Quick-hitting stories deliver the goods on Boeing’s Project Voyager in metro St. Louis;
Meyer Burger’s solar cell investment in Colorado Springs; SunGas Renewables’ $2 billion
methanol plant in Pineville, Louisiana; hyperscale data centers popping up all over; Magna
in Tennessee; and what could be the world’s largest solar panel plant in Manitoba.
Among the array of sustainability-oriented operations to be found across the
U.S. is a wind turbine blade recycling operation operated by Veolia North America in
Louisiana, Missouri, which shreds them into material then used in cement production.
Blades like these typically last about 20 years, says Veolia.
Photo courtesy of Veolia and Business Wire
For insights into where clean tech investment is landing, explore Rhodium Group’s Clean Investment Monitor, which recently
reported there was “$213 billion in new investment in the manufacture and deployment of
clean energy, clean vehicle, building electrification and carbon management technology in
the U.S. over the past year, a 37% annual increase.” For insights into how leaders from
225 prominent companies assess their progress on corporate sustainability commitments, check out the latest survey from Veolia North America. Among
other findings, says the report, “based on a recent analysis, the overall transition to sustainable
energy across U.S. industries will require at least $18 trillion in additional capital by
2030.”
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Italy’s
Prysmian Group and Canada’s Lion Electric are just two of the more than
2,000 international companies employing more than 375,000 workers in the
state.
The joint venture WärmeWerk Wörth GmbH was founded by Daimler Truck, energy company EnBW
and the City of Wörth am Rhein early this month after support came from the town council
this summer. Its goal? To determine the feasibility of geothermal energy on the huge
Mercedes-Benz truck manufacturing plant site in the city, with excess heat from a
potential geothermal plant funneled to existing municipal local heating networks.. The
project could contribute significantly to the companies’ and city’s decarbonization goals.
The plant, founded 60 years ago, is the company’s largest truck plant and employs around
10,000, making the company the second-largest employer in the state of
Rhineland-Palatinate.
