Will This ‘Miracle’ Battery Finally Change Your Mind About EVs?
A Finnish startup claims it has created a commercially viable solid‑state battery delivering over 500 Wh/kg energy density and a full charge in roughly ten minutes, promising a 400‑mile driving range. The company says the pack can be produced at costs comparable to today’s lithium‑ion cells, potentially eliminating the range‑anxiety that has hampered EV adoption. If validated, the technology could force automakers to redesign platforms around lighter, faster‑charging packs. Analysts caution that scaling manufacturing remains the critical hurdle before market impact materializes.
Prefabricated EBOS Accelerate Safe Solar Storage Scaling
Safety by Design: Scaling solar and storage in Australia with prefabricated EBOS #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/iqwB1jk9tY https://t.co/tMoCWWh6vE
NH's Power Export Stays, No New Nuclear by 2028
New Hampshire is a net exporter of power because of Seabrook. Let’s bet that NH won’t be announcing a new Nuclear plant reaching FID by 2028.
Microsoft Announces Opening of New Datacenter Region in Denmark
Microsoft opened the Denmark East datacenter region, with sites in Høje Taastrup, Køge and Roskilde, delivering low‑latency, secure cloud services and a strong sustainability focus. Over the next four years Microsoft and its partners will invest roughly $4.5 billion, creating up...
Researchers Reveal Why Hydrogen Metal Testing Methods Produce Unreliable Results
Researchers at IIT Bombay and the Max Planck Institute uncovered why the electrochemical permeation technique often yields unreliable hydrogen‑diffusion data in steel. They showed that high charging currents induce surface rust, dislocations and hydrogen bubbles, which artificially lower measured flux. Switching...
Topsoe, First Ammonia Terminate Electrolyzer Supply Deal
New York‑based First Ammonia is moving ahead with the first phase of its 200 MW green ammonia project in Victoria, Texas, slated to break ground this year. The company announced the termination of its 100 MW electrolyzer supply agreement with Danish catalyst...
Why Transformer Explosions Remain a Structural Engineering Problem
Transformer explosions stem from internal electrical arcs that vaporize oil, creating rapid pressure spikes that can rupture the tank within tens of milliseconds. Conventional protection—relays, breakers, and pressure‑relief valves—detect and isolate faults after this dynamic phase, leaving the structural failure...
Affordable, Reformed Electricity Rates Crucial for Heat Pump Adoption
I made a thing: https://t.co/uFVjRvBFVv By which I mean I told Claude to make a thing. The economics of heat pumps are very challenging in a country that has cheap gas and where policy makers load retail electricity rates with a whole...
Why China’s Space-Based Solar Power Is the Next Frontier of Green Energy
China is advancing its Zhuri space‑based solar power programme, aiming for a megawatt‑level orbital test around 2030 and a gigawatt‑scale station by 2050. The initiative leverages falling launch costs and new wireless‑power technologies to deliver continuous, weather‑independent electricity from geostationary...
TIME Is Launching The Future Proof Newsletter to Help You Make Sense of the Climate Economy
TIME announced the launch of its Future Proof newsletter, rebranding the former CO2 newsletter to address the broader climate economy. The weekly column will blend clean‑tech trends, AI developments, geopolitics, and trade dynamics, offering a high‑level view of how climate...
Winter Power Gaps Demand Clean‑Firm Energy and Grid Scale
Solar and wind are making remarkable progress. The day/night cycle will be solved by current economic battery trends. The real long term challenge has always been winter: Those dark winter days or weeks when the wind also fails. For that...
Iran War Spikes Energy Prices – UK Homes Ditch Fossil Fuels Fast
UK homeowners are accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels as energy price spikes tied to the US‑Israel‑Iran conflict drive demand for solar panels, heat pumps, and electric‑vehicle chargers. Octopus Energy reported record March enquiries, with solar sales up 54%...
28 New Fast EV Charging Stalls Launched In San Diego
EVgo has opened a new hub in San Diego featuring 28 fast‑charging stalls, adding to its more than 5,000 fast chargers nationwide and the 1,200 it installed last year. The addition raises San Diego’s fast‑charger count to roughly 290 out...
Portugal Positions Itself as a Strategic Hub for Data Center
Portugal’s Council of Ministers approved a new data‑center strategy that streamlines licensing, creates pre‑approved development zones, and designates AICEP as a single investor contact. The plan leverages the country’s abundant renewable energy and extensive submarine‑cable network to position Lisbon as...
Combat Drones Are Pivoting Into Green Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Combat drones and emerging ground robots are increasingly being powered by green hydrogen fuel cells, a shift driven by Ukraine’s rapid adoption and U.S. defense interest. Startups such as Sesame Solar have created mobile nanogrid refueling stations that can be...
