Opinion:
¶ “Tesla Board Offers $1 Trillion To Get Musk To Pay Attention To Business” • A board of directors of a major public corporation should not have to beg its CEO to pay attention to the business. If that person is not interested, get someone who is. But that is not how things work at Tesla, where the board is made up of slaves to the wishes of one person. [CleanTechnica]
Tesla in orbit (SpaceX, CC0 1.0, public domain)
¶ “Nuclear Power Is Failing, And AI Can’t Rescue It” • An intensive influence campaign seeks to resurrect a “nuclear renaissance” from the industry’s slow-motion collapse documented in the independent annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. The illusion of rebirth neatly fits the industry’s business-model shift from selling products to harvesting subsidies. [Utility Dive]
World:
¶ “Cloud Seeding, Flash Floods, And A Thirsty City: The UAE’s Fragile Relationship With Rain” • Rainfall has long fascinated the people of the Emirates. That includes both its locals crowding into the deserts for any downpour and its vast population of foreign workers, many of whom grew up with monsoon deluges. But rain has peril with its promises. [Euronews]
Palm trees in Dubai (Vangelis Kovu, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “Radioactive Metal At Indonesia Industrial Site May Be Linked To Shrimp Recall” • Contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia may be the source of radioactive material that led to massive recalls of imported frozen shrimp, international nuclear safety officials say, as efforts continue to halt more shipments bound for the US. [ABC News]
¶ “Ethical Power Commissions A 55-MW Spanish PV Farm” • Ethical Power commissioned a 55-MW solar farm in the Seville region of Andalusia. The Fundici solar farm is owned by Encavis AG, who selected Ethical Power as the principal EPC contractor. The solar farm was developed by Hive Energy, and Ethical Power optimized the design. [reNews]
Fundici solar farm (Ethical Power image)
¶ “BYD BEV Sales Up 34% While PHEV Sales Down 23%” • BYD’s full electric vehicle (BEV) sales were up YOY, 34.4% higher in August 2025 than in August 2024. Looking across the first eight months of the year, they were up 39.4% in 2025 compared to 2024. BYD’s plugin hybrid vehicle (PHEV) sales, however, were down YOY in August. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “AMDA Bags Permit For 1-GW Wind Farm” • A 1-GW wind farm in the Western Cape is the largest permitted wind energy project in South Africa. AMDA Developments will build the 154-turbine Carissa Wind Energy Facility near Beaufort West. The scheme has been granted environmental authorisation after an environmental impact assessment process. [reNews]
Wind farm (AMDA image)
¶ “AGEL Picks Andritz To Kit Out 1.8-GW Hydro Plant” • Andritz has an order from Adani Green Energy Limited to equip the new 1,800-MW Gandikota pumped storage hydro plant in India. Andritz will supply reversible pump turbines, motor-generators, and related electromechanical equipment for the project, which is in Andhra Pradesh. [reNews]
¶ “1.3-GW Upper Calliope Solar Power Farm Australia’s Largest Solar Plant Underway” • The 1.3 GW Upper Calliope Solar Farm is a flagship renewable energy development in Queensland led by European Energy. It will be the largest solar project by the company in Australia, and it is expected to meet about 5% of Queensland’s total demand. [Construction Review]
Solar array (Manny Becerra, Unsplash)
¶ “Safety Costs For Reactors In Japan Jump To ¥6.5 Trillion” • Costs for safety measures by 11 power companies to restart idle reactors at their nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima disaster have risen to ¥6.5 trillion ($43.98 billion), an Asahi Shimbun survey shows. Total costs are expected to continue to rise. [The Asashi Shimbun]
US:
¶ “ICE Took 475 People Taken Into Custody At Hyundai Plant In Georgia” • US immigration authorities have arrested 475 people in a raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, Steve Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Securities Investigations Atlanta, said at a press conference. Those taken were all employees of contractors. [ABC News]
Hyundai plant in Georgia (Hyundai image)
¶ “Tesla’s Proposed Pay Package Could Make Elon Musk A Trillionaire” • Tesla’s board proposed compensation for CEO Elon Musk that would bring the tech entrepreneur’s wealth above $1 trillion if the company fulfills a set of strict benchmarks over the next decade, a securities filing shows. Musk could get roughly $900 billion over ten years. [ABC News]
¶ “Natron Closes Its Doors, Ending Job Opportunities In Michigan And North Carolina” • Natron Energy was to develop sodium-ion batteries as a cost-effective sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries. With federal incentives, it was to build a gigafactory in North Carolina. Now, with the One Big Bad Bill, it’s gone bust, taking its jobs with it. [CleanTechnica]
Natron battery (Natron image)
¶ “Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium And Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea?” • The Hell’s Kitchen project in Imperial County, California, gets attention because it could deliver on two goals in one place. Controlled Thermal Resources is building a facility that would generate geothermal electricity while also extracting lithium from the same brine. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Georgia Power Receives Approval For Five New Solar Facilities” • Georgia Power is moving forward with five new solar projects, after receiving approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission. The facilities will be built by third-party companies and have a total generating capacity of 1,068 MW, which will be supplied through PPAs. [WTOC]
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