Opinion:
¶ “Understanding The Tipping Points For Transportation” • To analyze the shift from fossil-burning vehicles to EVs, it’s valuable to combine three theories: Diffusion of innovations, the s-curve or logistic growth, and complex adaptive systems. These models explain why the changes are not gradual but instead come about in sharp bursts. [CleanTechnica]
Abandoned gas station (Polina Skaia, Unsplash)
World:
¶ “NISAR Satellite Could Help Predict Natural Disasters Before They Happen” • The NISAR mission, built by NASA and ISRO, will use two frequencies of radar to measure small changes (less than o.5 inch) on the Earth’s surface. This will help researchers predict natural disasters, such as wildfires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides. [ABC News]
¶ “EU Will Buy $750 Billion Worth Of US Energy” • President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the US and the EU had reached a deal that would impose a 15% tariff on most goods. Under the deal, the EU will buy $750 billion worth of energy from the US and increase investments $600 billion. [ABC News]
Nodding donkey (Moritz Kindler, Unsplash)
¶ “Largest PV System In The Philippines On A Mall” • Monsoon rains and the floods that followed the two typhoons that just passed didn’t stop Philippines’ retail store giant SM Supermalls from launching what is now the country’s largest rooftop solar PV system at SM City Fairview. The mall is less than 20 km from the capital of Manila. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Spiro Deploys 500 Electric Motorcycles In Uganda In One Day!” • This has probably got to be the largest rollout of electric motorcycles in Africa in a single day! And Spiro followed this up by deploying another 300 bikes the next day and another 150 bikes a few days later. They are ramping up to deploy at least 175 to 200 motorcycles per day. [CleanTechnica]
Spiro motorcycles (Courtesy of Spiro)
¶ “Koorangie Battery Now Operational” • A new battery system has powered up in the Murray River Region of Victoria, built of 100 Tesla Megapacks. The project provides 185 MW and 370 MWh of energy storage, enough to power 350,000 homes for two hours. The battery plant has a 15-year offtake agreement with Shell Energy. [Energy Magazine]
¶ “Thor Offshore Substation Is Installed In Danish North Sea” • The offshore high-voltage substation topside for RWE’s 1-GW Thor wind farm in Denmark has been installed. After the jacket and topside sailed from HSM Offshore’s Schiedam yard, the installation onto the jacket foundation was executed by heavy-lift vessel Gulliver of Scaldis SMC. [reNews]
Heavy-lift vessel Gulliver at work (Scaldis image)
¶ “Labour’s ‘Nuclear Tax’ To Cost Scots £300 Million To Fund English Power Plant” • Labour’s new “nuclear tax” on energy bills will cost Scottish households £300 million over the next decade, it has emerged. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has imposed a levy on energy bills to fund the spiralling costs of the Sizewell C power station in Suffolk. [Yahoo.co]
US:
¶ “Wyoming Wants Renewables. Can The Trump Administration Listen?” • Politicians in Wyoming are delighted that the “Big Beautiful Bill” will fund tax breaks for the state’s faltering fossil fuel industry. But the same politicians are also a bit upset that wind and solar, the fastest-growing energy sector in the state and nation, are under real threat. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “ChargeScape Demand Response Program For EV Drivers On Long Island” • ChargeScape partnered with PSEG, the primary utility company on Long Island, and drivers of EVs from Ford and BMW in a demand response program that will allow precise management of vehicle charging to lower grid demand during times of peak demand. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Plans For A US Wind Energy “Superhighway” Persist Despite New Hurdles” • To the surprise of nobody, former natural gas CEO and current US Energy Secretary Chris Wright summarily canceled a federal loan guarantee of almost $5 billion for the Grain Belt Express. If that was meant to kill it, Wright missed the mark. The project lives on. [CleanTechnica]
Grain Belt Express (Courtesy of US DOE)
¶ “As Rooftop Solar Gets Hammered, Virtual Power Plants Offer Potential” • The rooftop solar industry is in crisis, as the federal tax credits are being cut off. But solar panels and the batteries that increasingly go with them generate our cheapest electricity. Some experts say the rooftop solar and battery industries should focus on “virtual power plants.” [Canary Media]
¶ “‘Total Mental Collapse’: Trump Ripped After ‘Insane’ New Ramble In Europe” • As he met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly started talking about wind turbines. He said wind turbines “rust and rot in eight years,” and then can’t be “buried” because they will harm the soil. A fact-check said he was wrong least six times. [HuffPost]
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