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☆ The West Needs Russia to Power Its Nuclear Comeback
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Daniel Michaels | Kim Mackrael | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nuclear projects are getting a boost of investment as countries try to tackle an energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, while also pursuing emissions targets. WSJ looks at how startups say their alternative designs can help solve past issues. Photo illustration: Eve HartleyNuclear power in the West is having a long-awaited revival, with new reactors opening in the U.S. and Europe and fresh momentum toward building more soon. A gaping hole in the plan: The West doesn’t have enough nuclear fuel—and lacks the capacity to swiftly ramp up production. Even more vexing, the biggest source of critical ingredients is Russia and its state monopoly, Rosatom , which is implicated in supporting the war in Ukraine.
☆ ‘Over Our Dead Bodies’: Backlash Builds Against $3 Trillion Clean-Energy Push
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Dominick Williams For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LAWRENCE, Kan.—The federal government has ignited a green-energy investment spree that’s expected to reach as high as $3 trillion over the next decade. The road to spending that money, though, is increasingly hitting speed bumps from the likes of Gerry Coffman. About an hour southwest of Kansas City, she turned down a wind lease last year on a farm that has been in her family since 1866. Someone knocked on her door a few months later, paperwork in hand, and offered $6,000 to hang a wind-power transmission line across her land. If she agreed to store construction equipment, she stood to make an additional $4,000.
☆ ‘Over My Dead Body’: Backlash Builds Against $3 Trillion Clean-Energy Push
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Dominick Williams For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LAWRENCE, Kan.—The federal government has ignited a green-energy investment spree that’s expected to reach as high as $3 trillion over the next decade. The road to spending that money, though, is increasingly hitting speed bumps from the likes of Gerry Coffman. About an hour southwest of Kansas City, she turned down a wind lease last year on a farm that has been in her family since 1866. Someone knocked on her door a few months later, paperwork in hand, and offered $6,000 to hang a wind-power transmission line across her land. If she agreed to store construction equipment, she stood to make an additional $4,000.
☆ Tech Billionaires Bet on Fusion as Holy Grail for Business
  + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Sam Altman became a tech sensation this year as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence startup that seems pulled from science fiction. But Mr. Altman, who has been among Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors for more than a decade, has placed one of the biggest bets of his career on a company that might be even more futuristic: a nuclear-fusion startup called Helion Energy Inc.
☆ Italian Company Plans 10,000 Fast Chargers Across U.S. to Meet EV Demand
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Fast EV Chargers to Nearly Double on U.S. Highways Under Expansion Plan
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Italian energy giant Enel SpA said it would nearly double the amount of electric-vehicle fast chargers in the U.S. by 2030, potentially giving a critical boost to Biden administration efforts to switch more drivers to greener cars. If Enel follows through on the plan, which it announced on Thursday, it would add 10,000 public fast chargers, considered one of the key pieces necessary for wider adoption of electric vehicles. Enel said it expects to apply for U.S. government subsidies that have been offered to companies willing to build the necessary infrastructure.
☆ How Tesla Opening Its Supercharger Network Alters the EV Charging Map
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Andrew Mollica | Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
American car buyers are increasingly choosing electric vehicles, but the country’s map of public highway chargers has a lot of gaps. Those blank spots are seen as a big hurdle to wider EV adoption, and EV market leader Tesla Inc. has started to fill a few of them in.
☆ Tesla to Open Some Superchargers to Other Vehicles, White House Says
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Tesla already has a U.S. network of more than 17,700 fast chargers at over 1,650 locations. Tesla Inc. will open part of its proprietary Supercharger network to other kinds of vehicles for the first time, the White House said Wednesday. The move qualifies the company for a share of billions of federal dollars on offer to build a national network of electric-vehicle chargers. Tesla plans to open at least 3,500 new and existing 250 kilowatt chargers to drivers of all kinds of EVs by the end of next year, the White House said. Fast chargers can repower cars in about 30 minutes, but those available to any kind of EV are in short supply across U.S. highways, where their presence is considered key to boosting EV adoption as auto makers convert fleets to electric.
