Genesis Ushers In A New Age of Fully Electric Luxury with... + 29 more energy stories
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Aug 16, 2026 - Aug 23, 2026
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At a packed event in San Francisco, California, Genesis unveiled its new flagship electric SUV, the GV90. The GV90 is a full-sized three-row SUV that is also offered in a fully loaded GV90 Neolun spec
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☀️ Solar
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultrathin slic...
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Austria plans to overhaul its solar subsidy framework from 2027, shifting support from standard PV systems toward battery storage, energy management systems and specialized solar applications. The gov...
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New Zealand enjoyed a record year for solar additions in 2025, buoyed by the commissioning of seven utility-scale plants. An additional 930 MW of solar is due to come online over the next three years....
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The utility's North Carolina and South Carolina territory "continues to experience significant growth," with both states ranked among the fastest-growing, Duke told South Carolina regulators.
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💨 Wind
Eize de Vries, Windpower Monthly’s technology and market trends correspondent, explores the different approaches of Chinese and Western turbine manufacturers to scaling and takes a view on how floatin...
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⚛️ Nuclear
An immersive digital facility has been installed at a robotics and artificial intelligence centre in northwest England, giving nuclear specialists a powerful way to plan and deliver decommissioning wo...
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
Einride is putting 500 Tesla Semis on US roads, the largest commitment to Tesla’s electric truck that anyone has made public. That will takes the Swedish freight company from roughly 250 deployed elec...
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LANSING, Mich. — The Trump administration has made clear its disdain for electric vehicles and clean energy. Yet at the grand opening of South Korea–based LG Energy Solution’s latest battery manufactu...
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📦 Storage
Seven selected projects will secure American critical supply chains, bolster U.S. economic and national security, and advance American energy dominance
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Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on August 12 from Plattsburgh International Airport, powered entirely by batteries. The aircraft has a 106-foot wingspan, weighed more than 25,000...
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⚡ Grid
Anthro Energy has broken ground on a first-of-its-kind US battery materials factory in Louisville, Kentucky, with enough planned annual output to support up to 25 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of lithium-ion b...
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Emergency order strengthens grid reliability and minimizes the risk of energy shortfalls in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
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💧 Hydrogen
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everything from large trucks t...
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In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemist...
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🌊 Hydropower
Energy think tank Ember’s new report highlights the impact of extreme summer temperatures on the grid and the role record solar output played in maintaining grid stability.
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🌎 Climate
Also in today’s newsletter, did companies pay a price for keeping DEI schemes under Trump?
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More sightings of jellyfish-like species have coincided with high ocean temperatures caused by climate change
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It’s simple, says the SpaceX boss – according to something called the ‘Kardashev scale’, we just have to move energy production ‘off-planet’Next time the weather gives the UK 61 days without rain and ...
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Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequalityRyan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when he got...
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Capitalism and the climate crisis are conspiring to destroy the concept of seasons. I’ll take solace in my pumpkin spiceHappy spooky season, everyone! Get those jack-o’-lanterns out, because Halloween...
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📋 Policy
$500 million award will protect 2,300 American jobs and strengthen domestic steel production
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Emergency order keeps critical generation available to power Americans in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
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Cleveland-Cliffs Redirects Half a Billion Dollars in Clean Steel Funding to Coal at Middletown Works
MIDDLETOWN, OH — Cleveland-Cliffs and the Department of Energy announced plans to continue the use of coal at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Middletown Works steel mill today, abandoning previously announced plans...
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
The three elected officials who regulate the oil and gas industry in Texas hold an open meeting each month in Austin to vote on matters from pipeline violations to permit renewals. Members of the publ...
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🌋 Geothermal
Sage Geosystems has hit a big milestone out on a rugged tract near San Antonio: The startup is producing power from its first next-generation geothermal plant. The system is just the third of its kind...
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📰 More
Washington and Beijing are beating Brussels in competition to secure components used in defence and green technologies
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Under a new permitting framework for loads over 25 MW, applicants that commit to abide by the state's recently introduced infrastructure development standards for data centers will receive preferentia...
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ENGWE has been one of the top e-bike builders globally for a few years now, and we're excited to test out one of its more moped style "ebikes" here in the United States. Disclaimer: Engwe provided the...
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For the better part of the year, Duke Energy’s bid to jack up electric rates in North Carolina has been hotly contested by politicians, consumer advocates, and the public at large. Under the utility’s...
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