Inside Secretary Haaland publicizes 15 clear vitality tasks within the West
by Mark Moran
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 7, 2023
The Inside Division has introduced 15 new renewable vitality tasks throughout the West, together with main investments in photo voltaic and battery storage tasks, energy transmission strains and geothermal vitality improvement.
“The Biden-Harris administration is dedicated to increasing clear vitality improvement to deal with local weather change, improve America’s vitality safety and create good-paying union jobs,” mentioned Inside Secretary Deb Haaland.
“The tasks we’re advancing right this moment will add sufficient clear vitality to the grid to energy hundreds of thousands of properties.”
The tasks are one other extension of the Biden administration’s Investing in America agenda, which allocates cash for modernizing outdated infrastructure reminiscent of roads, bridges, transit, rail, ingesting and wastewater infrastructure, amongst different issues, and constructing and investing in new, clear vitality expertise and creating jobs that go together with it.
“The Investing in America agenda is mobilizing historic ranges of personal sector investments in the US, bringing manufacturing again to America after a long time of offshoring, and creating new, good-paying jobs, together with union jobs and jobs that do not require a school diploma,” mentioned a White Home assertion.
The administration says the investments will develop fashionable, resilient infrastructure that protects communities from the worsening influence of local weather change.
Haaland introduced the brand new tasks on the Western Governors Affiliation Winter Assembly on Monday.
A lot of the work on the tasks will probably be carried out by the Bureau of Land Administration, together with on transmission strains proposed throughout Arizona, Nevada and Utah, and for growing geothermal vitality in Nevada, and on a photo voltaic and battery storage venture in Arizona.
“The BLM’s work to responsibly and rapidly develop renewable vitality tasks is essential to attaining the Biden-Harris administration’s aim of a carbon pollution-free energy sector by 2035,” mentioned BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning.
Subsequent week, amongst different tasks, the BLM will announce the development of a 500-kilovolt gen-tie transmission line crossing public lands about 60 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona. When accomplished, the transmission line will assist supply of utility-scale photo voltaic vitality from the 150-megawatt Harquahala Solar photo voltaic era facility into the grid.
The Biden administration has a aim of a 100% clear electrical energy grid by 2035.
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