Cleantech & EV’s

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The Homer City coal-burning power station – Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant – is going to be retired permanently in July 2023.  The 1,888-megawatt (MW) plant, located around 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, was built near coal reserves and included what was then a high-capacity (345-kilovolt) transmission line to service areas in western New York and Eastern Pennsylvania. It began to…

On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s NACS surprisingly wining the charging standard war, Model 3 getting the full $7,500 tax credit, the unveiling of the Volvo EX30, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on  – except for this week, we are doing it on a Thursday…

The construction of KORE Power‘s EV battery factory in Arizona is now fast-tracked with a US Department of Energy loan for $850 million. The money will go toward paying for the fabrication of KOREPlex, the company’s battery cell factory in Buckeye, Arizona (site pictured above and rendering below)‎. The factory already had private financing in place, such as an initial $75 million tranche…