US Slaps 123% Anti-Dumping Duty on Indian Solar Imports
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a preliminary anti‑dumping duty of 123.04% on solar cells and modules imported from India. The duty, added to existing countervailing tariffs of over 125%, pushes the total tariff burden above 200%, effectively sidelining Indian products in the U.S. market. Indian industry bodies, including NSEFI and ISMA, say the investigation is flawed and plan to contest the findings through the International Trade Commission. The move comes amid ongoing U.S.–India trade talks, adding pressure to resolve broader trade disputes.
Republican Lawmakers Propose Bill to Preserve Commercial Solar Tax Credits
Four Republican lawmakers introduced the American Energy Dominance Act to extend key clean‑energy tax credits, including the 45Y production tax credit and 48E investment tax credit for commercial and qualifying residential solar projects. The legislation seeks to lengthen credit terms...
Responding to Our Changing World
A family in rural Ohio has lived off‑grid for nearly a decade, powering their home with solar panels, storing rainwater, and growing most of their food. They chose this lifestyle to align with sustainability values and to build personal resilience....
Fortescue to Invest $680M in Pilbara Green Energy
Fortescue Metals Group announced a $680 million investment to build a 200 MW Pilbara Green Energy Project, expanding its off‑grid renewable capacity beyond the Real Zero by 2030 target. The system will combine solar, wind, large‑scale battery storage and 620 km of transmission...
ABB Unveils M-Series High-Performance EV Charging Infrastructure
ABB unveiled its M-Series EV charging platform, a modular split‑system that separates a central power cabinet from up to 24 ChargePost dispensers. The architecture delivers 200 kW to 1.2 MW with dynamic load sharing, allowing real‑time power allocation across multiple vehicles. With...
UK Move to Delink Gas and Power ‘Overdue’
The UK government announced a voluntary long‑term fixed‑price contract scheme for low‑carbon generators, covering roughly 30% of the nation’s power supply, and raised the Electricity Generator Levy to 55% on revenues above $104/MWh. The measures aim to decouple electricity prices...
Fusion Energy: The $50/MWh Target
Fusion energy is racing toward a $50 per megawatt‑hour cost target that would make it competitive with solar and combined‑cycle gas. Private capital has exceeded $10 billion and governments are accelerating programs, but the economic hurdle is tighter than the scientific...
New York Launches Fresh Renewables Procurement
New York’s NYSERDA has opened a new procurement round for large‑scale, land‑based renewable projects, focusing on on‑shore wind, solar and hydroelectric assets ready to start construction. The drive seeks to capture expiring federal Production and Investment Tax Credits, with eligibility...
AI’s Hidden Costs: What K-12 Needs to Know About Energy and Infrastructure
School districts are shifting from AI pilots to district‑wide deployments, prompting a new focus on the physical infrastructure needed to support these tools. Leaders must grapple with rising electricity demand, the rapid expansion of on‑site and cloud data centers, and...
$4bn Data Center Rejected by Nobles County, Minnesota
Renewable energy developer Geronimo Power's proposed $4 billion, 959‑acre data center in Nobles County, Minnesota, was rejected by county commissioners. The plan called for eight buildings covering 2.5 million sq ft and would have consumed 400 MW to 1 GW of electricity. The rejection stems from...
GWEC Global Wind Report 2026 Confirms Sustained Wind Power Momentum
The Global Wind Energy Council’s 2026 report shows wind power hitting a new record, with 165 GW of new capacity installed in 2025, pushing cumulative global capacity past 1,299 GW. Asia leads the surge, as China added over 120 GW and India grew...
Aviation and Shipping Emissions Set to Be Included in UK Carbon Budgets
Britain’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero confirmed that the UK’s share of international aviation and shipping emissions will be incorporated into its legally binding Carbon Budgets starting in 2033. The move expands the scope of the five‑year emissions...
AI Data Centers Could Lower Power Prices — Not Up Them
AI‑driven data centers are expanding rapidly, sparking fears that they will push up residential electricity bills. However, experts argue that the real cost driver is how utilities scale capacity and balance supply, not the presence of the facilities themselves. By...
