US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Thursday America's Energy Department released an interactive map showing America's clean energy investments, "for tracking the industrial revitalization happening across the country, fostered by a clean energy transition..."

The map aims to show how both the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act "are leading to announcements of historic levels of private sector investments in the United States," which the head of America's Energy Department credited for "a manufacturing renaissance across the U.S." A senior White House energy advisor specifically described it as "a clean energy boom" and called the map "a great resource for understanding the widespread and important impact this boom is having on communities all across our nation."

The announcement notes 500 "planned investments in at least 450 new or expanded clean energy manufacturing facilities, totaling over $160 billion in announced private and public sector investments" in solar, battery, and offshore wind manufacturing projects — as well as in electric vehicle assembly, components, and chargers. Ford received over $12 billion for battery pack/cell projects and EV assembly, along with billions more for Ford's joint venture with BlueOval SK to build a battery plant. And six of the projects are Tesla — totalling over $2 billion for projects in battery materials, cells, packs, and EV assembly.

They need to add others layers

[Thoth Ptolemy]

They need to add layers for House districts, who represents it and how they voted on the bills. And Senator information as well, for convenience. See how many leeches there are and how much treasure they're stealing from us. People shouldn't get to say "no" to good policy and still reap the rewards of that good policy. Enough with the hand-holding nanny welfare state, let the red states live in exactly the world they vote for.

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[groobly]

Red states have a lot of congressional districts that either have Dem representatives, or that the Dems figure they might be able to flip. So, they need to bribe those people, too, not just the ones in blue states.

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[bussdriver]

It's not a bribe if you are doing things for constituents. It's not a "special interest" if it's the majority of voters. The purpose is supposed to be to do stuff for the majority of VOTERS and democracy will do best because it has a bias for the majority instead of a handful of elites. Sure, it's tyranny of the majority when it works - and that is good but we have to worry so much "about the children" etc as a smokescreen far too often so tiny tiny minorities subvert democracy. The problems we have today

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[cayenne8]

The purpose is supposed to be to do stuff for the majority of VOTERS and democracy will do best because it has a bias for the majority instead of a handful of elites. Sure, it's tyranny of the majority when it works - and that is good but we have to worry so much "about the children" etc as a smokescreen far too often so tiny tiny minorities subvert democracy.

Good thing the US is a republic and not just a true democracy.

This allows us to avoid the tyranny of the majority and give the minority a voice in

It's worth poking around in.

[hey!]

You can look at pre- and post-Inflation Reduction Act by area of focus to see how priorities have changed. Pre- what you have are federal subsidies for wind and solar. Post-IRA expands these but goes in big on battery technology, EVs, and developing domestic supply chains.

Nothing nuclear (Re:It's worth poking around in.)

[MacMann]

Democrat party priorities haven't changed, this is the same "Meatloaf energy" plan they've had for the last 50 years. What makes this a "Meatloaf energy" plan? They will do anything for energy, but they won't do that .

I noticed that after Andrew Yang made a lot of noise about nuclear power the Democrat party appeared to make some changes to their stance on nuclear power. For the last 50 years, give or take, their national party platform document has been flipping back and forth between open hostility to

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[hey!]

First of all the name of the party is the *Democratic Party*.

Second of all the IRA contains 40 billion dollars of loan guarantees that the nuclear industry can appy for -- if anyone out there is actually interested in building a new nuclear plant, tax credits nuclear plant developers can apply for, and $850 million earmarked for nuclear power research projects.

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[MacMann]

... IRA contains 40 billion dollars of loan guarantees that the nuclear industry can appy for ...

If they do apply then would they actually get the loan? I have my doubts.

I recall an interview recently with someone from the US federal government office responsible for approving these loans and he said a few nice things about nuclear power, but until they actually release funds this is theoretical. I don't recall Biden saying anything in his own voice in support of nuclear power, only people speaking on his behalf which doesn't carry the same weight. Granholm has said some nice things about nuclear p

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[hey!]

It's legislation. You can't assume what's on the label is in the tin, you have to pay attention.

free money

[groobly]

Free money for our buddies.

Oh Wunderful

[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

A map of FUTURE EPA Superfund clean-up sites.

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[CEC-P]

You mean the free burn lithium mine? If the batteries and caps light up, that's just free lithium. Easier than some mine, just saying. Other than that, what are you scared of? The windmill aluminum and steel? I mean, solar panels, yeah. I can't imagine what a major hailstorm would do to them.

Keeping in mind.... THIS IS THE WHOLE PLAN.

[KirbyCombat]

Throw money at it.... Where is the new national power grid. Where are the ultra high voltage interconnects? Where is the distributed storage?

My culdesac has five houses and a 60 kW transformer. How many of us can have fast chargers? You can generate as much solar as you like in the desert southwest, so long as you us it in less than 200 miles. The same is true of wind power on the plains. You can put in as much offshore wind as you like in the north east, but is there any plan for calm days?

This is n

Filter for a Billion or More

[nevermindme]

Filter for a billion or more and it is all EV batteries. Going to be awful meta when the EPA shuts down domestic Lithium mining and there is nothing to pack in the batteries. Well there is always Hope and Change.