Renewable Energy

EPB officials say a $2 million project to install a new microgrid with power generation and battery storage at police and fire headquarters in Chattanooga will pay for itself in six or seven years.

Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.

Researchers at the University of Michigan will partner with a power grid technology company and use artificial intelligence-powered technology to study how electric vehicle driving and charging behavior impacts the electric grid.

Demonstration projects, incentives and regulation are moving the massive trucking industry in California away from fossil fuel powered trucks toward electric, a once-in-a-generation transformation.

New York, which was America's sixth-largest state consumer of natural gas in 2020, became the first state to enact such a ban when the state's 2023-24 budget was passed Tuesday night.

The U.S. Department of Education honored dozens of Green Ribbon Schools for renewable energy projects involving geothermal technology, electrical appliances, educational programs and other initatives.

A new bill making its way through the Pennsylvania legislature would create a solar energy grant program to fund projects like the solar array located next to a high school in Steelton-Highspire School District.

Israeli-founded company Eviation Aircraft flew its nine-passenger, all-electric commuter aircraft on the morning of April 18. The flight lasted just eight minutes and reached an altitude of 3,500 feet.

Duke and The National Theatre performed at Green Valley Elementary in Indiana as part of an initiative to teach students about power plants, different kinds of energy and what they can do to conserve energy.

Swampscott High School will host a panel of state, university and private-sector leaders in renewable energy next week to introduce students to a growing range of job opportunities in the field.

Following the devastation of major hurricanes, the Crescent City is pushing towards a more resilient energy system by exploring alternate power sources, microgrids and community resilience nodes.

The U.S. Department of Energy is partnering with Stellantis on the Battery Workforce Challenge, a competition to boost EV battery research, development and the worker pool for this emerging industry.

A new bill, proposed last month by State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would require that all new electric vehicles in California are equipped with so-called bidirectional charging by 2027.

A coalition based in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan has taken a big step in its bid to obtain up to $1.25 billion in federal funding for a regional clean hydrogen hub intended to reduce planet-warming emissions.

The proposed Mid-Continent Clean Hydrogen Hub (MCH2) – a partnership between Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri – would be competing with other regional proposals for $7 billion available to establish six to 10 green hydrogen hubs.

OU energy faculty met with tribal leaders, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff recently to discuss the potential of geothermal energy production as a component of energy sovereignty.

Funded by federal and state grants and tax credits, Baltimore City Public Schools has entered a 12-year contract with Massachusetts-based Highland Electric Fleets for 20 buses and 25 chargers starting this fall.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is urging all eligible school districts to apply for funding after the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announced millions in grants to replace diesel buses from 2009 or earlier.