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May 24, 2026 - May 31, 2026
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Drilling of the first geothermal exploration well of Energía Geotérmica de Canarias has started on the southern slopes of Mt. Teide in Tenerife, Canary Islands. The post Reykjavik Geothermal announces
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☀️ Solar
A PAC representing wind and solar energy interests spent $1.1 million to boost the Republican primary opponent of Chip Roy, an opponent of renewables. Now they are trying to save a Republican ally in ...
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ContourGlobal has commenced operations at its Victor Jara hybrid power plant located in Tarapacá, Chile, featuring a 231MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant with a 1.3GWh battery system.
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This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which...
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💨 Wind
Fortescue‘s recently-acquired turbine subsidiary Nabrawind has done something that was believed to be impossible: they’ve installed a full-scale, energy producing wind turbine in harsh Namibian condit...
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⚛️ Nuclear
Studsvik has applied to build up to 1,400 MW of new nuclear capacity at its Nyköping site The post Studsvik submits plans for new nuclear reactors in Sweden appeared first on Energy Live News.
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more e...
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Germany is a leading clean energy nation, and it is making progress with electrification of transport. The latest milestone it has achieved is that over 200,000 public EV charging points have been ins...
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📦 Storage
This initiative involves an outlay of around ₹15,000 crore. The plan includes battery storage, pumped storage, and new technology systems. This move aims to enhance energy security and grid stability ...
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⚡ Grid
The funding allocation pairs with grid interconnection reforms to support distributed and community solar deployment.
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The state received high marks for its robust energy storage interconnection framework, frequent public reports on its interconnection queue and incorporating IEEE's technical standard for DER intercon...
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A joint initiative between IREC and Vote Solar, Freeing the Grid, assigns letter grades to evaluate the quality of each state’s distribution interconnection rules.
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Industry leaders warn motorway charging infrastructure risks falling behind growing electric vehicle demand without urgent grid upgrades The post Grid capacity concerns threaten motorway EV charging e...
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💧 Hydrogen
People in southeast New Mexico are concerned about a data center that will add 10 million tons of carbon emissions to the air. The post Giant Data Center In New Mexico Will Be Powered By Fuel Cells ap...
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🌊 Hydropower
Technologies to harness the power of the waves have struggled to scale for years. But this month, Panthalassa raised $140 million. The post Are Thiel-funded floating data centers enough to make wave e...
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🌎 Climate
SEC looking to overturn Biden-era requirement after finding it a ‘dramatic over-reach’ of authority
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Extension of emissions trading scheme opposed by flag carriers
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Annual list highlights companies making progress on cutting carbon emissions
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📋 Policy
Clean energy developers announced 12 GW and over $19 billion in investments in Q1 2026, but 45 projects and $14 billion were canceled, according to analysis by E2.
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
The impact of Middle East war is a reminder why certainty is crucial to spur a shift from fossil fuels
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🌋 Geothermal
Agreements for the use of two municipal plots for future geothermal heating plants have been signed between Innargi and the City of Poznan, Poland. The post Innargi signs agreement for potential sites...
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When a neighborhood-scale geothermal network came online in Framingham, Massachusetts, two years ago, it was hailed as groundbreaking. The first-of-its-kind system, owned by the state’s largest utilit...
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🏭 Carbon Capture
Oil major bets billions on technology but backlash on US Gulf Coast threatens its ambitions
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Foundational works are now underway at Encyclis' Protos site in Cheshire, six months after securing government funding The post UK's first full-scale Energy-from-Waste carbon capture plant taking shap...
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📰 More
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, Robison Meyer from Heatmap News discusses how local opposition to data centers hit a new record in the first quarter of 2026.
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New EIA data shows renewables accounted for nearly 29% of total US electricity generation in the first three months of 2026 The post US renewable electricity generation surges past 11% growth appeared...
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GCL SI has signed a 1GW module supply agreement with Thailand’s Getz Energy, a subsidiary of utility GPSC.
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"In a lot of the partnerships that have been established around some of these technologies, it's really the tech companies that are taking on a lot of the risk," Priya Barua, CEBA's senior director of...
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New balancing act needed when methane is reduced to stop break up of ozone layer The post Methane cuts can slow emissions but hinder ozone recovery appeared first on Energy Live News.
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Government and upstream companies push enhanced recovery, digital oilfields and reservoir technologies to unlock untapped hydrocarbons from aging assets
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