Canary Media | Covering the clean energy transition
WEBCanary Media and ENN team up to supercharge clean energy coverage. Canary is joining forces with the Energy News Network so we can increase our state and regional coverage and more comprehensively report on the energy transition. By Eric Wesoff, Lisa Hymas, Nicholas Rinaldi.
11 winners from the US’ $7B investment in 'clean… | Canary Media
WEBOct 18, 2023 · The Department of Energy laid down its bets Friday in the first phase of its effort to instigate an American clean-hydrogen economy. The agency selected seven regional winners of a collective $ 7 billion in funding allocated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to get a series of “ hydrogen hubs” up and running. Now negotiations …
Chart: Which countries are leading the green hydrogen race?
WEBFeb 2, 2024 · Source Sans Pro. China is currently the world’s largest consumer and producer of hydrogen. Most of the hydrogen it makes today is fossil-fuel-based, but the country has big plans to scale up its green hydrogen production and use the fuel to decarbonize sectors like steel and chemicals production. Saudi Arabia is next on the list, …
A beginner’s guide to the different types of heat pumps
WEBSep 19, 2023 · Heat-pump types are divided by their thermal-energy source. If they absorb heat from the ambient air, they’re called “ air-source heat pumps.”. If they suck thermal energy from a pond or stream, they’re “ water-source” heat pumps. If they draw heat from the ground or groundwater, you guessed it, they’re “ ground-source” or ...
A small modular nuclear reactor just got - Canary Media
WEBJan 23, 2023 · NuScale Power, a pioneer in small nuclear reactors, cleared the ultimate U.S. regulatory hurdle in civilian advanced nuclear last week — and in doing so provided some hope for the long-heralded nuclear renaissance.. In a historic ruling, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified the design of NuScale’s 50-megawatt power module, …
Bankrupt EV bus-maker Proterra finds buyers for its… | Canary Media
WEBNov 14, 2023 · Proterra, the leading electric bus-maker in the U.S. before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August, has found buyers for its bus-manufacturing, battery and electric-drivetrain businesses.. Now the question is whether the company’s U.S.-based factories, once celebrated by the Biden administration as a promising domestic …
Articles - Canary Media
WEBSep 20, 2024 · California’s new rules will boost heat pumps in commercial buildings. The new building code adopted by the California Energy Commission will also promote heat pumps in new homes — but it falls short on existing ones, advocates say. By Alison F. Takemura . 20 September 2024.
Why Energy Vault went from disrupting batteries to selling them
WEBOct 16, 2023 · In the long-ago days of 2019, buzzy startup Energy Vault raised a record amount of capital to produce a fundamentally new climate technology: a specialized crane that stores clean energy by stacking heavy blocks.But the company has since departed from that initial vision, revealing the challenges of taking big swings at clean energy …
Top home solar lender GoodLeap scores mammoth - Canary Media
WEBBy Jeff St. John. 13 October 2021. GoodLeap’s latest $800M investment will help it expand from home solar loans into the $430B-per-year home sustainability market. (GoodLeap) GoodLeap, the country’s top residential solar lender, has raised more than $ 800 million to boost its expansion into what it estimates is a $ 430 -billion-per-year ...
Xcel Colorado’s new clean heat plan is a big deal. Here’s why.
WEBAug 8, 2024 · In Colorado, a 2021 law spurred the state’s largest investor-owned utility to produce a plan that could transition a lot of homes to clean heating — and fast. Xcel Energy’s Clean Heat Plan was approved this May. It directs more than $ 440 million over the next three years mainly to electrification and energy-efficiency measures that are ...