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New Guidance from DOE Weakens Popular Home Energy Rebate Programs

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Congress Designed Programs to Save Energy and Lower Bills — Changes Will Hurt Struggling Americans WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Department of Energy issued guidance that will create confusion, make it significantly harder for households to access funds to upgrade polluting or inefficient appliances, and disrupt programs already approved and underway in … [continued]

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Sierra Club West Virginia Files Testimony in Mon Power’s $2.48 Billion Gas Plant CPCN

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High Costs for Constructing the Plant Would Reach West Virginians’ Energy Bills CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sierra Club submitted Direct Testimony on Friday in the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) case for Mon Power’s proposed $2.48 billion, 1,200 MW combined cycle gas plant. The plant, according to the utility, … [continued]

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Underwater Data Centers Are Real, But The Hype Is Getting Ahead Of The Engineering

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China now has commercial underwater data centers, and that is worth taking seriously. It is also worth not losing our minds over it, which is apparently harder than it should be whenever servers, seawater, and artificial intelligence appear in the same sentence. The basic pitch is attractive. Data centers generate … [continued]

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435 New EV Chargers To Be Installed In Philadelphia

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It was just a bit ago that it was announced the City of Philadelphia was considering installing a great number of new public EV chargers. A new development is that the city will collaborate with PositivEnergy, an expanding EV charging network and provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and fleet … [continued]

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