Rolls‑Royce Unveils ‘Project Nightingale’ Limited‑edition Electric Convertible
Rolls‑Royce Motor Cars announced Project Nightingale, a limited‑edition battery‑electric convertible that combines bespoke coachbuilding with a silent all‑electric powertrain. The 5.76‑metre vehicle marks the marque’s first foray into open‑top electric luxury, underscoring a strategic shift toward sustainable mobility.
The Forgotten Fuel That Could Power Shipping’s Future
Thorium molten‑salt reactors are emerging as a power source for shipping’s clean‑fuel supply chain. China’s TMSR‑LF1 proved experimental thorium breeding, while Denmark’s Copenhagen Atomics is mass‑producing 100 MWth container‑sized reactors aiming for sub‑$20/MWh electricity. Continuous high‑temperature output from shore‑based SMRs could...
China Expands Global Supply‑Chain Hub Role with New Marine Engine and Logistics Push
China announced a series of moves to deepen its integration into worldwide industrial networks, from delivering the nation’s first ammonia‑fueled low‑speed marine engine to expanding freight‑train and air‑cargo routes. The initiatives signal a strategic shift from pure manufacturing to a...
Bell Canada to Turn Winnipeg Food Processing Plant Into AI Data Center
Bell Canada is converting a former protein‑processing plant in Winnipeg into an AI data center. The $23 million CAD investment (about US$17 million) will create a 5.5 MW facility covering roughly 94,000 sq ft. The conversion is part of Bell’s “AI Fabric” network, which also...
Oracle Swaps Gas Turbines for 2.45 GW Bloom Energy Fuel‑cell Microgrid at $165 Bn Project Jupiter
Oracle and OpenAI announced that Project Jupiter, a $165 bn AI data‑center campus in southern New Mexico, will be powered by up to 2.45 GW of Bloom Energy solid‑oxide fuel cells instead of gas turbines. The redesign slashes nitrogen‑dioxide emissions by 92%...
Hut 8 Selling $3.25bn in Bonds to Finance Google and Anthropic-Backed River Bend AI Data Center Campus
Hut 8 is issuing $3.25 billion of investment‑grade bonds due 2042 to finance its 245 MW River Bend AI data‑center campus in Louisiana, the first phase of a potential 2.295 GW partnership with Fluidstack and Anthropic backed by Google. The 592‑acre site can scale beyond...
JinkoSolar PV Module Shipments Dip, Registers Lowest Volume Since Q1 2023
JinkoSolar reported Q1 2026 module shipments of 13.7 GW, a 21.9% year‑over‑year decline and the lowest volume since Q1 2023. Overseas markets accounted for 80% of sales, while high‑output TigerNeo 3.0 modules averaged 655‑660 W, representing a quarter of shipments. Gross profit margin...
Bill Proposed in North Carolina Seeks to Mandate Large Load Data Centers to Cover Cost of Energy and Water Infrastructure
North Carolina lawmakers introduced the Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act, targeting data centers with a projected peak demand of 40 MW or more and annual water use exceeding one billion liters. The bill would strip state and local tax incentives, require facilities to...
Power Factors Loops AI Into Renewable Energy Portfolio Management Platform
Power Factors unveiled Unity REMI, an AI‑driven platform for renewable‑energy portfolio management. Trained on operational data from more than 310 GW of global assets, the system can sense, predict, act and automate across solar, wind, BESS and hybrid portfolios. REMI is already...
Reliance on Chinese Green Tech Poses ‘Serious’ Risk for Europe, Experts Say
A new report warns that Europe’s heavy reliance on Chinese green technology poses serious economic and national‑security risks. China provides 98% of the continent’s solar panels, 88% of lithium‑ion batteries and 61% of inverters, creating a vulnerable supply chain. The...
