UK Labour Approves Nation’s Largest Solar Farm, Reform UK Mayor Vows to Fight the Decision
The UK Labour government approved the 800 MW Springwell Solar Farm in Lincolnshire, the nation’s largest solar project, despite strong local opposition led by Reform UK. The farm will power roughly 180,000 homes and includes a battery storage component, though its size remains undefined. Developers EDF Power Solutions and Luminous Energy pledged a community‑benefit fund of £400 per megawatt (about $500/MW) and environmental mitigations such as new footpaths and hedgerows. Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns has announced plans to pursue legal action against the decision.
ISO 27914:2026: A New Potential Long‑Term Solution for Section 45Q Permanent Secure Geological Storage
The EPA’s proposed repeal of Subpart RR threatens the reporting foundation for Section 45Q carbon‑capture tax credits. ISO 27914:2026, released on April 1, 2026, fills the gap by offering detailed quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) standards for permanent geological CO₂ storage. Treasury and...
Renewables Hit 80 Pct Share in Australia’s Most Coal Dependent Grid for First Time
Queensland’s electricity grid, Australia’s most coal‑dependent system, hit an 80 percent renewable share for the first time on Monday at 11:20 am. The surge was powered mainly by rooftop solar (just over 4 GW) and large‑scale solar (about 3 GW), with wind contributing just...
Trump’s Tax Refunds Do Little to Stem the Affordability Crisis, Michigan Democrats Say
Michigan Democrats highlighted a resident's solar savings to illustrate the limits of President Trump’s promised tax refunds. Ann Siegel’s $26,000 solar system, reduced to about $16,000 after an $8,000 Inflation Reduction Act credit and utility earnings, cut her monthly bill...
Data Centers Spiking Temps for Miles Around Them?
Researchers have found that AI‑driven data centers are creating localized heat islands, pushing ambient temperatures up to 16 °F higher than surrounding areas. The temperature spikes extend for several miles around the facilities, a side effect of the massive power draw...
Microsoft Reportedly Mulls CDR Purchase Slowdown
Microsoft said reports that it plans to pause buying new carbon‑removal credits are misleading. The company clarified that its climate program is not ending, but it may adjust the pace or volume of purchases as part of a broader sustainability...
Citicore Activates 125-MW Solar Farm in Pangasinan
Citicore Renewable Energy Corp. (CREC) has commissioned a 125‑MW solar farm in Pangasinan, Philippines, capable of supplying roughly 100,000 households. The facility uses an elevated panel design to guard against flooding, reflecting the company’s focus on resilient renewable infrastructure. The...
A Key Solution to Climate Change Isn't Happening – and That's Good
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), once hailed as a cornerstone of net‑zero strategies, is now deemed unviable. The flagship Drax‑linked project is unlikely to proceed due to prohibitive costs, massive land‑use demands, and evidence that it can increase...
University of Illinois Develops City Flood Forecasting System
The Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois has built a GPU‑driven city‑scale flood forecasting system that can slash simulation time by up to 80%, delivering real‑time predictions for Chicago. By processing physics‑based models across intricate urban drainage networks,...
Ramping Up for POWERGEN 2027 and the 44th Annual Electric Utility & Cogeneration Chemistry Workshop
POWERGEN 2027 in Salt Lake City will spotlight the power sector’s response to soaring data‑center electricity demand, with gas‑fired simple‑cycle and combined‑cycle plants leading short‑term builds. The conference will also explore emerging fuels such as hydrogen, the rise of small...
NSG Group Experiments with Recycled Solar Panel Glass in Float-Glass Material Mix
Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) Group completed a successful trial that incorporated cover glass from decommissioned solar panels into its float‑glass production line. The recycled glass, extracted at Tokuyama’s Hokkaido recycling center, was blended at the Chiba furnace and met standard...
Hyperscale Growth Shifts Inland as AI Drives Power Demand
AI‑driven workloads are reshaping U.S. hyperscale data‑center growth, moving new builds inland where power is abundant. Texas and the Midwest, which already host about a third of existing capacity, are projected to capture over half of the upcoming development pipeline....
