The United States’ booming fossil-fuel industry continues to emit more and more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere, new research showed, despite a U.S.-led effort to encourage other countries to cut emissions globally. […]
European Carmakers Call for Urgent Action as EV Sales Crash
Battery electric vehicle (BEV) registrations in the European Union tumbled by 44% in August from a year earlier as all new car sales slumped by 18%, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, ACEA, […]
Global solar additions to hit 593GW in 2024, says Ember
Unsurprisingly, much of this growth has been driven by China, with China’s 2023 solar capacity additions greater than the world’s total capacity additions in both 2021 and 2022. Ember notes that China […]
NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies, potential grid impacts
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Almost two years after Winter Storm Elliott forced the largest recorded manual load shed in the history of the Eastern […]
Rising power prices could drive nearly half of US households to rooftop solar: Enverus
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Rising energy prices could spur 47% of U.S. households to install rooftop solar by 2050, according to analysis […]
Ohio PUC Struggles To Balance Demands Of Data Centers And Utility Company
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Large energy consumers must sometimes make a monthly payment to a utility that is a percentage […]
The Real Reason Kamala Harris Won’t Ban Fracking
During the recent heated presidential debate, former President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris would ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) if she became president. He asserted, “If she won the […]
US nuclear, coal power sites could host up to 269 GWe of new nuclear capacity: DOE
Dive Brief: The sites of operating or recently retired U.S. nuclear power plants could support up to 95 GW of additional electric power production capacity from newly-built nuclear reactors, the Department of […]
The trouble with Exowatt’s ‘groundbreaking’ energy tech for data centers | Latitude Media
There’s an unwritten rule in climate tech: the flashier and more expensive the reveal of a “transformational” product, the more skeptical you should be. Exowatt, the startup backed by Sam Altman and […]
Nuclear Power Surpasses Fossil Fuels in South Korea’s Energy Mix
This year, nuclear power has generated more electricity in South Korea than either coal or natural gas for the first time ever, achieving a milestone in one of the world’s top importers […]
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