Oxford PV Says Tandem Solar Could Add up to 5 Km to Daily EV Range
Oxford PV has joined Nissan’s SUITE consortium to advance perovskite‑silicon tandem solar cells for vehicle‑integrated photovoltaics. The tandem technology promises 20‑30% more power per unit area, adding roughly 3‑5 km of daily range and pushing total solar‑derived range to 15‑20 km per day. Oxford PV targets 27% module efficiency by 2027 and 29% by the end of the project in 2029, with the goal of reaching TRL 7 demonstrator vehicles. Commercial rollout would see Oxford supplying cells and interconnects to OEM partners for integration into vehicle glass and roofs.
Meta Secures Overview Energy Space Solar Power Capacity
Meta has signed an agreement to secure up to 1 GW of power from Overview Energy’s planned solar‑beaming satellite system. The move follows Meta’s earlier deals for 6.6 GW of nuclear capacity and reflects growing pressure on terrestrial grids from AI‑driven data‑center...
Norway Can Teach the UK About Energy Security – but the Lesson Is Not More North Sea Drilling
Norway’s aggressive electrification strategy shows the UK how to boost energy security without expanding North Sea drilling. A recent Middle‑East supply shock exposed Britain’s reliance on imported oil and gas, while domestic production offers only limited price relief. Norway meets...
UK Startup Showcases All-in-One Water Cylinder Heat Pump Prototype
British startup Nusku unveiled a prototype that packs an air‑source heat pump, a 180‑litre hot‑water cylinder and a smart controller into a single outdoor unit. The integrated design eliminates the need for indoor cylinders and reduces installation time to one...
EirGrid Announces Procurement Package for Irish Offshore Wind
EirGrid announced a procurement package valued at over €100 million (approximately $110 million) for the Powering Up Offshore – South Coast Tonn Nua Substation project. The package includes design, fabrication, installation and commissioning of offshore substations and related high‑voltage equipment. It is...
Minister Opens BnM Derrinlough Wind Farm
Ireland’s Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment officially opened BnM’s 126 MW Derrinlough Wind Farm in Offaly. The project, a €150 million ($164 million) investment, features 21 V150‑6.0 MW turbines and is underpinned by a corporate power purchase agreement with Amazon. A €12 million...
Are Geopolitical Uncertainty and Rising Costs Slowing the 'Race to Retrofit' Commercial Buildings?
The latest analysis shows the UK’s commercial real‑estate sector saw fewer A, A+ and B Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) in 2025 than in the two preceding years, indicating a slowdown in building retrofits. Property owners cite rising material and labour...
Pace Plans 100MW "Texas First" Data Center in Glasscock County
Austin‑based developer Pace announced the Lone Star Project, a 100 MW data center in Glasscock County that will initially run on behind‑the‑meter natural‑gas power. The campus is engineered for AI workloads and is designed to expand up to 1 GW as demand...
MIT‑IBM Lab Unveils "EnergAIzer" To Cut AI Data‑Center Power Use
MIT researchers and the MIT‑IBM Watson AI Lab introduced EnergAIzer, a rapid estimation method that predicts the electricity consumption of AI workloads in seconds. The tool targets a looming surge in data‑center power demand—projected to reach up to 12% of...
Toyota Tsusho’s AEOLUS Begins Operation of Solar Plants in Tunisia
Toyota Tsusho’s AEOLUS has begun commercial operation of two 50 MW solar power plants in Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid and Tozeur governorates, delivering a combined 100 MW capacity. The projects, developed at a cost of about $92 million, are financed by the EBRD and...
Westnetz’s 21 MW Battery Stabilizes German Grid Frequency in Real‑Time Test
Westnetz completed the first real‑world test of its 21 MW/55 MWh battery energy storage system under the SUREVIVE pilot, showing the unit can actively maintain frequency and voltage in Germany’s medium‑voltage grid. The success demonstrates that stationary batteries can deliver inertia‑like services...
