Maria Gallucci
Senior Reporter, Canary Media · 10 appearances on the record.
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Maria Gallucci covers clean energy technologies, transportation electrification, and heavy industry decarbonization. Previously an Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, she has reported for outlets including Grist, Inside Climate News, IEEE Spectrum, and Mashable.
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Gallucci: Very Little of Puerto Rico's Federal Grid Aid Has Been Deployed
“Billions of Federal recovery dollars have been made available and are flowing to the island specifically to fix the grid and to potentially invest in renewable energy, and very little of that money is actually, you know, being distributed on the ground, and so…”
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Gallucci: Very Little of Puerto Rico's Federal Grid Aid Has Been Deployed
“Billions of Federal recovery dollars have been made available and are flowing to the island specifically to fix the grid and to potentially invest in renewable energy, and very little of that money is actually, you know, being distributed on the ground, and so…”
PREPA waited months to request mainland utility mutual aid after Maria
“Puerto Rico has that as well, but for whatever reason, for reasons that are unclear, PREPA did not initiate that process until months later.”
PREPA signed a $1.5 billion gas infrastructure deal with New Fortress
“In twenty-nineteen, PREPA signed a 1.5 billion dollar contract with an American company called New Fortress Energy. To replace, ah, two of its oil-fired power plants with fossil gas, and kind of more controversially, to build an import terminal for liquefied f…”
Gallucci: eVTOLs target taxi replacement rather than airline emissions
“Well, with the eVTOLs that you brought up, those are so interesting because they're kind of not, at least at this stage in their development, they're not going after the emissions from passenger air travel. They're kind of trying to create a new segment of avi…”
ICCT: Waste oil and animal fats meet just 2% of SAF needs
“One estimate by the International Council on Clean Transportation is about two percent. About, if we used all of the used cooking oil and animal fats, that could account for about two percent of sustainable aviation fuel.”
Gallucci: Puerto Rico's Hurricane Fiona Grid Collapse Was Preventable
“My sense is that, yes, it was preventable, especially because Hurricane Fiona was a Category One hurricane, and Hurricane Maria, when it approached the island, it was Category Five, which is the strongest level of hurricane-force winds, and when it made landfa…”
Gallucci: Disaster Funds Are Primarily Rebuilding Puerto Rico's Vulnerable Centralized Grid
“These funds, these efforts, are largely being used to rebuild the existing grid. Sort of this centralized system with far-flung power plants and long transmission and distribution lines that, as we've seen again and again, are vulnerable to extreme weather eve…”
Gallucci: Puerto Rico grid crisis is forced survival, not resiliency
“Yeah, exactly, and the word that I'm hearing from a Puerto Rican journalist that I'm in touch with or I'm following is survival, that this isn't resiliency, this isn't scrappy people making do with what they can, it's people being forced to survive, and there'…”
Gallucci: Fervo and Google launched an advanced geothermal plant in Nevada
“And late last month Fervo and Google successfully started operating a first-of-its-kind power plant in Nevada using these advanced geothermal techniques. And it's now delivering electricity to the grid in Nevada, which is where Google operates some of its mass…”
Gallucci: Cancelled projects comprise half of advanced offshore wind pipeline
“So in this year, BNEF kind of did a tally. I spoke with an analyst recently, said that 5.5 gigawatts worth of offshore wind projects that had contracts for their power were canceled. That includes most recently Two Orsted projects in New Jersey, Ocean Wind One…”
Gallucci: USGS Estimates 1% of Geologic Hydrogen Could Power Earth for 200 Years
“The U.S. Geological Survey did put out a simulation estimating that there's anywhere between tens of 1,000,010 of billions of megatons of natural hydrogen. If just one percent of that was recovered, it would be enough to fuel the world for two centuries.”
