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Opinion:

¶ “Electrify Everything, Eradicate Energy Poverty” • Worldwide, about 733 million people face hunger. Families don’t see how to light and heat their homes, keep a vehicle fueled, and fix meals. The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative showed a correlation between a lack of electricity and education, poor health, and malnourishment. [CleanTechnica]

Burkina’s gold (TREEAID, CC BY 2.0)

Science and Technology:

¶ “Hurricane Milton Made Up To 800 Times More Likely By Hotter Water In Gulf Of Mexico” • A Climate Central analysis showed that the high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which fueled the rapid intensification of Hurricane Helene, were made between 400 and 800 times more likely by the climate crisis. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Mobile Homes & Municipalities Find Heat Pumps To Fit Their Needs” • ORNL’s Ground Source Heat Pump Screening Tool was designed for GSHP applications. It allows building owners, HVAC system designers, and installers to estimate the benefits and costs of GSHP systems in buildings at all climate zones in the US. [CleanTechnica]

Pump Up Your Savings with Heat Pumps (DOE image)

World:

¶ “How The Source Of Your Tissues And Toilet Paper Is Fueling Wildfires Far Away ” • Few people in other parts of Europe and the US would have realized that some of their everyday products may have played a role in making fires in Portugal worse. Certain paper products are made with materials from eucalyptus trees, which are grown there for paper. [CNN]

¶ “UK To Pour $28 Billion Into Carbon Capture And Storage Over 25 Years” • The UK’s new Labour government announced that it will pump £22 billion ($28.77 billion) into carbon capture and storage schemes over the next 25 years. The Guardian reports the move came after a round of high pressure lobbying by fossil fuel giants. [CleanTechnica]

Protesting carbon capture (Matt Hrkac, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

¶ “Plugin Vehicles Now 22% of World Auto Sales” • Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 19% in August 2024 from August 2023. There were 1.5 million registrations. Battery EVs were up by just 6% year over year, but plugin hybrids jumped 51%, selling close to half a million units. A million battery EVs took up the remaining million registrations. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Kent Wins Substation Design For Five Estuaries” • Kent PLC signed a contract to provide a concept design study of a HVAC offshore substation platform for the RWE-led Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm in England. The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm is the sister extension project of the existing £1.5 billion, 353-MW Galloper Wind Farm. [reNews]

Offshore wind farm substation (Courtesy of Kent)

¶ “SSE Turns Sod On 320-MW UK Battery Site” • Construction is underway on SSE’s largest battery storage project, a 320-MW installation at Monk Fryston, in North Yorkshire. Once the installation is completed in early 2026, the site could power over half a million homes for up to two hours at a time, during times of peak demand. [reNews]

¶ “Renewable Energy To Fall Short Of UN Goal To Triple By 2030, IEA Says” • Renewable energy sources are set to meet nearly half of all electricity demand by the end of the decade. Nevertheless, it will fall short of a UN goal to triple capacity to reduce carbon emissions, a report by the International Energy Agency showed. [Voice of America]

Solar park in Japan (Mark Merner, Unsplash)

¶ “Nuclear Plant ‘Will Decimate Fish Stocks'” • How many fish does a nuclear power station kill? It sounds grisly, but for the engineers building Britain’s first nuclear power station in a generation, it’s an urgent question. And for conservationists and villagers on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, it has become an urgent question. [BBC]

US:

¶ “Milton Strengthens To Category 5 Storm Again” • Hurricane Milton re-strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Tuesday afternoon. It is taking aim at Florida’s west coast, and landfall is expected late Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane. Milton is closing in as Floridians are still recovering from devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene. [ABC News]

Hurricane Milton (Matthew Dominick, NASA, public domain)

¶ “Biden-Harris Admin Announces California’s Launch of First Phase of Federal Home Energy Rebate Programs” • The US DOE announced that California is launching its first federal Home Energy Rebates program, supported by the Inflation Reduction Act. California is starting with a section on an energy efficiency improvements. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “GM Set To Walk Away From Ultium Label Amid Battery Strategy Shake-Up” • General Motors introduced its Ultium battery and EV platform technologies in 2020. Now, according to Bloomberg, the name Ultium may soon disappear at GM. It hired Kurt Kelty, who formerly worked at Tesla, to be in charge of its EV battery program. [CleanTechnica]

Chevrolet Equinox EV 3LT (Courtesy of GM)

¶ “Ohio High Court Races Will Decide Future Of State’s Energy Transition And Utility Fairness” • This fall’s election for three seats on the Supreme Court of Ohio is expected to play a pivotal role in deciding the state’s direction on renewable energy, utility accountability, and other energy issues. Candidates do not run on specific issues but have records. [Ohio Capital Journal]

¶ “Ashtrom Puts On Stream 306-MW Solar Park In Texas” • Part of construction and real estate giant Ashtrom Group, Israel’s Ashtrom Renewable Energy, brought its 306-MW, 400-MW DC Tierra Bonita solar park online, after reaching commissioning earlier than planned. The solar PV farm is in Pecos County, in the west of Texas. [Renewables Now]

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