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Thursday, 13 May 2021 The Business Network for Offshore Wind  has published its Offshore Wind Policy Brief: Advancements in Coordinated Transmission Approaches. The briefing provides updates to the Network’s 2020 Transmission White Paper and offers immediate and long-term recommendations for strategic actions that policymakers should take to ensure the U.S. deploys 30 GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030. Pixabay The Network released this briefing just one day after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s issued the Record of Decision for Vineyard Wind, the first major offshore...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8...

Follow Us We are first in your inbox with the most important news in the industry―keeping you smarter and one-step ahead in this ever-changing and competitive market.Start your free subscription Heavy Push by Industry, Biden Administration to Jumpstart Transmission Expansion, Grid Modernization Bolstering the Biden administration’s recently announced initiatives to modernize the nation’s grid and improve its resilience, the Department of Energy (DOE) on April 27 made up to $8.25 billion in loans available to expand transmission capacity nationwide, while the Department of Transport...

Dive Brief: 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. Th...

In January 2020, Katie Dykes, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection — speaking to environmental advocates attending the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters annual environmental summit — leveled this broadside at the independent system operator that runs the six-state New England electricity grid and the federal authorities that govern it: “Because of the lack of leadership on carbon at the ISO-New England, we are at the mercy of a regional capacity market that’s driving investment in more natural gas and fossil fuel power plants that w...