Hephae Energy Appoints Andy Bruce as President to Support Geothermal Drilling Commercialization
Hephae Energy Technology has appointed industry veteran Andy Bruce as president to drive the commercialization of its ultra‑high‑temperature geothermal drilling and robotics solutions. Bruce brings more than three decades of leadership in downhole drilling, energy services, and M&A across companies such as Scout, Nabors and Trelleborg. The hire signals Hephae’s shift from technology development to field‑scale deployments targeting super‑hot rock geothermal reservoirs. The company expects Bruce to lead engineering, manufacturing, partnerships and customer engagement worldwide.
Wind Farm Barnaby Loves to Hate Sent to IPC with 550 Objections, but Even More Submissions in Support
The 730 MW Winterbourne wind farm in New South Wales has been referred to the Independent Planning Commission after attracting over 550 public objections and 770 supportive submissions, giving it a 56 % approval rate among 1,371 total entries. The project, championed...
Behind‑Meter Solar Cuts California Grid Demand Amid EV Surge
While US grid demand increased 2.1% in 2025, California's declined 3.16%-despite 2.5 mil EVs in CA, lots of heat pumps, and 3rd-most data centers in the US About 36% of the decline was due to growth in behind-the-meter PV BTM PV is...
Behind‑the‑meter Solar Drives California’s Grid Demand Drop
While US grid demand increased 2.1% in 2025, California's declined 3.16%-despite 2.5 mil EVs in CA, lots of heat pumps, and 3rd-most data centers in the US About 36% of the decline was due to growth in behind-the-meter PV BTM PV is...
Hawthorn FC Names Anker SOLIX as Official Home Battery Partner
Hawthorn Football Club announced a premier partnership with Anker SOLIX, naming the global home‑battery leader its Proud Official Home Battery Partner. The deal coincides with Australia’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which offers rebates to spur residential energy‑storage adoption. Hawthorn members will...
Batteries Buffer Europe’s Energy Price Volatility
How can batteries respond to energy price volatility in Europe? #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/eEMsHucngj
Public Power Advocates Apply Lessons From Past Failures
Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/pX0v48103H https://t.co/I0WLqjrGEb
AI-Enabled Tool for Enhancing Storm Response and Grid Operations
IFS unveiled Resolve for Utilities, an AI‑enabled field service solution designed to boost storm response, crew coordination, and daily grid operations. Built on IFS's existing FSM platform, the tool incorporates IFS Nexus Black AI to automate crew callouts, enhance mutual‑aid...
Utility‑Scale Battery Capacity Grows Twelvefold Since 2020
Global utility-scale battery capacity rises 12-fold in 2020-24 period #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/2uWL9yPp9C
Senators Push to Restore 5% Safe Harbor for Utility Solar
Senators propose to bring back 5% safe harbor to utility-scale solar projects #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/9If8Sg2aFn
Atombeam and Trilliant Announce Partnership to Expand Utility Network Data Capacity
Atombeam and Trilliant have partnered to combine Atombeam’s Neurpac data‑compression software with Trilliant’s AMI communications platform, offering utilities a way to transmit more grid data without new hardware. Neurpac’s “Data‑as‑Codewords” encoding claims up to 75% reduction in data size, effectively...
Trump’s IEA Threat Spurs Canada to Build Own Data
Trump's Bullying of IEA a Wake-up Call for Canada Energy Sec Chris Wright: Stop promoting net-zero or US will pull out of iea. Canada needs data, modelling for trade negotiations, policy. Where will Mark Carney Carney get it? Our own economists. #cdnpoli https://youtu.be/DhE1Gfoh-yY
Simon Fraser University Signs MOUs to Advance Sustainability at Cedar Supercomputing Centre
Simon Fraser University has signed memoranda of understanding with Cerio, Corix and Moment Energy to deepen the sustainability of its Cedar Supercomputing Centre, Canada’s most powerful academic HPC system. The centre already runs on clean hydroelectric power and boasts a...
