XCharge Launches First European EV Charger Assembly Plant in Spain
XCharge has opened a 3,000‑square‑meter assembly line in Silla, Valencia, marking its first European manufacturing footprint. The plant will begin full‑scale production of the GridLink battery‑integrated fast charger in 2027, strengthening local supply chains and supporting Spain’s EV market growth.
Crusoe Starts Building 900 MW AI Factory in Abilene for Microsoft
Neocloud provider Crusoe has broken ground on a 900 MW AI infrastructure campus in Abilene, Texas, dedicated to Microsoft. The site will eventually reach 2.1 GW, with the first building slated for mid‑2027, and is expected to generate thousands of construction jobs...
IEA Warns Data‑Center Power Use Jumped 17% in 2025, Could Double by 2030
The International Energy Agency released a report showing global data‑center electricity demand surged 17% in 2025 and could double by 2030, driven by massive AI‑infrastructure investment. The agency warns that grid constraints, supply‑chain bottlenecks and rising electricity costs could threaten...
Pacific Island Leaders Demand Real Finance for Fossil‑Fuel‑Free Transition
At a ministerial dialogue in Port Vila, Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) leaders demanded unencumbered climate finance to achieve their 100% renewable energy goals. Tuvalu’s climate minister and Palau’s environment minister warned that without real money, the islands risk...
Jinko ESS Inks 1.1 GWh Partnership to Fast‑track Large‑scale Storage in China
Jinko ESS has signed a two‑year strategic framework agreement with an undisclosed partner to develop 1.1 GWh of energy‑storage capacity in Shaanxi Province. The deal leverages Jinko’s full‑stack battery technology to accelerate large‑scale and C&I projects, supporting China’s dual‑carbon targets and...
Shock Therapy: War Forces Oil-Addicted Asia to Finally Go Green
The Iran war’s disruption of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz has forced oil‑dependent Asian economies to accelerate renewable adoption, especially solar. In Thailand, soaring electricity bills and a new 200,000‑baht (≈US$6,240) tax deduction have triggered a flood of...
Enconfund Revs up Energy Projects
Thailand’s Energy Conservation and Promotion Fund (Enconfund) is shifting from pure research support to commercial‑scale deployment, targeting projects like waste‑to‑oil and green hydrogen. The fund, financed by a 0.05 baht per litre levy, holds roughly 10 bn baht ($300 M) and spends 5‑9 bn...
North America Just Got Its First New Kind of Lithium Refinery
Mangrove Lithium has inaugurated North America’s first commercial electrochemical lithium refinery in Delta, British Columbia, capable of processing 1,000 tonnes of lithium annually. The facility, dubbed the Single Stack Plant, can supply battery‑grade lithium for roughly 25,000 electric vehicles each...
Rivian R2 Brings Clean, Fun Electric Driving to Colorado
Sneak peek 👀 at Rivian’s (@rivianofficial) new R2. We are proud that Coloradans have a variety of options for going electric - a fun, quiet, clean way to get around while cutting pollution. This addition is great news for Colorado families...
China Plans To Double Renewable Energy By 2035. That’s The Good News.
On April 17, 2026 China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced a plan to double the country’s non‑fossil energy supply by 2035, using 2025 as a baseline. The roadmap includes massive hydropower projects in Tibet, desert‑based renewable hubs, and a...
Canada Opens First Commercial Lithium Refinery – by Staff (Canadian Mining Journal – April 16, 2026)
Canada inaugurated North America’s first commercial electrochemical lithium‑refining plant in Delta, British Columbia, with Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight and Mangrove Lithium executives. The facility marks a pivotal step toward a domestic battery‑material supply chain, reducing reliance on overseas processors....
Bloom Energy Jumps ~24% on $2.8 GW Oracle AI Data‑center Fuel‑cell Deal
Bloom Energy stock surged roughly 24% after Oracle announced a 2.8‑gigawatt fuel‑cell agreement to power its AI and cloud data centers, including 1.2 GW already under construction. Analysts lifted price targets, and clean‑energy ETFs rallied, marking the deal as the largest...
Mars and Ofi Unveil 5‑year Net‑zero Cocoa Program in Ecuador
Mars, Incorporated and Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) have launched a five‑year program in Ecuador to transition 960 cocoa farmers across 9,000 hectares to regenerative agroforestry. The effort, aligned with Science‑Based Targets, aims to cut Scope 3 emissions, boost yields and strengthen...
U.S. Utilities Commit $1.4 Trillion to Power AI Data Centers by 2030
Investor‑owned utilities across the United States announced a $1.4 trillion capital spending plan through 2030 to meet the soaring electricity needs of AI‑driven data centers. The plan, a 27% increase over last year’s projection, includes $102.2 billion from Duke Energy and $81.2 billion...
Colombia Leads Emerging‑Market ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to Break Fossil‑Fuel Deadlock
Colombia, together with the Netherlands, hosted a two‑day conference in Santa Marta that gathered 54 countries – many from the Global South – to launch a “coalition of the willing” focused on phasing out fossil fuels. The summit seeks to...
