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☀️ Solar
While Canada’s provinces and territories continue to prioritise solar to different degrees, US tariff uncertainty is reinforcing national-level plans to invest in renewables and more integrated energy...
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US-based solar cell manufacturer Nextnova Solar has unveiled plans to build a 2GW solar cell manufacturing facility in the US state of Oklahoma.
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Global renewable energy investment reached $327.5 billion in the first half of 2026, as capital shifted toward solar-plus-storage projects amid growing revenue uncertainty. US investment surged ahead ...
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Including new small-scale solar, renewables’ capacity is likely to surpass natural gas by summer 2027 or sooner, according to new data just released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), ...
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💨 Wind
Taiwan is moving to terminate the contract for the 700MW Youde offshore wind project after the developer – Taiwanese energy company Shinfox Energy – failed to pay the remaining performance bond, accor...
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⚛️ Nuclear
The move is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to spur the country’s largest expansion of nuclear power in more than three decades.
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the sin...
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MIT Technology Review��s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and ene...
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After chomping on the bit for literally years, we finally got to drive – and I mean really drive – the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and it was everything we’d hoped for, and more. Porsche flew us out to ...
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📦 Storage
Nomad Power Solutions has announced that the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity has authorised the advancement of an energy storage demonstration project in Vermont.
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⚡ Grid
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . NEW YORK—When...
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💧 Hydrogen
Cbm-Tech has launched a green hydrogen hub in Walvis Bay combining 5 MW of solar, a 5 MW PEM electrolyzer and 5.9 MWh of battery storage. The post The Hydrogen Stream: Africa’s first PV-driven hydroge...
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🌊 Hydropower
The loss of power-generating capacity has raised questions about an ambitious expansion of renewable energy in one of the world’s most hazard-prone mountain regions.
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🌎 Climate
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Torrent that tore through settlements near Nepal’s border with China comes as scientists warn climate change is increasing risks
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Scientists warn tens of millions of Americans will be affected by extreme weather linked to climate change
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More than 40% of children under the age of 10 globally are already experiencing at least 20 additional “heat-stress days”... The post Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stre...
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Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastropheNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesWhat caused the flash flood in Nepal and Tibet?T...
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Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy statesSunil Acharya is an international clim...
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Environmental changes are reshaping trade, commerce, logistics and geopolitics
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📋 Policy
"We lose more than half of everything that we expected to be able to build with the combination of market forces and proactive policy," said Amanda Levin, NRDC's director of policy analysis.
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
The administration will work with a private Venezuelan oil company that has close ties to the country’s government.
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The president said an agreement between the countries covered more than 65 billion barrels of reserves. A U.S. official said it would involve a partnership with a private company.
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The cost of the fuel, used in farm machinery, trucks and other heavy equipment, has surged because of the war in Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.
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🌋 Geothermal
The test will study "unknown variables required to ensure long term EGS production remains commercially viable," said Kristie McLin, principal investigator at the Frontier Observatory for Research in ...
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🏭 Carbon Capture
The Global CCS Institute has described China's first quantified CCUS objective, set out in its 15th Five-Year Plan for the Oil and Gas Sector, as a constructive policy signal, while noting that wider ...
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📰 More
Scandinavian country looks to double down on oil and gas despite EU green rhetoric
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The Spanish government has unveiled plans to require data centres to have at least 80% of their hourly generation be powered by renewable energy.
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Hyundai has several new electric SUVs coming, including a new global D-segment SUV positioned slightly above the IONIQ 5.
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