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World:

¶ “Well-Managed Solar Farms Can Boost Wildlife – Study” • A study from the RSPB and the University of Cambridge found that well-managed solar farms can contribute to nature as well as “provide relief from the effects of agricultural intensification.” Scientists found that solar farms had a greater number of species and individual birds per hectare. [BBC]

Goldfinch (Patrice Bouchard, Unsplash)

¶ “T&E Joins Shipping And Aviation Industries In Call for Urgent Action to Ramp Up Clean Fuel Production” • T&E and the two industry associations highlight that meeting the targets of the European Green Deal and ensuring that these industries remain competitive requires immense investments will require around €100 billion in investments. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Ofgem Unveils Plans To Fast-Track UK Grid Connections” • Radical reform to fast-track cheaper, cleaner power plugging into the electricity grid is one step closer to becoming a reality, UK energy regulator Ofgem announced. Some clean energy generation or storage projects have waited a decade or more to get plugged in. That is to change. [reNews]

Grid (Andrey Metelev, Unsplash)

¶ “Global Investment In The Clean Energy Transition Surpassed $2.1 Trillion In 2024, But More Is Needed” • Global investment in the low-carbon energy transition surged to a record $2.1 trillion in 2024, marking an 11% increase from the previous year, says the BloombergNEF report, “Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025.” But more is needed. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “SeAH Wind Confirms March Start For Teesworks” • SeAH Wind has confirmed it will commence commercial production at its £900 million monopile manufacturing facility at Teesworks in the UK from next month. The company rolled the first 7.5-meter diameter steel can in pre-production trials at the factory late last year. [reNews]

SeAH Wind factory (SeAH Wind image)

¶ “Cyprus Curtails 29% Of Renewable Energy In 2024” • Cyprus curtailed a record 29% of its renewable energy in 2024. This was not a surprise. The grid operator had predicted that Cyprus would need to curtail 28% of its renewable energy generation in 2024 due to low seasonal demand and the need to keep the network stable. [pv magazine International]

¶ “Dragados To Open Spanish Yard For TenneT Platforms” • A new production yard was added in Spain by Dragados to carry out fabrication of TenneT’s 2-GW offshore converter stations. The production site, with 400,000 sq m of space, is being built in the southern Spanish coastal town of Algeciras for production of converter platforms in the 2-GW class. [reNews]

Production site (Dragados image)

¶ “In Modi-Trump Statement, Climate And Renewable Energy Find No Mention” • Climate mitigation, renewable energy, and clean energy supply chains were missing from the Indo-US joint statement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump’s first bilateral meeting in Trump’s second term. The focus was fossil fuels. [The Indian Express]

¶ “Australians Want Renewables To Replace Coal, But Don’t Realize How Soon This Needs To Happen” • An Essential poll of of 1,200 voting age Australians found a majority reject nuclear energy (81%) or fossil fuel options (70%) to provide on-demand or back-up energy. Few are aware of how soon the coal plants are scheduled to shut down. [RenewEconomy]

Cooling tower (Brice Cooper, Unsplash)

¶ “Chernobyl Nuclear Plant’s Protective Shield Torn Open By Russian Drone” • The protective cover encasing the leaking Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been damaged by a Russian drone, CCTV appears to show.The drone destroyed the plant’s fourth power unit during an overnight attack, according to Ukraine president Zelensky. [AOL.com]

US:

¶ “Green Ammonia Fertilizer Plot Bubbles Up To Threaten Fossil Fuels” • The latest development comes from Trump-voting Iowa, where two US firms have hatched a green ammonia scheme to help farmers cut their fertilizer costs. Funding farmers expected was cut off, and they can’t sell in markets supported by USAID, but they have this. [CleanTechnica]

Solar green ammonia system (Image from businesswire.com)

¶ “SEIA Sets Ambitious Goal Of 700 GWh Of US Energy Storage By 2030” • The Solar Energy Industries Association  announced a major goal: 700 GWh of energy storage installed in the US by 2030, in 10 million distributed storage installations. That’s over eight times our current storage capacity, and it redefines how we generate and use electricity. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Nature Conservancy Announces Seventeen New Solar Energy Projects In Appalachia” • The Nature Conservancy announced that it’s partnering with Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership, Sun Tribe Development, and ENGIE to develop fourteen solar energy and three battery storage projects on 360 acres of former coal mines in the Appalachians. [CleanTechnica]

Solar array (Nature Conservancy image)

¶ “Heavy Rain Pounds Fire-Ravaged Los Angeles As Severe Storms Barrel Through” • A heavy storm struck fire-ravaged Los Angeles with heavy rain, sending streams of mud and debris over roadways and sweeping a fire department vehicle off a Malibu road into the ocean, authorities said. A Fire Department member who was in it escaped. [ABC News]

¶ “As Power Demand Surges, Virginia Lawmakers Seem Ready To Add More Energy Storage To The Grid” • Virginia lawmakers want to more than triple the amount of energy storage capacity Virginia’s two public utility companies,  Appalachian Power and Dominion, must procure under the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which was passed in 2020. [Virginia Mercury]

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