Shay Totten

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Amazon orders 100,000 electric vans from Michigan electric vehicle startup Rivian, likely the largest order of fully electric vehicles in automotive history. (Detroit News) ALSO: • A Chicago alderman proposes an ordinance requiring new parking garages and multi-unit residential buildings to be wired to support EV charging stations. (Chicago Sun-Times) • A partnership […]

Southeast Energy News

September 23 2019

America’s largest solar panel plant opens in Georgia

SOLAR: South Korean company Hanwha Q Cells says its new Dalton, Georgia, solar panel manufacturing plant is the largest in North America. (Chattanooga Times Free Press) ALSO: At the plant’s grand opening, President Trump, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and company executives tout solar tariffs as the reason for its construction while solar industry experts warn […]

Northeast Energy News

September 20 2019

Massive new turbines slated for East Coast projects

OFFSHORE WIND: Orsted will be the first developer to deploy GE’s 12 MW wind turbines — which have double the capacity of the turbines used in the Block Island wind farm — in projects it is planning in New Jersey and Maryland. (CNBC) ALSO: • Supporters and opponents of offshore wind squared off before a […]

Western Energy News

September 20 2019

New plan emerges for California wildfire victims

UTILITIES: PG&E bondholders have teamed up with wildfire victims in an effort to take control from shareholders and reorganize the company. (San Francisco Chronicle) ALSO: • Colorado regulators criticize Tri-State Generation’s addition of a new member as a “hasty” effort to avoid state oversight. (Utility Dive) • The City of Pueblo, Colorado, is critical of […]

U.S. Energy News

Amazon, Microsoft face walkouts over fossil fuel ‘complicity’

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By Shay Totten