Chinese Scientists Build Silver-Free Heterojunction Solar Cell with 25.2% Efficiency
Chinese researchers at Nankai University introduced an argon‑hydrogen plasma interface engineering technique that dramatically improves indium tin oxide (ITO) layers used in heterojunction (HJT) solar cells. The treatment enhances adhesion, lowers contact resistance, and enables uniform copper electroplating, replacing costly...
Astronomers Push Back After Energy Project Threatens Atacama’s Dark Skies
Chile’s scientific community forced the cancellation of a green‑power complex near the Paranal Observatory, sparking a review of sky‑preservation laws. With the $1.5 bn Extremely Large Telescope slated for 2030, astronomers warn that lax regulations could jeopardize the Atacama’s unrivaled darkness.
Amazon Partners with Veolia to Deploy Water-Reuse Technology at Data Centers in Mississippi
Amazon has teamed with French utility Veolia to install water‑reuse systems at its Mississippi data centers, targeting reclaimed wastewater for cooling. Veolia will provide autonomous, containerized treatment units that convert effluent into high‑purity cooling water, with the first site expected...
Powering AI, Strengthening the Grid: Innovation in Space Solar Energy and Long-Duration Storage
Meta announced two strategic partnerships to secure clean power for its AI and data‑center operations. With Overview Energy, Meta will reserve up to 1 GW of space‑solar capacity that beams constant sunlight from geosynchronous orbit to ground‑based solar farms, enabling 24/7...
How the Conflict in Iran Is an Accidental ‘Green Swan’
The Iran‑Hormuz conflict has sharply disrupted global oil flows, sending Brent crude above $100 a barrel and slashing tanker traffic by roughly 87 percent within weeks. The chokepoint moves about 20 million barrels daily—about 20% of world oil consumption—exposing the strategic...
US Renewable Capacity Set for 80GW Rise
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects utility‑scale solar, wind and battery storage to add over 80 GW of capacity by February 2027, lifting renewables’ share of total utility‑scale capacity from 33.4% to 36.6%. Solar will contribute roughly 42.6 GW, wind 14.5 GW—including 4.2 GW offshore),...
DuPont Artistri Operations in Iowa Powered by 100 Percent Renewable Electricity
DuPont announced that its Artistri Digital Printing Solutions plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, now runs on 100 percent renewable electricity through Renewable Energy Certificates. The shift delivers a 61 percent cut in Scope 2 greenhouse‑gas emissions, advancing DuPont’s pledge to net‑zero carbon by...
HPC Cloud Company Crunchbits Rebrands as Synteq HPC
US‑based HPC cloud provider Crunchbits has rebranded as Synteq HPC, a change that took effect on April 23. The rebrand coincides with the launch of two new data‑center locations in Dallas, Texas, and Sofia, Bulgaria—Synteq’s first European site—bringing the total to more...
Combined Demand Among All Utilities Touched 31k MW
Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) recorded a new peak demand of 27,230 MW, eclipsing its 2025 high. Combined demand across all utilities in the state reached 31,000 MW, highlighting the scale of the grid challenge. The state’s MSKVY 2.0 solar programme...
How Carbon Removal Tech Is Adapting to Trump's Energy Agenda
The carbon removal sector is rebranding to fit President Trump’s energy‑dominance agenda, securing Department of Energy approval for two major hubs in Louisiana and Texas. Originally buoyed by Biden‑era climate laws, the industry endured a year‑long review and a pause...
Grid Modernization’s Overlooked Constraint: From Data Gaps to Data Advantage
Investor‑owned utilities face accelerating load growth, DER proliferation, and tighter interconnection timelines. While many invest in advanced metering and DER management, European utilities have found that the real bottleneck is data quality, not technology. Deploying an Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP)...
Mahakumbh 2025 Holds Lessons in Solving India’s Waste Crisis
Mahakumbh 2025, the world’s largest human gathering, hosted roughly 660 million pilgrims over six weeks and produced about 400 metric tons of solid waste. The Uttar Pradesh government deployed a temporary megacity with 15,000 sanitation workers, 10 sewage‑treatment plants and a bio‑CNG facility...