JinkoSolar Q4 2025 Earnings Call Shows 26 GW Shipments but Margin Collapse
JinkoSolar announced $2.5 billion in Q4 2025 revenue and shipped 26 GW of modules, but gross margin fell to 0.3% and adjusted net loss widened to roughly $120 million. The company’s net debt jumped to $3.44 billion, underscoring pressure from raw‑material costs and a...
Virginia Governor Signs Landmark Energy Storage Bill to Cut Costs and Bolster Grid
Virginia Governor Spanberger signed a sweeping energy‑storage bill today, a move backed by the American Clean Power Association. The legislation is designed to reduce consumer electricity costs and improve grid reliability by accelerating battery deployment across the Commonwealth.
Don’t Blame Technology For The Start-And-Stop Transition To Clean Energy
Renewable technologies such as solar, wind and grid‑scale batteries have become cheaper than new fossil‑fuel plants, driving ambitious capacity targets—about 80 % of power‑plant additions over the next decade are slated to be renewable. Electric vehicles now have the lowest lifetime...
PowerSecure to Build Solar and Storage Project for Wyoming Utility Co-Op
PowerSecure, a Southern Company subsidiary, will construct a 1.25‑MW solar farm paired with a 21.6‑MWh battery storage system for Wyoming cooperative Powder River Energy Corporation (PRECorp). The hybrid project is designed to alleviate peak‑demand stress, boost reliability, and lower wholesale...
EPA Highlights Plan to Push for Greater Water Reuse by Utilities, Energy Sector
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled Water Reuse Action Plan 2.0, a voluntary framework aimed at curbing the rising water demand from AI‑driven data centers. The plan builds on a 2020 initiative and seeks to foster partnerships between water utilities, energy‑intensive...
Battery Recycling Still Isn’t Easy. Just Ask Ascend Elements.
Ascend Elements, a battery‑disassembly startup that launched a plant near Atlanta in 2023 and is building a Kentucky facility, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 9 after losing $274 million in federal grants and facing delayed buyer commitments. The collapse reflects broader...
Electric Vehicle Owners Could Earn Thousands by Supporting Power Grid
A pilot program in Delaware demonstrates that electric‑vehicle owners can earn several thousand dollars a year by letting their parked cars act as a collective battery for the grid. As renewable generation now accounts for roughly 90% of new capacity,...
Can We Disrupt the Data Center Designs?
The surge in data creation—projected to reach 181 zettabytes by 2025—has pushed data centers to consume 4‑5% of U.S. electricity and massive water volumes for cooling. Companies are experimenting with renewable power, nuclear PPAs, ocean‑water cooling, and even floating or offshore...
America’s Wind Market Keeps Building Under Policy Pressure
U.S. utility‑scale wind capacity reached roughly 159.5 GW by January 2026, with onshore accounting for 159.3 GW and offshore a modest 171 MW. Generation climbed to 464 TWh in 2025, representing just over 10% of total U.S. electricity. Developers are targeting 11.8 GW of new wind...
A Photovoltaic Power Forecasting Method Integrating Physical Mechanisms and Deep Learning
Researchers have introduced a hybrid photovoltaic power forecasting method that merges physical modeling with deep learning. The approach uses a non‑uniform error compensation strategy, a 37‑dimensional feature system, and a dynamic weighted fusion based on four confidence factors. Validation on...
Single Switch High Gain DC-DC Quadratic Boost Converter for Renewable Energy Applications
Researchers Chakraborty et al. introduced a single‑switch quadratic boost converter that achieves high voltage gain for renewable energy systems. The prototype, rated at 200 W and 380 V input, delivers an 11.17× gain with only a 28 % duty cycle and reaches 96 %...
Cincinnati to Turn an Old Landfill Site Into a Solar Power Producer
Cincinnati broke ground on the 10‑MW Center Hill Solar project, converting a 64‑acre, 30‑year‑old landfill into a renewable‑energy asset. The two 4.9‑MW arrays are expected to produce about 18.2 million kWh of electricity each year, feeding city facilities and stabilizing municipal power...
Colorado Invests $12.4M to Scale Campus Geothermal
$12.4M invested to expand geothermal in Colorado—cutting costs, reducing emissions, and building a cleaner energy future. https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/polis-administration-awards-124-million-further-develop-geothermal-energy-colorado New CU Boulder research shows it can power campuses and scale statewide. https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/study-finds-geothermal-energy-feasible-for-cu-boulder Colorado is turning innovation into real solutions that save people money.
Rewiring Global Energy Security
Bruce Douglas, CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance, argues that rapid electrification powered by renewables and smart grids is the most credible path to national security and economic competitiveness. He cites soaring natural‑gas volatility, weaponised supply chains and surging data‑center...
New 2.7GW Data Center Emits 14 Mt CO₂
Another day, another massive Petrotech fossil-fuelled data centre. The "Kilby power plant", 2.7 GW of fossil gas, will be pumping out 14 megatonnes of CO2-e a year (about 4.3 million combustion cars worth). Still waiting for AI to solve climate...
