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- Ford backs a big new solar farm for its Michigan factories (opens Electrek in a new tab) Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy has completed construction of a 100-megawatt (MW) solar farm near Coldwater, Michigan, that will help Ford power its home-state factories with cleaner electricity. more…
- Podcast: Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries, battery swap comes back, and more (opens Electrek in a new tab) In the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries in the US, battery swap coming back, and more. more…
- The world’s tallest wind turbine just reached 1,197 feet (opens Electrek in a new tab) The world’s tallest wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, and its developer says the extra altitude could roughly double its electricity output. more…
- iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries (opens Engadget in a new tab) Not much else differentiates them, which isn't a bad thing.
- UK EV sales surge 36% to record high in September (opens Electrek in a new tab) UK EV sales hit a new all-time record in September. The country registered 99,199 battery-electric cars last month, up 36.3% from a year ago and good for 28.3% of the market, according to preliminary data released today by the Society of…
- Environmental groups sue Trump for raising your fuel costs (opens Electrek in a new tab) A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Transportation’s moves to lower fuel economy standards, which the Department of Energy says will increase gas prices by 76 cents a gallon. more…
- Cities, states sue EPA over power plant emissions rollback (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Chicago, Denver and New York City joined multistate lawsuits challenging the agency’s move to end greenhouse gas emissions standards and failure to enforce requirements on existing gas-fired plants.
- FERC rejects TransAlta 202(c) cost-recovery plan for Centralia unit (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Only utilities in the Northwest should pay the nearly $20 million in expenses for a 90-day order covering the Centralia unit, and despite the unit’s lack of output, payment is due, the agency said.
- Rivian issues R2 recall for poorly tightened battery packs (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) The company says around 14 vehicles may be affected, and that it has resolved the issue on the assembly line.
- Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state (opens Engadget in a new tab) California has joined nine other US states in approving balcony solar installations.
- California gives the green light to balcony solar (opens Electrek in a new tab) Californians who can’t install rooftop solar are getting another way to tap into the sunshine. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill opening the door to small plug-in solar, also known as balcony solar, alongside two laws designed to get more…
- Fashion brands partner with Schneider Electric to expand renewables (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Apparel giants launched the “Fashion Renewable Collective” in collaboration with Schneider Electric to help suppliers across fashion supply chains adopt renewable electricity at scale.
- NYPA to own 51% of 240-MW solar project with EDF (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Rich Road Solar is the first project the New York Power Authority has developed utilizing a public-private partnership model to advance renewable energy.
- Senate permitting bill would expand federal role in transmission siting (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) The legislation gives FERC authority to issue permits for transmission projects when they are in the public interest. It also eliminates NIETCs and the federal right of first refusal for incumbent utilities and protects existing federal…
- Looking beyond peak: Industry coalition floats new approach to measuring grid utilization (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Current grid utilization should be viewed not as a problem, but as an opportunity to advance affordability and free up new capacity, writes Ian Magruder, executive director of Utilize Coalition.
- The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool…
- Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. Th is leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as w ell as whe n it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers…
- How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups…
- Here’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week…
- Measure Distant Asteroids With a DIY Rig (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t involve the sun or the moon—something…
- Engineering the Substation Exit for Reliability, Capacity, and Expansion (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) This white paper gives distribution engineers and utility teams a practical overview of the substation exit, the short and high-consequence section where station capacity divides into individual feeders. It explains how covered…
- 5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy (opens NVIDIA Blog in a new tab) Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timelines, and upfront cost barriers. At New…