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Aug 12, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT edition · 20 stories

Carbon Brief · Carbon Brief Staff

UK government considers relaxing EV sales targets despite meeting current goals — An upcoming UK government consultation on weakening targets for electric vehicles (EVs) could cost consumers as much as £3bn a… The post…

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Guardian Environment · Tom Burgis

Greenland halts US oil company's Arctic drilling operations — US envoy had claimed Americans could be extracting crude by as early as next year Greenland authorities have forced a US oil company…

Utility Dive · Marlene Wilden

Texas faces supply constraints despite record peak demand — Ascend Analytics says more than 80% of new large loads seeking interconnection will not have matching generation online by 2030, even as…

Utility Dive · Diana DiGangi

Virginia regulator orders Dominion to assign some transmission costs directly to data centers — The Virginia State Corporation Commission said it may use an upcoming docket to weigh whether this policy “could or should” also apply to…

Utility Dive · Ethan Howland

Xcel seeks Colorado Supreme Court review of wind farm interconnection denial — In June, a district court judge rejected PSCo’s effort to acquire roughly 550 feet of easement via eminent domain to connect two nearly…

PV Tech · Ben Willis

Australian researchers achieve near-total silver recovery from retired solar panels — Researchers in Australia have heralded a potential breakthrough in recovering valuable silver from decommissioned PV modules.

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PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini

France collects 13,760 tonnes of solar modules for recycling in 2025 — France collected 13,760 tonnes of end-of-life solar modules in 2025, up 40% from the previous year, as recycling activity accelerates.

Latitude Media · Bianca Giacobone

Marketplaces emerge to streamline sales of small clean energy tax credits — Smaller deals require almost as much work as big ones — but new marketplaces are working to make them more efficient.

Guardian Environment · Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Coalition proposes scrapping building energy standards to cut construction costs — Proposal to cut building costs by scrapping the construction code would increase bills for the poorest households, critics say

PV Tech · Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Thin-film solar projected to lead US cell production by 2027 — This week's PV Chart of the Week profiles the technology breakdown of projected US solar cell production capacity.

EIA Today in Energy

U.S. natural gas production forecast to hit record 122.5 Bcf/d in 2026 — We forecast U.S. marketed natural gas production will average 122.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2026, surpassing the previous…

More: CleanTechnica

Guardian Environment · Bim Adewunmi

Gardener finds climate change threatens UK home vegetable growing — My child and I were bonding over our hit-and-miss approach to reaping crops. But with heatwaves pushing more of Britain into drought, it’s…

PV Magazine · Patrick Jowett

Shinsung E&G launches 350 MW South Korean solar module production line — The South Korean company says its new PV module production line will supply high-quality n-type solar modules to a series of projects in…

Volts (David Roberts) · David Roberts

Idaho lawmakers propose bipartisan housing bill — A conversation with Idaho state Senator Ben Toews and Representative Megan Egbert.

PV Tech · Shreeyashi Ojha

European Energy closes €234M financing for 225MW agrivoltaic project in Sicily — European Energy has reached financial close on €234.1 million (US$270 million) for its 225MW agrivoltaic project in Vizzini, Sicily, Italy.

Canary Media · Kari Lydersen

Illinois city deploys solar array on storage facility roof — Krzysztof Wasowicz, mayor of Justice, Illinois, has some concerns about solar: that it takes up farmland and enriches China.

Canary Media · Maria Gallucci

Trump administration backs $490M battery loan for Puerto Rico grid — The Department of Energy is backing a major battery project to bolster Puerto Rico’s fragile electric grid — even as the Trump…

Inside Climate News · Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

California officials scrambled as May wildfire neared former nuclear reactor site — As a wildfire in May approached the site of one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S.

Inside Climate News · Tom Perkins

Michigan voters reject data center proposal in Detroit suburb — Plans for a 26-megawatt data center that surfaced in Allen Park, Michigan, last year quickly ignited a groundswell of opposition from…

Inside Climate News · Kate Waxman

Trump administration terminates environmental justice grants as scholar calls for confrontational approach — The tools the environmental justice movement spent decades building are being pulled apart.

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