| President Biden Announces Steps to Drive American Leadership Forward on Clean Cars  President Joe Biden is expected to announce Thursday that his administration is setting a new national goal for the sale of electric vehicles -- wanting half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. by 2030 to be powered by electricity. The executive order Biden will sign during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House Thursday afternoon is also expected to lay out a plan that will include construction of a nationwide network of charging stations, financial incentives for consumers to buy electric cars and financial aid for carmakers and suppliers to retool factories for electric vehicles. |  McDonald’s and eBay Partner with Lightsource bp to Power US Operations with Solar McDonald’s Corporation and eBay Inc. have announced agreements with Lightsource bp to purchase power from what will be Louisiana’s largest solar project, located 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge in Pointe Coupee Parish. The 345-MW Ventress Solar project will help McDonald’s and eBay meet their sustainability goals and advance their commitment to climate action, while growing Lightsource bp’s expanding footprint of solar assets across the Southeast. Once complete, the project will generate over 600,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of clean energy annually, equivalent to the average annual consumption of 59,000 US homes. |  Nova Innovation Awarded £2 Million to Advance Tidal Turbine Manufacturing TIDAL energy leader Nova Innovation has been awarded a £2 million cash injection from the Scottish Government to advance tidal turbine manufacturing to a global level. The funding, delivered through Scottish Enterprise, is directed at Nova’s VOLT (VOlume Manufacturing and Logistics for Tidal Energy) project that will develop the first European assembly line to mass manufacture tidal turbines, and trial innovative techniques and tools to ship, deploy and monitor turbines around the world – meeting the challenge of the climate emergency. | Biofuels Biogas Electric/Hybrid Energy saving | EBRD Lends €67.5 Million for Greening Buildings in Lithuania  Addressing a core issue in the effort to improve the use of energy in Lithuania, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending €67.5 million to support an innovative scheme to scale up renovation of residential multi-apartment buildings – its largest direct investment in renovating privately owned buildings in the country. | Hydrogen | Raven SR Selects POWER Engineers, Stellar J for First Commercial Renewable Fuels Facilities  Raven SR Inc. , a renewable fuels company, today announced the selection of POWER Engineers, Inc. and Stellar J Corporation to complete the final design, engineering and fabrication of the company's first commercial renewable fuels production facilities, to be located in the San Francisco Bay area. The facilities will convert a blend of green waste and food waste into green hydrogen for the commercial transportation market. | Xodus Report Outlines Pathway for UK to Become World Leader in Hydrogen PV | Napa’s Robert Biale Winery Unveils High-Performance Solar Array  Robert Biale Vineyards has just deployed a new 145kW Solaria® PowerXT® solar array atop its winery and tasting room in Napa, California. A beautiful, highly efficient solar system, Solaria’s sleek new Pure BlackTM solar array is offsetting Robert Biale Vineyards‘ utility costs, nearly eliminating their electricity bills. | AES Indiana to Acquire Petersburg Solar Project All-Women Rangers in Zimbabwe Empowered by Donated Solar + Storage Storage | Calpine and GE Renewable Energy Complete Storage Project in California  Calpine and GE Renewable Energy have completed the Santa Ana Storage Project (SASP) in Southern California. The project contains a 20MW/80MWh (4hr) standalone battery energy storage system using GE’s Reservoir energy storage technology. The system, now in commercial operation, is supported by a 20-year Resource Adequacy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The project will be able to provide energy to up to 12,000 households during peak events, and/or 24,000 households during normal load conditions. | Wind | X1 Wind Expands Team to Deliver Full-Scale Commercial Operations  X1 Wind has made a series of new appointments to help accelerate full-scale commercial operations. New additions to the team include Strategy and Business Development Director João Neves, Mechanical Engineer Javier G. Cervilla and Junior Structural Engineer Lucy Milde. The recruits bring a wealth of experience from world leading firms and institutions including the Boston Consulting Group, General Electric and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | Ørsted Completes Largest Onshore Wind Project to Date Mammoet Wind Projects Support South Africa’s Renewable Energy Goals Vestas Scores 58 MW Order for Wind Project in Australia Agenda Renewable Finance and Investment 2021 Genera 2021 |