What Load Growth Demands of Resource Planning
Utilities and grid operators are confronting load growth that would have seemed impossible five years ago, with ERCOT projecting an additional 142 GW of peak demand by 2030 and national data‑center demand expected to hit 134 GW, triple current levels. This surge...
Two-Year Testing Shows How PV Plants Increase Local Temperatures in Semi-Arid Regions
A two‑year field study at a 100 MW photovoltaic plant in Inner Mongolia measured how large‑scale solar farms affect local climate. Using ground sensors, radiation towers and UAV thermal imaging, researchers found the PV site consistently warmed the near‑surface air by...
Grenergy Signs Spain Escuderos Storage Contract
Grenergy has inked a 12‑year financial tolling agreement with an investment‑grade international utility for the battery storage component of its Escuderos hybrid project in Castilla‑La Mancha. The deal, effective from July 2028, makes Grenergy responsible for operating and trading the...
New Zealand’s Grid Operator Finds Emerging Energy Gap in Early 2030s
Transpower’s draft Security of Supply Assessment warns that New Zealand could face an energy gap as early as 2029‑2031, even if all currently pledged generation and battery projects are completed on schedule. In the short term (2026‑2028) the hydro‑geothermal dominated mix...
Clarifying the Vague Demand for Baseload Power
When you ask someone to actually define what they mean when they say "we need baseload power"
Data Centers Face Scrutiny over Rising Water Consumption
Data centers are under fire for their voracious electricity use. Now communities are worried about their water use as well as we head into a dry summer. https://t.co/6fnM7j9dsT
Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs
Public markets are showing newfound appetite for climate‑tech firms, highlighted by X-energy's $1 billion IPO that surged 25% in its first trading hour. The nuclear startup counts tech giants Amazon and Google among its early backers. Meanwhile, geothermal pioneer Fervo filed...
Zambia's Integrated Off‑Grid Energy Fuels Local Economies
In #Zambia, @SEforALLorg @RockefellerFdn @RuralZambia & partners are rethinking #energyaccess. We are building systems where demand & supply grow together, and where local economies are powered by productive energy use and sustainable off-grid solutions. https://t.co/LJj2Qn2G2q
Trump Is Blocking Solar for Farmers. Can the Farm Bill Fix That?
President Donald Trump halted the USDA's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), freezing nearly $1 billion in promised funds, canceling a key application window and imposing strict limits on ground‑mounted solar and foreign‑made panels. The House Farm Bill, slated for a...
Chinese Solar Exports Surge 125% in March on Policy Change Rush, Not Underlying Demand Acceleration
Chinese customs data show solar module exports surged 125% month‑on‑month in March 2026, reaching $3.61 billion in value and about 37 GW in volume. The spike stems from manufacturers front‑loading shipments before China ends its PV export tax rebates on April 1, aided...
Taranis Capital and Emaar Executive Company Partner to Build Next-Gen Data Centres in Saudi Arabia
Taranis Capital Limited, a DFSA‑regulated investment firm based in the DIFC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Emaar Executive Company (EEC) to develop, build and operate a portfolio of carrier‑neutral data‑centre campuses across Saudi Arabia. The facilities are planned...
M&S to Expand Low Emission Heavy Goods Vehicle Fleet
Marks & Spencer plans to expand its low‑emission heavy‑goods vehicle fleet by increasing its biomethane‑powered trucks to over 300 units by March 2027. The bio‑CNG trucks emit up to 85% less CO₂ than conventional diesel trucks, supporting M&S’s Plan A Net Zero...
DynaCERT Accelerates Market Entry in Vietnam: Strategic Partnerships and Pilot Projects Confirm Market Potential
dynaCERT Inc. announced the launch of its HydraGEN™ hydrogen‑on‑demand system in Vietnam, backed by two memoranda of understanding—one with Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam University of Technology and another with a leading Vietnamese oil and gas company. The company has already commissioned...
Engineering the Highlands’ Next Chapter: Why the North Is Becoming the UK’s New Powerhouse
The Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport is accelerating Scotland's energy transition, drawing massive offshore wind, hydrogen, digital infrastructure, and grid‑reinforcement projects. Abundant renewable generation, deep‑water ports at Nigg and Invergordon, and a clear policy framework have created a high‑tech...
