Know What's Happening in ClimateTech
Know What's Happening in ClimateTech
Toyota announced its participation in the 25th International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Expo in Tokyo from March 17‑19, 2026, where it will display its latest hydrogen and fuel‑cell technologies. President Mitsumasa Yamagata will present partnership initiatives aimed at building a hydrogen society, while Chiyoda Corporation executives and Toyota’s Yoshihiko Hamamura will unveil a jointly developed water electrolysis system. The company will also host a dialogue with Tokyo and Aichi prefectural officials on scaling fuel‑cell vehicles. These activities underscore Toyota’s broader strategy to integrate hydrogen across production, storage, and mobility.
America’s appetite for electricity is exploding—driven in part by AI and data centers. In Texas, one coal plant is planning a surprising transition to solar. But meeting this new demand may also mean more fossil fuels. My latest for PBS...
Aypa Power, backed by Blackstone, and Six Nations of the Grand River Development have secured C$700 million (US$512 million) financing for the Elora and Hedley battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Ontario. The two sites together will deliver roughly 422 MW of...
Royal Schiphol Group’s circular economy lead, Sara Solis, outlines how the airport embeds circular principles—avoidance, low‑impact choices, lifespan extension, and material recovery—directly into design, procurement and operations. She highlights that upstream decisions in construction and asset design generate the biggest...
The ADOPT project combines Sentinel‑2 optical imagery with daily high‑resolution PlanetScope data and artificial intelligence to locate floating plastic debris and forecast its short‑term drift. By training a machine‑learning model on GPS drifter records, the system corrects biases in conventional...
Researchers have created a transparent, PFAS‑free dual‑layer sol‑gel coating that renders solar panels superhydrophobic while preserving high light transmission. Laboratory tests showed the coating raises photovoltaic efficiency from 13.90 % to 14.56 %, a 0.66‑point gain, and demonstrates strong abrasion, chemical and...
South Korea will speed up the restart of nuclear reactors undergoing maintenance to secure energy as the war in the Middle East chokes fossil fuel supplies 🇰🇷☢️ The nation will seek to start two units this month, and a further four by...
AIRINS introduced new multi‑sensor configurations for its Sniffer4D Nano2+ gas detection system, enabling DJI enterprise drones to monitor up to ten gas parameters in a single flight. The solution pairs AI‑driven analytics with lightweight sensors to map methane, hydrogen sulfide,...
Honda announced that seven of its U.S. manufacturing facilities earned the EPA ENERGY STAR certification for 2025, recognizing superior energy efficiency. The Marysville and East Liberty Ohio plants marked their 20th consecutive year of certification, while other sites in Indiana,...
Societies must fundamentally shift energy use toward lower‑carbon sources to curb global warming. Governments and organizations are deploying regulations, fiscal tools, and voluntary initiatives to re‑engineer industry, agriculture, and land‑use practices. Renewable energy deployment, LEED‑certified construction, and expanding corporate sustainability...
Discover Energy has surrendered its gas retail licence, shifting exclusively to solar, battery storage and virtual power plant (VPP) services. The Australian regulator approved the move, with existing gas customers transferred to CovaU on September 4. The company cites high compliance...
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) placed the Torrens Island big battery on standby after rooftop solar pushed South Australia’s grid demand into negative territory, forecasting a minimum system load of –144 MW. While the battery remained idle, other storage assets...
Wrote about the latest gut punch to rooftop solar incentives in California — and what comes next, including the dawn of balcony solar: https://t.co/KcQ7aj2LIc
1-GW solar project planned for Utah hyperscale data center #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/Id925FeaBi
Australia’s Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Centre has begun construction on the first stage of the Kwinana Energy Transformation Hub (KETH) in Western Australia. Western Projects will build the R&D building, designed by Ferguson Architects, with work starting in September...
Long-duration tech still outcompeted by lithium, trade group advocates for ‘valuing diversity’ #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/ARa90ueYl7
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled legislation to create a permitting pathway for expanding curbside electric‑vehicle (EV) charging stations. The plan targets 100 publicly accessible chargers by 2030, with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency handling permits and private firms...
The only actual energy security in the world is solar energy dominance in countries that produce their own solar panels. The only actual energy indepedence is hundreds of millions of rooftops with solar on them, which builds a decentralized grid...
Escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran has shut down traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing crude oil prices above $110 per barrel and raising concerns about global energy volatility. The disruption is also tightening natural‑gas markets as...
There has been a lot of commentary over the past week on China's energy vulnerabilities but much less about Taiwan's. In 2020, I coauthored a @CarnegieEndow report on Taiwan's energy trilemma of security, affordability, and sustainability - with ideas for...
On 10 March 2026 the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) suffered a significant operational glitch affecting both the National Electricity Market and the eastern Australian gas market. The incident was logged as INC0159810 and is suspected to be linked to change request...
Australia's Renewable Fuels Summit opened with an $80 million government funding boost for industrial decarbonisation and the announcement of the country's first agricultural renewable gas plant. Analysts estimate the nation has enough feedstock to sustain a $10 billion‑a‑year renewable fuels sector, potentially...