Leitwind Adopts Recyclamine for LS20.X Wind Turbine Blade
Leitwind has selected Aditya Birla Advanced Materials' Recyclamine recyclable epoxy for its new LS20.X_MK2 wind turbine blade, with a pilot run of four blades slated for IEC 61400‑23 structural certification and lightning‑protection testing later in 2026. The company plans to expand...
Why the Effects on the Iran Conflict Will Be Felt on the US Grid – This Week in Cleantech
The cleantech briefing highlights four emerging trends reshaping the U.S. power grid. Utilities are moving from traditional AMI 2.0 to NextWave AMI, turning meters into a platform for real‑time visibility and distributed energy resource (DER) integration. An offshore‑wind project once targeted...
AccelerateEU Backs 200 GW Storage Goal but Omits Dedicated Mechanism
The European Commission’s AccelerateEU plan endorses a 200 GW battery‑storage target for 2030 but provides no dedicated financing mechanism. SolarPower Europe warns the EU will likely reach only about 160 GW under its medium‑scenario projections, falling short of the goal. The association...
QumulusAI Secures $45m in Convertible Notes for AI Cloud Expansion
AI cloud provider QumulusAI secured a $45 million convertible note facility from ATW Partners, adding to its earlier $500 million blockchain‑backed financing. The capital will fund the purchase of GPUs and expansion of data‑center infrastructure, supporting a plan to deploy over 21,000...
Wärtsilä Inks Two Natural Gas Supply Deals with Data Center Operators in Ohio and Texas
Wärtsilä signed two natural‑gas engine supply deals for U.S. data centers: a 412 MW contract in Ohio using 40 34SG engines, and a 790 MW agreement in Texas with 42 50SG units. Both projects target delivery by 2028 and full operation in late 2029....
Schneider Electric Innovation Summit
Schneider Electric released an eBook summarizing insights from its 2025 Innovation Summit, highlighting how AI‑driven data centers are being reshaped. The publication emphasizes megawatt‑scale racks and 800 VDC power architectures as a response to soaring compute loads. It also details the...
Data Centers in the UK Stymied by "Inadequate Community Engagement" - Report
A new report shows UK data‑centre projects face an average 490‑day planning consent period, with the longest case exceeding five years. Environmental objections appeared in 32 of 33 applications, while inadequate community engagement was noted in 26, driving many delays....
Lebanon's Gov't Plans to Transform Warehouse Into National Data Center
Lebanon’s Ministry of Telecommunications is converting a warehouse in Dekwaneh into a National Data Center, merging the existing Karantina and Sawwar facilities. Telecoms firm Touch, led by CEO Karim Salim Salam, is overseeing equipment installation and site clearance. A benchmarking study by...
Huawei Targets Lower LCOE Through Full-Lifecycle Solar Optimisation
Huawei Digital Power has launched the FusionSolar 9.0 smart PV solution, pairing its SUN2000‑506K string inverter with a new 3/7/11 MW smart transformer station to create the industry’s first kV‑AC grid‑forming inverter. Targeted at utility‑scale and large C&I projects, the system promises...
High Petrol Prices Are Fuelling Interest in EVs. Here’s How This Could Bring Down Electricity Bills
Rising oil prices after the Iran conflict have accelerated the shift from petrol cars to electric vehicles (EVs). In the UK, the surge in EV adoption unlocks vehicle‑to‑grid (V2G) potential, with regulators estimating that half of projected EVs could deliver...
Hexagon Agility to Supply CNG Systems for 350 Scania and MAN Intercity Buses in France
Hexagon Agility has secured a contract to supply compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems for 350 intercity buses ordered by Scania and MAN under the TRATON Group. The order comprises 200 Scania and 150 MAN units slated for delivery between...
Deals of the Week: TotalEnergies, RWE, Enviromena, Enercon, Galp
TotalEnergies announced a $1.2 bn on‑shore wind‑plus‑battery project in Kazakhstan, opting for 6.5 MW turbines supplied by China’s Envision Energy. The megaproject, slated to deliver roughly 1 GW of clean power, underscores the French supermajor’s pivot toward larger, more efficient turbine technology. The...