WA Decarbonisation Mission Backed by $1.4 Billion Fund
The Western Australian government has allocated a AUD 1.4 billion clean‑energy fund—roughly $920 million USD—in the 2026‑27 budget. The capital will back projects such as the Clean Energy Link, which will extend renewable power to about 1 million households. The initiative includes new high‑capacity...
Green Transition Crucial for Europe's Economic Security
Iran’s lesson for Europe: The green transition matters for economic security https://t.co/hAuA9BMqco via @opinion https://t.co/K4104H0nlG
Europe Urged to Become First “Electro-Continent” With 50% Electrification Target by 2040
A coalition of European investors, corporations and startups has issued an open letter urging EU policymakers to adopt a 50% clean‑electricity target for final energy consumption by 2040, effectively making Europe the first “electro‑continent.” The letter highlights that Europe has...
Amid Energy Crisis, Chinese Solar Exports Double
China's solar equipment exports doubled in March, reaching 68 GW—a volume comparable to Spain's total solar capacity. The surge follows the Iran‑Hormuz oil disruption, prompting Asian and African nations to replace fossil‑fuel imports with Chinese panels. A temporary rise in export...
Etihad Rail Ships Nissan Cars by Train, UAE Marks First Finished‑Vehicle Rail Load
Etihad Rail moved a batch of Nissan cars from eastern ports to Abu Dhabi’s Industrial City, delivering the UAE’s first rail shipment of finished vehicles. The milestone showcases the country’s push for sustainable logistics and offers an alternative to road...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright Touts Cedar Rapids AI Data Center as Job and Rate Win
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured QTS’s new AI‑focused data center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, calling the project a national example of how AI infrastructure can boost employment while keeping electricity rates flat and preserving water resources. The visit underscores...
Oklo, NVIDIA and Los Alamos Team Up to Create Nuclear Fuel for AI‑Intensive Data Centers
Oklo, NVIDIA and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced a strategic partnership to accelerate nuclear fuel research using AI‑powered digital twins. The collaboration aims to deliver compact, low‑carbon reactors that can meet the soaring energy needs of AI workloads, while improving...
Sterling Green Power Solutions Hires Ajitsingh Nawale as VP of Information Technology
Sterling Green Power Solutions announced the appointment of Ajitsingh Nawale as Vice President of Information Technology. Nawale brings extensive cloud, SAP and OT integration experience from Advik Hi‑Tech, Adani Ports and CIE Automotive, positioning the firm to accelerate digital initiatives...
Geopolitics and Permitting Delays Push NA Solar Prices Up
Permitting headwinds, geopolitics drive North American solar PPA prices higher in Q1 #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/pdbrb8yhcS
Alex Honnold Returns to San Francisco to Boost Clean‑Energy Grants
World‑renowned climber Alex Honnold flew to San Francisco this week to champion his eponymous foundation’s clean‑energy mission, delivering a corporate talk at Everpure and joining SF Climate Week. A $5 million donation from billionaire Chris Larsen last year doubled the foundation’s...
National Grid Rolls Out “Great Grid Upgrade” To Boost UK Power Resilience
National Grid announced its Social and Environmental Action Plan for 2026‑2031, pledging a 20% efficiency gain across its substation estate and a rapid shift to zero‑emission vehicles. The roadmap, dubbed the “Great Grid Upgrade,” aims to harden the UK transmission...
EU Rolls Out Emergency Energy Package to Shield Consumers and Fast-Track Renewables
The European Commission announced an emergency policy package aimed at easing the impact of soaring electricity bills while accelerating investment in electrification, energy efficiency and renewable generation. The dual‑track plan combines short‑term consumer relief with long‑term funding for clean‑energy projects,...
Renewable Energy Will Boost National Security and Protect UK From Sabotage, Minister Says
UK energy minister Michael Shanks argued that a decentralized mix of wind farms and solar panels makes the nation harder to target than large fossil‑fuel power stations. He highlighted Ukraine’s experience under Russian attacks as a proof point that dispersed...