World:
¶ “‘Social Leasing’ Could Provide Affordable EVs to 3 Million Households in Europe ” • Social leasing, which allows EVs under €25,000 to be leased at low rents, already exists in France and could be taken up by other EU countries. It could help up to 3 million households on low or modest incomes in the five largest EU countries go electric by 2032. [CleanTechnica]
Dacia Spring (Alexander Migl, CC-BY-SA 4.0)
¶ “The Fossil Fuel Car Trap: Europe’s Transport Vulnerability Risk” • Öko-Institut did an analysis of the transport vulnerability arising from fossil fuel car dependency in five EU countries. A briefing by T&E focuses on how current mobility patterns and the uneven vehicle fleet electrification risk leaving households behind in the energy transition. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “China Is The World’s First Electrostate” • Many nations that made coal, oil, and methane the basis of their economies are known as “petrostates.” A recent article published by the Financial Times says, “China is the world’s first major electrostate,” shifting from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to relying mainly on renewables. [CleanTechnica]
Wind turbines (天王星, CC-BY-SA 3.0, cropped)
¶ “Japan’s Troubled Automaker Nissan Banks On Hybrid EV Technology” • Japanese automaker Nissan is banking on its “e-Power” technology to bring it back from loss. The e-Power, a hybrid, has both an electric motor and gasoline engine, like a Toyota Prius. Unlike a Prius, it runs on electric power only, and the engine charges it as needed. [ABC News]
¶ “European Wake Effects Study Begins” • Scientists and experts from Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark are working on methods to increase the accuracy of forecasts of wake effects in offshore wind farms. In the North Sea, dense installations of offshore wind farms are planned in several regions, and reliable power production forecasting is needed. [reNews]
Offshore windpower (insung yoon, Unsplash)
¶ “Alliance To Advance Cross-Border Supply Of Renewables” • Energy companies from Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam have formed an alliance to explore the cross-border supply of renewable energy, with a key focus on offshore wind. The joint development agreement will explore exporting renewables from Vietnam to Malaysia and Singapore. [reNews]
¶ “SeaRenergy, Tethys Robotics Form Partnership” • SeaRenergy and Swiss company Tethys Robotics are collaborating to enhance offshore subsea inspection services. The partnership integrates the Tethys ONE system into the SeaRenergy offshore service portfolio, with the aim of enhancing the efficiency and quality of subsea inspections. [reNews]
Tethys ONE (Tethys Robotics image)
¶ “Australia Sets New Grid Rules To Speed Up Renewable Energy Connections” • The Australian Energy Market Commission has released the first of two major reforms to the National Electricity Marketaccess standards, which it said are fit for the evolving electricity generation landscape to ensure grid security and fair access, starting August 21. [pv magazine International]
¶ “Pacific Energy Completes $2 Billion Funding Raise To Boost Growth Plans” • Pacific Energy has raised A$370 million ($240 million) in fresh equity and secured a debt facility for A$400 million, upsizing its total debt capacity to A$1.6 billion as the company looks to advance a “robust pipeline” of renewable energy projects in Australia. [pv magazine Australia]
Renewable energy (Pacific Energy image)
¶ “SEC Leaps Into Victoria’s Electricity Market With Deal For ‘100% Renewables’ For Government” • The State Electricity Commission has signed up to supply all Victorian government operations with 100% renewable energy, in a deal that will reboot the government-owned utility as its fifth-largest commercial and industrial electricity retailer. [RenewEconomy]
US:
¶ “Oopsies! Trump Misses Green Hydrogen Export Opportunity, Bigly” • Energy professionals advise that Europe needs to import more green hydrogen to meet its decarbonization targets. That would be a golden opportunity for US producers, except for the meddling fingers of the incompetent Commander-in-Chief who occupies the White House. [CleanTechnica]
Hydrogen projects at the Port of Rotterdam
¶ “With PSC Hearings Pending, Critics Pan Georgia Power’s Plans To Increase Use Of Fossil Fuels” • The Georgia Public Service Commission is set to vote July 15 as the state’s largest utility expects to spend billions of dollars to meet rising energy demands due to new data centers. Georgia Power’s plan includes both fossil fuels and renewables. [Georgia Recorder]
¶ “Texas Becomes Front Line Of GOP Civil War Over Energy” • Texas has become ground zero in a GOP battle over energy, pitting a suburban populist right that seeks to throttle the state’s renewables program against the mainline Republican business establishment. A similar red-on-red fight is taking place at the federal level. [The Hill]
Texas wind farm (USDA NRCS Texas, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
¶ “Cape Cod’s May Elections Unanimous Against Nuclear Waste” • Voters across Cape Cod and nearby towns are sending a clear message for state leaders: they don’t want wastewater vapor from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, closed since 2019, released into the air. That is the position they took overwhelmingly in a nonbinding ballot question. [Cape Cod Times]
¶ “The US Administration Targets 400 GW Of Nuclear Capacity By 2050 ” • Two Executive Orders were signed to expedite and promote the production and operation of nuclear energy. They aims to expand the US nuclear capacity from about 100 GW in 2024 to 400 GW by 2050. One part of this would be to expand the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain. [Enerdata]
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