Palo Alto’s Foothills Go Underground
The City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) is close to completing a multiyear project to move its electric distribution and fiber‑optic networks underground across the city’s high‑fire‑risk zone. By burying poles and cables, the utility aims to lower the probability...
Nvidia: AI Agents Break the Data Center Throughput Model
Nvidia’s latest guidance and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 release highlight a shift from stateless inference to persistent AI agents that maintain context and invoke external tools. These agentic workloads generate bursty compute patterns with idle periods, breaking the throughput‑centric model that data‑center...
IEA Report 2025: Solar PV Contributes the Largest Share to Global Energy Growth in 2025 – Battery Storage with Record...
The International Energy Agency’s 2025 Global Energy Review shows overall energy demand grew 1.3%, while electricity demand surged about 3%, outpacing total energy growth. Solar photovoltaic power delivered the largest share of energy‑supply growth, accounting for more than a quarter...
Gas Power Projects for Just 11 US Data Center 'Campuses' Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Entire Countries, According to...
Wired’s analysis of air‑permit filings reveals that natural‑gas power projects tied to just 11 U.S. data‑center campuses could emit over 24 million metric tons of CO₂‑equivalent annually—more than the total emissions of countries such as Morocco or Costa Rica. The report cites...
Uncertainty in US Federal Permitting Threatens Solar Build-Out
Federal permitting delays are now holding up roughly 11 GW of new renewable‑energy projects in the United States, according to a Crux survey of 50 developers. A typical 100 MW solar project faces an extra $10‑18 million in development costs, costs that developers...
Sedron Breaks Ground on Indiantown Biosolids Upcycling Facility in Florida
Sedron broke ground on the Indiantown Upcycling Facility in Florida, a joint venture with Synagro that will employ the company’s patented Varcor technology to transform municipal biosolids into water, calcium‑rich ash and carbon‑negative electricity. The plant, slated to begin operations...
Verne and Nscale Complete First Phase of AI Deployment in Iceland
Verne and Nscale have finished the first phase of an AI GPU deployment at Verne’s Iceland campus, installing 7.5 MW of compute power in just three months. The rollout includes 128 racks—half of them liquid‑cooled—housing Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs as part...
Prepare for Launch: Solar Powers the $600 Billion Space Industry
The space economy is set to surge from $630 billion in 2023 to $1.8 trillion by 2035, driving massive demand for high‑performance solar power. While gallium‑arsenide (GaAs) cells remain the efficiency benchmark, their production is constrained to roughly 2 MW per year, creating...
Keppel and Shell to Launch Immersion Cooling Pilot at Singapore Data Center
Keppel and Shell are teaming up to pilot an immersion‑cooling pod at a Singapore data centre, slated to go live by May 2026 for a 12‑month trial. The system will use Shell’s proprietary gas‑to‑liquids (GTL) cooling fluid, which Shell claims can...
Fraunhofer Creates Coloured Films for Patterned Solar Modules
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems unveiled two new technologies—MorphoColor® and ShadeCut—that apply coloured films to photovoltaic modules. The films create a stable colour impression and enable custom patterns without significantly reducing module efficiency. They can be applied to...
AI Data Centers Are Upending Utility Load Planning
AI‑driven data centers are creating a new class of electricity demand that could represent 9%‑17% of U.S. power consumption by 2030, up from roughly 3%‑4% today. Their high‑density compute clusters cause 40%‑50% load swings over short periods, a pattern utilities’...
Plus Power Signs ESA for 800MWh Alabama BESS
Plus Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have signed a 20‑year energy storage agreement for the 200 MW/800 MWh Crawfish Creek battery energy storage system in Jackson County, Alabama. Construction is slated to begin in 2028 with commercial operation targeted for...
Israeli Storage Developer Moves Into Solar EPC with Majority Stake Deal
Airengy Ltd., a Tel Aviv‑listed storage developer, signed an MOU to acquire a 51% stake in Green‑Go, an Israeli PV developer and EPC contractor. The transaction would give Airengy a dedicated solar engineering and construction arm, complementing its compressed‑air and...