Ameresco to Install Rooftop Solar on Miami-Dade County Buildings
Ameresco has secured a performance‑savings contract with Miami‑Dade County to design and install rooftop solar photovoltaic systems at the Miami‑Dade Children’s Courthouse and the E.R. Graham Building. The agreement also includes comprehensive interior and exterior LED lighting retrofits for both...
‘We Are Being Asked to Drain Our Reservoirs so a Sheriff Can Generate a Picture with Bigfoot’: An Ex-Programmer’s Brutal...
A former programmer, Mr. Hollingsworth, delivered a viral speech in Ravenna, Ohio, denouncing a proposed AI data center’s massive water and power demands. He highlighted the plan to siphon five million gallons of water daily and questioned the promised local...
Vertiv Acquires Prefab Enclosure Maker BMarko
Vertiv announced the acquisition of BMarko Structures, a South Carolina‑based maker of prefabricated and containerized data‑center enclosures. While financial terms were not disclosed, BMarko brings more than 500,000 sq ft of custom‑engineered modular structures to Vertiv’s Infrastructure Solutions business. The deal is...
As States Spend Millions to Woo Data Centers, Colorado Is Having a Reckoning
Colorado’s north Denver neighborhood, already among the nation’s most polluted ZIP codes, is confronting a new data‑center complex built by CoreSite. The facility’s 14 diesel generators, classified as carcinogenic, sit beside affordable housing, a health clinic and a senior‑living project,...
Maine Set To Become First State With Data Center Ban
Maine is poised to become the first U.S. state to impose a temporary ban on new data‑center construction, halting projects statewide until November 2027. The bill, already cleared by lawmakers, also creates a council to develop guardrails that protect residents from...
Farming Under Solar: How Agriphotovoltaics Can Transform Rural Livelihoods in India
India’s solar capacity has surged to roughly 150 GW, largely through ground‑mounted farms that consume valuable agricultural land. The resulting tension between energy expansion and farmer livelihoods has prompted interest in agriphotovoltaics (Agri‑PV), which co‑locates solar panels and crops. Early pilots,...
AMD: Memory, Not Compute, Is the Next Bottleneck in AI Data Centers
AMD’s latest blog highlights memory—not compute—as the emerging bottleneck in AI data centers, emphasizing that data movement now drives performance and power limits. The company promotes LPDDR5X, a low‑voltage mobile memory now adapted for servers, claiming superior performance‑per‑watt compared with...
$266B in Building Carbon Costs Saved Thanks to BACnet, Study Shows
A University of New Hampshire study commissioned by ASHRAE finds that BACnet‑enabled building automation systems have avoided 1.4 billion tons of CO₂ since 1995, translating to roughly $266 billion in avoided climate costs. The model projects an additional 2.06 billion tons could be...
Amazon Opens up Its Cloud Emissions Data
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a redesigned Sustainability console that gives customers direct access to detailed cloud emissions data. The dashboard aggregates carbon footprints across all three emissions scopes, offers monthly visualizations, and includes an API for seamless integration into...
Chinese OEMs Dominate 2025 Wind Market
Chinese turbine manufacturers captured 78% of the 176 GW of global wind capacity added in 2025, driving a record 45% year‑on‑year growth. China became the first country to install more than 100 GW in a single year, with nine domestic OEMs occupying...
How Foresight Prevented $100M in Delays and Cut Reporting Overhead by 90% for a Global Data Center Portfolio
Foresight, an AI‑driven portfolio assurance platform, helped a multinational data‑center operator avoid roughly $100 million in construction delays and slash reporting overhead by about 90 %. By consolidating fragmented project data into a single real‑time dashboard, the solution gave executives visibility into...
Isle of Wight to Deploy 1,500 EV Chargers
The Isle of Wight Council has awarded char.gy, with installer Joju, a contract to deploy more than 1,500 public curbside electric‑vehicle chargers across the island. The project is backed by roughly $2 million in funding from the UK’s Local Electric Vehicle...
Hillwood, PowerHouse Advance $20B Joliet Data Campus as Midwest AI Buildout Accelerates
On March 19, 2026, Joliet’s city council voted 8‑1 to annex roughly 795 acres for a $20 billion AI‑scale data‑center campus backed by Hillwood and PowerHouse. The 24‑building, 6.9‑million‑sq‑ft campus will eventually host up to 1.8 GW of power, positioning it among...
