August 21, 2024

This week on NetZero Insider, Jon Lamson spoke with the CEO of Form Energy about the company’s energy storage project in Central Maine that received a major grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

John Cropley reports on Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s annual report on the status of state renewable portfolio standards and clean energy standards, finding that the percentage of renewable generation additions associated with those standards has declined, as many states have reached their RPS targets and their CES goals have to yet to go into force. 

And two years after it became law, K Kaufmann wrote about the state of the Inflation Reduction Act, which the Biden administration has been touting recently in recognition of a lack of public awareness about the law and what it does. 

Here’s what else we had this past week: 

• Dominion and Equinor Win OSW Lease Auction 

• Fate of Appalachian Power’s Coal Plants Debated in RPS Proceeding 

• Grid Storage Launchpad Opens at Pacific Northwest Lab 

• Maine Approved for Floating Wind Research Lease 

• Mass. Breaks Ground on Salem Offshore Wind Terminal 

• New Jersey Works to Electrify Buses, Heavy-duty Trucks 

• New York Orders Utilities to Join in Proactive Grid Planning 

• NJ Awards $4.5M for Local Clean Energy Projects 

• Revolution, Sunrise OSW Projects Face New Delays 

• SF Ferry Operator Wins $5M Grant for ‘Charging Float’
  

• Stakeholder Soapbox: PJM Resists Battery Storage Reforms Given to Data Centers 

See you next week!