Bradford Datacentre with Heat Reuse Gains Planning Consent
Deep Green has received planning consent to build a 5.6 MW AI‑capable datacentre in Bradford, slated for completion by late 2028. The facility will be co‑located with the under‑construction Bradford Energy Centre and will capture its waste heat for distribution through the city’s Bradford Energy Network. A closed‑loop cooling system will virtually eliminate water waste while providing high‑density colocation for universities, public‑sector bodies and businesses. This marks one of the UK’s first large‑scale attempts to reuse datacentre heat for local heating, aligning with net‑zero goals.
$5 Million to Electrify the City of Melbourne Buildings and Pools, Plus some Ambitious Targets – Lord Mayor Nick Reece
Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece announced a $5 million budget allocation to electrify municipal buildings and swimming pools as part of a broader push toward net‑zero carbon‑ready structures by 2040. He noted that HVAC systems account for roughly 40% of a...
Big Batteries Took a Bite Out of Gas Generators’ Evening Peak Party, Then They Ate the Whole Dinner
Queensland’s electric grid, long reliant on peaking gas generators, saw a rapid shift as large‑scale battery storage entered the market. In March and April 2026, batteries reduced gas output during the evening peak by roughly 40%, effectively displacing the traditional...
A New Path Towards Net Zero
The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard has introduced a new performance evaluation that uses the same metrics as the full Net Zero Carbon Aligned certification. While it does not confer full alignment, the evaluation acts as a “building MOT,”...
Iberdrola Acquires Another Installed RE Plant in Italy
Iberdrola announced the acquisition of a 40 MW on‑shore wind plant in Italy, bringing its Italian renewable portfolio to roughly 450 MW. The asset, commissioned in 2018, is covered by a long‑term incentive scheme that ensures predictable cash flows and complements the...
NSW Fast Tracks $60m to Win over Local Communities, Years Before First Poles Erected in New Renewable Zone
The New South Wales government has launched a $60 million (≈$40 million USD) community funding program to support towns in the New England and Upper Hunter regions before the New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) construction begins. The REZ, projected to exceed...
Celebrating Curtailment: Are Negative Prices Really that Bad?
The episode examines why wholesale electricity prices in Europe are increasingly turning negative, a phenomenon driven by rapid growth in solar and wind generation that outpaces demand, especially during sunny midday periods. Experts explain that negative prices signal oversupply, prompting...
~28 Years of History for the VIC-SA Interconnector, in One Chart
The VIC‑SA interconnector has logged 28 years of flow data, split into three distinct phases. From 1999‑2017 Victoria was the dominant exporter, averaging about +44 MW to South Australia. Between July 2017 and December 2020 the trend flipped, with SA exporting roughly –49 MW to...
Long‑duration BESS Gains Ground in Germany’s Toll Market
Longer-duration BESS finds footing in Germany’s toll market #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/SiRtH3xvFw https://t.co/cnn269M9j3
Western Australia Battery Storage Supplies Record 37.2% of Peak Demand
On May 9, utility‑scale battery storage in Western Australia supplied 37.2% of the South West Interconnected System’s peak demand, the highest penetration recorded for an isolated grid. The achievement follows two years of rapid capacity expansion and is driven by federal...
Germany Approves 11 GW of New Gas‑Fired Power Plants to Guard Against Renewable Shortfalls
Germany's cabinet, led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, approved a plan to tender 11 GW of new gas‑fired power capacity by summer 2026. The plants will be hydrogen‑ready after 2045 and are meant to plug expected supply gaps as renewable output fluctuates.
NV Energy Cuts Residential Power, Redirects 75% to Data Centers, Sparking Solar‑Battery Surge
NV Energy announced it will stop supplying power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents after May 2027, diverting roughly three‑quarters of the area's electricity to new AI data centers. The move forces homeowners to seek independent solar and storage solutions as...
China’s EcoFlow to Sell Solar Panels in British Supermarkets Soon
EcoFlow, a Chinese energy‑storage firm, will begin selling plug‑in solar panels through UK supermarkets such as Lidl and Iceland within months. The move aligns with the British government’s plan to install 1.5 million energy‑efficient homes as part of its net‑zero 2050...
