Energy & Green Tech
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£15B UK Plan Spurs Solar, Battery, Heat Pump Growth
The UK government has unveiled its long-awaited Warm Homes Plan, pledging £15 billion over the next five years to fund solar panels, heat pumps, and battery storage for households. The initiative aims to triple the number of homes with solar panels and lift one million people out of fuel poverty. It also introduces new rights
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Rio Tinto Links Mining to Clean Energy in Utah
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) has turned on a 25-megawatt solar plant at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah. Along with a 5MW array finished in 2023, the site now has 30MW of solar capacity—enough to supply electricity for about 1,000 homes and cut Scope 2 emissions by 20,000 tons of CO₂, or the equivalent of taking
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Investors Bet on India’s Clean Energy Boom
India is electrifying faster than China did at the same stage of development. Per person, it uses less coal and oil than China did back in 2012. That means the country can grow without relying on fossil fuels as much. For investors, this shift is worth paying attention to. Kingsmill Bond from Ember points out
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Elon Musk’s Massive AI Power Claim Is Being Questioned
Elon Musk said this week that xAI’s Colossus 2 data center has reached a one gigawatt scale. Satellite imagery suggests that is not the case yet. Researchers at Epoch AI reviewed recent images of the site and say the system is still far from operating at that level. Cooling Capacity Tells a Different Story Colossus
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Dominion Energy Can Resume $11 Billion Virginia Wind Project After Court Win
Dominion Energy Inc. (NYSE: D) can restart construction on its offshore wind project in Virginia while continuing its legal fight against a federal stop-work order. A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the government from enforcing the order. Judge Rules in Favor of Dominion United States District Judge Jamar Walker
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From Mine to Cloud: How Rio Tinto’s Nuton Technology Powers Data Centers
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) is making waves with a new partnership. The company will supply Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) with copper from its Johnson Camp mine in Arizona using Nuton technology. This process uses microbes to extract copper directly from ore. What is striking is that it is now being deployed at industrial scale,
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Chinese EV Invasion Sparks Canadian Jobs and Price Debate
Canada’s agreement with China on electric vehicles has stirred debate. Some automakers worry it could harm local jobs and disrupt Canada’s EV supply chain. But dealership owners think the move could be good for buyers. More competition could make EVs cheaper and push technology forward. Nazar Navolskyy, co-owner of Favorit Motors in Toronto, said that
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The Hidden Energy Cost of America’s Data Center Boom
The buildout of data centers across the U.S. is accelerating quickly as artificial intelligence workloads expand. Capital spending from large technology companies continues to rise, and there is no sign of a slowdown. What is becoming clearer, though, is that the country’s power infrastructure is not keeping pace. Most of the U.S. electrical grid was
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95% of Rural Michigan Drivers Reject EVs—Here’s the Shocking Truth
Rural Michigan Drivers Aren’t Buying EVs—Even When They Could A new University of Michigan survey of 1,000 rural residents shows there’s a big gap between perception and reality when it comes to electric vehicles. Only 5% said they’d choose an EV as their next car. That’s well below the national average. Researchers say cost worries,
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New Sub-Zero Freezer by HKUST Promises Massive CO2 Reduction Worldwide
HKUST Builds First Sub-Zero Elastocaloric Freezer Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology say they have made the world’s first sub-zero elastocaloric freezer. It can reach -12℃. That’s pretty cool, literally, and could shake up the freezing industry. They published the work in Nature, calling it “Sub-zero Celsius Elastocaloric Cooling via Low-transition-temperature Alloys.”
