SolarEdge to Power Xcel Energy’s New ‘Renewable Battery Connect’ Virtual Power Plant Incentive Program in Colorado (Photo: Business Wire)
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. Produced by Renewable Energy World and Tigercomm, This Week in Cleantech will air every Friday in the Factor This! podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts.
This week’s episode features Latitude Media founding reporter Maeve Allsup, who covered some of the challenges facing one of the first virtual power plants deployed in the U.S.
This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is world-renowned Climate Scientist Michael Mann.
1. This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics. — New York Times
China dominates a lot of clean technology production. In response, a combination of tariffs and subsidies, such as the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, are driving domestic cleantech investment in other countries.
In Europe, where the equivalent of the IRA has not been passed, concern over losing that investment has many wondering how much they should loosen restrictions on state aid and protectionist policy.
2. California could make — or break — the Western grid — E&E News
Connecting state and regional electricity markets can speed clean energy deployment by increasing the range of potential buyers when renewables are generating power, thereby increasing reliability and lowering costs. There are two competing proposals on how to do this: One out of California, spanning 11 states, which has already been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as well as a competing proposal from Arkansas, across 14 states, that does not include California and would require significantly more transmission to be built.
However, power providers and some state officials in the West are concerned about being subject to oversight from California regulators working to comply with stricter carbon reduction goals.
3. The world is reducing its reliance on fossil fuels – except for in three key sectors — The Guardian
There are three sectors where we are falling short on decarbonization goals: aviation, shipping, and industry. We have not seen a jet fuel or shipping diesel that is at scale yet, and at this rate, industry is going to continue failing to meet its decarbonization goals.
Although we see the EV market driving
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