Opinion:
¶ “The Great American Boycott!” • If we want to change the way America works, we need to influence the corporations that tell Congress what to do. How to do that? Stop doing business with them. Don’t buy their products. Once corporations start to feel the pain, they will respond. The leverage we have as consumers is enormous. [CleanTechnica]
The face of Freedom (US Capitol, public domain)
Science and Technology:
¶ “From Beta to Data: Marine Energy Analysis Tool Is Now Stable And Ready” • A team of national laboratory researchers recently released version 1.0 of the Marine Hydrokinetic Toolkit. It is a free, publicly available software tool to process, analyze, visualize, and standardize marine energy data, for abundant and reliable energy. [CleanTechnica]
World:
¶ “Cracks In The Future Of Arctic Ice-Breaking” • Any plan for Greenland has to take ice into accout. It chokes the harbours, entombs minerals, and threatens ships all year. But the US has only three ice breakers. The country has entered agreements for more, but can only source the ships from adversaries or allies it has recently rebuffed. [Euronews]
Icebreaker (NOAA, Unsplash)
¶ “Sea Levels Are Rising Across The World, But Scientists Say They’re About To Fall In Greenland” • Rising temperatures are causing sea levels to rise around the world. But in Greenland, the opposite is happening. Researchers warn that sea levels around the autonomous island are projected to fall despite heat-trapping emissions melting the ice. [Euronews]
¶ “Cadeler Signs Monopile Installation Agreement” • Cadele has signed a preferred supplier agreement for the installation of monopiles and transition pieces for an undisclosed wind farm in European waters. The campaign is expected to begin in the first half of 2028 and will use two vessels, including one of Cadeler’s newbuild A-class series. [reNews]
Wind Osprey (Cadeler image)
¶ “President Says Mexico Is Pausing Oil Shipments To Cuba” • President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico has stopped its oil shipments to Cuba at least temporarily. Her tone was ambiguous, however, and she added that the pause was related to fluctuations in oil supplies. She said it was an “sovereign decision” not made under pressure from the US. [ABC News]
¶ “Awel Y Môr To Deliver ‘Growth And Good Jobs’ To Wales” • The UK government’s Welsh secretary Jo Stevens has tipped RWE’s proposed 775-MW Awel y Môr off north Wales to deliver “more well paid, highly skilled jobs and growth” to the region. The 50-turbine extension of the operational 576-MW Gwynt y Mor is due online by 2031. [reNews]
Gwynt y Mor windfarm (RWE image)
¶ “Medium Voltage Circuit Breaker Market To Reach $11.99 Billion By 2030” • The medium voltage circuit breaker market has shown significant growth. Its value, $7.36 billion in 2025, expected to rise to $8.07 billion by 2026, for a CAGR of 9.6%. Key drivers include the expansion of power distribution networks and grid modernization endeavors. [Yahoo Finance]
US:
¶ “Here Comes Concentrating Solar Power To Decarbonize Industrial Heat” • US manufacturers are still innovating. One example is solar thermal manufacturer GlassPoint. The startup raised $20 million in a funding round spearheaded by NIS New Solutions, a Liechtenstein firm, with its eye on global markets as well as here at home. [CleanTechnica]
Concentrating solar power (GlassPoint image, screenshot)
¶ “Hundreds Of Thousands of US People Voice Opposition To Trump’s Plan To Expand Offshore Drilling” • Nearly 300,000 Americans submitted comments in opposition to the proposed 34 oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, California, and the Gulf of Mexico. Among those who voiced opposition are scientists, faith leaders, businesses, and NGOs. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “100 GW Of CdTe Thin Film Solar By 2030, But How To Get There?” • Despite the sudden U-turn in US energy policy, US solar innovators keep pushing the renewable energy transition forward. The latest example comes from Ohio, where a research team outlined a way for the US to produce 100 GW of CdTe thin film solar per year by 2030. [CleanTechnica]
CdTe thin film solar (Courtesy of First Solar via US DOE)
¶ “Judge Clears Vineyard To Restart Construction” • Vineyard Wind has been allowed to resume work after a Boston District Court judge granted a stay against the US administration’s lease suspension and construction pause issued on 22 December 2025. The order was “likely arbitrary and capricious,” Judge Murphy said in his ruling. [reNews]
¶ “Trump Administration Fast-Tracks Oil & Gas Drilling In Our National Forests, While It Removes Signage On Climate Change And Native American History” • The Trump’s administration is doing whatever he wants to drag the US backward and accelerate global heating and climate catastrophe. They think solar power is unacceptable, but oil & gas are not. [CleanTechnica]
Tribal House (National Park Service, public domain)
¶ “How Climate Superfund Bills Use Science To Make Polluters Pay” • This week, communities across the country are asking their state legislators for a common-sense solution, using a practice that’s been around for decades, to make polluters pay. In 1980, the “Superfund” has held that companies that created toxic pollution were responsible for cleaning it up. [The Equation]
¶ “The Trump Administration Has Secretly Rewritten Nuclear Safety Rules” • The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating. And it did this without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents that were obtained exclusively by NPR. [MTGamer]
Have a traditionally exceptional day.
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