Opinion:
¶ “Climate Tech Is Reducing Emissions And Improving Urban Landscapes And Lives” • If we hope to see a climate-hardy world in coming years, we must recast the way we design our urban environments. Possible ways to achieve our goals are winding and tenuous, sure, and an array of innovations are needed to make urban net zero goals viable. [CleanTechnica]
Chicago (Jeff Brown, Unsplash)
Science and Technology:
¶ “Cautious Optimism Surrounds Plans For The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant” • Commonwealth Fusion Systems hopes to have a fusion power plant running in the next few years. Fusion power plants have never been used because the process is extremely difficult. In business and scientific communities, there is cautious hope of getting it going. [The Week]
World:
¶ “Japan To Maximize Nuclear Power In Clean-Energy Push As Electricity Demand Grows” • A government-commissioned panel of experts largely supported Japan’s new energy policy for the next few years. The policy calls for bolstering renewables up to half of electricity needs by 2040 while maximizing the use of nuclear power. [ABC News]
Nuclear plant (TEPCO, IAEA Imagebank, CC-BY-SA 2.0, cropped)
¶ “Undersea Power Cable Linking Finland And Estonia Hit By Outage” • A power cable linking Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea suffered an outage, prompting an investigation. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo that power transmission through the Estlink-2 cable stopped and that authorities were investigating the matter. [ABC News]
¶ “Acme Solar Secures Financing For 300-MW Solar-Wind Hybrid Project, Wins 300-MW PV Project” • Acme Solar has announced that a subsidy has secured ₹1,988 crore ($233 million) in loan financing from Power Finance Corp to fund development and construction of a 300-MW solar-wind hybrid renewable energy project. [pv magazine India]
Acme Solar plant in Rajasthan (Acme Solar image)
¶ “Trina Solar Partners With AMEA Power To Land Large-Scale Energy Storage Project In Egypt” • Trina Solar announced a partnership with AMEA Power, a clean energy company, to build a large energy storage project in Egypt. The battery project will back up the largest solar PV system in Africa with Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO₄) storage. [Energytrend]
¶ “How Agrivoltaics Is Marrying Food Production With Green Energy” • People say you can’t graze cattle on solar farms, but the CEO of Calgary-based Sun Cycle Farms believes doubters were proven wrong by a pilot project grazing cattle inside a grid-tied solar farm. He said it proves that livestock production and renewable energy can co-exist. [CTV News Calgary]
Agrivoltaics with sheep (Merrill Smith, US DOE, public domain)
¶ “Europe’s Largest Solar Farm Leads the Charge for 2025” • The Kalyon Karapinar Solar Power Plant is Europe’s largest and the world’s fifth-largest solar farm. With more than 3.5 million solar panels, this project generates enough electricity to power nearly 3% of Turkey’s grid, showing its role in reducing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels. [FinancialContent]
US:
¶ “Ameren Missouri Brings 500 MW Of Solar Online” • Ameren Missouri announced that after investing about $950 million, 500 MW of solar capacity are online as three facilities. They are the 200-MW Huck Finn Renewable Energy Center, the 150-MW Boomtown REC, and the 150-MW Cass County REC. AM has a pipeline of other resources. [Power Engineering]
Solar array (Ameren Missouri image)
¶ “Diversity In Energy Generation And Storage” • Kern County is a renewable energy hub of California and a key to reaching its clean energy goals. Long a producer of power from wind, it has recently added large-scale solar projects. One farm, Eland will produce 7% of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s electricity. [The Santa Barbara Independent]
¶ “The Trump Admin Could Make Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Projects Less Environmentally Friendly ” • Climate scientists and economists say the Inflation Reduction Act will drastically reduce carbon emissions over the next decade and mitigate the impacts of climate change. On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised to repeal it. [WPSU Penn State]
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