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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

GreenTechMedia

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. The Jones Act, a notorious 100-year-old law, means that goods shuffled between American ports can only be carried by U.S.-flagged offshore wind market.

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The incredible shrinking heat pump

The Verge: Energy

Back in 2019, New York state passed a law to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change by 85 percent by 2050. Over the next five to 10 years, NYCHA thinks it might need 156,000 window heat pumps to comply with local climate law. The big motivation to switch to heat pumps now, though, is a deadline.

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#Solar100’s Brad Bauer: The Captain James T. Kirk of Solar Finance

GreenTechMedia

Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. I wasn’t enamored with practicing law — it certainly wasn’t something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

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In Baltimore, yellow buses are going green

Grist

Federal funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law has been crucial to this trend, largely because one of the biggest barriers to electrifying school bus fleets is the price tag. Mind you, 25 buses out of the hundreds of buses that are operating within the district’s contract is just kind of a small drop in the bucket.”

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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

DeSmogBlog

Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1 FERC historically treated contracts — even in cases of self-dealing— as evidence of need, “regardless of the number of shippers, volume under subscription or the duration of the agreement(s),” Giannetti said. This decision is a BIG.

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Virginia advocates seek path forward for electric school buses despite lack of state funds

Renewable Energy World

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. But transitioning from yellow to green is expensive.

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The Railroad Industry Loved Modern Brakes and Safety, Until They Didn’t

DeSmogBlog

Whatever the price tag, BNSF can afford to implement it for its own fleet and likely have enough left over to pay for the whole rail industry with its profits—a good portion of which are derived from its position as the leading oil-by-rail company. To put this in perspective, in 2015 during the first oil-by-rail boom, BNSF made a record $6.8