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Meijer signs PPA for most of the power from the 300MW Lacy Creek project in Glasscock and Sterling counties

11 July 2022 Onshore Wind [Image: NextEra]
US retailer Meijer has signed a power purchase agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources for the majority of the electricity from the 300MW Lacy Creek Wind Energy Center in Texas.

The project is under construction on 60,000 acres in Glasscock and Sterling counties, and is expected to be completed in late 2022.

It will comprise 108 GE turbines and supply 800,000 megawatt-hours of electricity to the retailer.
Meijer announced six months ago a goal to reduce 50% of its absolute carbon emissions by 2025.

Meijer president and chief executive Rick Keyes said: "As a company, we believe it's more important now than ever to do our part to better the environment, which is where our ambitious sustainability goal originated.

"While the Lacy Creek Wind Energy Center is one of multiple sustainability initiatives Meijer has underway, we're pleased it has contributed to the accelerated progress in meeting our sustainability goal by 2025.

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Electric tractor developer Solectrac has announced a partnership with Nolan Manufacturing to bolster its electric traction production to meet increasing demand from customers. The partnership includes a 10,000-square-foot facility in North Carolina to support Solectrac’s east coast customers.

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General Motors has announced a national network of quick charging stations for electric vehicles to be installed at Pilot and Flying J truck stops. Managed by EVgo (a subsidiary of the South Korean LS Group), the network may be the final piece of the puzzle for GM to make good on its promise to go all-electric. It’s already spent oodles on development, created partnerships with global battery suppliers, and now has a glut of EVs on the way –a glut of product that GM is hoping will resonate with consumers.

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Most Democrat politicians are not at all green. Here is an example.
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Most Democrat politicians are not at all green. Here is an example.
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Big bad John.

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Our would-be millennials keep scolding me for not protecting the planet. I hear from misinformed youth every day: "The future is an electric car," a young car saleswoman looks at me readily: "stop driving that diesel!" "
"You don't sort the trash, Mr. neighbor?" " will sound in the street.
19 ° must be enough for you, writes resolute heat supplier: "With each additional degree you burden nature and create ecological debt. "
"Don't drive so much and turn off the air conditioning. local ecoterrorist billboard reports on me.

Why should I save money while:
- Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics on artificial snow.
- In France, ski resorts light up the slopes until midnight, so that you can ski long nights.
- Lufthansa executes 8,000 'empty' flights to keep its subsidies.
- Most of the great football matches take place in the evening under mega spotlights that burn a lot of energy!
- 8 new, massive football stadiums at the World Cup in Qatar are fully air-conditioned (in the desert! )
- Hundreds of lorries drive around to bring us fruit and veg from Spain, while regional products are either binned or run over by bulldozer
- The largest ship in the world: Wonder of the Seas will carry 7,000 passengers, 2,300 crew members.
- Approximately 3500 container carriers go around the world and each consumes 28,000 liters of fuel per 1000 km.
- Billionaires offer space travel under "astronomical" conditions
- A... meanwhile "BECAUSE OF ECOLOGY" we will ban driving a little old diesel or petrol car to people who cannot afford to switch cars and have to go to work and want to reduce the heat by 1°!

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Another Ford EV Recall: Here's the Dangerous Defect This Time - Truth Press

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California Bullet Train Gets $4.2 Billion Green Light For First Phase While Bigger Challenges Loom
RENDERINGS OF A CONCEPTUAL CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED TRAIN, CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED RAIL AUTHORITY
Jul 16, 2022,06:30am EDT
By Alan Ohnsman
Ina breakthrough for the country’s most expensive public infrastructure project, California’s bullet train finally appears to have the money and the legal approval to complete its first leg. What remains a challenge is how to link that initial 171-mile route through the state’s Central Valley agricultural heartland to population centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose—and how its designers will overcome California’s mountainous terrain and seismic risks.

State legislators agreed last month to release $4.2 billion earmarked for the train’s first phase, between midsize cities Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced. The project may also benefit from more than $2 billion of federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds set aside for passenger rail. Extending service to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles would boost the amount of track to 500 miles and the train’s total price tag to as much as $105 billion. That’s far above an initial estimate of about $40 billion when California voters approved a $10 billion bond measure to help build it in 2008.

“It’s not an easy task to build a system like this,” said Brian Kelly, CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. “It’s a tough slog, but it’s one worth doing.”

Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles, the California High-Speed Rail Authority estimates that 50 million riders will use the system annually, generating about $3.4 billion of fare revenue.

“Anyone who thinks that they can bypass Fresno and the Central Valley again doesn’t have a heart for people.”

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Solar Panels Suffer Stunning Failure as Weather Becomes 'Too Hot' for Them to Handle

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WorkingNation, a nonprofit that reports on the future of work, today began releasing "Green Jobs Now: Indiana" – multimedia reports based upon original data – which projects a 29.2% increase over five years in Indiana's employment demand for green jobs.

The dramatic increase, far above the national average of 5.7%, is expected largely because of a demand in Indiana for wind turbine technicians.