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Aug 10, 2026 · 5:01 PM PT edition · 20 stories

Heatmap News · Robinson Meyer

Trump administration pays $4 billion to halt offshore wind projects — At a certain level, it defies belief: The Trump administration is spending nearly $4 billion to not build something.

Heatmap News · Matthew Zeitlin

Virginia governor signals opposition to NextEra's bid for Dominion utility — Governors are increasingly throwing their weight around in the technocratic and often obscure utility ratemaking process.

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TechCrunch Climate · Tim De Chant

Sila secures $1.4B Pentagon loan for battery factory expansion — Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to scale production at its factory in…

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EIA Today in Energy

Puerto Rico power outages surge 19% as infrastructure struggles persist — In 2025, customers in Puerto Rico experienced an average of 36 hours of power interruptions that were not caused by major events such as…

PV Tech · Shreeyashi Ojha

India awards 1GW round-the-clock solar tender at record-low tariff of $0.055/kWh — India’s SECI awarded 1GW to seven bidders under its RTC-TM tender, with Juniper securing the largest allocation.

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PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini

European drought cuts hydropower, nuclear output in summer 2026 — River-flow, generation and price data from April to July 2026 point to a drought corridor stretching from the Rhine delta to the lower…

Guardian Environment · Oliver Milman

July was hottest month ever recorded in U.S. as heatwaves shattered temperature records — Scientists have made clear that the elevated heat in the US was being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis July was the hottest…

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Utility Dive · Susan Gates

Utilities shift focus to proactive grid resilience before storms strike — The future of grid reliability is proactive, not reactive. Learn how leading utilities are building resilience before the next storm hits.

PV Magazine · Lior Kahana

Sodium-ion battery prototypes reach 200 Wh/kg in latest research — An international team of scientists has reviewed recent advances in sodium-ion battery components, highlighting their potential as a…

Canary Media · Elizabeth Ouzts

North Carolina rooftop solar persists despite federal tax credit loss — Stew Miller, who launched his North Carolina rooftop solar company in the 2000s, says there’s “a lot of negativity” in his industry right…

Canary Media · Alison F. Takemura

UK cheesemaker cuts energy costs with heat pump installation — In many ways the world's oldest cheddar-maker hews to tradition. Since 1833, Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers has operated from the rolling…

Inside Climate News · Marie Cusick

Pennsylvania childcare centers grapple with wildfire smoke from Canadian fires — Karen Schaeffer is used to spending a lot of time thinking about how to keep kids happy and healthy.

Sightline Climate (CTVC) · CTVC

Long-duration energy storage market gains momentum with new customer wins — Our second LDES leaderboard is here

Utility Dive · Diana DiGangi

Vistra CEO backs pause on Texas data center interconnections — “I'd like to see the queues culled, at the end of the day,” said Vistra CEO Jim Burke in a second quarter earnings call.

Guardian Environment

Wildfires force thousands to evacuate in British Columbia — Thousands of residents in British Columbia's wine and orchard region were ordered to evacuate on Saturday as a fast-moving wildfire in…

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Guardian Environment · Ajit Niranjan

World's oceans hit hottest July temperature on record, EU data shows — Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was highest on record for July, beating previous high in 2023 The world’s seas were…

PV Tech · George Heynes

Trinasolar sees battery incentives reshaping Australia's rooftop solar market — Trinasolar's APAC leaders discuss how battery incentives, C&I demand, and DC-coupled storage are reshaping Australia's rooftop solar market.

PV Tech · George Heynes

AEMO governance overhaul urged as Australia's energy transition workload grows — An independent review of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has recommended 14 changes to the organisation's governance framework.

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