Funding Will Help People in Particularly Underserved Rural Communities Cut Energy Costs, Increase Energy Resiliency and Address Climate Change WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 19, 2022 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the Department is making up to $10 million available to help people living in rural Read more…
FedEx is the first customer to receive electric delivery vans from General Motors’ new EV-focused company BrightDrop. The logistics giant says it will integrate the EVs into its fleet starting in 2022. BrightDrop, which is GM’s new dedicated electric delivery van spinoff, said it delivered five of its larger-sized EV600 Read more…
Greetings and Happy New Year from the Alliance for Renewable Energy of Laramie! Interested in volunteering to serve the betterment of your community and share your knowledge/expertise? The City of Laramie is looking for interested citizens to fill vacancies on various boards/commissions. One of which is the Environmental Advisory Committee, Read more…
When Byron Kominek returned home after the Peace Corps and later working as a diplomat in Africa, his family’s 24-acre farm near Boulder, Colo., was struggling to turn a profit. “Our farm has mainly been hay producing for fifty years,” Kominek said, on a recent chilly morning, the sun illuminating Read more…
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build the project in the Netherlands. The idea of deploying solar panels on farmland has been around for many years. Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build a project in the Netherlands that plans to combine Read more…
By 2035, the chief automakers will have turned away from the internal combustion engine. It’ll be up to the grid to fuel all those new cars, trucks and buses. Maple Ridge in Lewis County is New York’s largest wind farm. (Kate Lovering for The Washington Post)By Will Englund October 13, 2021|Updated October Read more…
Below you will find info on how to participate in the first-ever Laramie Solar Tour! Please know that there are multiple options to participate! Bike Tour: Starts at 10:00 am on Saturday at the Laramie Ice & Events Center located at 3510 East Garfield, and concludes at Noon at the Read more…
Mathew Mendisco knows his community looks less and less like a coal town. On a recent afternoon, the town manager of Hayden, Colo., arrived at Yampa Valley Brewing Company for happy hour. The taproom is attached to a small vacation rental unit. Next door is a new coffee shop built Read more…
The automotive industry has finally started to embrace battery-powered vehicles—but students at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands are already thinking about what comes next. A group of 22 coeds working under the name Solar Team Eindhoven has just unveiled Stella Vita, the world’s first entirely solar-powered camper, according to Ars Technica. The vehicle features a Read more…
It took over two years, but Rolls-Royce’s first electric plane is finally ready for the skies. The all-electric plane built by the British aerospace company—which was once related to the famed automaker but is now a separate entity—completed its maiden flight last week in the UK. The Spirit of Innovation flew for 15 Read more…