The Rise Of Renewables
In its Annual Energy Outlook 2021 (AEO 2021), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that the share of renewables in the US electricity generation mix will increase from 21% in 2020 to 42%...
Amazon Buys 1000 CNG-Powered Trucks
Just days after reporting a record high US$125.5 billion in fourth quarter 2020 sales, Amazon ordered 1000 compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered truck engines from a joint venture between Cummins and Westport Fuel Systems. Amazon...
Energy Transfer Creates Alternative Energy Group
Energy Transfer LP has created a new business group to develop alternative energy projects aimed at continuing to reduce its environmental footprint throughout its operations. The Alternative Energy Group will be led by Tom...
DOE Launches Clean Energy Funding Program
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering up to US$100 million in funding for transformative clean energy technology research and development via its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) OPEN 2021 funding opportunity. The...
SEC Names Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and ESG
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Satyam Khanna as senior policy advisor for climate and ESG in the office of Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee. Khanna will advise the agency on...
German State Funds Cross-Sector, Energy-Storage Solution
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is providing funding of €200,000 for a technical and economic-evaluation study of the new MAN Energy Solutions (MAN) ETES energy-storage technology. According to MAN, this still-untested technology...
Jenbacher Hits Hydrogen Milestone
The initiation of field testing on a converted combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Othmarschen area of Hamburg, Germany, represents the world’s first large-scale gas engine in the 1 MW range that...
Enerflex Names Chief Energy Transition Officer
Enerflex Ltd. has named Patricia Martinez as chief energy transition officer. Martinez currently serves as the company’s president, Latin America, a role she will retain. As chief energy transition officer, Martinez will be responsible...
An Introduction To ESG
In late September 2020, the 120 companies that had gathered at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, published a near-100-page document detailing new reporting standards. Titled “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism Toward...
