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French energy conglomerate Total and local Duke Energy won bids for offshore wind development off the Carolinas with $315 million offers, says this May 11 Reuters report.

This March 31 analysis looks at squabbles with utilities over who bears the transmission cost when more people generate their own clean power. It focuses on Florida and California.

Each building owner, with a team of investors, needs to work out a particular electrification schedule. Broad public policies, though, can advance new technologies or marketing strategies that can help more buildings go electric sooner. This sequel to our earlier explainer sets out some scalable policies from across the United...

Evidently too excited to wait for our explainer on the subject, Robert Downey Jr. tweeted bullishly about carbon removal recently. This March 21 story places the pronoucement in context.

Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.

Lithium-ion batteries are the world's most common kind. They're also the preferred kind by bidders in a recent contract with a California community provider, according to this January 20 story.

Utility Solar in Spotsylvania County VA — (Photo by Hugh Kenny, Piedmont Environmental Council.) A solar array in Virginia stands for the kinds of investment that could crowd in with a properly targeted federal carbon price.

Climate scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report warned that without immediate large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause devastating economic and human losses. Policymakers must come together to implement a comprehensive climate change strategy in the United States.

A smallish company's CEO held forth to CNBC on December 9 about a partnership with a slightly bigger outfit called General Motors to source and supply EV battery components from a site in California.

Venture investors and auto-company directors rarely take strategic pointers from urban-planning activists. In light of this November 19 essay pinpointing electric SUVs' sustainability failings, perhaps they should.

A mandate from the Golden State to hook up new buildings to renewable power opens a path for ideas about financing energy upgrades in the vastly higher stock of buildings already in use.

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A Bigger Total Share of Offshore Wind

The Net-Net Looks Like a Mess-Mess

Explainer: How Do Public Policies Reinforce Building Electrification Financing (Part Two)?

Of Iron Man's Endorsement and Carbon Removal's Evolution

It's Rare Earths, Not Scorched Earth, in Congressional Policy

You Can Only Charge Your Purchases For So Long - Even for Batteries

Policy Memo: Lower Price, Higher Potential

Of Course it Takes Metal to Make a Reliable (EV Supply) Chain

Unsafe at Any Source? Urban Planners Query Electric-SUV Strategy

California Without Collateral? New Buildings Get Mandates, Raise Finance Questions