Small Components, Big Consequences: How Component-Level Insights Reduce Catastrophic Grid Risks
Component-level inspections give utilities granular data to improve hazard modeling, risk forecasting, and targeted mitigation. By focusing on small hardware such as cotter pins, connectors, and splices, utilities can markedly reduce outage risk during wildfires, storms, and other extreme events....
Solar Company to Install Microgrid at Roanoke High Schools
Roanoke City Public Schools will install a solar‑powered microgrid with battery storage at Patrick Henry and William Fleming high schools, funded by a $450,000 state grant and $2.1 million from Secure Solar Futures. The $2.55 million project, the first public‑school solar microgrid...
Europe's Data Center Backlash Mirrors US Fury
Over the past two months, we have updated and re-formatted the US Data Center Rejection database. Now, we are launching the European Data Center Rejection Database. Our results show that the backlash in Europe is just as fierce as the...
Rewriting the RFS Playbook: The Impact of No Half-RIN and Higher RVOs on Projected Biomass-Based Diesel Production and Feedstock Use...
The EPA is expected to drop the controversial half‑RIN rule and raise biomass‑based diesel renewable volume obligations (RVOs) to 5.25 billion gallons in 2026 and 5.61 billion gallons in 2027, roughly a 20% increase over the June proposal. Using an average equivalence...
Vast Data Integrates AI OS Into Nvidia GPU-Powered Servers
Vast Data and Nvidia have launched the CNode‑X, a GPU‑powered server that embeds the Vast Data AI Operating System directly onto Nvidia hardware. The integrated solution is optimized for AI pipelines, high‑performance analytics, vector search, retrieval‑augmented generation and agentic workloads....
DOE Delivers $26.5 Billion in Loans to Southern Co. For 16 GW in Projects, Including New Nuclear
The U.S. Department of Energy is finalizing a $26.5 billion loan package for Southern Company that will support more than 16 GW of baseload projects, including 5 GW of new gas, 6 GW of nuclear upgrades, battery storage, and over 1,300 miles of transmission. The...
GEESE and ATM: Wake Energy Retrieval Collaboration Achieves New Milestones
Airbus and a coalition of airlines completed the GEESE wake‑energy retrieval trials, demonstrating that two A350s can rendez‑vous over the North Atlantic while maintaining vertical separation. The Pairing Assistance Tool coordinated flight paths in real time, achieving a 75% success...
Illinois Should Scrap Net‑zero Mandate for Cheaper Power
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just issued an order aimed at facilitating at least 2 GW in nuclear capacity additions. It's good to see an increasingly wider recognition of the potential of nuclear power, which has been stunted for decades by pseudoscientific...
Bert Thin Films Introduces Copper Paste for Backside Solar Cells
Bert Thin Films launches copper paste for backside solar cell metallization #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/26iCIvaF8G https://t.co/JvPeGpDSGg
Why Venture Capital Is Moving Into African Solar Microgrids
Venture capital in Africa is pivoting from fintech to solar microgrid projects as investors chase more predictable, asset‑backed returns. After a fintech boom between 2016‑2021, market saturation, rising customer‑acquisition costs and tighter regulation have eroded margins. Solar microgrids, backed by...
Trump EPA Withdraws Funding for Electric School Buses
Trump’s EPA is yanking support for electric school buses #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/wWCGInkszK
Global Backlash Against Big Tech Documented in New Database
The opposition to Big Tech is happening from Denver to Dublin. We’ve documented the backlash in our new European Data Center Rejection Database. #ai #artificialintelligence #datacenter https://t.co/CvMMhEGJ1n
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[Episode #270] – View From the Energy Transitions Commission
In this episode, host Chris Nelder talks with Lord Adair Turner, co‑chair of the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), about the commission’s role as a cross‑sector coalition that produces techno‑economic roadmaps for net‑zero pathways. Turner explains how the ETC balances diverse...
