Illinois has secured their first #battery factory. The $2 billion project near Joliet in northern IL will create up to 2600 jobs. #ThanxBiden #Bidenomics #ClimateProgress
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-gotion-ev-battery-plant-manteno

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has cancelled oil and gas leases in an Alaskan wildlife refuge.

The interior department said revoking the drilling leases granted under ex-President Donald Trump would preserve 13 million acres of wilderness. #ThanxBiden https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66736453

This week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced six grand prize winners of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. The prize seeks to foster a just and equitable clean energy future by investing in community-led innovation and entrepreneurship programs in areas historically underserved by federal funding.

One of them is focused on putting microgrids in West Virginia. Good diversity of projects here. #ThanxBiden https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/doe-announces-inclusive-energy-innovation-prize-winners

Today, U.S. Department of Energy announced the renewal of the first Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, PowerAmerica.

This $8 million in funding will accelerate the adoption of improved semiconductors, as well as economy-wide #decarbonization and #electrification.

By 2030, approximately 80% of electricity is expected to flow through power electronic devices so this investment is a step toward increasing the #EnergyEfficiency and power capacity of these devices we need #ThanxBiden

#ThanxBiden for cancelling the student loan debt of over 800,000 Americans despite fierce opposition from the Republicans.

Hopefully next year even more Americans will vote for you and Democrats all the way down the ballot so that you can achieve even more good things like this.

PS: I paid off my student loans finally a few years ago, but I'm still glad my fellow Americans are getting some help. It makes us all stronger because we're in this together.

#ThanxBiden for even more #ClimateAction

#Microgrids directly contribute to #EnergyReliability and #GridResilience, by allowing the local grid to operate separately from a larger network. The Office of Electricity has $14.7M in funding to deploy #microgrid technologies in underserved, Indigenous, remote, rural and islanded communities. This funding focuses on deploying grid-enabling tech like #CleanEnergy generation and storage systems, control systems, and more. https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/us-department-energy-announces-147-million-microgrid-technologies-underserved-and

@w7voa
#ThanxBiden for doing such a good job of showing how important it is to vote.

#ThanxBiden for this #ClimateProgress

- These #DAC projects are expected to remove 2+ million metric tonnes of CO2 each year

- This is equivalent to taking roughly 445,000 gasoline-powered cars off the road

- They're expected to create roughly 4,800 jobs

#ClimateProgress #ThanxBiden

Perhaps my second favorite form of Direct Carbon Dioxide capturing system to draw it's concentration down in our thin, precious atmosphere behind #BioChar will be building their first plant on the Gulf Coast.

The Project Cypress DAC Hub with ClimeWorks is expected to be sited in southwestern Louisiana and is designed to advance the commercialization of DAC+S to verifiably remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere based on renewable energy.
https://climeworks.com/news/battelle-climeworks-heirloom-receive-notification-of-selection-on-dac-hub-from-doe

#EV #batteries Facts!
1 New battery designs already cut future cobalt needs 50% in just 5 years

2 Nickel-free LFP batteries now being used in 40% of electric vehicles - up from 7% in 2019

3 By 2040, most lithium used in new batteries will be from recycling

#ThanxBiden for the #ClimateProgress https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/business/energy-secretary-touts-plan-to-produce-electric-vehicle-component-in-st-louis/article_e49ebdf6-3615-11ee-94c1-933cd2d0f630.html

Another #ClimateProgress post because of this news.

More US solar manufacturing coming:

Canadian-based Heliene plans a new factory in Minnesota that will begin producing 1 GW of solar modules in 2024 and 1.5 GW of cells in 2025.

#ThanxBiden https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/07/31/heliene-plans-to-manufacture-1-gw-solar-modules-1-5-gw-solar-cells-in-the-u-s/

#ClimateProgress #ClimateJustice #ThanxBiden

Up to $450M: As part of the $1 billion Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund, this funding will support residential solar panel & battery storage installations as well as consumer protection & educational resources. https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-announces-over-450-million-increase-access-rooftop-solar-power-puerto

#ThanxBiden https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/07/29/fema-coral-reef-rebuild-puerto-rico/

@swebb
Puerto Rico's "grid" though is rife with room to benefit from microgrids beyond factories and such though. #ThanxBiden #ClimateAction #ClimateProgress #ClimateSolutions https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230329/biden-harris-administration-fema-approve-over-102-million-phase-1-solar

@marews
Thankfully, we're transitioning towards natural refrigerants to replace the working fluids with such high greenhouse warming potentials. #ClimateAction #ThanxBiden https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/oct/27/biden-signs-international-climate-deal-on-refrigerants/

#ThanxBiden for taking executive action to help protect our women serving their country in our military! https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-executive-order-military-sexual-assault/story?id=101761776

#ThanxBiden for the Emmett Till National Monument!

@samhainnight #ThanxBiden

Anyways, there are good people working in government, too few progressives choose to be public servants imo, but political appointees can have quite an influence in our agencies, appropriately to a certain extent but which is why we have administrative law protections though thankfully.

Building codes are too boring for most people, but that doesn't mean that they're not important. #ThanxBiden

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $90 Million To Support Resilient and Efficient Building Energy Codes and Save American Families Money #ClimateProgress
https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-90-million-support-resilient-and-efficient-building

The Biden administration gave a green light Wednesday to the largest-ever offshore wind project the U.S. has yet approved, paving the way for dozens of turbines that could eventually power hundreds of thousands of New Jersey homes.

#ThanxBiden for yet more #ClimateAction #Wind https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/offshore-ocean-wind-project-approved/