Siemens Hits Carbon‑Neutral Milestone at North Carolina Plant with 1.25‑MW Solar‑Battery Microgrid
Siemens announced that its Wendell, North Carolina manufacturing site achieved carbon neutrality by deploying a 1.25‑MW solar carport paired with a 3.9‑MWh battery storage system. The on‑site microgrid cuts grid draw by 2.5 MWh annually and keeps production running during outages,...
Developer of Australia’s Most Powerful Battery Gets Green Light for New Four-Hour Project
Akaysha Energy and BZ Renewables have secured full state and federal approval for the Glenrowan battery energy storage system, a 400 MW, four‑hour (1,600 MWh) project in north‑east Victoria. The EPBC agency classified the development as “not a controlled action,” clearing the...
Budget Cuts Slash Funding for Green Hydrogen, Solar, Batteries
“Future Made Somewhere Else:” Budget slashes funding for green hydrogen, home-made solar and batteries #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/CDM0JcCKxN https://t.co/UrfVqEFfdn
Baseload Solar Power Moves From Dream to Reality
A new wave of hybrid power systems that pair solar photovoltaic or wind farms with battery storage is proving capable of delivering continuous, round‑the‑clock electricity. These configurations challenge the traditional definition of baseload power, which has long excluded intermittent renewables....
Hitachi, X LABS Team Up on GW‑Scale Energy Parks for AI Data Centers
Hitachi Ltd and X LABS LLC announced a strategic collaboration to develop gigawatt‑scale energy parks offered as Energy‑as‑a‑Service for AI‑intensive data centers across the United States, targeting a first deployment in the early 2030s. The partnership combines Hitachi’s grid‑stabilization technology...
Cherry Street Energy Installs Solar Project for International Talent Consultancy
Cherry Street Energy financed and installed a 112.89‑kW rooftop solar system at Insight Global’s Richmond, Virginia office, bringing the project online in early spring. The talent‑consulting firm signed a 20‑year power purchase agreement, committing to purchase the electricity the array...
The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing DER Interconnection—And What Utilities Can Do About It
Utilities are feeling a new bottleneck in distributed energy resource (DER) interconnection: the time engineers spend turning raw field data into structured, analysis‑ready inputs. While drones, LiDAR and other reality‑capture tools have accelerated data collection, converting that imagery into pole...
Billie Eilish’s Climate Fund Supports Solar Project for Maryland Affordable Housing
A nonprofit coalition installed more than 270 kW of solar capacity on 40 affordable‑housing townhomes in Montgomery County, Maryland. The project, financed by RE‑volv and the Montgomery County Green Bank and built by GreenBrilliance, is expected to cut energy expenses by...
Duke Energy’s Nuclear Playbook: Three Horizons, One Strategy
Duke Energy’s 11‑unit nuclear fleet posted a record‑high capacity factor above 97% in 2025, underscoring the reliability of its core generation assets. The company is pursuing 80‑year license extensions for all reactors and a 300 MW uprate program that adds capacity...
Microalgae Can Photosynthetically Produce and Secrete Biofuel Precursors
Researchers at Saitama University engineered a cyanobacterial strain of Synechococcus elongatus that photosynthetically produces and secretes free fatty acids, key precursors for sustainable aviation and diesel fuels. By disabling the native Aas gene and overexpressing an endogenous efflux transporter plus...
Qualitas Energy Plans Investments of Over 10 Billion Euros by 2029 – Focus on Energy Transition and Storage
Qualitas Energy announced a €10 billion (≈$11 billion) investment plan for 2026‑2029, targeting renewable generation, battery storage, biomethane and financing Europe’s energy transition. The strategy is anchored by Qualitas Energy Fund VI, seeking €3.25 billion (≈$3.5 billion) in new capital and builds on €3 billion of...
Data Centers Are Cutting Power to Homes, Driving Homeowners to Solar and Batteries
A Nevada utility announced it will divert 75% of Lake Tahoe’s electricity to AI‑driven data centers, forcing 49,000 residents to find new power by May 2027. Data centers already consume 22% of Nevada’s electricity and could rise to 35% by 2030,...
