World:
¶ “Swiss Glaciers Shrank 3% This Year, The Fourth-Biggest Retreat On Record” • Switzerland’s glaciers faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists reported. This year’s shrinkage means that ice mass in Switzerland has declined by 25% over the last decade. [ABC News]
Swiss glacier (S&B Vonlanthen, Unsplash)
¶ “Zelenskyy Raises Alarm About Power Outage At Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant” • Ukraine’s president and the head of the UN nuclear watchdog sounded the alarm about safety risks at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, which lost external power supply over a week ago as the war continues to rage around it. [Euronews]
¶ “Largest Solar Energy Projects In The Philippines Online And In The Pipeline” • September 2025 marks a transition point for Aboitiz Renewables Inc, as it concludes the construction phase of its two largest solar developments to date. The rollout addresses both regional power stability and the growing national mandate for renewable energy. [CleanTechnica]
Calatrava Solar Plant (Photo from ARI)
¶ “Baby, It’s Hot Outside! Extreme Heat Is Having An Impact On World Cities” • A statistical analysis by the International Institute of Environment and Development found the number of days of extreme heat in major world cities is increasing at an alarming rate. The analysis found that 2024 had nearly 14% more hot days than the previous record. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Iberdrola Installs First Windanker Monopile” • Iberdrola has begun offshore construction of the 315-MW Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea with the installation of the first monopile. The foundations are up to 84 meters long and weigh 2100 tonnes. They are being installed by Van Oord using the heavy-lift vessel Svanen. [reNews]
Monopiles (Iberdrola image)
¶ “Windward Offshore Takes Delivery Of CSOV” • Windward Offshore has taken delivery of its first commissioning service operation vessel, Windward Athens, from Vard Brattvaag shipyard in Norway. The 87.5-meter vessel is designed for installation, commissioning, and maintenance activities in offshore wind farms. [reNews]
¶ “Rio Tinto Flags Early Closure Of Queensland’s Biggest Coal Generator As LNP Prepares New Energy Plan” • The clock is now ticking for the ageing Gladstone coal-fired power station after its owners told the Australian Energy Market Operator that they’re bringing forward the closure date of the biggest power plant in Queensland to March 2029. [Renew Economy]
Gladstone power station (LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0)
¶ “Russia Cuts Power To Site Of Chernobyl Nuclear Plant” • Russian shelling cut power to the Chernobyl nuclear plant site, where a reactor was destroyed in a nuclear disaster in 1986, Ukraine’s energy ministry said. The confinement structure for the damaged reactor lost power in the shelling. Specialists are working to restore electricity. [RTE.ie]
US:
¶ “Almost 40% Of Cadillac Sales In The Third Quarter Were EVs!” • Cadillac just set a new high bar for itself, as did other US legacy auto brands. Cadillac’s US sales were 39.51% electrics in the third quarter. Cadillac also just had its best third quarter and best first nine months of the year since 2013! A lot of that is thanks to its new electric models. [CleanTechnica]
Cadillac OPTIQ (Cadillac press photo)
¶ “LFP Powder That Costs 40% Less? Electroflow Says It Could Happen” • Literally 99% of LiFePO₄ (LFP) is made in China. But Electroflow, based in California, has a proprietary process to make battery-grade LFP powder from brine in just three steps instead of the ten normally needed. “We think LFP is the missing ingredient for energy prosperity.” [CleanTechnica]
¶ “US Reviewing Atlantic Shores Permit” • The administration of President Trump told a federal court that it is reconsidering its approval of key permits for the up-to 2.8-GW Atlantic Shores South EDF-Shell joint venture off the coast of New Jersey. The US Department of Commerce wrote in a court filing last week that BOEM is reviewing the permit. [reNews]
President Trump (White House photo)
¶ “Nearly 350 Employees Will Be Laid Off At A Fayetteville Site” • Blue Ridge Power, a North Carolina solar energy firm, will lay off 348 employees in Fayetteville and 169 in Asheville, a notice the company sent to the state. The layoffs come after President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” cut tax credits for wind and solar energy. [The Fayetteville Observer]
¶ “US Solar Will Pass Wind In 2025 And Leave Coal In The Dust Soon After” • Based on current deployment rates, it is likely that solar will surpass wind as the third-largest source of electricity. And solar may soon topple coal in the number two spot. This would leave only natural gas with more US capacity to generate electricity than solar. [pv magazine USA]
Solar energy (Raphael Cruz, Unsplash)
¶ “Amazon Signs Deal for Solar Energy to Power Data Centers in US” • Amazon signed a PPA with US energy company Avangrid to purchase electricity from a new solar project it has in Oregon. Avangrid operates 2.5 GW of energy capacity in the state, keeps a National Training Center in Sherman County, and has a major corporate office in Portland. [ESG Today]
¶ “Energy Company Breaks Ground On Next-Gen US Nuclear Reactor” • The Department of Energy announced its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program in June, fast-tracking eleven projects with a goal launch date of July 4, 2026, for at least three of the plans. Now American energy startup Aalo Atomics is constructing a facility, Aalo-X, in Idaho Falls. [MSN]
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