CAISO Expects ‘Solid Launch’ for EDAM, First Western Day-Ahead Market
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) announced a "very solid launch" of its Extended Day‑Ahead Market (EDAM) on May 1, marking the first day‑ahead market in the Western United States. After 90 days of parallel operations that simulated real‑time trading, CAISO...
LONGi Exceeds 26% Efficiency on Solar Panel with HJT + IBC Cells
LONGi’s hybrid interdigitated‑back‑contact (HIBC) solar cell achieved a certified 28.13% photoelectric conversion efficiency, setting a new record for silicon‑based cells. The same technology delivered modules with 26.4% efficiency, the highest ever for silicon panels, certified by the U.S. National Laboratory...
RICS Partners with Retrofit Academy to Improve Skills Shortage
RICS has teamed up with The Retrofit Academy (TRA) to offer its members heavily subsidised training on high‑demand retrofit qualifications, including the Level 4 Retrofit Assessor course. The partnership is funded by the government‑backed Warm Homes Skills fund, which can cover...
Watts Water Technologies Named to America’s Climate Leaders List
Watts Water Technologies has been added to USA Today’s America’s Climate Leaders 2026 list, marking its fourth straight year on the ranking. The list spotlights U.S. firms with over $50 million revenue that have cut Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions intensity relative...
At Long Last, the PJM Interconnection Queue Is Moving Again. Now What?
After a two‑year shutdown, PJM Interconnection has reopened its interconnection queue, launching Cycle 1 with 811 new generation and storage projects representing about 220 GW of capacity. The new process replaces the old first‑come, first‑served model with a “first‑ready, first‑served” approach that...
ESMC Calls for Stronger EU Industrial Accelerator Act to Boost Solar PV Manufacturing
The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has urged the European Commission to tighten the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) to revive the EU solar PV sector. Its five‑point amendment package expands "Made in Europe" procurement to three key components, mandates at...
ENG8 Energy Moving Into Commericialization?
ENG8 Energy demonstrated a 100 kW modular unit that uses low‑energy nuclear reactions to generate industrial heat. The prototype consumes roughly 10‑20 kW of electricity and claims to produce several times that amount as thermal energy, which is then converted to steam...
US Seeks to Refund $885m of GIP and CPP Offshore Wind Leases Into LNG Investments
The U.S. government is offering Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) a refund of $885 million tied to offshore wind leases they secured in 2022. The refund is conditional on the two investors redirecting the...
MISO Capacity Prices Fall as New Supply Outpaces Demand Growth
MISO’s latest Planning Resource Auction saw capacity offerings rise 3.4% to 141 GW, driven largely by 5.6 GW of new accredited resources, more than half of which were solar. Prices plunged across the region, with annualized capacity prices dropping to $116‑$126 per...
How to Build a Better Kind of Nuclear Power? This Side Hustle Might Help.
Zap Energy, a nine‑year‑old fusion startup based in Everett, Washington, announced it is developing a small fission reactor that it expects to bring to market in the early 2030s. The company says the fission design will be cheaper and less...
150 New Fast EV Chargers To Use 100% Renewable Energy
Despite a slowdown in U.S. electric‑vehicle sales, Rivian is expanding its public charging footprint with more than 150 new DC fast chargers slated for Caruso‑managed properties in Los Angeles. The chargers will be powered 100% by renewable sources—solar and wind—ensuring each...
Newcastle School Garden Wins National Flood‑Mitigation Award
A garden co‑designed by pupils at Chillingham Primary School has captured the Best Child‑Friendly Place prize at the Pineapples Awards. The £380,000 (£480,000 USD) project, backed by the North East Combined Authority, uses planters to absorb runoff and create a play...
Khazna’s DXB8 Datacenter Gets World’s First Zero‑Waste Certification
Khazna Data Centers announced that its DXB8 facility in Dubai has earned the world’s first Zero Waste Certification from SCS Global Services. The milestone marks a shift toward circular‑economy operations in the UAE’s rapidly expanding AI and cloud infrastructure market.
