World:
¶ “Trump Brands The UK ‘Crazy’ For Not Drilling The North Sea. Would It Actually Lower Energy Bills?” • Trump attacked renewables, saying the UK is “crazy” not to boost North Sea oil extraction. But analysys from Oxford shows people will save five times as much by using renewable energy than they could by maximizing oil and gas production. [Euronews]
North Sea oil platform (Lee181169, public domain)
¶ “Renewable Energy Gets A Boost From The Iran War” • Early signs are emerging that the energy shock could aid the global spread of renewable power, batteries, electric cars, and other climate-friendly tech. The blocking of oil and gas transit, along with higher prices, has short- and long-term consequences for the economics of different fuels. [MSN]
¶ “Venice Is Threatened By Rising Sea Levels. Will The City Be Forced To Relocate?” • A study published in the journal Scientific Reports, has assessed existing and potential adaptation strategies for the city of Venice in the face of sea-level rise projections from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. [Euronews]
Flooding in Venice (Nastya Dulhiier, Unsplash)
¶ “China Plans To Double Renewable Energy By 2035. That’s The Good News” • China intends to double its supply of non-fossil fuel energy by 2035. Most analysts view that initiative as a way for the country to achieve its climate goals. But China is still the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and it has built a lot of new coal-burning power plants. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Qualitas Energy Wins 126-MW In German Tender” • Qualitas Energy secured 126 MW in Germany’s February onshore wind energy tender covering three projects. The awards were granted through an auction conducted by the German Federal Network Agency, the company said. Qualitas Energy will develop a total of eighteen wind turbines for the projects. [reNews]
Wind turbines (Qualitas Energy image)
¶ “India Targets Over Ten-Fold Expansion In Nuclear Power Capacity From 8.8 GW To 100 GW By 2047” • India has set a target to scale up its nuclear power capacity from the current 8.8 GW to 100 GW by 2047, implying an over ten-fold increase, Central Electricity Authority Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad said on Friday. [MSN]
¶ “Enviromena Wins Lutterworth Solar Approval” • Enviromena has secured planning approval from Rugby Borough Council for the 16-MW Lutterworth Solar Farm in the UK. The company said the project will generate enough electricity to power around 7,800 homes per year and avoid more than 4,300 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually. [reNews]
Site in Lutterworth (Enviromena image)
US:
¶ “Wildfires Used To ‘Go To Sleep’ At Night. Climate Change Has Them Burning Overtime” • Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires, a study found. [ABC News]
¶ “US Coal-Fired Generating Capacity Retired In 2025 Was the Least In Fifteen Years” • During 2025, 2.6 GW of coal-fired capacity were retired, the least since 2010. Coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity, but 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed, and the operators cancelled plans for 1.1 GW to retire. [CleanTechnica]
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¶ “Surprise! New York Scores Another Offshore Wind Victory” • Despite the efforts of President Donald Trump to kill the US wind industry, it just keeps on building. The latest development is the massive 924-MW Sunrise Wind offshore project in New York, which just achieved a milestone with the installation of its first wind turbine. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “After Two Years, Ratepayer Pain And Political Fallout From Georgia’s Nuclear Plant Vogtle” • Texas built 36 GW of solar and storage in 4 years, for about $36 billion. Georgia built 2 GW of nuclear in 15 years at the same cost, according to Patty Durand, founder of Georgians for Affordable Energy. The two reactors brought a 25% rate increase with them. [Utility Dive]
Vogtle plant’s first two units (NRC, public domain)
¶ “America’s Wind Market Is Continues Building Under Policy Pressure” • The US ended January 2026 with about 159.5 GW of utility-scale wind capacity in service. EIA’s February 2026 outlook also said developers planned to add 11.8 GW of wind in 2026, more than double the additions in 2025. That is not the profile of a collapsing industry. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Wyoming Communities Want Time To Consider Embracing Nuclear Energy, As Feds Rush To Expand Industry” • With one nuclear power plant already under construction, Wyoming will soon be home to high-level nuclear waste storage. But do Wyoming communities want to crack the door open wider to the industry and its radioactive waste? [MSN]
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