Battery Storage Surge Fuels Global Energy Security
Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/JQDm2qARdW https://t.co/fJNmnFvMKY
NOC Energy Raises $2.7M to Launch Hybrid Cement Plant Tech Delivering 1,200°C Heat
NOC Energy announced a $2.7 million seed round and unveiled a hybrid cement‑plant system that injects electric heat into existing kilns. The technology can generate temperatures up to 1,200 °C and switch between electricity and fossil fuel, offering manufacturers a low‑cost path...
US Researchers Achieve 24.3% Efficiency with Copper‑Contacted TOPCon Cell
U.S. scientists build copper-contacted TOPCon solar cell with 24.3% efficiency #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/GKPxxSeXDV https://t.co/iuc8RgVcJj
Tighter FEOC Rules Heighten Solar Tax Credit Risks
Solar developers face high-stakes tax credit risks as FEOC rules tighten #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/8lZmxwH24k
BearingPoint Study Finds Over One-Third of Firms Lag on Climate Goals Amid AI Surge
BearingPoint’s latest thought‑leadership report shows that over one‑third of surveyed enterprises are already missing science‑based climate targets, citing AI’s growing energy demand as a key obstacle. The findings highlight a widening gap between sustainability pledges and operational execution.
BESS Attractiveness for M&A Explored at Energy Summit
VIDEO – Energy Storage Summit 2026: How attractive is BESS for M&A? #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/AAtsgcK6vP
State Threatens to Intervene over EV Charging Tariffs
State to “step in” if regulator and network fail to remove EV charging “handbrakes and sort out tariffs #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/TnXmAWWV3C https://t.co/qdFWboEvmI
Delhi CM Flags Scrappage; Fitness at Core of ₹4,000-Cr EV Policy Push
Delhi’s ₹4,000‑crore (≈$480 M) electric‑vehicle policy pivots from pure purchase subsidies to a compliance‑driven framework that couples scrappage incentives with mandatory vehicle fitness checks. The draft EV Policy 2026‑2030 offers up to ₹1 lakh per electric car and ₹10,000 per two‑wheeler, but only...
New Tech Cuts Silver Use in TOPCon Cells Tenfold
New tech reduces silver use in TOPCon solar cells by a factor of 10 #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/bWZdpaj0ge
PowerSecure Launches Solar‑storage Project for Wyoming Co‑op
PowerSecure to build solar and storage project for Wyoming utility co-op #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/vT09ge7jDo
Global Briefing: China Signals Intent to Double Clean Energy by 2035
China announced a strategic plan to double its clean‑energy capacity to roughly 2,400 GW by 2035, roughly a 100% increase from current levels. The roadmap bundles about $1.5 trillion in subsidies, grid upgrades and domestic manufacturing incentives. The move dovetails with Beijing’s...
Battery Recycling Remains Complex, Even for Ascend Elements
Battery recycling still isn’t easy. Just ask Ascend Elements. #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/M99v40PIwS
China Dominates Cleantech Exports as Global Demand Surges
China exports a ton of cleantech — and the world is poised to want more #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/ix8Q4s88pz
Pennsylvania Bills Aim to Fast-Track Data-Center Permits Amid 4,000% Growth Forecast
Pennsylvania lawmakers are advancing three bills that would shift data‑center siting authority from municipalities to a state board, a move that coincides with an industry report projecting a 4,000% increase in data‑center capacity by 2036. Critics warn the proposals could...
Emerald AI Boosts Data Center Flexibility with $25M Funding
Great @CatalystPod with @vsiv explaining data center flexibility and what Emerald AI is doing to make it possible (and why @shaylekann and Energy Impact Partners just led a $25m investment round in Emerald) https://t.co/nqSAqM1wj6 (note: I serve as an advisor to Emerald...
Cincinnati Converts Former Landfill Into Solar Power Hub
Cincinnati to turn an old landfill site into a solar power producer #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/Hq0P5iTdG3
Holcim Ups Electric Quarry Fleet Ante in UK Adding 20 LiuGong 870HE Wheel Loaders
Holcim UK is deploying 20 LiuGong 870HE electric wheel loaders, each weighing 24.6 t and equipped with a 423 kWh LFP battery that delivers up to nine hours of operation and an 80‑minute fast charge. After a year‑long trial at the Callow...
Anker Solix Unveils 7 kWh Plug‑In Battery for Rooftop Solar
Anker Solix launches 7 kWh plug-in battery targeting rooftop solar retrofits #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/Pd8whB8AAq
Kenyan E‑motorbike Sales Double Amid Gasoline Price Surge
Roam Electric, a Kenyan e-motorcycle manufacturer, has seen demand double as consumers shift away from gasoline amid price surges driven by the Iran war. https://t.co/wDchcXtqf2
Solar Asset Managers Highlight AI Solutions for System Losses
Solar asset managers talk underperforming systems, catastrophic losses and AI at SAMNA 2026 #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/mcEfHXXqoF