Google continues to lie about being "renewable"—this time by claiming a new data center will be powered by "wind and batteries." Let's do some honest journalism here: Google's data center in Minnesota will be connected to the local grid, powered largely by...
Queensland’s Liberal‑National Party government has called in Trina Solar’s 200 MW Pleystowe battery project, adding it to a growing list of renewable schemes under state scrutiny. Planning Minister Jarrod Bleijie received 733 submissions raising fire, noise, and agricultural land concerns, prompting...
Dynamic line rating (DLR) replaces static worst‑case assumptions with real‑time sensor data and fine‑scale weather forecasts, letting operators gauge the actual thermal capacity of transmission lines moment‑by‑moment. Case studies across Europe, the United States and Asia report capacity gains of...
Rapid demand growth is straining the electric grid—and the planning models used to expand it may be making things worse. Current deterministic approaches to grid planning systematically undervalue opportunities to build assets that are robust and adaptable to the many...
Cadillac has appointed Core Scientific as the official data‑center partner for its new Formula 1 operation. The multi‑year deal will shape a $200 million, 400,000‑sq‑ft facility in Fishers, Indiana, designed for high‑density simulation, engineering, manufacturing, and race‑day workloads. Core Scientific will provide...
Recent breakthroughs in superconducting magnet fabrication and AI‑driven field optimization have revived stellarator research, pushing the technology toward commercial fusion power. U.S. firms such as Type One Energy are planning grid‑scale stellarator plants with integration targets by 2030. Patent activity...
eThekwini Municipality in eastern South Africa signed a preliminary Memorandum of Agreement with a Korean energy‑technology consortium to explore a data centre near the Lovu River, south of Ocean View Road. The proposal mentions a potential 400 MW capacity, but the...
InfraPartners and Emerald AI announced a new Flex‑Ready Data Center design that embeds AI‑driven flexibility into the facility’s core architecture. The solution pairs InfraPartners’ Upgradeable Data Center platform with Emerald AI’s Emerald Conductor software to enable real‑time load modulation, reducing...
The City of Pekin, Illinois, announced that it will not move forward with a proposed 321‑acre data‑center campus on the Lutticken Property. Mayor Mary Burress cited community opposition and uncertainty as reasons for halting the project, despite a tentative land‑sale...
Spain’s Castilla‑La Mancha town Higueruela transformed from a declining community into a renewable‑energy hub after a wind farm was installed 25 years ago. Today, taxes and lease fees from Iberdrola supply roughly 40% of the municipal budget, funding libraries, youth...
Absolutely insane. “Clean coal” is like saying there’s such a thing as beneficial malignant stage 4 cancer.
Co-ownership vs consultation: Landmark report proposes faster, cheaper path to renewables #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/7lWCPVACJ7 https://t.co/t7SdJhurNu
FirstLight announced a 25% expansion of its Bedford, New Hampshire data center, adding space for 100 new racks and private suites. The upgrade boosts power, cooling and connectivity to support enterprise workloads, private cloud and AI inference. The facility, originally...
PowerBank secures funding, clears environmental hurdles for its 7 MW New York community solar project #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/cuWBlZKcKm
US adds 43.2GW of new solar PV capacity in 2025 #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/aZ7O8AfdNy
Electra, a Colorado clean‑iron startup, secured a $30 million venture‑debt facility from J.P. Morgan to move toward its first commercial plant. The company’s low‑temperature electro‑refining process converts iron ore into 99% pure iron using renewable electricity, eliminating coal and high‑grade ore...
Argentina tenders 700 MW of battery storage nationwide #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/fPJqWq2Ss4
Beazley acquires kWh Analytics to scale renewable energy underwriting #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/HU8MHQTedQ
South Korean ESS component supplier will build US factory in Indiana #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/IHTPPbh5vU
As Californians electrify, can this tech combo prevent grid overload? #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/8Sfo7LLSes
US solar installation: Down 14% between 2024 and 2025. Chinese solar installation: Up 14% between 2024 and 2025. Last year China installed more than 7 times more solar capacity than the US. So much for energy dominance... https://t.co/te4ziwFqlX
California court upholds NEM 3.0, dealing blow to rooftop solar #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/3jXyBv0ERG
Singapore raises 2030 solar target to 3 GW #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/PpRx1O5JTA
Solar, storage and sheep: First sod turned at game-changing hybrid PV and battery project #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/DQsJEXqpqz https://t.co/Xxr9iTs3j8
Universities provide an interesting testbed for adopting innovative technologies. Here is Princeton using what appears to be a very large ground source heat pump with 2,000 (!) boreholes. https://t.co/SowKV9ivJe
One data point: the collapse of the state in Lebanon favored localism. It now has the highest solar penetration (even >> since 2023, 34% of total energy). Totally unregulated. You can use an electric car and drive for free...
Great perspective on the argument that naval submarine nuclear reactors prove that SMRs can work. Turns out they are crazy expensive. (Though this probably exaggerates cost somewhat.)
Think of this graph of real U.S. price and electricity production data, straight from the Department of @Energy, next time you hear the false claim that renewables increase electricity prices and that coal, gas, or nuclear is needed to keep...
