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ASPEN, Colo., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The deadline is fast approaching to apply for the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize, which will award $25,000 to each of 10 projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon uptake. The prestigious competition is open until Feb. 10 to applicants from around the world.
Previous winners have fixed carbon into stone in Iceland, produced biofuels in Kenya, and helped corporations around the world set and achieve emissions goals. Each year, the Keeling Curve Prize laureates inspire us with creative, practical approaches to reducing Earth s greenhouse gas burden and staving off the worst effects of global warming, said Jacquelyn Francis, executive director of the Keeling Curve Prize and the organization that administers it, the Global Warming Mitigation Project. Our goal is to shine a spotlight on these solutions and accelerate their development.
“Big batteries” boost renewables
Hornsdale Battery in South Australia. Note the windmill to the left. Image courtesy of Hornsdale Power Reserve.
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The twin smokestacks of the Moss Landing Power Plant tower over Monterey Bay. Visible for miles along this picturesque stretch of the Northern California coast, the 500-foot-tall pillars crown what was once California’s largest electric power station a behemoth natural gas-fired generator. Today, as California steadily moves to decarbonize its economy, those stacks are idle and the plant is largely mothballed. Instead, the site is about to begin a new life as the world’s largest battery, storing excess energy when solar panels and wind farms are producing electricity and feeding it back into the grid when they’re not.
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Michigan is struggling to bring back clean energy jobs. That sector has lost more than 22,000 jobs in the state since the pandemic began.
November numbers show Michigan regained only 215 clean energy jobs.
The entire sector across the country has taken a hit because of the pandemic.
“Well, what s been happening nationally is reflected in Michigan and maybe, unfortunately, maybe even a little worse. Michigan has regained like less than 1% of the clean energy jobs lost to the COVID-19,” said Greg Wetstone CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy.
About 17% of the clean energy workforce in Michigan is still unemployed.