Using The Juice From Your Nissan Leaf To Pay For Parking

Google w/ $5.75 bn in sustainable bonds; Maine floating wind project getting geared up; BP to spend $5bn on sustainable energy; Global coal gen sees first decline ever; Your EV can pay for your parking

1) Google offered $5.75 billion of sustainable bonds - vastly oversubscribed - focused on clean energy, and smart buildings.

2) Mitsubishi and German developer RWE Renewables teaming up w/ the U of Maine's Aqua Ventus to build a 10-12 MW floating wind project off Maine. Floating wind should scale very rapidly.

3) BP plans to cut oil and gas production, invest $5 billion into clean energy by 2030, as part of a major strategic shift. It projects demand in fossil fuels to decline by up to 75% by 2050, if world is to meet global climate goal of 1.5 degrees celsius.

4) ExxonMobil confirmed low energy prices related to COVID have wiped 20% of its projects off the balance sheet. Low COVID demand is merely a dress rehearsal for the future climate constrained world we're about to move into.

5) Bloomberg reported for 1st time in history, coal fire gen capacity declined in 1st half of year as coronavirus cut demand.

6) Nissan announced program w/Nissan LEAF drivers paying for parking with power from car.