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Editions from 2026-08-18.

Aug 17, 2026 · 5:01 PM PT edition · 20 stories

Inside Climate News · Dan Gearino

Canada announces $50B clean energy plan with hydro, wind and cross-border exports — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the country will build the largest clean energy investment in North America’s history—a package of…

PV Tech · JP Casey

Trump administration imposes 15% tariff, price floors on solar imports — Several changes made to federal policies that affect the US solar sector under the Trump administration have been met with caution or…

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Utility Dive · Ethan Howland

FERC approves MISO cost recovery plan for transmission projects in PJM region — In its decision affecting Exelon and Duke Energy utilities, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected calls to require the planned…

PV Tech · JP Casey

Arizona Corporation Commission cuts residential solar export rate to 5.5 cents per kWh — The ACC voted last week to cut the export rate—the price at which residential solar consumers can sell electricity back to the grid—by 10%.

PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini

Global solar capacity surpasses 3 terawatts, driven by China expansion — Global solar capacity has surpassed 3 TW, with China driving much of the recent expansion and emerging markets increasingly contributing to…

PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini

Global energy storage cell shipments reach 468 GWh in first half of 2026, up 95% — In the first half of 2026, global energy storage cell shipments reached 467.84 GWh, up 94.8% year on year, just one data point from…

Carbon Brief · Giuliana Viglione

US's two largest reservoirs hit record-low water levels — The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s largest… The post…

Sightline Climate (CTVC) · CTVC

Micro-reactor companies secure major funding rounds — Massive raises for the smallest nuclear

Wired Science · Ritsuko Kawai

Record El Niño expected to drive global weather, water and economic disruption — This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get.

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PV Tech · Shreeyashi Ojha

India poised to exceed 50GWdc solar installations in 2026, Wood Mackenzie projects — India is set for record solar installations in 2026, while ALMM-II drives cell shortages and higher system prices, according to Wood…

Utility Dive

AI power demand arrives amid tight grid conditions in North America — Why grid readiness may determine the future of the AI economy.

Utility Dive · Amith Kota, Chief Technology Officer, and Lisa Magnuson, Chief Marketing Officer

Grid operators deploy AI and automation to prevent wildfire-caused outages — Another summer of evacuation orders and smoke-filled skies across the country as hundreds of wildfires are burning.

PV Tech · Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Brookfield, La Caisse complete acquisition of Canadian power producer Boralex — Global investment firm Brookfield Asset Management and investment group La Caisse have completed the acquisition of Canadian independent…

Latitude Media · Maeve Allsup

Land agents quietly assemble geothermal projects ahead of public announcements — There may be gigawatts of projects under development that haven’t been announced — but it isn’t next-gen startups leading the way.

Canary Media · Kathiann M. Kowalski

Ohio regulator set to rule on largest state solar-storage project — Following a key legal deadline last Friday, the stage is now set for the Ohio Power Siting Board to make a final decision about whether the…

Canary Media · Sarah Shemkus

Boston explores water-source heat pumps for large building heating — The waters of Boston Harbor, most famous for the crates of tea hurled rebelliously into them more than 250 years ago, could soon be the…

Inside Climate News · Amy Green

Climate heat exacerbates pesticide risks for farmworkers, research shows — For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of pesticides, a growing body of research shows.

MIT Technology Review · Climate · James Dinneen

MIT study assesses global potential for naturally occurring hydrogen reserves — In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into…

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