ENGIE, Pele Launch Graspan Solar PV Plant, Signalling Shift to Delivery
ENGIE South Africa and Pele Green Energy officially inaugurated the 75 MW Graspan solar PV plant in the Northern Cape, marking its transition from construction to active power delivery. The facility joins ENGIE’s Grootspruit plant, together providing 150 MW of renewable capacity...
Adani Green to Invest ₹15,000 Cr in BESS as FY27 Capex Rises to ₹45,000 Cr; Rajasthan to Emerge as Key...
Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) announced a $1.8 billion investment in battery‑energy‑storage‑systems (BESS) as part of a $5.4 billion FY27 capital plan. The company has already added 1.4 GW of battery capacity at its Khavda hub in Gujarat and aims to commission more...
Chaberton Energy Seeks Farmers for Agrivoltaic Projects in Maryland
Community solar developer Chaberton Energy is seeking Maryland farmers to co‑locate agricultural activities on two new agrivoltaic sites in Montgomery County. The company issued RFPs for 27 acres across the 5.23 MW Sugarloaf project and the 3.88 MW Ramiere project, offering free...
The Hydrogen Stream: Atome Builds $665 Million Green Hydrogen-Based Fertilizer Plant in Paraguay
Atome PLC announced a Final Investment Decision for a $665 million green‑hydrogen fertilizer plant in Villeta, Paraguay. The facility will produce 260,000 tonnes per year of low‑carbon fertilizer using green hydrogen, with construction to start soon and full output expected by...
D-Mode GaN Bidirectional Switches Reshape Power Conversion Topologies
Renesas introduced the TP65B110HRU, a 650 V, 110 mΩ D‑mode GaN bidirectional switch that integrates two low‑voltage MOSFETs in a single TOLT package. The device conducts and blocks current in both directions, eliminating the need for back‑to‑back MOSFET or IGBT pairs. This...
Erex Eyes Carbon Credits From Vietnam Biomass Co-Firing
Japanese renewable developer Erex plans to generate 92,000 t/yr of CO₂‑equivalent carbon credits from two biomass co‑firing projects at Vinacomin’s Na Duong (110 MW) and Cao Ngan (115 MW) plants in Vietnam. Commercial co‑firing is slated for the fiscal year April 2027‑March 2028, with credit generation expected...
Sisters of Notre Dame Install Solar to Support Ohio Congregation
The Sisters of Notre Dame of the United States have completed a 188‑kilowatt ground‑mounted solar project at their Whitehouse, Ohio, campus. The system is expected to offset roughly 56% of the facility’s electricity consumption, dramatically reducing its carbon footprint. Designed...
GenusPlus Wins $78m Contract for KLG Project in Australia
GenusPlus Group secured a A$110 million ($78.5 million) lump‑sum, turnkey contract to build the 200 MW/800 MWh Koolunga Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in South Australia. The EPCC scope covers engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning, with work slated to start soon and finish by...
FranklinWH Batteries Approved for Maine VPP
FranklinWH has been approved to join Maine’s Efficiency Maine Small Battery Program, a virtual power plant that pays homeowners up to $600 per battery each year for supplying stored energy during peak demand. The program, which also includes brands such as...
Study: States Approved 90% of Renewable Energy Projects Between 2018 and 2024
A new Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy study finds that U.S. states approved roughly 90% of wind and solar project applications between 2018 and 2024. Ohio led the nation in the number of proposals, receiving 61 and rejecting the highest...
UK Solar Generation Hits Record 15 GW as Gas Falls to Historic Low
British solar generation broke 15 GW for the first time on April 23, supplying 42% of the nation’s electricity at its peak. At the same time, gas‑fired plants fell to a historic low of 1.2% of the generation mix, helping the grid...
Colombia Reopens Long-Term Energy Contracting with New Renewables Auction
Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has reopened long‑term electricity contracting with a 15‑year auction that targets solar, hybrid and battery storage projects. Contracts must be awarded by July 31 2026, with delivery obligations beginning Jan 1 2030 (or 2035 for an optional 24‑hour...