World:
¶ “Mexican Navy Ships Carrying Humanitarian Aid Dock In Cuba As US Blockade Sparks Energy Crisis” • Two Mexican Navy ships carrying humanitarian aid docked in Cuba amid an energy crisis caused by a US blockade. The ships arrived two weeks after US President Trump threatened tariffs on any country selling or providing oil to Cuba. [Euronews]
Cranes in Havana harbor (kuhnmi, CC BY-SA 2.0)
¶ “Xiaomi Targeting 550,000 Sales This Year” • One entrant in the market really stood out in the past two years. That company is Xiaomi. Better known for its phones, it decided to get into the EV game, and launched its first model 22 months ago. Ever since then, it has been the brand to watch. Its YU7 sold 37,869 units in China in January. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Tesla’s Sales In China Drop 45% Year Over Year” • Yesterday we saw that Tesla’s sales are down in several European markets so far this year. Now we have news out of China, and it is worse. Tesla’s sales were down 23% in the markets analyzed in Europe, but the company’s EV sales in January 2026 were down in China by a whopping 45%. [CleanTechnica]
Long-range Tesla Model 3
¶ “Rising AI And Cooling Demand Threaten Renewable Climate Gains” • A study from the University of Sussex and published in Nature Reviews Clean Technology warns that energy-hungry AI data centers and expanding use of air conditioning are threatening to undermine climate gains of wind and solar, using the electricity up instead of displacing fossil fuels. [Energy Live News]
¶ “BYD Passed Up Ford In Global Auto Sales In 2025” • Here is something that has had almost no attention. It is the fact that BYD delivered more vehicles in 2025 than Ford did! BYD, which only sells plugin vehicles, sold 4.6 million vehicles, while Ford sold 4.4 million and was passed up by the Chinese EV producer for the first time. [CleanTechnica]
BYD Han (BYD image)
¶ “EirGrid Reports 39% Renewables Rate In January” • EirGrid said 39% of electricity used in January came from renewable sources. The grid operator added that wind provided 33% of all power, after it delivered 1,119 GWh compared with 1,243 GWh in December. EirGrid stated that solar contributed somewhat less than 1% of the fuel mix. [reNews]
¶ “Collett Completes Stranoch Turbine Deliveries” • Collett has completed delivery of 189 wind turbine components to EDF power solutions UK’s 102-MW Stranoch Wind Farm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The logistics specialist transported components for twenty Vestas turbines comprising nine V150s, seven V136s and four V117s. [reNews]
Transporting turbine blades (Collett image)
¶ “Africa Leads Growth In Solar Energy As Demand Spreads Beyond Traditional Markets, Report Says” • Africa was the world’s fastest-growing solar market in 2025, defying a global slowdown and reshaping where the momentum in renewable energy is concentrated, according to a report by the Africa Solar Industry Association. [Yahoo Finance]
¶ “CNOOC Eyes 3.5-GW Offshore Wind Boost” • CNOOC plans to boost its offshore wind power capacity by about 40% this year to 3,500 MW. The figure, given by chairman Zhang Chuanjiang, was reported by China Petrochem Magazine. CNOOC partnered with Ming Yang Smart Energy Group to deploy turbines off China’s southern provinces. [reNews]
Wind turbine (Mingyang image)
¶ “Study Reveals Worrying Trend As First-Of-Its-Kind Nuclear Plant Is Set To Open” • Indonesia is set to get its first nuclear power plant, and public opinion is mostly positive, but there are questions about how much people really understand, Kompas reported. People indicated they didn’t know much about nuclear power or the plants that produce it. [The Cool Down]
US:
¶ “President Trump Makes Most Aggressive Step Yet To Roll Back US Climate Rules” • President Donald Trump reversed the “endangerment finding” of 2009 that underpins US efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, marking Trump’s biggest effort to dismantle climate regulations. The repeal wipes out all greenhouse gas standards. [Euronews]
Lightning storm (Greg Johnson, Unsplash)
¶ “Sierra Club Statement On The Trump Administration’s Elimination Of The EPA’s Endangerment Finding” • “In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced its rule revoking the EPA’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act.” [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Electric Vehicle Sales Fell As Hybrid Vehicle Sales Continued To Rise In 2025” • About 22% of light-duty vehicles sold in 2025 in the US were hybrid, battery EVs, or plug-in hybrid vehicles, up from 20% in 2024. Among them categories, hybrids have continued to gain market share while battery EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles decreased. [CleanTechnica]
Please click on the image to enlarge it (EIA image)
¶ “Using Taxpayer Money, Trump Bails Out Coal Power Plants” • Aside from denying that long established climate science is real, and the threats to humanity from global heating are great, the Trump regime is intent on pretending that fossil fuels are better than they are. So coal-burning plants get bailed out in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and North Carolina. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Colorado Bill Would Require Renewable Energy For Data Centers To Guard Against Rising Energy Bills” • As developers eye Colorado for a wave of new data centers to power the AI boom, a new bill backed by environmental and consumer groups aims to shield residents from the impacts of the massive, energy-hungry facilities. [Colorado Public Radio]
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