Gallucci: Rhode Island Regulators Halt Transmission Review Calling Wind Project 'Hypothetical'
“The developers wanted to run this export cable beneath Rhode Island state waters, and the regulator said there's no reason for them to go through the trouble of reviewing this proposed cable because of the offshore wind project is quote unquote hypothetical ri…”
Gallucci: IEA Finds EVs on Course for 40% of Car Sales by 2030
“The IEA says that electric vehicles are on course to make up 40% of all new car sales by 2030, up from just 15% of sales today.”
Sweden's HYBRIT project successfully produces steel using 100% green hydrogen
“The hybrid project in Sweden is already making steel using a hundred percent green hydrogen. Other projects are in the works. There's about 40, a few dozen in the works.”
Gallucci: BNEF estimates a 25% steel price hike raises car production costs 1%
“And an interesting point I saw from Bloomberg NEF, BNEF said that they estimated that a 25% increase in the price of steel would only raise vehicle production costs by one percent because it's a, it's an important but not massive part, I guess, of the overall …”
SAF could reach 10% of total jet fuel demand by 2030
“Industry estimates say that perhaps sustainable aviation fuel could equal about 10% of total jet fuel demand by 2030, which is a pretty big step up from where it is today.”
Gallucci: NYC has installed 300 megawatts toward its 1-gigawatt 2030 solar target
“New York City has a goal of installing one gigawatt with a solar by 2030, and I believe has about a third, is about a third of the way there, so 300 megawatts, and the sense is that it's possible to meet that goal, but they, the city would really have to accel…”
Grassroots groups demand local influence over Equinor and BP wind projects
“Uprose and other grassroots groups, what they don't want to see is have Foreign companies like Equinor, like BP, come into the community and kind of do their own thing. What they really want is to have a say in how this project unfolds, how the companies work …”
The US only has seven offshore wind turbines totaling 42 megawatts
“I mean, right now, the United States has seven turbines total, representing 42 megawatts worth of offshore wind capacity. Worldwide, there's more than 56,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity”
Gallucci: Puerto Rico's rooftop solar installations grew tenfold since Hurricane Maria
“So before Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, there were roughly 5000 rooftop solar systems on the island, and very few of them had battery backup systems. Today, the number is around 50, 55,000 solar systems, and the majority have batteries, and that's largely becau…”
Gallucci: Many Puerto Rican Customers Saw Electricity Bills Double
“Many customers have seen their electricity bills double, so they're paying more for a crappier service, essentially.”
Gallucci: Solar and batteries are a necessity in Puerto Rico, not a luxury
“In many other places, certainly in New York City where I'm based rooftop solar batteries is a nice-to-have. In Puerto Rico, it's a need-to-have. You need to refrigerate your insulin. You need to power your nebulizer. You need to stay connected and charge your …”
Grassroots groups drive Puerto Rico's renewable transition rather than utilities
“What you're seeing is that individuals, communities, nonprofit organizations are the ones that are really driving this effort toward a renewable, resilient power system, and not so much the government or the utilities.”
Gallucci: Extracted Geologic Hydrogen in Mali Generates Local Electricity
“About a decade ago, hydrogen was found in an old water well in Mali, and actually that site is being used, they've developed or extracted the hydrogen and are using it locally to generate electricity, and it sort of sparked this phenomenon of wildcatters looki…”
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Appearances (10)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| The storylines of the energy transition in 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | 8m |
| Inflation plagues clean energy. How bad is it? | Nov 3, 2023 | 6m |
| Tackling the tough stuff: steel, cement, and chemicals | Oct 26, 2023 | 8m |
| Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes | Sep 29, 2023 | 10m |
| America’s historic climate law, one year on | Aug 15, 2023 | 7m |
| The greasy truth behind sustainable aviation fuels | Feb 1, 2023 | 9m |
| New York’s clean energy puzzle | Nov 2, 2022 | 5m |
| From empty concrete to offshore wind hub? | Oct 13, 2022 | 11m |
| Puerto Rico’s preventable grid disaster | Sep 29, 2022 | 8m |
| The tension over Puerto Rico’s energy future | Jun 8, 2022 | 12m |