Trucking Will Electrify, But What Hills Must Be Flattened?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:33:24 +0000

Key Takeaways Grid upgrades for high truck charging demands can take years Microgrids with buffering batteries and solar enable charging immediately Depots and truck stops require different charging technologies and have different energy profiles One of the primary challenges of electrifying freight trucks in the United States comes down to … [continued]

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Oil Consumption Growth Trends in China, India, & USA — Is 2025 Forecast Accurate?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:06:31 +0000

The US Energy Information Administration put out an interesting article today. The headline focused on growth of oil consumption in India compared to China — “India to surpass China as the top source of global oil consumption growth in 2024 and 2025.” I sat looking at the chart for several … [continued]

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It’s Against The Law In Canada To Call Hydrogen Buses Zero Emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:42:07 +0000

In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]

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Hurricanes Were Extra Disruptive to US Energy Infrastructure in 2024 — I’m Shocked

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:57:20 +0000

After warnings for years from climate scientists that hurricanes were going to get bigger and more destructive, I’m absolutely shocked to learn that hurricanes this year were bigger and more destructive than normal in the US. Sarcasm aside, I lived through a couple of serious hurricanes, including going through the … [continued]

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New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000

Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]

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The Carbon Capture Dream Bumps Up Against Reality In Texas

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:25:36 +0000

Carbon capture and sequestration may or may not work but the US taxpayers will foot the bill either way, starting in Texas.

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New Report Establishes Baseline for Clean Energy Deployment in Energy Communities

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000

For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]

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Hydrogen Ships Are Seeing Same Pattern As All Hydrogen Fleets

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:37:54 +0000

As the years pass and more re-enactments of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet are played out, they get staged in multiple settings, much like Shakespeare’s Tempest being staged in a waterpark in Germany in 2019. In recent months, I’ve curated a couple of lists of hydrogen bus and train … [continued]

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AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000

The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]

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