Clean Power Hour E57
Aug 27, 2021 with Tim Montague and John Weaver
Corporates are going hard after renewable energy but hourly energy tracking is necessary 
Robotic Electric Ships are taking on cargo shipping 
Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World
The US moves towards 45% emissions reduction by 2030

Reconciliation bill moving forward - this will hopefully contain direct pay 30%/ten year/ITC extension https://www.rollcall.com/2021/08/24/house-budget-resolution-vote/

Here's the chart Schumer's office sent out on how they'd get to this 45% emissions reduction number. The vast, vast majority comes from reconciliation and a Clean Electricity Payment Program (a CES) + clean energy tax incentives for wind, solar & other renewables. https://twitter.com/ella_nilsen/status/1430502940553453574

Robot Ships - pure electric - are the future of cargo shipping
Yara Birkeland could be the future of cargo vessels (cool photo of wind powered vessel in that link) https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/electric-cargo-ship-autonomous-yara-birkeland/

Companies and cities are taking the lead on clean energy purchases. When will market rules catch up? From Canary Media / Jeff St. John https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/companies-and-cities-are-taking-the-lead-on-clean-energy-purchases/

Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-25/used-solar-panels-are-powering-the-developing-world

Energy Storage integrator FlexGen raises US$150m equity investment (Yann Brandt will be joining us in the coming weeks to discuss how FlexGen is making waves in the ESS space)

https://www.energy-storage.news/us150m-equity-investment-raised-by-energy-storage-system-integrator-flexgen/ 

EV’s were a thing 100 years ago and here’s a map! A map found on reddit of “EV charging stations in Chicago in…. wait for it: 1916”

https://twitter.com/stekkerauto/status/1430788436571656193

World’s largest wind turbine under development: MingYang Launches 16 MW Offshore Wind Turbine https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/08/20/mingyang-launches-16-mw-offshore-wind-turbine/

Perovskite solar panels being deployed - maybe the first time for a commercial installation - ‘the premiere of solar sun blinds, sun breakers with perovskite solar cells on the Aliplast factory facade in Lublin. We are proud to complete the first part of the project – sunblinds with over 32 m2 of perovskite solar modules.’ https://sauletech.com/the-world-premiere-of-sun-breaker-installation/

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