¶ “What El Niño Could Mean For Europe This Year” • Climate scientists warned that El Niño has begun, as the world braces for a year of extreme weather. Experts at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education warn that the climate phenomenon can have severe knock-on effects, triggering drought, food insecurity, and even electricity shortages. [Euronews]
¶ “Maritime Organisations Call For Electrification Action Plan To Include Shipping” • An electric transition is getting possible for the shipping industry. Ships are increasingly able to use to local grids for the purpose. Important barriers remain, and including shipping in the EU’s Electrification Action Plan is essential for the electrification of the industry. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “New Fleet Of Electric Hydrofoil Boats To Be Deployed In The Maldives” • Travel between islands in the Maldives could soon be smoother and more sustainable. The US maritime technology company Navier and Dubai-based JIH Global Investment have confirmed a $100 million partnership to establish the Navier Network to connect the islands. [Euronews]
Hydrofoil boat (Navier image)
¶ “Economic Growth No Longer Guarantees Fuel Growth” • For most of the twentieth century, a simple assumption worked well enough for energy forecasting: When economies grew, fuel demand grew with them. It became one of the easier ways to get the transition wrong. Now, what used to convert growth into fossil fuel demand no longer does. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Brazil EV Sales Report: 153% Growth In May” • Brazilian car sales nearly always peak in December, but this year is proving different. Already in March, EV sales were at the levels they hit in December 2025. By May, they have grown nearly 40% over the prior record. In previous years, that only happened after an entire twelve months. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Ireland Quadruples Solar Energy Capacity In Three-Year Period” • Ireland’s solar sector nearly quadrupled its total energy capacity to 2.7 GW over the past three years, according to Solar Ireland’s annual ‘Scale of Solar’ report on the industry. Ireland’s total connected solar capacity is now predicted to exceed 3.3 GW by the end of this year. [Silicon Republic]
¶ “RWE Completes Nordseecluster A Cable Campaign” • RWE offshore wind GmbH finished the inter-array cable campaign at its Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in Germany. RWE said 48 cables were laid, buried, terminated, and tested during the campaign. With the array now connected, the project has moved on to turbine installation. [reNews]
Offshore wind construction (RWE image)
¶ “Iran War Exposes Asia’s Oil Risk As Solar Becomes A Security Tool” • The Iran war has exposed a hard truth for Southeast Asia: The region still depends on imported fuels that move through risky shipping routes. The conflict showed how quickly energy security can become a problem when supplies of fuel depend on a bottleneck being open. [Microgrid Media]
¶ “Solar Power Study Might Solve A Big Transmission Problem” • A study was to find the impact of shade cast by the transmission cables, as well as whether placing the components near each other can cause electromagnetic field interference. Surprisingly, the study’s data showed that the shade cast by the power lines barely affected PV performance. [MSN]
¶ “After Months Of War, Trump Says Iran Has Right To Nuclear Program” • This seems to be a sharp departure from Trump’s previous claims. After months of insisting that the purpose of the war was to end any nuclear capability by Iran, and demanding “zero enrichment,” Trump is now saying that the country can use nuclear power for electricity. [The New Republic]
¶ “DOJ Seeks To Dismiss Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI” • The US DOE is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion Mississippi data center. The NAACP suit says xAI is running dozens of portable turbines without proper emissions controls. [ABC News]
¶ “DOJ Rushes To Help xAI Pollute The Skies Over Mississippi” • xAI has created a series of gigantic data centers in Tennessee and northern Mississippi. The local utilities do not have generating capacity to meet their electricity demand, so Elon Musk brought in a fleet of fifty or more portable methane-powered generators to keep up their supply. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Trump Pays Off Energy Company In Grudge Match Against Offshore Wind” • Reportedly, Donald Trump is paying $765 million to get Invenergy to abandon four offshore wind leases. This comes days after the US voluntarily dismissed its own appeal in an ongoing legal challenge against Trump’s executive order to ban US wind development. [CleanTechnica]
Seagreen wind farm in Scotland (Courtesy of TotalEnergies)
¶ “High Tech Hydropower Transmission Trips Up Trump’s Fossil Fuel Fantasy ” • The New York City metro area took up to 20% off the carbon footprint of its electric demand with a new 1.25-GW HVDC transmission line, the Champlain Hudson Power Express. The line connects ratepayers with in downstate New York with hydropower resources in Quebec. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “TMI Owner Says Pennsylvania Nuclear Plant Is On Track To Reopen Next Year” • Constellation Energy crews have worked since 2024 to reopen Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 to meet spiking electricity demand, especially for planned data centers. Three Mile Island closed in 2019 because it was unable to compete with cheaper sources of electricity. [MSN]
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