Your Neighbor’s Solar Panels Are Secretly Saving You Money Why not return the favor? BY CAROLINE DELBERTFEB 11, 2021WESTEND61GETTY IMAGES Solar panels save their owners and their neighbors energy costs. A new holistic analysis looks at all the ways panels save utilities money. In fact, researchers say, utilities should be helping panel owners even more. There’s Read more…
ELECTRIC VEHICLES David Ferris, E&E News reporter Published: Thursday, April 8, 2021Electric vehicle experts aren’t sure that President Biden’s $174 billion plan for EVs is enough for the U.S. to make a transition away from fossil fuels. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Joenomias/Pixabay (cars, charging station); BruceEmmerling/Pixabay (Baltimore)When President Biden rolled out Read more…
Daimler Trucks North America announced on Tuesday that its battery-electric eCascadia and eM2 trucks are now available for preorder. The company claims that both trucks will be the longest-range commercial electric vehicles on sale in the US. The trucks are set to enter production in late 2022, so there’s still a bit of a Read more…
Beta hopes its electric vertical aircraft deal with UPS validates this new mode of transport Frank Holland 1 Beta Technologies sees its deal to provide electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to UPS as a major milestone for the acceptance of so-called eVTOLs as commercially viable. As part of the purchase, Read more…
Camille Erickson Acontroversial bill asking state utility regulators to review Wyoming’s system for regulating rooftop solar was put in jeopardy Friday after a legislative committee voted to postpone a decision on the matter following hours of impassioned public comment against the measure. The proposed legislation would have required the Public Service Commission to conduct Read more…
Dear Laramigos, We did it! Solar energy freedom lives to see another day! A bill we wrote you about yesterday Senate File 16 – New Net Metering Systems died in the House Corporations Committee today. After a contentious meeting that cut off public testimony, one legislators made a motion to table the Read more…
Laramie Neighbors, Rooftop solar is an important issue to Laramie and other communities investing in renewable energy and providing energy efficiency and cost savings to both residences and public services. Recently, The City of Laramie has made investments in rooftop solar at the Laramie Ice and Event Center and is Read more…
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa: What we know about the Boulder, Colorado, mass shooting…Longtime PGA Tour Golfer Has Passed Away At 81 Heliogen, the Bill Gates-backed clean energy startup, is bringing its field of mirrors to the Mojave Desert.© Heliogen Los Angeles-based Heliogen harnesses the power of the sun to create the extreme Read more…
LARAMIE, Wyo., February 25, 2021 – The 9H Research Foundation (9H) announced that it will be donating over $10 million dollars to the University of Wyoming in the form of clean energy installations and in-kind support services. 9H has begun the construction of a philanthropic Student Research Facility at the Read more…
ENERGY TRANSITIONSBiden’s dilemma: Land for renewablesPeter Behr and Jeffrey Tomich, E&E News reportersPublished: Wednesday, March 24, 2021Reaching President Biden’s goal of zeroing out economywide U.S. carbon emissions by 2050 would require siting renewable energy generation on 228,000 square miles of land, under one future grid scenario calculated by Princeton University analysts. While Read more…