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Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio
Overwhelming demand is turning the state into a solar hotbed, despite a decade of policies hostile toward renewables.
December 17, 2020
Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
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And if every project that has filed papers with state regulators gets built, the total would exceed 5,000 megawatts by the mid-2020s.
MPSC OKs securitization bonds for Consumers Energy as utility prepares for 2023 retirement of coal-fired generating units
MPSC OKs securitization bonds for Consumers Energy as utility prepares for 2023 retirement of coal-fired generating units
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The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved Consumers Energy Co.’s application to issue low-interest securitization bonds for costs mainly associated with the retirement of two coal-fired electricity generating plants (Case No. U-20889).
Finding cost savings for utility customers, the Commission approved the securitization of up to $677.7 million in qualified costs related to the unrecovered book value of Consumers’ Karn 1 and 2 coal-fired generating units at the utility’s complex on Saginaw Bay in Bay County’s Hampton Township, with up to $10.6 million in other qualified costs. The company announced it would retire the units in Ma
Public charging stations are most heavily concentrated in the city’s more affluent neighborhoods, creating a chicken/egg scenario for electric car adoption
While electric vehicles are relatively uncommon in Chicago, city officials expect their popularity to grow dramatically in coming decades.
And while electric cars are registered throughout the city, they, along with the city’s charging stations, are most heavily concentrated in the city’s affluent and mostly white North Side. As of 2018, 70% of all public charging stations were located in just three community areas. By contrast, 47 of Chicago’s 77 community areas, largely on the city’s South Side and West Side, had no public charging stations at all.
Chicago Charging Deserts Highlight The Racial Divide Of EVs cleantechnica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cleantechnica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.