IBM Launches Solution to Embed GHG Emissions Calculations Into Existing Systems
IBM announced the general availability of the IBM Envizi Emissions API, a tool that embeds GHG Protocol‑aligned emissions calculations into existing enterprise systems. The API draws on Envizi’s extensive emissions factor catalog to deliver real‑time, traceable Scope 1, 2 and 3 data without...
Zambia’s Nkhundye Village Biogas Plant Powers 100 Homes with Cooking Gas and Electricity
The Nkhundye Community Cooperative’s biogas plant is delivering methane for cooking and a small generator for electricity to 100 households in Eastern Zambia. Funded by German development agencies and implemented by the New Apostolic Church Relief Organization, the project illustrates...
Exploring the Potential for a Buried Grid
Industry leaders are increasingly evaluating underground utilities as a climate‑resilient alternative to exposed power lines and renewable‑energy infrastructure. Burying cables, pipes and other assets can extend service life to 100‑150 years, protect against extreme weather and free surface land for...
Oracle’s Project Jupiter Ditches Gas Turbines for Bloom Fuel Cells
Oracle is redesigning its Project Jupiter AI data‑center campus in New Mexico to run on a 2.45 GW fuel‑cell microgrid supplied by Bloom Energy, eliminating the previously planned gas turbines and diesel generators. The on‑site generation will cut nitrogen‑oxide emissions by about...
Platform that Turns Ocean Temperature Differences Into Electricity Installed in Spain
Global OTEC, a UK pioneer in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), has installed the first purpose‑built offshore floating prototype at Spain’s Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). The €3.5 million (~$3.8 million) EU Horizon Europe‑funded project includes the deployment of a...
Aluminum Replaces Copper, BESS Powers Fast EV Charging
I visited Solar & Storage Live in London today. Two major takeaways: (1) We are starting to see substantial substitution from Cu->Al in med voltage cables; (2) There are some really interesting solutions coming to market. One that caught my...
Performance and Carbon Reduction Align Through Smart Tech
Energy-efficient data centers, AI, and smarter supply chains show that performance and carbon reduction can align. Real-time, carbon-aware systems and efficient hardware are rethinking how tech operates for sustainability. https://t.co/NgyjxFBqSL
'As Warm as the African Savannah': Chester Zoo Installs Heat Pumps for Zebras, Ostriches, and Antelopes
Chester Zoo has partnered with Mitsubishi Electric to install two 80 kW air‑source heat pumps that keep the zebra, ostrich and roan antelope enclosure at 18‑24 °C, replicating African savannah conditions. The system uses radiant panels for precise temperature control and joins...
Europe Can Self‑manufacture Clean Energy, but at Higher Cost
Dr Nagat Karroum, Uniper Renewables, says that Europe could – technically – manufacture everything domestically for clean-energy expansion (rather than buying from China). But she adds that this would come with trade-offs in terms of cost and speed of deployment. https://t.co/4rWiRH3rtb
Australia’s Biggest Battery Builder Sees Zero New Orders
Builder of Australia’s biggest battery project says outlook uncertain as new orders plunge to zero #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/0l1ONBG8pH https://t.co/Q5D7EskjL6
Dancing Volts
An official investigation into the Iberian Peninsula blackout concluded the outage was triggered by a sudden voltage surge, though the root cause of the surge was not disclosed. The incident, the first of its kind in modern electricity history, has...
Clean Power Makes Up 91% of New U.S. Capacity
Clean power captures 91% of new U.S. grid capacity as 2025 installations hit 50 GW #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/HAHIJDbUBF https://t.co/hYdtjH6j6O
Half of UK's Onshore Wind Near End, Grid Reform Overlooked
Reowering: Scottish Power boss Keith Anderson says 40-50% of the UK's onshore wind projects are coming to the end of their lives in the next decade Says he's concerned that grid queue reform didn't take this into account https://t.co/IsyS5w2icd
Bangladesh Launches 495MW Solar PV Tender
Bangladesh’s Power Development Board has opened a tender for 495 MW of solar PV across ten sites, with bids due by 28 June. Successful developers must post a security deposit of roughly US$5,000 per megawatt and locate projects near existing or under‑construction...
