Under Biden, DOE’s Loan Programs Office issued 53 loans & loan guarantees worth over $107B for things like EV factories, a nuclear plant restart & aviation biofuel refineries. Now that's all under threat, @jeffstjohn.bsky.social & @danmccarthy.bsky.social report
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Epilogue:

Food & beverage plants occupy something of a sweet spot when it comes to decarbonizing industrial heat. Whereas steel mills and cement plants need scorching heat, places that make snacks & drinks use relatively low temps—making it easier to adopt existing tech like electric boilers and heat pumps 4/

Companies like Oatly are grappling with how to ditch gas and use electricity instead. I visited Oatly’s plant in New Jersey to learn how the oat-milk maker is working to solve this challenge, including potentially by installing industrial heat pumps & other solutions 3/

What is the federal Buy Clean program, you ask?

…Also like the lasers in my imagination.

Nice piece by Sarah Shemkus/ENN on high-tech ways to clean up Maine’s CO2-intensive pulp and paper industry—which account for about 1/2 of the state’s industrial emissions
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