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☀️ Solar
All Electrical Training Ltd delivers City & Guilds 2922-34 Solar PV Courses & 2923-34 EESS (Battery Storage Courses) in Essex for qualified electricians.
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AES Indiana brings solar+storage online, Alliant fires up two new BESS, CleanChoice triples its generation capacity, CMBlu inks a deal with Uniper, and Encore starts construction in Illinois.
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Brazil holds the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earth elements, which are essential for electric vehicles, solar panels, smartphones, jet engines and guided missiles.
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Under the terms of the deal, Germany’s NexWafe will supply its ultrathin solar wafers to Talon PV’s planned 4.8 GW TOPCon solar cell manufacturing plant in Texas. Initial qualification work will take ...
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Legacy solar models focused on daytime production, but the shift to battery-driven self-consumption is creating a performance gap that puts long-term ROI at risk.
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💨 Wind
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will not award any proposals in its fifth offshore wind solicitation, citing federal disruptions impacting project development.
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⚛️ Nuclear
There's a lot of chatter about nuclear energy these days, but we need to sort the category to make sense of what is feasible, writes University of Oregon Professor of Practice Joshua Skov.
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the new Tesla (temporary) Cybertruck, Cybercab news, Ford...
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📦 Storage
The Texas company says its new front-of-the-meter distributed battery program with El Paso Electric will help the utility manage demand and provide resilience for homeowners who host the systems.
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⚡ Grid
However, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's reliability remains at "high risk," NERC's John Moura said, and it's unclear whether its fast-track interconnection process will help.
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💧 Hydrogen
Global Green Hydrogen Market size valued at USD 11.4 billion in 2025 to reach USD 173.5 billion by 2035, growing at 31.2% CAGR. Europe leads; Asia-Pacific grows fastest. Driven by renewable expansion,...
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🌊 Hydropower
Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated engineers. A researcher at The University of Osaka has now explored a bold new a...
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🌎 Climate
International Energy Agency meeting focuses on energy security
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Lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s decision to rescind a landmark environmental ruling
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The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities. They have burned a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s oil and gas, planting carbon t...
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📋 Policy
The Trump administration unlawfully bypassed Congress and made politically motivated cuts to programs created through the IRA and IIJA, the lawsuit claims.
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The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
This shift highlights Chinese refiners absorbing Russian cargoes as Indian buyers reduce their imports amid US pressure.
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🌋 Geothermal
With the installation of conductor pipes, the planned geothermal heating project of SWM in Michaelibad, Germany has completed tits initial construction phase. The post Geothermal heating project in Mi...
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SLB and Star Energy Geothermal have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of the Sekincau geothermal field in Lampung, Indonesia. The post SLB, Star Energy partner to support development ...
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Electricity generation has started from the 5.4-MW Tuchang geothermal power plant in Yilan County, Taiwan, following development work that started in 2020. The post 5.4-MW Yilan Tuchang geothermal pow...
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ENAL, a Grupo Carso subsidiary, will be investing 80 million Mexican Pesos for a 12.5-MW binary geothermal power facility in Guanajuato, Mexico. The post 12.5-MW geothermal development in Guanajuato, ...
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Kyuden Mirai will be supplying 900 MWh of geothermal power annually to the office buildings of JPR in Tokyo, Japan through an offsite corporate PPA. The post Kyuden signs offsite geothermal PPA with r...
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🏭 Carbon Capture
Octopus Energy Generation is investing nearly $1 billion in California's renewable energy sector, backing carbon removal companies and acquiring a solar project.
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📰 More
ikeGPS' Brett Willitt writes that many distribution utilities can't reliably answer a fundamental question: Which assets require investment and which do not?
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UK minister says agreement with US governor aims to boost technology sharing and mutual investment
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Early investors in Fourth Partner are looking to sell their holdings. This move signals continued investment in India's green energy sector. Fourth Partner Energy supplies power to commercial and indu...
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According to Ameco Research, the global Renewable Energy Certificate Market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 20.2% from 2021 to 2028, with certificates issued rising from 2,175,813 in 2020 to 9,298,5...
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The remarks come as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged countries to reduce energy ties with Russia as part of efforts to broker peace between Moscow and Kyiv.
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