New York City’s plan to alter zoning regulations in favor of climate-minded projects is met with resistance from Staten Island officials, who fear more battery energy storage systems could be built in residential areas. A startup in Hartford, Connecticut, uses artificial intelligence to predict which utility poles are most in need of replacement to help expedite the cumbersome inspection process. A New Jersey county’s paratransit system is the first transit agency in the state to utilize electric vehicles. Environmentalists say a Pennsylvania fracker is using old data and not enough wildlife protections to support its argument that it should take 1.5 million gallons of water from a small, biodiverse creek. Bioenergy companies in Boston and Buffalo are among the recipients of a federal fund to bolster greenhouse gas emission-reducing biomass feedstocks for fuel and other products.
Solar Dominates US Energy Capacity Growth
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has published data showing that solar accounted for over 75% of US electrical generating