☆ Tesla to Open Some of Its Charging Network to Other EVs, White House Says
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Tesla Inc. will open part of its proprietary Supercharger network to other kinds of vehicles for the first time, the White House said Wednesday. The move qualifies the company for a share of billions of federal dollars on offer to build a national network of electric-vehicle chargers. Tesla plans to open at least 3,500 new and existing 250-kilowatt chargers to drivers of all kinds of EVs by the end of next year, the White House said. Fast chargers can repower cars in about 30 minutes, but those available to any kind of EV are in short supply across U.S. highways, where their presence is considered crucial to boosting EV adoption as auto makers convert fleets to electric.
☆ TravelCenters of America to Add EV Fast-Charger Stations
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
While most EV charging takes several hours at home, fast chargers can repower a car battery in about 30 minutes. TravelCenters of America Inc. and Electrify America LLC plan to build around 1,000 electric-vehicle fast chargers across the U.S. starting this year, the latest matchup that would boost the amount of equipment available to American EV drivers who need a jolt of power on road trips. The partnership aims to add fast-charging stalls to around 200 of TravelCenters’ TA and Petro Stopping Centers. Fast chargers available to drivers of any kind of EV are in short supply across U.S. highways, where their presence is considered key to greater EV adoption as auto makers convert fleets to electric.
☆ Investors Plow Into Renewables, but Projects Aren’t Getting Built
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Sergio Flores For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Even as developers plan an unprecedented number of grid-scale wind and solar installations, project construction is plummeting across the U.S. Despite billions of dollars in federal tax credits up for grabs and investors eager to fund clean energy projects, the pace of development has ground to a crawl and many renewables plans face an uncertain path to completion. Supply-chain snags, long waits to connect to the grid and challenging regulatory and political environments across the country are contributing to the slowdown, analysts and companies say.
☆ California Storm Floods Streets, Commuter Station Amid Persistent Rain
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
To Boost EVs, New York Has to Decide Where to Put the ChargersOne of the biggest challenges to getting more electric vehicles on the road is giving drivers a place to charge them. New funding from the federal government, states and private entities is being put toward building charging infrastructure. But in urban areas like New York City, where do you put the chargers? WSJ energy reporter Jennifer Hiller joins host Zoe Thomas to talk about how the city is trying to solve the problem.
☆ New York City Wants More EVs but Needs to Find Space for Chargers
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Gabriela Bhaskar For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Big Apple wants to go green. First it needs to figure out where to put thousands of chargers needed for electric vehicles as the state phases out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Drivers in New York largely rely on street parking and lack homes with driveways or garages where they could install private chargers. As a result, it will need thousands of additional public charging locations to spur wider EV adoption. So far, fewer than 1% of vehicles registered in the city are electric, according to state data.
☆ Soaring Costs Threaten U.S. Offshore-Wind Buildout
  + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Katherine Blunt | Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A vessel helps construct a large wind farm off the coast of New York, one of several being built along the East Coast. Offshore wind developers are facing financial challenges that threaten to derail several East Coast projects critical to reaching the Biden administration’s near-term clean-energy targets. Supply-chain snarls, rising interest rates and inflationary pressures are making projects far more expensive to build. Now, some developers are looking to renegotiate financing agreements to keep their projects under way.
☆ Fusion Industry Suddenly White-Hot After U.S. Lab Breakthrough
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | William Boston | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The target chamber of the facility where 192 laser beams delivered the energy to create fusion ignition. Michl Binderbauer is chief executive of a southern California firm that aims to create almost limitless energy through nuclear fusion, a starry goal that at times struck some prospective investors as futuristic. That all changed this week.
☆ Nuclear-Fusion Breakthrough Accelerates Quest to Unlock Limitless Energy Source
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Aylin Woodward | Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Energy Department said Tuesday that scientists at a federal research facility had achieved a breakthrough in research on nuclear fusion, long seen as a potential source of clean, virtually limitless energy. A controlled fusion reaction at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., produced more energy than it consumed, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and other government officials said during a press conference from DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C.
