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Virginia could make almost $5B from this 3.5 GW offshore wind farm

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gigawatt (GW) Kitty Hawk Wind could deliver around $5 billion in economic impact across Virginia – here’s where the project stands. The 180-turbine Kitty Hawk Wind is an offshore wind project proposed in federal waters over 36 miles from Virginia Beach. Kitty Hawk Wind would deliver about $4.8

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Virginia is getting a 764 MW bump in solar power capacity

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Photo: Dominion Energy Virginia Virginia has approved over a dozen new solar projects that will significantly boost Dominion Energy’s clean energy capacity. The construction will support more than 1,600 jobs and generate more than $570 million in economic benefits across Virginia. million homes at peak output.

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The US’s largest offshore wind farm just got its first monopile

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gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), which will be the US’s largest offshore wind farm, has installed its first monopile foundation. The Orion , DEME Group’s heavy lift vessel, installed the monopile foundation approximately 29 miles off the Virginia Beach coast. Get started here. –

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research The overall advantage of battery electric over gasoline vehicles, in terms of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases, has been well documented. Rank State Proportional amount of emissions relative to 100% hydro 1 West Virginia 163.9 Geothermal 0 0 Solar 0 8.8 Nuclear 0 0 Wind 2.5

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. West Virginia. West Virginia.

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Rivian’s Normal, Il plant to deliver vehicles charged with on-site wind turbine

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Rivian R1 vehicles coming from the company’s Normal, Il plant will soon be delivered to customers with a battery fully charged from wind energy. This is due to the company’s plans to build a large-scale wind turbine at its Normal site. The turbine will have a capacity of at least 2.8

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New England to become the second coal-free region in the US

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Schiller Station (pictured), which is on the coast, will host a solar and battery storage system. It will be integral in supporting reliability daily during peak hours and acting as storage for the wind power now being built off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and in the Gulf of Maine. That’s equivalent to taking more than 3.1

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