Renewable Energy

EBR School Board approves ExxonMobil ITEP request for ‘Innovation Suite’

Last Thursday, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board approved ExxonMobil's ITEP request for a potential "Innovation Suite" at its Baton Rouge complex. The investment...

Gov. Edwards announces $500 million energy resilience program

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a $500 million program to establish energy hubs for communities during times of natural disasters. The Hubs for Resilient Energy...

Tri-state HALO Hydrogen Hub not selected to receive IIJA funding

The Biden administration is directing $7 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law to build seven regional hydrogen power hubs in 16 states, reports Louisiana...

ExxonMobil planning $100M resin production facility at Port Allen site

ExxonMobil has plans for a new facility in West Baton Rouge specializing in manufacturing durable resins for use in sustainable construction and renewable energy. The...

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...

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