☆ Utility Bills Rise as Americans Pay Off Storm-Recovery Costs for Decades to Come
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Some of the heftiest fees to cover costs of recent storms are in Louisiana, where Hurricane Zeta tore through Grand Isle two years ago. After powerful storms wreaked havoc on America’s utility system in recent years, bills to cover recovery costs are coming due for customers. Electric and gas utilities are increasingly turning to lower-interest, ratepayer-backed bonds to finance mounting investments to fix and bolster their systems or cover extraordinary energy costs following hurricanes, wildfires and winter freezes. Customers are on the hook for repaying the loans, and the payback period could stretch for as long as 30 years.
☆ U.S. Opens First Auctions for California Offshore Wind Rights
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The sale of offshore wind rights is part of the Biden administration’s goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. The U.S. will launch the sale of offshore California wind rights on Tuesday, a first for the West Coast that would bring a new technology to the U.S. to try to shore up California’s power supplies. The auction is part of an ambitious schedule by the Biden administration to parcel out ocean blocks for new wind farms to ring the nation’s coastlines. But developers in California face a complex regulatory landscape, rising costs and project technical and financial risk that is considered greater than on the East Coast—all factors that could suppress auction prices, according to analysts.
☆ Why America Doesn’t Have Enough EV Charging Stations
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
One of the biggest roadblocks to the mass adoption of electric vehicles is the troubled business model for the commercial chargers that power them. The government is pouring billions of dollars into developing a national highway charging network. But businesses aren’t sure how they will make money, and the nascent industry looks messy.
☆ The U.S. Electric System Is Leaning on Customers to Avoid Blackouts
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The electricity industry is increasingly turning to a tool of last resort when power demand threatens to outstrip supply: asking users to turn off the lights. To get through temperature extremes and tight electricity supplies, grid operators are relying more on conservation pleas to everyone from homeowners to manufacturers and some of the biggest users, bitcoin miners.
☆ California Home Solar-Subsidy Revisions Boost Industry Stocks
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Katherine Blunt | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Much of California’s rooftop solar growth in recent years has been fueled by net metering, which allows solar customers to sell their excess electricity back to the grid. California on Thursday released plans to revise a key rooftop solar subsidy, nearly a year after a proposed cut in payments to homeowners who send excess power to the grid sparked a backlash from clean-energy advocates and others. The new plans would reduce payments that homeowners with solar panels on their roofs can receive by selling electricity back to the grid, but they would not impose a monthly connection fee that was included in the earlier proposal.
☆ America’s Only New Nuclear Plant Inches Closer to a Long-Delayed Start
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A reactor at the only nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., which is billions over budget and years behind schedule, started loading fuel this month and could be delivering power by the end of March. Southern Co., the Atlanta-based utility company building the nuclear-power plant, said it expects the first new reactor at its Vogtle project to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The first sustained nuclear reaction could occur in January followed by testing electric power production and safety systems, while a second reactor could be completed by late 2023, the company said on Thursday.
☆ Solar Power Stayed On as Hurricane Ian Knocked Lights Out Across Florida
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Neighborhoods powered by solar panels with backup batteries weathered the direct onslaught of Hurricane Ian in Florida, utilities and developers said, keeping the lights on throughout the storm while millions of others lost power. At least three solar-powered communities near Fort Myers and Tampa made it through Ian without losing electricity. Some also had hardened electrical infrastructure, including buried lines and stronger power poles, that helped them weather the storm and its aftermath.
☆ Westinghouse Deal Latest Signal of a Nuclear Power Revival
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A deal by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco Corp. to buy nuclear-services firm Westinghouse Electric Co. is the latest sign of revival in the nuclear-power industry after years of decline. The matchup would create something of a Western nuclear powerhouse, pairing a key nuclear-power service provider with the largest publicly traded uranium company and one of the world’s biggest owners of wind and solar projects. The transaction is a bet that nuclear will play an important role in the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Brookfield and Cameco announced the deal Tuesday, saying the total enterprise value for Westinghouse is roughly $7.88 billion.
☆ California’s EV Push Hinges on More Power—and Help From Drivers
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
California aims to add millions of new electric vehicles in the coming years. Charging them without impairing an aging grid will require more power generation and help from EV drivers. The state’s plan to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035 means more EVs will be using California’s power supplies to fuel up, adding pressure to the grid.
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