From Risk to Resilience: Securing Continuity in UK Data Centers
UK data centers, designated as critical national infrastructure, face mounting resilience challenges. Growing cyber threats, unpredictable power supply, and aging cooling systems are compounded by AI-driven high‑density workloads that exceed legacy capacity. Recent incidents—including a four‑day outage at Defra’s data...
Zwitterions Are The Key To New Solid-State Batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have engineered a polymer electrolyte infused with zwitterions that enables ion transport up to 10 billion times faster than conventional solid matrices. By fine‑tuning the zwitterion content to an optimal 80 % blend, the material forms self‑assembled...
Cool Cities Lab Heat-Mapping Tool Helps Cities Target Relief Where It’s Needed Most
World Resources Institute’s Cool Cities Lab, an open‑source heat‑mapping platform, launched in March and is now active in more than 20 cities worldwide. The tool provides block‑level data on temperature, humidity and thermal comfort, allowing municipalities to model the cooling...
How HVLS Fans Work with HVAC Systems to Improve Building Efficiency
HVAC systems consume roughly 35% of a building’s energy, and many facilities still run outdated, oversized equipment that creates temperature stratification and inefficiency. In large spaces, uneven air distribution forces HVAC units to work harder, raising costs and emissions. Adding...
Sri Lanka Urges Daytime EV Charging to Ease Grid Pressure
Sri Lanka is urging electric‑vehicle owners to shift charging from night to daytime to ease a 300 MW evening load spike. The country’s grid relies heavily on a 900 MW coal plant and about 1,000 MW of diesel capacity at night, while solar...
IRENA: Incentivise Renewables Deployment to Minimise Impacts of Global Energy Shock
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a policy advisory urging governments to speed up renewable‑energy deployment to shield economies from volatile fossil‑fuel prices. The agency estimates the EU has avoided about $67.8 billion in fuel costs thanks to recent solar...
EU Commission Backs Renewables and Nuclear to Shield Europe From Fossil-Fuel Gulf Turmoil
The European Commission, led by President Ursula von der Leyen, is accelerating a dual push for renewable energy and nuclear power, especially small modular reactors (SMRs), to shield Europe from supply shocks sparked by the Iran‑related conflict in the Strait...
Singtel's Nxera and Telekom Malaysia Top Out Data Center in Johor
Singtel’s Nxera data‑center arm announced the topping‑out of the structural phase for its new Johor facility, the first 64 MW segment of a 280 MW campus designed for high‑intensity AI workloads. The joint venture with Telekom Malaysia, TM Nxera, expects the initial phase...
AWS Launches "Project Houdini" To Speed up Data Center Construction - Report
Amazon Web Services announced Project Houdini, a program that shifts most data‑center construction into a factory environment. The initiative uses 45‑foot modular “skids” pre‑installed with power, cooling, cabling, lighting, fire‑suppression and security, allowing sites to be ready in two to...
Santa Monica Breaks Ground on $56m Zero-Emission Bus and Charging Project
Santa Monica has launched a $56 million zero‑emission bus program, backed by a $53.3 million state grant, to expand its battery‑electric fleet and build overhead gantry chargers. The initiative will support up to 195 electric buses and aims for a fully zero‑emission...
Oman’s Naqaa Sustainable Energy to Lead 500MW Botswana PV Project—Reports
Omani renewables firm Naqaa Sustainable Energy has been appointed lead developer for a 500 MW photovoltaic plant in Botswana, the country’s largest solar project to date. The plant, slated for the Maun region, will incorporate an integrated battery energy storage system....
Iron Mountain Tops Out Chennai Data Center, India
Iron Mountain celebrated the topping‑out of its Chennai CHN‑1 data center, a 23.2 MW facility that will go live later this year. The campus, built on a 4.3‑acre site in Ambattur, will eventually host two buildings delivering a combined 42 MW of...