Google and SpaceX Negotiate Orbital Data Centers to Dodge US Power Crunch
Alphabet’s Google is negotiating with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch solar‑powered data centers in orbit under the Project Suncatcher banner. The partnership targets a 2027 prototype rollout to sidestep mounting US power‑supply constraints and community opposition to massive terrestrial AI...
Panthalassa Raises $140 Million Led by Peter Thiel to Build Wave‑Powered AI Compute Centers
Panthalassa, the ocean‑energy startup founded by Garth Sheldon‑Coulson and Brian Moffat, closed a $140 million financing round led by Peter Thiel. The capital will fund autonomous floating nodes that turn wave motion into electricity for on‑site AI inference, bypassing traditional grid...
Exus Renewables Advances Proprietary Monitoring Software for Solar, Wind
Exus Renewables North America introduced Anomaly+, a new module in its ExusIQ+ suite that applies machine‑learning‑driven predictive maintenance to solar and wind assets. The tool monitors performance at the combiner‑box level, creating baselines within hours and flagging anomalies before they...
Schneider, Microsoft Show How AI Can Enable Green Hydrogen Production
Schneider Electric and Microsoft announced a partnership to bring AI‑powered, open‑software automation to industrial processes, highlighted by a green‑hydrogen project in India. Together they deployed the country’s first fully autonomous solid‑oxide electrolyzer for h2e Power, achieving over 6,000 hours of stable operation...
Iran War Fuels 70% Surge in Philippine Rooftop Solar, Boosting Chinese Exporters
Rising fuel costs caused by the Iran war have triggered a 70% weekly jump in rooftop solar installations in the Philippines and a six‑fold increase in customer inquiries. The surge is feeding record Chinese clean‑tech exports and prompting policy shifts...
Large-Scale PV Could Intensify Water Stress in China’s Tarim Basin
Chinese researchers used a high‑resolution 9 km coupled climate‑vegetation model to examine the impact of utility‑scale photovoltaic (PV) deployment across the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. Their simulations, which assumed the basin could be fully covered with panels, showed surface...
Fervo Energy Prices Upsized $1.9 B IPO, Targeting $7.4 B Valuation for Geothermal Power
Fervo Energy priced an upsized Nasdaq IPO of 70 million shares at $27 each, raising roughly $1.9 billion and valuing the company at $7.4 billion. The deal, led by JPMorgan, BofA, RBC and Barclays, underscores growing investor confidence in geothermal electricity as a...
Avaada Energy Expands UP Footprint with Solar, Battery Backed Power Projects
Avaada Energy is adding an 85 MW solar plant in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, with construction slated to start this year and commissioning by 2027. The project involves a $30 million investment on 200 acres of leased government land and will supply renewable...
Austin Energy Enters the Next Phase of Decarbonization
In this episode of the Energy Capital Podcast, Austin Energy’s General Manager Stuart Riley and COO Lisa Martin discuss how the municipally‑owned utility operates as a vertically integrated, non‑opt‑in entity within ERCOT and leverages that structure to prioritize customer‑centric, decarbonization...
JinkoSolar, Masdar Sign 2GW PV Module Supply Agreement for RTC Project
JinkoSolar and Masdar have signed a supply agreement for 2 GW of Tiger Neo photovoltaic modules, using N‑type TOPCon technology, for Abu Dhabi’s round‑the‑clock (RTC) renewable energy project. The RTC complex will pair a 5.2 GW solar PV plant with a 19 GWh...
World’s Largest Redox-Flow Battery in Switzerland: Construction Progress on the Laufenburg Megaproject
Construction has begun on the world’s largest redox‑flow battery at the Laufenburg Technology Center in northern Switzerland. The first phase will deliver 800 MW of power and 1.6 GWh of storage, with a planned expansion to 1.2 GW and 2.1 GWh. The system, funded...
