Energy & Green Tech
AI Power Crunch Drives Two Cleantech Companies to On-Site Power Solutions
The US electric grid cannot connect new power demand fast enough. The interconnection queue for new generation and large load projects in North America now runs to more than five years on average. AI data centers need power on a timeline measured in months, not years. That gap between what the grid can deliver and…
PJM Hit a 20-Year Demand Record as Wind and Solar Subsidies Expire
The One Big Beautiful Bill’s construction-start deadline for wind and solar projects expired at midnight on July 4, 2026, closing 35 years of federal subsidy support for new clean energy capacity. The same weekend, PJM Interconnection — the largest power grid in the United States, serving 67 million people — triggered its third federal emergency…
enCore Energy Clears NRC Hurdle as ESS Tech Pivots Strategy
A nuclear regulator just cleared a uranium mine in South Dakota. A battery maker just announced it is betting less on the battery it built its company around. A penny stock worth less than $1 million just landed a $45 million tax credit. enCore Energy Clears NRC Environmental Hurdle for South Dakota Uranium Project enCore…
enCore Energy Wins Decade-Long Fight for Dewey Burdock Approval
enCore Energy spent more than a decade waiting for a federal agency to say yes. Cosa Resources just started its biggest drill program ever on a project it does not yet know is worth anything. One company knows what it has and can finally build it. The other is still finding out whether it has…
Eos Energy Up 12% on Battery Line 2 as Brenmiller Eyes Italy Market
Eos Energy’s stock is down 52% over six months. On June 16, it jumped 12% in a single morning. Eos Energy Launches Battery Line 2 and Stock Jumps 12% Despite Being Down 52% Over Six Months Eos Energy Enterprises (Nasdaq: EOSE) announced on June 16 that it had started commercial production on Battery Line 2…
Deep Fission Filed for an IPO and the SMR Sector Keeps Outpacing Its Own Reactors
Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding to end a four-month war on June 17. By this morning, US crude had fallen below $75 a barrel for the first time since March, down to roughly $74, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a 60-day sanctions waiver on Iranian oil sales.…
374Water PFAS Capacity Upgrade and PureCycle Packaging Milestone
PFAS has been detected in the blood of 97% of Americans. It does not biodegrade. Most technologies capture it, concentrate it, or move it somewhere else. 374Water’s technology destroys it permanently. On June 9, the company upgraded the facility that does that. 374Water Expands Iron Bridge Facility Targeting $3 Million to $5 Million in Annual…
Section 45Y Wind Solar Construction Deadline Is 19 Days Away: What Developers Must Do
Coal powered the world for a hundred years. Built cities, ran railways, kept the lights on through two world wars. Last year, for the first time in modern history, it generated less electricity than renewables. The transition happened so gradually and then so completely that when the Ember Global Electricity Review published the numbers this…
Fluence Energy Joins Siemens Nvidia AI Data Center Architecture
The biggest clean energy conference of the year ran June 1-4 in Houston. Eight thousand attendees. Five hundred exhibitors. The American Clean Power Association released Q1 data showing 6.4 gigawatts of new capacity added and a US total surpassing 370 gigawatts. Texas approaching 100 gigawatts alone. On the same day the conference opened, Fluence Energy’s…
NuScale Gets South Korea Interest While the July 4 Clean Energy Deadline Closes In
Brent crude crossed $98 in Asian trading on Monday morning after Iran and Israel exchanged missile strikes over the weekend, breaking the April ceasefire for the first time. By midday it had pulled back to $94 after Iran said it had ended its military operations and President Trump said both countries were close to a…
