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The Department of Energy announced $8.25 billion in loans available for transmission projects on Tuesday, as the White House released a fact sheet on the coordinated efforts between DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to modernize the electric grid.
The total included up to $5 billion in loan guarantees for innovative transmission projects, such as offshore wind, and projects sited on federally recognized tribal nations through DOE s Loan Program Office, along with up to $3.25 billion in the Western Area Power Administration s (WAPA) transmission infrastructure fund. The WAPA revolving loan program is designed to facilitate clean power in the West.
The Biden proposals
Much of the $2.3 trillion AJP investment would go toward modernize U.S. highways, roads, bridges, trains, buses, stations and airports. It would also retool U.S. manufacturing to build zero emission transportation infrastructure like zero emission vehicle fueling and charging stations. Analysts estimate around $200 billion would go to the energy transition and power system transformation. The proposal would also transition U.S. buildings away from fossil fuel heating and make them more energy efficient.
Biden s plan includes a limited tax credit to speed near-term transmission development and new Department of Energy authority would streamline longer-term transmission expansion.
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Renewable energy companies are deploying a former aide to President Joe Biden to lobby the White House on the specifics of its proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package that would provide huge windfalls for the industry.
Christopher Putala, a former Biden staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1998, more than doubled his client list and lobbying revenue under the new president. Putala’s one-man lobbying firm raked in $770,000 in the first three months of 2021, up from $310,000 during the same period last year.
That first-quarter haul was a personal best for Putala, who primarily represented telecom companies in Washington before Biden’s win ushered in an influx of green energy clients on Jan. 11. Putala reported bringing in a total of $300,000 from six renewable energy firms, Apex Clean Energy, Clearway Energy Group, Invenergy LLC, Pattern Energy Group, IP Renewable Energy Holdings and Longroad Energy Mana
Published: April 23rd, 2021
Amazon has announced its first renewable energy investment in Canada, a solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta.
The tech giant says the project will produce enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year.
The 80 MW solar project will produce over 195,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid. The project will begin construction soon and is anticipated for completion by 2023, Kristin Gable, a spokesperson for Amazon, told
ITBusiness.ca.
“This announcement is the largest solar power purchase agreement we’ve seen in Canada,” Rebecca Nadel told
ITBusiness.ca in an email. Nadel is the director of Business Renewables Centre (BRC) for Canada, a non-profit organization that works to accelerate large-scale corporate and institutional renewable energy procurement across the country.