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Clean-energy affordable housing effort launches in Chicago
Robert “A.J.” Patton and Erica Johnson were childhood friends growing up in public housing in Terre Haute, Indiana...
Now the two are launching a company that they hope will provide quality housing to lower-income residents in Chicago, and avoid gentrification, by harnessing the potential of energy efficiency and solar. At the same time, they plan to provide jobs for low-income and minority residents who are disproportionately left out of the clean energy economy.
https://apnews.com/c0fdb5132fc74fa7894b2ece1d4b94e2

Massachusetts Close to Finalizing a Clean Peak Standard. Good News for Microgrids
It would also make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to implement the standard.
https://microgridknowledge.com/clean-peak-standard-massachusetts-microgrids/

The toxic waste threat that climate change is making worse.
More than 100 storage sites for coal-burning power plants’ toxic leftovers lie in areas that federal emergency managers have labeled a high risk for flooding, according to POLITICO’s examination of government and industry data.

Plant trees for cleaner carbon free air.
Of all the solutions to climate change, ones that involve trees make people the happiest. Earlier this year, when a Swiss study announced that planting 1.2 trillion trees might cancel out a decade’s worth of carbon emissions, people swooned (at least on Twitter). And last month, when Ethiopian officials announced that twenty-three million of their citizens had planted three hundred and fifty million trees in a single day, the swooning intensified. Someone tweeted, “This should be like the ice bucket challenge thing.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/dont-burn-trees-to-fight-climate-changelet-them-grow

Entrepreneurs launch clean energy-powered affordable housing startup in Chicago.
Robert “A.J.” Patton founded 548 Capital LLC, which he named for the unit number in the projects where he grew up.
https://energynews.us/2019/08/22/midwest/entrepreneurs-launch-clean-energy-powered-affordable-housing-startup-in-chicago/

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/achieving-100-renewables-by-2050-cannot-be-summarily-ruled-out/561595/

Achieving 100% renewables by 2050 cannot be summarily ruled out A Utility Dive opinion piece recently said 100% renewable energy is not possible in the next 30 years. Senior policy advisor Robert Borlick goes point by point to provide a different take.

So how does the "Clean Peak Standard" work ?
The basic idea was that renewable portfolio standards (RPS) — requirements by states that a certain amount of energy come from renewables — bolsters clean energy development, but it’s not necessarily designed for use when the grid needs it most. This leads to challenges such as California’s “duck curve” that occurs when solar generation quickly drops off and has to be augmented with peaking plants, often run on fossil fuels.

Com Ed at it again and always.

Utility-backed group divides Illinois solar advocates Critics say the Illinois Smart Solar Alliance, which was recently founded by Chicago-based ComEd, is little more than a front group created to push controversial, utility-backed legislation in Illinois. However, the alliance’s supporters say the group is helping bring access to solar power for low...