Net‑Zero Path Turns Steeper, Emissions Curve Cliffs
CHART OF THE DAY: Global energy-related CO2 emissions, with historical path, plus different scenarios: current policies, stated policies and net-zero by 2050. The later curve is getting more cliff-like by the day. My @Opinion column on net zero is here:...
Shoals Posts Record $148M Q4, 19% Annual Growth
Shoals reports record $148 million Q4 revenue, full-year growth of 19% #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/bo7p0b9Z7D
Composites Sustainability Wins: CDP Recognition, EcoVadis Gold, Site Decarbonization
The composites sector saw multiple sustainability milestones in February. Gurit secured its third consecutive EcoVadis Gold Medal, placing it in the global 96th percentile for environmental performance. Shawmut Corp. joined the DOE Better Buildings & Better Plants program, committing to...
Self-Generated Power
Bring Your Own Generation Comes With Its Own Risks #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/3GKbb5kFF7 https://t.co/rYlt6Su0pH
Solar Boom Fueled by Debt, Not True Cost Savings
I don't think the world is ready for the reality that the great solar boom wasn't as cost-efficient as everyone thought. And actually, in a round-about way, was probably predominantly subsidised by growing Western indebtedness, at the cost of middle-class...
Recreation Center Is First Public NYC Building to Meet LEED V4 Platinum
Brooklyn’s Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center became the first public building in New York City to earn LEED v4 Platinum certification, marking a milestone for municipal sustainability. The $141 million, 74,000‑square‑foot all‑electric facility uses less than half the energy of comparable structures, cuts fresh‑water...
Germany to Include CCS-Based H2 in 'Acceleration Law'
Germany's Bundestag will vote on a hydrogen acceleration law that expands eligible infrastructure to include carbon‑capture‑and‑storage (CCS) based hydrogen production. The amendment also adds import facilities for power‑to‑liquid fuels such as synthetic aviation fuel. Projects designated as "overriding public interest"...
German Startup Launches Gateway to Block Inverter Kill Switches
German startup Solarsecure Tech introduced the SolarSecure Vision gateway, a hardware‑agnostic device installed at the meter connection point that intercepts and validates inverter‑to‑cloud communications. The gateway blocks unverified kill‑switch commands while allowing authenticated signals, including mandatory grid‑operator directives, to pass via a...
Data Center Supplier Eyeing FW for $80M Plant
Stellar Energy, a data‑center cooling equipment maker, is planning a 1.1‑million‑square‑foot plant in Fort Worth’s AllianceTexas development, with a total investment of roughly $80 million. The project includes $34 million in property improvements and $45.5 million in equipment, and could break ground this...
Solar Optimism, Not Maximalism, Calls for Diversified Clean Energy
Good piece by @atrembath and @TedNordhaus on the distinction between solar optimism and solar maximalism. I'm definitely quite bullish on solar, but we also need other clean energy technologies (wind, storage, nuclear, geothermal, CCS for some industrial processes) alongside it....
Biomass Beat: UK Waste Wood for Biomass at a Crossroads, Post 2027
The episode examines the looming loss of Renewables Obligation (RO) support for UK waste‑wood biomass plants in 2027 and the resulting risk of a 3 million‑ton oversupply of waste wood. Richard Coulson of the Wood Recyclers Association explains how the sector...
Siemens and CAPHENIA Partner to Scale SAF Production
Siemens and CAPHENIA announced a partnership to accelerate commercial Sustainable Aviation Fuel production by integrating Siemens’ digitalisation and automation tools with CAPHENIA’s plasma Boudouard reactor technology. The reactor splits bio‑methane into synthesis gas at 1,500 °C with over 86 % efficiency, enabling...
