Energy & Green Tech
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Green Energy & Markets Weekly: The Grid Is Being Tested From Both Ends
Brent crude hit $104.84 per barrel at the start of the week, up 59% from a year ago on the back of the Middle East supply shock. Then came the Iran peace talk headlines. Oil fell nearly 7% over the week as traders priced in a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. WTI stood
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Japanese Battery Maker PowerX Uses Montenegro as Its European Beachhead
Montenegro generates electricity for roughly 600,000 people. It is not, by any measure, a large energy market. But it has something most larger markets lack: a direct submarine power cable to Italy, EU candidate status, and a national energy plan that needs battery storage to work. For PowerX, a Japanese BESS manufacturer that listed on
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SEG Solar Announces 4 GW Houston Factory, Reaches 6 GW US Capacity
A second US facility brings the company to 6 GW of domestic capacity. SEG Solar announced Thursday it will build a second solar module manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas — a 4-gigawatt plant representing more than $200 million in investment and up to 800 new jobs. Commercial operations are expected in Q3 2026. Combined with
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Toyota and Hyroad Just Signed One of the Largest Hydrogen Truck Deals in the US
Hydrogen trucking has been stuck in pilot program purgatory for years. Forty trucks under a definitive commercial agreement is a different kind of announcement. Hyroad Energy and Toyota Motor North America announced on May 4, 2026 at ACT Expo in Las Vegas that they have signed a definitive agreement to deploy 40 hydrogen fuel cell
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Why BorgWarner Is Betting on Both EVs and Hybrids in China and South Korea
Electric vehicles are winning market share. Hybrids are winning volume. That distinction matters for understanding where BorgWarner (NYSE: BWA) is actually placing its bets. Three new electric motor awards across China and South Korea, announced April 30, 2026, span both sides of that market. A stator assembly for a battery-electric B-segment SUV in Korea. An
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Edmonton Just Hosted the Most Important Energy Meeting You’ve Never Heard Of
Last week, more than 7,500 people flew into Edmonton for three days to talk about a single fuel source. Energy executives, government officials, Indigenous leaders, engineers, investors, and international buyers from across Europe and Asia all converged on the Edmonton Convention Center for the Canadian Hydrogen Convention, North America’s largest gathering dedicated to hydrogen. The
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How Oracle and Bloom Energy Just Changed the Data Center Power Model
The AI data center energy problem has been solved on paper many times. Project Jupiter in New Mexico is trying to solve it in the ground. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and BorderPlex Digital Assets announced on April 27, 2026 that Project Jupiter, an AI data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, will be fully
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Duke Energy’s 80-Year Nuclear Plant Is the Quiet Story Reshaping US Energy
Robinson Nuclear Plant has been running since 1970. It will now run until 2050. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the operating license for Duke Energy’s (NYSE: DUK) Robinson Nuclear Plant on April 23, 2026, extending its operational life by another 20 years. The plant sits in Hartsville, South Carolina, delivers 759 megawatts of electricity,
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Babcock, Riley, and IHI Just Targeted 36% of Global Electricity Generation
The world’s aging coal fleet has a problem. These three companies just agreed to solve it. There are over 2,000 coal-fired power plants operating globally. Most of them are not going to be shut down on any near-term timeline. Replacing them requires capital that many developing economies do not have, grid capacity that does not
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JinkoSolar Just Made Billions of Square Meters of Rooftop Available for Solar
Billions of square meters of rooftop have been off-limits for solar. JinkoSolar just changed that. The solar industry has a rooftop problem nobody talks about enough. Not every roof can hold a solar panel. Older factory buildings, light-gauge steel structures, coal sheds, agricultural greenhouses, and buildings with deteriorating frames often cannot support the weight of
