FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, April 29 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release: * * * Ameresco Completes Comprehensive Upgrades at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College The $1.6M Design-Build Project Enhances Campus Resiliency and Sustainability while Delivering Cost Savings and Enhanced Efficiency FRAMINGHAM, MA and Fennimore, WI - April 28, 2025 - Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy solutions provi  more

FOLSOM, California, April 29 -- The California Independent System Operator issued the following news release: * * * California ISO releases 2024-2025 Draft Transmission Plan Stakeholder call scheduled for April 15 to review the plan and collect feedback FOLSOM, Calif. - The California Independent System Operator (ISO) has released its draft 2024-2025 Transmission Plan, recommending 31 total projects costing an estimated $4.8 billion at buildout. The vast majority of the projects - 28 of the   more

LONDON, England, April 29 -- BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release: * * * China Dominates Clean Technology Manufacturing Investment as Tariffs Begin to Reshape Trade Flows: BloombergNEF * BloombergNEF's (BNEF's) Energy Transition Supply Chains 2025 report examines the state of global clean-tech manufacturing, how policy environments are incentivizing onshoring and changing clean-tech global trade patterns * Some 76% of global clean-tech factory investment in 20  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The Central Florida Development Council issued the following news: * * * City of Lakeland Embraces Its Fast-Growing Status to Upgrade Infrastructure, Improve Quality of Life The City of Lakeland's growth has led to many opportunities and challenges in the last five years. Overall, City Manager Shawn Sherrouse is excited and pleased with the recognition Lakeland has received. "The notoriety that we've been receiving across the country is amazing. When you look at just  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Scientists Crack Decades-Old Puzzle in CO2-to-Fuel Conversion Advanced imaging technique reveals catalyst degradation processes, addressing a key barrier to converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel Key Takeaways * Scientists in the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA) DOE Energy Innovation Hub have gained new insight into electrochemical CO2 reduction, a process by which  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 29 -- Tucson Electric Power issued the following news release: * * * Flawed Energy Study Delivers False Promises to City of Tucson In Brief * The initial draft of an energy study conducted for the City of Tucson is compromised by flawed assumptions about how much time and money would be needed to form a municipal utility. * The study ignores factors that would increase Tucson's energy costs, reduce reliability and drive a city-run utility's rates higher in the future   more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The Internal Revenue Service issued the following "notice" (No. 2025-8) on Feb. 18, 2025, entitled "Domestic Content Bonus Credit Amounts under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: First Updated Elective Safe Harbor modifying Notice 2024-41". * * * SECTION 1. PURPOSE This notice provides an updated elective safe harbor for the domestic content bonus credit (First Updated Elective Safe Harbor) that modifies the safe harbor provided in IRS Notice 2024-41, 2024-24 I.R.B.   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 28 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * Michigan Minds podcast: Reasons for hope amid grim climate news EXPERT ADVISORY Climate expert Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, does not sugarcoat things. The words "scary," "depressing" and "devastating" come up when he talks about the impacts of climate change, including record warmth and drought conditions. But he also doesn't igno  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 28 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * How Can Computing for AI and Other Demands Be More Energy Efficient? A look at different approaches by USC Viterbi and School of Advanced Computing faculty The growth and impact of artificial intelligence are limited by the power and energy that it takes to train machine learning models. So how are researchers at the USC School of Advanced Computing and ot  more