AIRMO and EnduroSat Partner to Launch High-Precision Methane Monitoring Mission
AIRMO and EnduroSat announced a partnership to launch a dedicated methane‑monitoring satellite in early 2027, aiming to fill a critical data gap for oil, gas, mining and agricultural emissions. The mission will use EnduroSat’s FRAME‑15 modular bus and a dual‑sensing...
GIT Coatings Launches XGIT-FORCE
GIT Coatings has launched XGIT‑FORCE, a graphene‑based hard foul‑release marine coating. The product claims up to 10% fuel savings and a 6% power gain compared with premium biocidal paints. Its Dynamic Phase Engineered Technology creates a durable, amphiphilic surface that...
Germany’s Grid Fees and Inertia Payments Highlight Contrasts in Energy Storage Regulation
Germany’s regulator is reconsidering the grid‑fee exemption for utility‑scale battery storage, creating uncertainty for projects commissioned before 2029. While the Bundesnetzagentur expects storage capacity to surge to 68 GW by 2037, the potential retroactive fees could dampen investor momentum. At the...
Climate Impulse Project Reaches Milestone Success with Main Wing Spar Testing
The Climate Impulse team successfully completed a full‑scale main‑wing spar test, proving the hydrogen‑powered aircraft’s composite structure can endure worst‑case flight loads and clearing the path for final wing production. In parallel, the VIBRIO consortium demonstrated that a vibration‑enhanced double‑belt press...
Sunbolt Expands Solar Charging Umbrella Lineup
Sunbolt announced an expanded Eclipse Solar Charging Umbrella lineup, adding a refreshed fabric‑canopy version with 88 W of high‑efficiency panels and a new permanent Aluminum Canopy model delivering 110 W. Both units are built in the United States, feature six dual‑port USB/USB‑C...
Renewable Energy Company EDPR's 2025 Recurring Profit Jumps 50% on US Growth
EDP Renovaveis reported a 50% jump in recurring net profit for 2025, reaching €330 million, driven by rapid U.S. capacity expansion. EBITDA rose 17% to €1.95 billion, with a target of €2.1 billion for 2026. The company added 2 GW of new capacity, over...
Energy Storage Co-Location with Solar PV Not a ‘Silver Bullet’
At the Energy Storage Summit 2026 in London, analysts warned that pairing batteries with under‑performing solar farms is not a universal remedy. While co‑located projects can make efficient use of land, experts argue that standalone storage delivers the most valuable...
European Power Prices Plummet as Wind Surges and Demand Falls
European day‑ahead power contracts plunged on Wednesday as wind generation surged and demand fell across the region. Germany's baseload price dropped 20.6% to €75/MWh, while France’s fell 30% to €21/MWh. Wind output is set to reach 23.8 GW in Germany and...
H&M Pilots Dyehouse Water Recycling With Viridis
H&M Group partnered with Vancouver‑based Viridis Research to pilot an electrochemical oxidation system in Dhaka textile mills, treating wastewater from dye baths, equalization tanks, conventional treatment output and reverse‑osmosis reject streams. The trial achieved 99.56‑99.94% color removal and demonstrated the...
This High-Density Hydro Storage System Ditches the Water
UK‑based RheEnergise has demonstrated a water‑free pumped‑storage system that uses a proprietary High‑Density Fluid, 2.5 times denser than water, to generate 500 kW in a pilot plant. The closed‑loop design replaces traditional reservoirs with a concrete lower tank and an 80‑metre...
Industry Leaders Present India–UK/Europe Green Corridor Vision to President Murmu
Senior industry leaders from India, the UK and Europe briefed President Droupadi Murmu on a proposed India‑UK/Europe green corridor aimed at accelerating industrial decarbonisation and sustainable trade. The roadmap, led by Rajashree Birla, outlines technology transfer, catalytic capital flows and...
US Holds Nearly All Global Data Center Capacity
The US has 3,960 data centers, more than the next 14 countries COMBINED. MASSIVE capital buildout. MASSIVE electricity demand. https://t.co/2CnR0GW60v