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Dr. Jacqueline Ashmore is the Executive Director for the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jacqueline is a clean energy and sustainability expert with a decade of experience in technology, business, and policy spheres. Her research now focuses on integrated water management and approaches that support sustainable and affordable water supplies – including consideration of the water utility of the future with a business model focused on efficiency. Previously, Jacqueline was Engineering Program Manager at the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, where she oversaw the development of an innovative residential solar system that can be installed quickly, safely, and at lo
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The Biden administration is boasting progress in acquiring zero-emissions vehicles for the federal fleet, but it is still a long way off from reaching the president s goal to electrify every federal vehicle.
This year, the federal government is on track to triple its procurement of zero-emissions vehicles, the White House announced during Joe Biden’s climate summit last month. Putting the federal government’s progress thus far in context, however, shows it will likely take many years to reach Biden’s goal.
“These things take time. They don’t happen overnight,” said Dorothy Robyn, a senior fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy who worked at the General Services Administration and the Defense Department during the Obama administration.
As more and more people get vaccinated, the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths are finally declining. We know this pandemic won’t last forever.
But what happens next? Do we just pick up where we left off in March 2020? Or have things changed in a fundamental way?
We asked 10 people to imagine life after the pandemic.
(Dan Nott for WBUR)
What will work look like after COVID? What about parenting? Friendship? Faith? Will our understanding of public health change, as epidemiologists race to get ahead of the next pandemic?
The truth is, nobody knows exactly what comes next. Uncertainty continues to reign. But for the first time in a long time, it feels like we can reasonably contemplate the future we are no longer locked in the “perpetual present.”
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Federal regulators must tackle interregional transmission planning in order to maximize the capacity of wind and solar power on the U.S. power grid, a bipartisan group of former Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners and Chairs agreed on Wednesday.
Their consensus follows the release of a comprehensive report released from the nonprofit transmission advocacy group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) that calls for robust interregional planning in order to widen access to cheap renewable energy resources, as well as improve the overall resilience and reliability of the grid. The report calls for more than just a system upgrade it asks for a comprehensive overhaul of the current utility-by-utility piecemeal transmission buildout.