Big Zero Show – Smaller, Better but Still Bold
The Big Zero Show returned after a year, reaffirming that the net‑zero agenda remains alive despite a fresh energy price crisis. Delegates highlighted flexibility, data‑driven AI, and battery innovations as pivotal to decarbonisation. The event underscored that transition costs are...
California’s Grid Generates Double Renewable Power, Cuts Gas 60%
WindWaterSolar has produced TWICE the electricity as the SUM of fossil gas, nuclear, and bioenergy on the @CaliforniaISO grid in 2026. Gas is down 59.4%; WWS is up 24.1%; batteries up 335% in '26 v '23. 35 straight and 62 of 85...
Benin Wants to Establish a Secondary National Data Center
Benin’s Ministry of Digital and Digitalization has issued a World Bank‑funded request for proposals to conduct a technical, economic and legal feasibility study on a secondary national data centre. The study, due by March 27, 2026, will explore locating the backup facility...
US Finalizes Higher Biofuels Quota to Boost Domestic Demand
On March 27, 2026, the EPA finalized a new biofuels blending rule that obliges refiners to incorporate 25.82 billion gallons of biofuels into diesel and gasoline this year. The mandate represents an 8 % increase over the target announced in June 2025,...
China PV Industry Brief: China Adds 32.48 GW Solar as Polysilicon Prices Fall
China’s National Energy Administration reported 32.48 GW of new solar capacity installed in January‑February 2026, a 17.7% year‑on‑year decline, while total generation capacity reached 3.95 TW, with solar climbing to 1.23 TW (+33.2%). Polysilicon prices fell sharply, with weekly drops of up to...
Geoengineering Debate: Sulfur Injection as Climate Fix
Today on Volts: at this point, it is all but inevitable that global temperatures will exceed the 2° threshold & continue rising. Should we shoot sulfur particles into the stratosphere to block some of that heat? I talk with the...
Iran Conflict Spurs Global South Renewable Shift, Canada Lagging
Why Energy Shocks Like the Iran War Are Accelerating Electrification Canada gets it wrong. Iran war is encouraging Global South (inc Asia) to switch from oil/LNG to renewables/electrotech. #cdnpoli https://youtu.be/7IbLVXk81Ow
Agrivoltaics with Trackers, Vertical Systems Offer Economic Upside
A new analysis by Jochen Hauff challenges a German Thünen‑Institut study by showing that agrivoltaic systems with trackers or vertical configurations can be financially viable and even outperform conventional ground‑mounted solar. Tracker‑based agrivoltaics add roughly 12‑13% to capital costs but...
NZ Port Shows Battery Storage Viability Amid Tariff Complexity
New Zealand port demonstrates battery storage potential amid complex tariff landscape #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/BgKIOSa08H
Japan Introduces FIT Rates for Small-Scale Solar
Japan sets FIT terms for small PV, rooftop solar as large-scale auctions end #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/sWvbN6gXlR
Endeavour Launches Hydrogen Production System
Endeavour, the parent of data‑center firm Edged, unveiled Pact Systems – a continuous‑flow methane‑cracking platform that simultaneously produces hydrogen fuel and high‑purity graphite. The technology works with natural gas or biomethane, offering a low‑carbon, quickly deployable energy source for AI‑intensive...
Self‑Cleaning Solar Panels Powered by Autonomous Robots
#Autonomous Solar Panel Cleaning #Robots Work Without Human Workers by @XueJia24682 #Robotics #Innovation #EmergingTech #TechForGood #Technology https://t.co/CMoSpuWiQu
Solar Panel Recycling Emerges as Billion‑Dollar US Industry
A billion-dollar industry: inside the growing solar panel recycling sector in the US #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/1cYAAUVO6h
Fleet Electrification Is Running Into the Grid. Planning and Operations Need to Catch Up.
U.S. fleets are accelerating electrification, but grid interconnection and capacity constraints are emerging as the primary bottleneck. Utilities such as SoCal Edison ($436 million for 30,000 ports) and DTE Electric (19,300 chargers) are offering incentive programs, yet distribution upgrades and interconnection...
Climate Tech Funding Shifts Toward Data Centers
Funding Friday: Climate Tech’s Pivot to Data Centers Continues #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/dl8BQVCFFy https://t.co/gYN1VRxleS
Panasonic Launches First Grid‑scale BESS Cybersecurity Monitoring Trial
Panasonic claims world’s first trial of cybersecurity monitoring for grid-scale BESS #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/BPgKqiFdUD
AI Data Centres Can Warm Surrounding Areas by up to 9.1°C
AI‑powered data centres generate enough waste heat to create localized "heat islands" that can raise surrounding land temperatures by as much as 9.1 °C. Researchers estimate up to 340 million people live close enough to feel this effect. Real‑estate firm JLL predicts...
CrusoeAI Adds 900 MW AI Campus, Reaching 2.1 GW Total Capacity
🏭@CrusoeAI Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure New dedicated campus designed to support large-scale AI workloads; combined with Crusoe’s existing Abilene infrastructure, the full site is expected to reach approximately 2.1 GW...
