New York State pledges US$12 5m to long-duration storage and investigates green hydrogen s potential energy-storage.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from energy-storage.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Energy storage and floating offshore wind will benefit from £68m and £20m, respectively.
The investment is part of the government’s £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.
The Energy Storage Innovation and the Floating Offshore Wind Innovation competitions will be formally open to bids in spring 2021.
Energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: “The UK’s energy innovators have been vital to us becoming a world-leader in clean green technology, helping us to go further and faster as we tackle climate change.
“This funding will allow us to develop new ways of unlocking the potential for green energy as we continue making big strides towards our goal of eradicating our contribution to climate change by 2050.”
Editorial: First part of GM settlement to bear fruit limaohio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from limaohio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Feb 15, 2021
The first fruits of a settlement agreement between Ohio and General Motors are starting to come to bloom as part of job training efforts in the Mahoning Valley.
In an agreement struck after the automaker pulled out of Lordstown in 2019, breaking job creation and retention tax credit contracts, GM agreed to pay back about $40 million of the $60.3 million it had received in tax breaks to retool its former assembly plant in Lordstown. Of that, $12 million was dedicated for use in the Mahoning Valley.
As part of the negotiated agreement to make up for that loss, GM committed $5 million to Youngstown State University for workforce development in partnership with Eastern Gateway Community College and funding to create the YSU Energy Storage Innovation and Training Center.
Governor Mike DeWine s Week in Review for the week ending Feb. 12, 2021 DeWine
COLUMBUS - Throughout the week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted provided updates on Ohio s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other state initiatives.
On Monday, Governor DeWine announced that he is reaffirming his commitment to improving the safety of Ohio s roads by including provisions in his Executive Budget proposal that strengthen Ohio s distracted driving laws.
With limited exceptions, the Hands-Free Ohio provisions in Governor DeWine s budget proposal will make driving while handling any electronic wireless device a primary offense for adult drivers and will increase fines for drivers who habitually use devices while driving. In cases where a driver using a device causes serious injury or death, the penalties will mirror those of drunken driving.