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Embedded in the Biden Administration’s new American Jobs Plan is a powerful, proven tool for cleaning up the power sector—and the economy as a whole—driving job creation in energy, and dramatically improving public health. Here’s what a clean energy standard is, and how it could help us make serious

CES 101: How a National Clean Energy Standard Can Advance Climate Action John Rogers/UCS John Rogers, Senior energy analyst | May 13, 2021, 4:18 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on Despite important progress in recent years, the power sector in the US is still a major source of emissions—both the air pollution that hurts public health and the heat-trapping emissions that cause climate chan...

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legislation March 2 to update and expand the small wind investment tax credit (ITC). The Rural Wind Energy Modernization and Extension Act would strike the 100-kilowatt nameplate limitation for small wind systems and expand the maximum wind turbine size to 10 megawatts, change the definition of small wind to “distributed wind energy property,” and extend the ITC to cover 30% of a project’s costs until 2028 before phasing down to a permanent 10%. A companion bill was introduced in the Hou...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/506799.html (Natural News) Biden administration officials announced a plan to reduce the cost of solar energy by 60 percent within the next ten years. This goal, set by the Department of Energy (DOE), aims to reduce the cost of utility-scale solar energy by 2025 and 2030. According to officials, the move was essential to achieving the 100 percent clean energy by 2035 objective set by President Joe Biden. In a March 25 statement, the DOE said it would strive to r...

Note : Congress recently voted on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package—the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA, P.L.117-2). It includes stimulus checks for individuals, expanded unemployment benefits, and funding for vaccines, state and local governments, schools and child care. The ARPA marks a huge win for the Biden administration during its first 50 days in office. Before the ink is dry, the administration has already pivoted to the second phase of the Biden agenda: Build Back Better. Whil...

Dive Brief: President Joe Bidens $1.52 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 includes a policy making standalone energy storage projects eligible for the federal investment tax credit (ITC), a move that advocates say will unleash new capital for renewable energy. The budget request also included new spending on storage as part of the administrations goal to decarbonize the energy sector by 2035.  Bidens $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, also included ...

Published: 1 Apr 2021, 11:23 By: Deputy Editor Sonnens battery storage with Solarias PV panels in Utah, a VPP project that benefits from the ITC. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media. The market for solar-plus-storage in the US has grown dramatically in recent years, with more than 1GW already. Additionally, there is more than 100GW in connection queues, explained Will Gorman, a researcher at the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in a...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dr. John Joyce, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Thursday introduced legislation to speed the deployment of reliable broadband and expand access