South Africa’s Eskom Resorts to Grid-Scale Gravity Energy Storage
South Africa’s state‑owned utility Eskom has signed a strategic development agreement with Energy Vault to pilot a 25 MW/100 MWh grid‑scale gravity energy storage system at the aging Hendrina coal plant. The deal also creates a framework for up to 4 GWh of...
Kansas City Chiefs Stadium Scores Green Building Certification
The Kansas City Chiefs announced that GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium has earned LEED v4.1 Gold certification for existing buildings, marking a major sustainability milestone for the NFL franchise. The certification reflects a 12‑month performance review that measured energy, water,...
Solar Capture Factors Fall Across Europe as Negative Price Hours Surge in Key Markets
Solar capture factors across Europe’s major markets fell sharply in April 2026, with France’s rate plunging 75% to 0.10 and Germany’s dropping to 0.26. The decline coincided with a surge in negative‑price hours, rising from 90 to 139 in France...
Mid-Sized Solar Could Help Bring Down Electricity Bills in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is grappling with rising electricity demand from data centers and limited new capacity, prompting interest in mid-sized solar projects that sit between utility farms and rooftop arrays. Around 2,100 such projects are in the pipeline, including a recent 4.9 MW...
Big Batteries Supply 37% of Peak Demand in Australia’s Grid
Big batteries hit “staggering” new peak of 37.2 pct of peak demand in Australia’s biggest isolated grid #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/eRVRwwnckn https://t.co/rMlMOn3PAb
InterContinental Energy Offers Sub‑$66/MWh Renewable Power to Australian Data Centres
InterContinental Energy announced it can supply tier‑four data centres in Western Australia for less than $66/MWh (about $48 USD), a price roughly half that of competing on‑grid renewable contracts and a quarter of current gas‑based rates. The offer hinges on its...
Bridge Data Centres Completes Pilot Using EcoCeres’ Waste-Based Biodiesel as Backup Power
Bridge Data Centres (BDC) completed a pilot in Asia‑Pacific using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) from EcoCeres as a backup fuel for its data centre generators. The waste‑based biofuel matched diesel performance while cutting greenhouse‑gas emissions by up to 90 percent....
Google Secures 500 MW Solar PPA with Linea Energy to Power Texas Data Centers
Google has signed a 15‑year power purchase agreement with Linea Energy for 500 MW of solar power from the Duffy Solar Project in Texas. The deal, the biggest annual solar purchase by a cloud provider, underpins Google’s 2030 carbon‑free energy goal...
Plug Power Q1 Revenue Jumps 22% on Hydrogen Demand Surge
Plug Power reported first‑quarter 2026 revenue of $163.5 million, up 22% year over year, as hydrogen fuel sales and electrolyzer projects accelerated. The company also highlighted a 30% drop in unit service costs and a cash position that exceeded expectations, underscoring...
Balcony Solar Advances In Colorado As New Legislation Removes Barriers
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed HB26‑1007, a law that removes utility fees and HOA restrictions on plug‑in balcony solar systems. The legislation, effective Jan 1 2026, caps installations at under 2 kW and requires devices to include anti‑islanding features. Utilities must provide approved...
India’s Renewables Outpace China, Peaking Coal Decade Early
Today, India’s solar and wind deployment per capita is 5.5x higher than China’s was at the same stage of development. India is peaking its coal use a full decade earlier in its development curve than China did >In 2025, India reached...
Hydrogen Transportation After HVS: Narrow Niches, Big Subsidies, Long Pilots
Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) raised roughly £55 million ($70 million) in private and public funds, including £30 million ($38 million) from EG Group and £25 million ($32 million) of UK government support, before entering administration and selling its assets for just £145,000 ($184,000). An analysis of...
Krohne Expands Focus on Liquid Cooling for Data Centers with New Center of Excellence
Krohne announced the launch of a Center of Excellence in Beverly, Massachusetts to specialize in magnetic flow meters for data‑center liquid cooling. The move aligns with a market projected to grow over 20% annually and reach roughly $8 billion by 2031,...
Advanced Grid Tech: Untapped Solution to Capacity Crisis
The grid is a near-term bottleneck, but there’s a largely untapped solution set sitting right in front of us — commercially available advanced grid technologies that are dramatically underdeployed.