Electrical Contractors Become Key Players in Expanding Solar Storage
Electrical contractors step into a bigger role as solar and storage scale up #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/etiEra5m2X
Republicans Push to Revive Clean Energy Tax Credits
Republican legislators seek to restore clean energy tax credits #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/poT6cNYzFv
Critical Evolution of Japan's Carbon Credit Market
In this episode of ESG Currents, host Homa talks with Yuuki Mori, General Manager of the Carbon Credit Market Office at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, about Japan’s emerging carbon credit market and its integration with the upcoming Green Transformation Emissions...
Bill Aims to Swap California Peakers with VPPs
A new bill would help VPPs replace peaker plants in California #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/aC9RiDROVe
Electrification Cuts Bills by Spreading Fixed Grid Costs
Interesting talk from Aurora's Dan Monzani on how to cut electricity bills Highlights key role for electrification in cutting unit prices, by spreading fixed investment costs – in grid etc – across a larger pool of demand https://t.co/26RdTambx3
Community Conflict Poses ‘Enormous Risk’ to Renewables Developers
A new IHRB report reveals that community conflict has cost a renewables developer roughly $200 million over ten years, representing 3.3 GW of stalled capacity and more than $4 billion in unrealized clean‑energy investment. The analysis shows these expenses are often hidden, dispersed...
Lower Residential Demand After 25D Tax Credit Ends Impacts Enphase’s Q1 2026 Revenue
Enphase Energy reported a 17% drop in first‑quarter 2026 revenue, falling to $282.9 million, as US residential solar demand slumped after the Section 25D tax credit expired. The decline was driven by a 23% fall in US sales, which still represented 83%...
A Third Offshore Wind Farm Enters Into Full Service
Vineyard Wind, the 800‑megawatt offshore project off Massachusetts, entered full service this week as the state activated 20‑year power purchase agreements that lock in electricity at $69.50 per megawatt‑hour. Governor Maura Healey estimates the contracts will save ratepayers roughly $1.4 billion...
Van Oord’s First Sea-Going USV Makes Multi-Day Offshore Debut
Van Oord’s newly christened sea‑going USV, VO:X Barentsz, completed its first multi‑day offshore operation at the Hollandse Kust West wind farm, supporting monopile and cable installation alongside vessels Boreas, Nexus and Subsea Viking. The 7‑meter autonomous craft is the fifth...
Lightshift Energy Looks to Distributed Energy Storage to Address PJM’s Data Centre Issue
Lightshift Energy is rolling out 20 MW‑or‑smaller battery units at existing distribution substations to sidestep PJM’s costly, years‑long transmission projects. The approach promises 12‑24‑month deployment, avoiding $5‑$20 million interconnection upgrades and cutting land use versus comparable solar farms. By peak‑shaving, rural cooperatives...
Battery Costs Plummet, EV Flexibility Powers Future Grid
Octopus boss Greg Jackson says we are facing "unprecedented technology change" such as "astonishing" drop in cost of batteries Says flexibility from eg EV charging and V2G is "the system of the future" https://t.co/bPflfH86ig
Pantheon Atlas to Build 500MW Solar-Plus-Storage Facility at US$58.5 Billion Croatian Data Centre
Pantheon Atlas LLC announced a $58.5 billion AI data centre in Croatia, featuring a 500 MW on‑site solar plant and a 2 GW/8 GWh battery storage system. The project will begin construction in 2027 with an initial €12 billion ($14 billion) investment and aims for full...
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?
The episode examines the looming energy crisis posed by the rapid expansion of AI data centers, noting that by 2030 they could consume twice today’s electricity—enough to power France and Germany combined—while the U.S. grid may lack sufficient capacity. Guests...