Japan Funds 130 MW Tunisian Solar Project
Japan finances 130 MW solar project in Tunisia #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/G4FPMmp1cp
The Missing Intelligence Layer of the Smart Grid
Utilities have poured billions into smart‑grid sensors, communications and analytics, yet the digital representation of the physical distribution assets remains rudimentary. Traditional asset databases rely on periodic inspections, causing records to drift from reality and limiting engineers’ ability to assess...
Australia’s Gas Phase‑out Already Complete; Paperwork Lags
Australia has already passed gas – the market is just updating its paperwork #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/m8gjoMoMXz https://t.co/85gtKD6xHy
Trump Admin Considers Repurchasing Offshore Wind Leases
The Trump administration is talking with some offshore wind developers about buying back the leases they purchased from the federal government years ago to develop energy projects along the US coast https://t.co/w6VR2H3AC3
Transmission Is the Battleground: Eight Plays to Win the Grid Race
The article argues transmission infrastructure is now the primary competitive front in the power and utilities sector. It outlines eight strategic “plays” that firms can adopt, emphasizing speed in permitting, resource pooling, design standardization, information transparency, and innovative tariff and...
TotalEnergies Drops 2050 Net‑zero Goal
French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will no longer aim to reach net zero emission targets by 2050 https://t.co/oJaqzNTGaQ
Abbott-Inspired Solar Farm Finally Built After Long Delay
“We had to wait for the grass to grow:” How an Abbott-inspired community solar farm finally got built #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/FyMlwewTJL https://t.co/KsrPUKRTPP
ENG8 Is Moving From Lab to Industrial LENR Bergamo, Italy 2026
ENG8 International unveiled its EnergiCell at the IWAHLM 17 conference in Bergamo, announcing a jump from Technology Readiness Level 4 to 7, signalling a shift from laboratory validation to industrial‑grade prototypes. The modular system can be configured for thermal, electrical, or hybrid output...
China Farms Solar on Water, Mountains to Spare Farmland
China Builds Solar Farms on Water and Mountains, Preserving Land for Agriculture by @MarchUnofficial #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy https://t.co/rKBBV6eaJ8
New PV Inverter Metric Accounts for Local Solar Conditions
New PV inverter efficiency metric reflects local solar conditions #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/wtM5JHk0GQ
Biochar Boosts Forest Resilience Against Acid Rain by Restoring Essential Soil Nitrogen
A two‑year field study in an oak plantation shows that biochar can counteract acid‑rain damage by raising soil pH and boosting acid‑hydrolyzable nitrogen by roughly 65 percent. The amendment also doubled microbial biomass and increased nitrogen‑use efficiency, indicating a strong biological...
Heat Pumps Slashed Russian Gas Use by Half
When the Ukraine war broke out, the NSC was only talking about LNG. I pushed for heat pumps. They said "cute idea, not gonna happen." Europe proved them wrong — 45-50% reduction in Russian gas through efficiency and heat pumps alone. https://t.co/PmB3c97oaf
Two States Surpass 100% Renewable Demand, US Average 25%
In 2025, two U.S. states met >100% of grid + behind-the-meter electricity demand with WindWaterSolar. 14 states met 50-124% of demand: 7 dominated by wind 3 by solar 4 by hydro U.S. average: 25.72% WWS https://t.co/KP3uii4BqI https://t.co/Ntf3DHeGdW
Denver Botanic Gardens Showcases Water‑Smart Lawn Alternatives Amid Drought
Denver Botanic Gardens unveiled its Roads Water‑Smart Garden, a public showcase of low‑water lawn alternatives that can cut residential irrigation from up to 20,000 gallons a month to a few thousand. The exhibit arrives as Colorado utilities tighten drought restrictions,...
Zelestra Secures $600 Million Green Credit Facility for 440 MW Texas Solar Portfolio
Zelestra obtained a $600 million green credit facility led by Societe Generale and HSBC to develop two 440 MW solar projects in Texas. The financing is underpinned by long‑term power purchase agreements with Meta, giving the projects stable cash flows and underscoring the...
Trump Administration Pays $928 Million to TotalEnergies to Cancel Offshore Wind Leases
The U.S. Interior Department agreed to reimburse French oil major TotalEnergies $928 million for two offshore wind leases off New York and North Carolina, forcing the company to abandon the projects and invest the same amount in oil, gas and LNG....
Brazil PV Module Imports Fall 24% to 17.9 GW in 2025
Brazil imported 17.9 GWp of photovoltaic modules in 2025, a 24% drop from 2024’s 22.3 GWp. Distributed‑generation projects absorbed 79% of the volume, even as new installations slowed to 8.8 GW, down from 10 GW a year earlier. The decline coincided with a sharp...