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Sep 6, 2026 - Sep 13, 2026
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing today announced the financial close of a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to help finance the restart of the Duane Arno
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☀️ Solar
BLUETTI* used IFA 2026 to stretch the idea of power stations in several directions. The BLUETTI IFA 2026 lineup covered balcony solar, home energy management, compact batteries, and a 5,000W jobsite E...
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Pursuing "space superiority" and critical supply chain risk mitigation, the DOE is providing grants seven to eleven research projects to advance space solar cell technologies, from III-V cells to stan...
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FTC Solar has begun shipments of solar tracker systems for the 330MW Fraser Coast solar project in Queensland, Australia.
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Suniva has raised US$835 million to support the development of a new 4.5GW cell manufacturing facility in South Carolina.
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The Albuquerque solar tracker manufacturing facility will employ about 300 people and enable it to bring production in house rather than sourcing components from other suppliers. The post Array Techno...
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A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineerin...
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💨 Wind
A new rare earth recycling plant in Arizona could create another domestic source of materials needed for EV motors, wind turbines, and a long list of other products. more…
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
Wisconsin is awarding $25 million in federal funding for 42 new DC fast-charging stations, expanding its EV charging network beyond the state’s interstates and onto more US and state highways. more…
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📦 Storage
Volta Foundation’s July 2026 report ‘Where Batteries Can Win in Data Center Applications’ shows the two areas where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are winning, four where it is competing and tw...
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Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report. That’s enough to supply the daily ...
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The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help s...
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⚡ Grid
This summer's Champlain Hudson Power Express outage highlights the importance of an independent grid operator, writes Zach Smith, senior vice president of system and resource planning at NYISO.
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The SHARE program is a proof of concept for privately-funded distributed energy capacity and could eventually expand to include commercial, industrial and utility-scale resources, Pacific Gas Electric...
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Utility and power firms Axpo and energieUri have commissioned two large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Gurtnellen, Canton Uri.
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The Trump administration’s vaguely worded executive order on grid cybersecurity threatens to slow down the booming U.S. energy storage market . The order, issued late last month, declares a national s...
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💧 Hydrogen
Air Liquide chief says fallout from Iran war has led governments to reconsider their use of costly fuel
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Aberdeen’s hydrogen double-deckers have finally produced a useful market price, and it is more revealing than another theoretical argument about fuel-cell efficiency, hydrogen costs or refuelling infr...
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🌊 Hydropower
NLR and University of Hawaii Deploy Wave Energy Device, Capturing and Sharing Data for Marine Energy Industry By Samantha Cuneo, NLR Like a surfer, the Small Underwater Research Flap Wave Energy Conve...
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🌎 Climate
Multilateral lenders expected to follow the World Bank in ditching lending targets
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Scientists say monthly temperature anomaly of more than 2C is possible as temporary El Niño cycle takes hold in Pacific region
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Pointless obstruction by governments over publishing scientific climate evaluation is threatening crucial work
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Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
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📋 Policy
A federal appeals court has struck down the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to require a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to remain open, ruling that the U.S. Department of Energy exc...
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Emergency order addresses critical grid reliability issues in the Northwestern U.S. by keeping coal plant online
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
Coal-fired electricity generation falls 11% in first half of 2026 as cheaper power sources such as natural gas grow
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🌋 Geothermal
US technology giant Oracle is seeking proposals for 2GW of solar PV, wind power, geothermal and “other renewable technologies” to power its data centre operations in New Mexico.
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🏭 Carbon Capture
Also in this newsletter: Brussels’ truce with Apple raises app developer ire
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📰 More
"The Department's reading of 'emergency' invites frequent federal interventions that are unsupported by the statute and threaten the stability of the energy market," the U.S. Appeals Court for the Dis...
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Funded projects will establish real-world testing grounds for innovative mining technologies to continue securing America's critical materials supply chains
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