Tribal utility, localities, and consumer and environmental groups argue tax guidance illegally hurts renewable energy. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad array of groups with strong interests in clean and affordable energy sued the IRS and Treasury Department over new rules for tax credits that unfairly and illegally discriminate against wind ... [continued]
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Unsurprisingly, projects, jobs, and whole companies have been falling as a result of Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy and electric vehicles. Because he loves pollution so much, and is eager to help funnel more money to his billionaire friends in the fossil fuel industry, Trump has been pulling cleantech ... [continued]
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Analysis Shows Clean Energy Investments Dropped from $4.7 Billion Peak to Stagnation Under Trump Administration, Threatening Over 61,000 Good-Paying Jobs View a recording of the release webinar here. APPALACHIA — A new report released this month by ReImagine Appalachia reveals that 67% of the region’s 92,282 projected clean energy jobs ... [continued]
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Marylanders have apparently been good and nice this year. Rather than getting coal for Christmas, they got a large solar power plant installed on the site of an old coal mine. CPV Renewable Power, part of Competitive Power Ventures, launched the CPV Backbone Solar project a few days before Christmas ... [continued]
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I’m sure everyone here knows the company Intersect. Just kidding, I assume most people don’t know the company, since I had never run across it before. Apparently, though, it’s a data center and energy infrastructure solutions provider. It builds big power projects for data centers and booming electricity needs. Alphabet, ... [continued]
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Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc. (KCEC) has selected Nuvve New Mexico, LLC, a subsidiary of Nuvve Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: NVVE), to deploy and operate advanced battery energy storage systems under a Battery-as-a-Service (BAAS) model at two separate locations in northern New Mexico. Under the terms outlined in a recently executed term sheet, Nuvve New Mexico ... [continued]
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Electric air taxis may be a dead end idea. I think they probably are. Except in some niche, limited markets and applications. To be honest, though, Saudi Arabia may be one of those markets, and authorities there certainly seem to think so. The country’s aviation regulator, General Authority of Civil ... [continued]
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A rise in the price of copper and silver in the futures markets indicates a transition to renewables and EVs is under way.
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San Jose, California — Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has released its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. The report outlines Credo’s progress across key ESG priorities and highlights how these ... [continued]
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Fire chiefs said that the escalating frequency and intensity of wildfires placed a significant strain on resources
Electricity grids are getting smarter and smarter, and that means more and more dynamic pricing. Smart grid companies are also getting better at making use of that dynamic pricing for their customers. The company Tigo Energy is one company that has been providing intelligent solar and energy software solutions, and ... [continued]
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Tesla has put out a press release warning its deliveries of new cars will be lower in the fourth quarter and for the year than expected.
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When US President Trump declared a national energy emergency, renewable energy quickly rose to the occasion (coal, not so much).
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ZincFive has closed an oversubscribed Series F funding round this month, raising $30 million. That brings its total funding raised to $254 million since the company was founded nearly a decade ago in 2016. The aim of the funding is to help with rapid scaling of its commercial footprint and ... [continued]
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Meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east
Record temperatures of almost 20C were reached in Iceland on Christmas Eve, the local meteorological office has confirmed.
Seyðisfjörður, a small town in the east of Iceland, hit 19.8C on 24 December. Average December temperatures in Iceland are between -1C and 4C.
Continue reading...Scheme introduced over a decade ago requires climbers to pay a deposit of about £3,000 each that they can reclaim if they return from expedition with at least 8kg of waste
Sodium-ion battery development has been a major story in 2025, as Chris Arcus has been especially eager to highlight and explain. In 2026, I think it could be the biggest battery topic. Battery giant CATL, the largest battery producer in the world, is leaning into the topic and made a ... [continued]
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Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some solar panels on areas of the land that seem most ... [continued]
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The United States may be going backward with renewable energy, trying to drag people back into a pollution-filled world powered by coal and other fossil resources, but its neighbor to the south, led by a climate scientist, has just awarded 20 renewable energy projects with a combined total of 3.3 ... [continued]
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The New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) is leaning into 2026 with some thorough ideas for how Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani could help advance solar power and energy storage in the Big Apple. A week before Christmas, the organization released a “playbook” for what the mayor should do. “The memo ... [continued]
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Vingroup announced separate strategic agreements in late December to develop urban infrastructure and green public transport networks in Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Vietnamese conglomerate signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kinshasa and Exposure SARL on Dec. 29 to modernize the African capital’s ... [continued]
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Duke Energy Florida credits solar power with the bulk of a $1 billion savings for ratepayers expected by March of this year, while experimenting with green hydrogen for the long term.
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The BYD Seagull has just been launched in Australia. This global best seller is bound to shake up the market. In Australia, it is called the Atto 1, a surprisingly simply name that identifies where it fits in the BYD lineup. It is smaller and has less range than its ... [continued]
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The era of a global free market is quickly dying, leading to a need for more and more core manufacturing within countries’ own borders. Unless leadership in the US changes dramatically, and leadership in the EU changes to some degree, and China and India loosen up their requirements significantly, this ... [continued]
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Indiana is among the states embedding EV chargers directly into roadways, enabling motorists to top off their batteries while in motion.
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Massachusetts has to reach 5 gigawatts (GW) of energy storage capacity by 2030, per legislation passed by state lawmakers. To get going toward that target, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has conducted its first large-scale energy storage tender. In that tender, it awarded 1.268 GW (1,268 megawatts) of ... [continued]
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The ZOUPW 450W Portable Solar Panel is designed for people who need reliable, renewable power wherever they go, whether that’s camping off the grid, living the van life, or preparing for emergencies at home. It’s a foldable, weather-resistant, and high-output solar panel built to make off-grid energy generation both powerful ... [continued]
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The latest survey from Consumer Reports has bad news for the plug-in hybrid manufacturers. The message is, buyer beware!
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Following up on the article I wrote a few days ago about BYD having 20% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales globally and Tesla having 12% of cumulative plugin vehicle sales, I wanted to figure out the same kind of figures for fully electric vehicle (BEV) sales. Naturally, I had to ... [continued]
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There was no shortage of grim and disturbing moments in a fractious year. But also a prime ministerial wedding, a miraculous survival story – and Valerie the dachshund
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Fires, floods, murders, a missing child and a massacre – 2025 in Australia brought some of the very worst news.
Threaded through the year were themes that persisted from 2024 and will carry on into 2026 – the cost of living, interest rates, immigration debates, the housing crisis, global instability, AI and Aukus.
Continue reading...Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it
In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading or dubious assertions about the climate crisis, which he most famously called a “hoax”.
This year has seen Trump ratchet up his often questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it. In a year littered with lies and wild declarations, these are the five that stood out as the most startling.
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