Solar Generation to Rise 17% This Summer: EIA
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects solar generation will rise 17% this summer compared with 2025, outpacing wind and helping meet peak demand. Overall electricity sales are expected to grow 1.2% in 2026, while coal output will fall about 10%...
Estonian Solutions Support Cruise Industry’s Green Transition
Estonia is presenting a practical, state‑backed maritime transition ecosystem at Seatrade Cruise Global 2026, featuring a $29.3 million retrofit fund, smart‑port digital tools, and a suite of local companies offering green technologies. The initiative focuses on retrofitting existing cruise ships with efficiency...
Halocell Energy, Sofab Inks Advance Perovskite Collaboration
Halocell Energy and U.S. startup Sofab Inks have demonstrated that perovskite modules using Sofab’s Tinfab electron transport layer retain roughly 100% of their normalized efficiency after 1,300 hours of accelerated light and damp‑heat exposure. In contrast, comparable control devices lost...
PJM Proposes Adding 14.9 GW with Bilateral Contracts, Central Procurement
The PJM Interconnection is proposing a one‑time, two‑phase backstop procurement of up to 14.9 GW to address projected capacity shortfalls driven by data‑center growth. Phase one would run bilateral contracts between generators and large loads from September to March, followed by...
Wah Kwong Unit Lines up Green Methanol Supply Deal
Wah Kwong’s fuel subsidiary Venture Energy has signed a supply agreement with Shanghai Shenji Energy to import ISCC‑certified green methanol, with first deliveries slated for the first half of 2026. The methanol, derived from municipal waste, crop residues and livestock...
Cork Airport to Deliver Ireland’s Largest Solar-Powered Carport
Cork Airport announced Ireland’s largest solar‑powered carport, a 1.7 MW structure with 3,696 photovoltaic panels slated for completion in August 2027. The carport will generate about 1.5 GWh of renewable electricity each year—roughly 20% of the airport’s power needs—and cut CO₂ emissions by...
Greengine Deploys World’s First Vertical Algal Biofilm Carbon Capture & Utilization Unit
Greengine Environmental Technologies has installed its G‑Urban Tree 100x, the world’s first vertical algal biofilm carbon capture unit, at Engineers India Limited’s Gurugram campus. The solar‑powered, modular system uses patented VABT™ technology to capture about 2.25 tonnes of CO₂ annually, equivalent...
Gadkari Sees Farmers as Future Energy Providers to Reduce Import Dependence
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told farmers at the Unnat Krishi Mahotsav that they should expand beyond food production to become suppliers of bioenergy, ethanol, compressed natural gas and hydrogen. He highlighted the untapped revenue from agricultural residues and stressed the...
Green Hydrogen Brightlighted as Middle East Crisis Alters Fossil-Fuel Economics
The Middle East crisis is reshaping fossil‑fuel economics, prompting South Africa’s presidency to prioritize energy independence and accelerate green hydrogen and ammonia projects where it holds a platinum‑catalyst advantage. Simultaneously, global players are pouring capital into hydrogen ecosystems – BMW...
Vikram Solar Doubles PV Deployments to 10GW
Vikram Solar announced that it has doubled its cumulative solar module deployments to 10 GW within two years, equivalent to roughly 25 million modules, of which about 1.5 GW were exported. The Indian manufacturer now operates 9.5 GW of module capacity across West Bengal...
How a Peatland Restoration Project Is Aiming to Boost UK Farming Resilience
The RePeat project, launched in January 2026 by organic farm Pollybell, aims to rewet roughly 1,000 hectares of degraded peatlands across Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. By restoring water tables, the initiative seeks to lock away carbon, reduce methane emissions...
PowerBank Terminates Sale of Two New York Solar Projects Following Permit Delays
PowerBank Corp. said a third‑party buyer, Qcells, exercised a sell‑back option for its Gainesville and Highway 28 community solar projects after the sites failed to obtain local permits. The two projects were part of a broader 48 MW, $49.5 million portfolio sale, but...
US DOE Proposes 52% Cut to National Laboratory of the Rockies Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy’s FY 2027 budget justification proposes a $264 million, 52% cut to the National Laboratory of the Rockies, formerly NREL. Similar reductions target Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge and Argonne labs, while $15.2 billion is slated to be removed from...