First Solar breaks ground on $1.1 billion solar manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish
A $1.1 billion solar panel manufacturing facility broke ground last week in Iberia Parish. The facility, First Solar’s fifth fully vertically integrated factory of...
UNO announces first cohort of wind scholars
The University of New Orleans and "The Beach" at UNO recently announced the inaugural cohort of the Louisiana Wind Energy Hub’s Wind Scholars Program,...
Where Louisiana stands in the nationwide energy transition
Louisiana will soon mark the seventh annual National Clean Energy Week. While the state’s renewable power industry is slightly behind that of most other states,...
What exactly is green hydrogen and what can it be used for?
Green hydrogen is being touted around the world as a clean energy solution to take the carbon out of high-emitting sectors like transport and...
Maine company chosen to design $100 million Jeanerette biofuels plant
Delta Biofuel of Jeanerette has chosen Player Design Inc. of Presque Isle, Maine, to engineer and supply a $100 million renewable fuels facility that...
SunGas Renewables to revitalize shuttered Pineville facility as green methanol plant
Houston-based SunGas Renewables plans to revitalize the shuttered 1,300-acre International Paper mill in Pineville as a $2 billion green methanol plant, reports NOLA.com.
Pineville Mayor...
ExxonMobil: Global emissions reduction effort not on track
ExxonMobil says the global effort to curtail greenhouse gas emissions isn’t on track to keep the planet’s temperature from rising beyond an increase of...
German company wins bid on Gulf of Mexico’s first offshore wind energy lease
A German energy company won rights Tuesday to the first-ever offshore wind lease in the Gulf of Mexico, bidding $5.6 million for 102,480 acres...
This week’s inaugural Gulf offshore wind auction to fuel region’s green hydrogen push
The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will auction three areas off Louisiana and Texas to offshore wind developers today, the first...
Monarch Energy considering Ascension Parish for $426M ‘green’ hydrogen production plant
Hydrogen production company Monarch Energy announced last week that it is considering Ascension Parish as the location for a new $426 million facility.
Monarch specializes...
