Mark your calendars! Registration for our 62nd Annual Meeting will open soon. Our Chair, South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster, will host the 3-day event from August 28-30 in Charleston. The theme guiding our agenda for this year is Clean Energy: Fueling Growth & Prosperity in the South. This year’s event will be hosted at the Charleston…
The 2022 edition of the Southern Mutual Radiation Assistance Plan (SMRAP) is now available for review. The document provides a mechanism for coordinating radiological emergency assistance capabilities among participating states. SMRAP is authorized under the provisions of the Southern Agreement for Mutual State Radiological Assistance, which was signed by the governors of Alabama, Florida, Georgia,…
Now more than ever, securing and processing critical minerals (CMs) and rare earth elements (REEs) is essential to the technological progress and decarbonization of the nation’s energy grid. China controls more than 80 percent of the world’s REEs—an imbalance that threatens U.S. energy independence and technological innovation. Critical minerals, as defined by the US Geological…
Registration is now open for our first webinar of 2022. Join us March 8 at 11 a.m. ET for this educational webinar on The Future of Critical Minerals & Rare Earth Elements in the Southeast. Now more than ever, securing and processing critical minerals (CMs) and rare earth elements (REEs) is critical to the technological…
The episode—featuring Benjamin Wernette, our Geologist and Project Manager—introduces listeners to the four Regional Initiatives to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Deployment, a DOE-funded project with the collective objective to identify and help address regional storage and transport hurdles affecting commercial deployment of CCUS. The four initiatives discussed in the episode are: Midwest…
A new publication focused on fossil energy and carbon management (FECM) legislation in the United States is now available. The FECM Digest is compiled in collaboration with our member states and includes a look at notable fossil energy and carbon management legislation from around the nation. Topics covered in this edition include regulatory measures affecting…
Applications due by Dec. 17 Recently, DOE announced its Communities LEAP (Local Energy Action Program) Pilot, which aims to facilitate sustained community-wide economic and environmental benefits primarily through DOE’s clean energy deployment work. The application deadline for the Communities LEAP Pilot is coming up. The opportunity is specifically open to low-income, energy-burdened communities also experiencing…
President Joe Biden has appointed Jim Powell of Hiawassee, Georgia, as the Federal Representative to the Southern States Energy Board. Our Federal Representative is appointed by the President as his official liaison to the Board. The Honorable Jim Powell will be responsible for providing an annual report to the President on the Board’s programs and activities. In addition, he…
On October 15, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $20 million in funding to four projects working to accelerate the regional deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). The projects, representing the four corners of the country, are known as DOE’s Regional Initiatives to Accelerate CCUS Deployment. The Southern States Energy Board leads one…
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