SAN FRANCISCO - Climate change is hitting us at an ever faster pace. 2022 is expected to be the sixth-hottest year on record as average temperatures reached 1.57 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. We're on track to normalize that temperature gain every year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted last year, and it
MANCHESTER, UK - A team of experts at The University of Manchester led by Dr Amir Keshmiri have received government funding to work with Powerhouse Energy Plc - a world-leading UK company specialising in treatment of unrecyclable wastes - to help recover hydrogen for clean energy use. This project will develop and validate a novel and inexpensive game-changing
ANN ARBOR - Serial entrepreneur Stevan Bratic, owner of Bratic Enterprises, has developed an electric vehicle charging system that uses natural gas, instead of electricity, to recharge EVs. These EV "PODS" can be permanently mounted, or mobile depending on the commercial customers' needs. They also can be used as a profit center by allowing commercial
MIDLAND - Renewable energy had a bad election day in Michigan, and it could lead to discussions of the state taking a more active role in the siting of wind turbine and other projects. Four referendums that would have established guidelines for wind turbine installation were defeated Tuesday in townships in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County. In
WIXOM - Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will host a free tour of the Schupan Recycling Wixom Facility on Thursday, December 1, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Michigan residents have recycled 96 percent of carbonated beverage containers since Michigan’s Bottle Bill inception, with a vast majority processed at just two facilities in Wixom and Wyoming.
DETROIT - DTE Energy released its CleanVision plan, a 20-year proposal to dramatically transform how the company generates electricity as part of its clean energy journey, all while investing in a modern grid that is reliable and affordable. The proposed plan increases investment in solar and wind energy, accelerates the retirement of coal plants, and
DETROIT - After decades of attempts to power cars with energy from the sun, the solar automotive age might finally be upon us. Germany’s Sono Motors, which went public on the Nasdaq last year, may have cracked the code with a $25,000 electric SUV called the Sion that's covered pretty much bumper to bumper in
SACRAMENTO, CA. - In California, there has been a multi-year war waged over the fate of a mechanism called net energy metering (NEM). The process involves customers sending their excess solar-generated electricity to the grid and receiving a credit on their utility bill at a retail rate for all exported electricity. A new revised NEM
WASHINGTON DC - Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis looked into the problem and developed an energy storage and release system using carbonate and bicarbonate salts, while also using metal manganese, which is more widely available. The researchers found that by converting bicarbonate and hydrogen into formate - the salt of formic acid was
WASHINGTON DC - The Department of Interior on Tuesday announced it will hold a lease sale for wind energy off the coast of Central and Northern California, bringing the Biden administration’s dream of a massive West Coast wind farm one step closer to reality. The Pacific has enormous potential to generate wind energy, Biden administration officials told reporters in
