World:
¶ “The World’s Strongest Ocean Current Should Be Getting Faster, But It Is At Risk Of Failing” • Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on Earth. Five times as strong as the Gulf Stream, and over 100 times as strong as the Amazon, it is being weakened by fresh water from melting Antarctic ice. [BBC]
Antarctic ice (Cassie Matias, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “Work Begins On Mine Water Heating System” • Work is under way to create a mine water heating system to supply hundreds of homes. Water from disused mines will be used to heat houses in a community being built in County Durham. About 759 homes in the Seaham Garden Village will be heated through an ultra-low-carbon district heat network. [BBC]
¶ “BYD Electric Bus Sales Grow 40.5%, Non-Bus Commercial Vehicle Sales Grow 1,459%!” • BYD’s electric bus sales grew 40.5%, year-on-year, in the first two months of 2025. But non-bus BYD electric commercial vehicle sales grew a whopping 1049.2% in February 2025 over last year, from 362 sales in February 2024 to 4,160 sales in February 2025. [CleanTechnica]
BYD electric truck (BYD image)
¶ “BYD New Energy Vehicle Sales Jump 161%” • Just looking at passenger vehicles, BYD’s new energy vehicle (plugin vehicle) sales grew 161.4% in February 2025 compared to February 2024. It scored 322,846 sales compared to 122,311 in February 2024. That’s huge year-on-year growth when you consider the scale BYD was already at! [CleanTechnica]
¶ “VinFast Partners With Motech On A Nationwide Service Center Network In The Philippines” • VinFast Philippines and Motech Automotive Service Center formalized a Memorandum of Understanding to create a service network for VinFast EVs. The collaboration fits with the VinFast’s commitment to foster green transportation in the region. [CleanTechnica]
Motech service center in Manila (Motech Commonwealth image)
¶ “China’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Deployed In Antarctica” • A hydrogen fuel cell, developed by a subsidiary of China’s State Power Investment Corporation, was successfully deployed at China’s Qinling Station in Antarctica, in a hybrid power supply of wind, solar, hydrogen, and diesel. It is a significant chapter in development of hydrogen energy. [China Daily]
¶ “Vattenfall Chooses DEME For German Projects” • Vattenfall has chosen DEME Offshore to carry out cable protection systems stabilization works at the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The electrical wiring contract is worth €3.56 million for the work at the projects. The DanTysk and Sandbank projects have a total capacity of 576 MW. [reNews]
Wind turbine at DanTysk (Vattenfall image)
¶ “Stalling On Renewables Will See Power Bills Jump In This Decade, Study Shows” • In Australia, domestic power bills could jump 30% by the end of this decade, and for small businesses they could rise by up to 41%, if renewable energy isn’t rolled out faster, according to modelling by Jacobs, a global engineering and professional services firm. [Riotact]
US:
¶ “US Air Force Leads Defense Department Into A Geothermal Energy Future ” • The US Air Force was an early adopter and market-mover for the budding domestic solar industry back in the early 2000s, leading to solar’s explosive growth curve in the ensuing years. Now the Air Force is poised to do the same for geothermal energy. [CleanTechnica]
Geothermal energy (Courtesy of GreenFire Energy)
¶ “Over 16,000 Medium and Heavy Charging And Fueling Points Available In California” • Diesel exhaust is very bad for human health. Replacing gas and diesel trucks with zero-emissions ones improves air quality and is better for both people and the planet. The California Energy Commission has an online charging and fueling dashboard for ZEV trucks. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “GE Vernova And Amazon To Partner On Onshore Wind” • GE Vernova and Amazon Web Services signed a strategic framework agreement that will see the two companies collaborate to commercialise onshore wind development projects. The work will support a larger initiative aimed at supporting AWS’s data center business. [reNews]
GE Vernova office (GE Vernova image)
¶ “Divided House Energy Panel OKs Measure To Eliminate Renewable Energy Fund” • Since 1994, most of the programs, subsidies, rebates, and incentives in Minnesota for renewable energy have been financed by money from a nuclear agreement with XCEL Energy. But that might go away if a new state law is passed. [MN House of Representatives]
¶ “Trump’s Energy Agenda To Encounter Roadblocks, Wood Mackenzie Says” • A report from Wood Mackenzie that explores the implications of actions by the Trump administration says North America’s energy transition could slow down by rising trade tariffs, infrastructure delays, and policy uncertainty for emerging technologies. [pv magazine USA]
Trade goods (PortCalls Asia, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “Supreme Court Takes On Dispute Over Nuclear Waste Storage Sites” • A solution to America’s stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around. The issue is going before the Supreme Court in a dispute from Texas over the federal government’s authority to allow temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel at privately owned facilities far from reactors. [ABC News]
¶ “Court Rules Oyster Creek Fuel Storage Casks Are Permanent” • After a local township asserted that the spent fuel and storage casks should be considered to be permanent, because there is nowhere for them to go, a New Jersey court ruled that the spent nuclear fuel system at the former Oyster Creek nuclear power plant is permanent and taxable. [World Nuclear News]
Have an interestingly fulfilling day.
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