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☆ Fertilizer Companies Are Betting on Ammonia as a Low-Carbon Fuel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The logo of Illinois-based CF Industries , one of the world’s biggest fertilizer makers, used to be a stylized cornstalk meant to represent the bounty of the harvest. Then a few years ago, the company changed its logo to a cluster of triangles meant to represent an ammonia molecule. The logo change signaled a strategy shift at CF—and is part of a surprising development that has propelled fertilizer companies, and the ammonia they make for their products, to the bleeding edge of a global energy transition toward low-carbon fuels. Proponents say ammonia is one of the easiest alternative fuels to ramp up, and that it could eventually help drive electric generators, power cargo ships or even prove useful in making jet fuel.

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☆ The Path to Green Energy Is Getting Messier
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Green Fuel That Even Red America Loves
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ He Pioneered Carbon Offsets to Save Tropical Forests. Now the Market Is Collapsing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Christie Hemm Klok For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mike Korchinsky gave up a lucrative career in management consulting after an “epiphany in the African bush,” turning to wildlife conservation and ultimately helping create one of the most popular tools for cutting carbon emissions. Now, the 62-year-old from the California Bay Area is fighting to keep that business—and his own revenue stream—alive amid a crisis of confidence that is shaking the industry he helped start.

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☆ India Is Losing a Green-Energy Subsidy Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Green Power Gets Pricier After Years of Declines
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The U.S. Clean-Energy Company That Hit the Subsidies Jackpot
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Sylvia Jarrus For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Biggest Winners in America’s Climate Law: Foreign Companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Amrith Ramkumar | Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A 15-Year Startup Pins Hopes on Green Subsidies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Kayana Szymczak For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A U.S. Startup’s 15-Year Struggle to Survive China’s Solar Grip
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Kayana Szymczak For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Small Towns Chase America’s $3 Trillion Climate Gold Rush
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Amrith Ramkumar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WALTERBORO, S.C.—Colleton County in South Carolina is a quiet rural district best known for its hunting, fishing and, recently, a sensational murder trial. Now it is also a player in America’s new gold rush: a scramble for $1 trillion in federal tax incentives and loans for green energy that is fueling a flood of corporate investments and reshaping local economies.

☆ The Green Energy Factory Facing a Storm of China Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chinese clean-energy manufacturers were enticed by huge green subsidies to expand in the U.S. Now, they are confronting a storm of anti-China sentiment. Projects across the country involving Chinese companies face resistance, including a $3.5 billion battery factory Ford Motor Co. is setting up with the help of Chinese battery company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL. Other projects are soft-pedaling their Chinese ties.

☆ What Does ‘Made in America’ Mean? In Green Energy, Billions Hinge on the Answer
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Qcells, a South Korean company, makes solar panels at a Dalton, Ga., factory and intends to expand into panel components such as solar cells. Virginia-based power company AES Corp. says it is ready to push the button on a solar-panel order of more than $1 billion if a manufacturer will commit to building a factory in the U.S. If that factory gets built, AES can buy its panels and apply for federal subsidies recently made available to clean-energy developers that use equipment made in the U.S.

☆ What Does ‘Made in America’ Mean? In Green Energy, Billions Hinge on the Answer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ New China Rule Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Solar Ambitions
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Sha Hua | Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SINGAPORE—A plan by China to restrict exports of key solar manufacturing technology could delay attempts to build up a domestic solar supply chain in the U.S., industry experts say. China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology are considering adding advanced technology used in the production of ingots and wafers, some of the building blocks of solar panels, to a list of technologies that are subject to export controls.

The already-frantic global competition for green-energy investment escalated Wednesday with the European Union’s competition chief calling massive incentives from the U.S. “toxic,” as the bloc prepares its own countermeasures. The U.S. incentives, included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, have spurred companies to rethink where to spend billions of investment dollars and increasingly prompted America’s trading partners to consider their own subsidies.

☆ Biden’s Green Subsidies Are Attracting Billions of Dollars to Red States
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Republican-leaning states are attracting most of the clean-energy investments spurred by the Biden administration’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that passed the U.S. Congress without any Republican votes. The act, which was signed into law in mid-August, offers beefy tax credits and other support for clean-energy projects ranging from wind farms to factories that make batteries, solar components or hydrogen. The incentives have improved the economics of those projects and helped spark a flood of investment announcements from companies including the solar manufacturing unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group and Norwegian startup Freyr Battery .

☆ Renewable Companies Strive for 24-Hour Power
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wind and solar developers are concocting elaborate plans to provide round-the-clock renewable power, the industry’s holy grail as countries around the world shift to green energy. Renewable energy is notoriously unreliable, generating electricity only when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. Project developers, utilities and grid operators are trying a mix of options to overcome that challenge, including building huge amounts of renewable capacity, storing excess power on batteries, and using algorithms to make project economics work.

☆ Bill Gates-Backed Startup Plans Large Solar Power Component Plant
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A startup backed by investors including Bill Gates is racing to build what could be the first silicon wafer factory for solar panels in the U.S., the latest example of the influence of recent legislation offering tax credits for green-energy projects. Silicon wafers are a key piece of the solar supply chain, and China controls 97% of it. There are currently no factories to make wafers for solar panels in the U.S., and the Energy Department has said building them should be a priority, since they could encourage faster development of other parts of the solar manufacturing industry as well.

☆ Solar-Panel Shortage Snarls U.S. Green-Energy Plans
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Several thousand shipping containers of solar panels have been detained by U.S. Customs near ports such as Los Angeles. The U.S. is suffering from an acute shortage of solar panels. Several thousand shipping containers of solar panels have been detained by U.S. Customs near ports such as Los Angeles, according to some estimates, while even more have been held up in factories and ports from Vietnam to Malaysia or diverted to places such as Europe—a result of U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on labor abuses in China.

Oil-and-gas companies are anticipating a friendlier environment in Washington as the House comes under Republican rule next year, while the clean-energy sector is bracing for a slowdown in the Biden administration’s aggressive push away from fossil fuels. House Republicans, who gained a slim majority in the midterm elections, are expected to support measures aimed at boosting domestic oil-and-gas production, which they have framed as a matter of national security following supply strains triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

☆ Enel to Build Massive Solar Panel Factory in U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Phred Dvorak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Italian energy giant Enel SpA is readying a massive solar-manufacturing push in the U.S., including plans for a factory that will make solar cells, a key part of the supply chain that currently doesn’t exist here. Enel said it is planning a factory that can initially produce 3 gigawatts—and ultimately as much as 6 gigawatts—of solar panels. That is a scale that would make Enel’s factory one of the largest such ventures in the U.S., at a cost that could approach or top a billion dollars, according to Journal estimates.

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