Biden said investments and support for renewable energy have paid real dividends in jobs and economic growth, noting that the solar industry employs more veterans than any other sector of the USA economy.
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– Supporting local governments taking steps to use clean energy.
The U.S. government will spend more than $110 million to boost clean energy in the country.
Pushing ahead with the Rs 6 lakh crore solar power mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take stock of the solar park projects on September 23, sources told Bloomberg TV India on Wednesday.
Mr Bailey said the solar-only focus, in collaboration with the Federal Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), would promote further investment in renewable energy developments. Connecticut Permit to Plug-In Team, Rocky Hill, CT Midwestern Solar, Poplar Bluff, MO Northern and Central California SunShot Alliance, San Francisco, CA Sunrun, San Francisco, CA The Solar Auditor, Los Angeles, CA Increasing Concentrating Solar Power: DOE’s SunShot program is announcing $32 million in awards for 14 projects to advance all technical systems of CSP plants, including solar collectors, receivers and heat transfer fluids, thermal energy storage, power cycles, and operations and maintenance.
The commitment includes 2 million in competitive grants for solar from the Department of Energy.
“Utilizing these low-priced, regenerative, calcium-based sorbents, which were previously researched for Carbon dioxide capture in coal-based power generation facilities, leverages existing knowledge for a novel application”, said Southern Research’s Santosh Gangwal, Ph.D., project principal investigator. Through SunShot, DOE supports efforts by private companies, academia, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour.
The Department of Agriculture is also awarding nine grants of almost $8 million to “help reduce energy costs for residents in remote rural areas that struggle with a higher cost of electricity”.
Biden vigorously defended net metering policies against recent criticisms by “deep pocketed special interests” and mocked what he suggested was the real goal.
He said the extension could be paid for by cutting tax credits and subsidies for fossil fuels.
“Our children and grandchildren will look back and wonder what we were fighting about”, he said. “We have to take care of the hard-working losers who end up in industries that aren’t going to be used as much. I, quite frankly, think we’ll exceed that”.
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But, Biden said later, “that is not a reason to continue a policy that is so damaging to our environment”.
