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup

• New Hydrogen tax credit revolutionizing how clean energy is counted

• Small Texas town has first all EV bus fleet

• Clean electricity is driving down US emissions

• A huge Battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant

• Paris is great, but the green mobility revolution is happening all over Europe

• From train to nowhere to Fresno’s dream

• How three states are attacking carbon emissions from transportation

Biden has made progress in holding Big Oil accountable by ChrisMarshallAUS.

In an era marked by grave climate challenges and a call for greater corporate responsibility, President Biden has taken important steps towards accountability in the oil and gas industry.

Methane Fines, Ocean Warming, State of the Climate 2023 by boatsie for Climate Brief

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