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EPA Allocates US$50 Million Toward Environmental Justice Initiatives Under The American Rescue Plan

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will provide US$50 million for environmental justice (EJ) initiatives through funds allocated to EPA under the American Rescue Plan (ARP). In response to the...

Spain’s Hydrogen Economy Is Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen

On October 6, 2020, Spain’s Ministry For The Ecological Transition And The Demographic Challenge (MITECO) approved the “Hydrogen Roadmap: A Commitment To Renewable Hydrogen.” The hydrogen roadmap was the result of discussions between 78...

Blackjack Creek Wind Farm Begins Construction

Construction has begun on Blackjack Creek Wind Farm (Blackjack Creek), a 240-MW onshore wind farm located in Bee and Refugio counties, Texas. The RWE Renewables project is expected to be online in late 2021.   "Blackjack...

Austrian Blockchain Platform Tokenizes Solar Energy To Allow Customers To Pay Bills Based On...

Riddle&Code Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of a leading European blockchain interface company, Riddle&Code, together with the largest energy provider in Austria, Wien Energie, have announced the successful launch of a blockchain-powered energy tokenization platform...

Burckhardt Compressor For Green Hydrogen Production Plant

Burckhardt Compression (Burckhardt) has received an order for a diaphragm compressor unit for a new green hydrogen production plant in Switzerland. The diaphragm compressor is being manufactured at Burckhardt Compression in Shenyang, China, and...

Quidnet Energy And Emissions Reduction Alberta To Develop Alberta Geologic Energy Storage Project

Quidnet Energy and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), with funding from the Government of Alberta, Canada, have launched a project to develop a multi-gigawatt geologic energy storage resource in Alberta, utilizing Quidnet’s modular pumped hydro...

Renewable Focus Brings Name Change To Oil And Gas Major

Oil and gas major Total has rebranded itself and is now TotalEnergies. The name change, approved by shareholders, is a reflection of the company’s shift toward renewable energy sources.   “Energy is life. We all need...

United States And Allies Put Billions Toward Fighting Coal

The Group of Seven (G7), which consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, has pledged to end government support for coal power by the end of 2021....

Tesla Reverses Anti-Bitcoin Position

Another day, another controversial statement from Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk. Musk tweeted “when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions.” In...

North Carolina Commits US$140 Billion Toward Offshore Wind Power

Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 218 highlighting North Carolina’s commitment to offshore wind power as the state transitions to a clean energy economy. The Executive Order highlights the economic and environmental benefits of offshore wind...