NEW YORK, NY: Heatmap News, a media and data company covering climate change and clean energy, today published a new risk index, The Most At-Risk Projects of the Energy Transition, which breaks down the 10 most important clean energy transition projects struggling to get off the ground across the country. The list, which will be updated monthly, was compiled through reporting by Heatmap’s editorial team, along with exclusive polling and modeling data from Heatmap Pro.
The inaugural list leads with Lava Ridge, a wind project in Jerome, Idaho, which is planning for more than 1,000 megawatts of capacity. It also includes Summit Carbon Solutions Pipeline, a carbon management project in the Upper Midwest, and Paddlefish Solar, a solar project in Indiana, as well as two proposed offshore wind farms, two transmission lines, a battery energy storage project, and a hydrogen facility. The full list can be found here.
“The energy transition is happening across our country, one project at a time, and behind each of these projects, there is a unique blend of economic, political, and community pressures that can help dictate their respective outcomes. With this new risk index, Heatmap is chronicling the most at-risk projects crucial to decarbonization and their potential impact on local, state, and national decarbonization efforts,” said Heatmap's Editor-in-Chief Nico Lauricella. “By combining the proprietary data modeling from our Pro platform with the expertise of our reporting team, this list is an immediate go-to for anyone interested in how the energy transition is actually working on the ground.”
This new risk index is available on Heatmap’s main website. For timely scoops on roadblocks facing key projects in the transition, Heatmap recently launched The Fight, a weekly newsletter available to Heatmap Plus subscribers. Heatmap Plus is part of Heatmap’s new premium subscription tiers, which also include Heatmap Pro, where subscribers can access a data platform that integrates 50+ data sources to forecast local support and opposition facing clean energy projects anywhere in the United States.
About Heatmap News: Heatmap News is climate news for the real world. We tell the inside story of the race to fix the planet, with deep reporting on emerging decarbonization trends, like electric vehicles, clean hydrogen, and carbon capture, in addition to climate change and its impact on our economy, politics, and society. Named Hottest in Sustainability on Adweek’s 2024 Media Hot List, Heatmap has built an influential readership of decision-makers, business leaders, government and NGO officials, entrepreneurs, VC's, legal and policy experts, academics, journalists and concerned consumers who take action. It reaches over 2.5 million readers and 70,000 newsletter subscribers.