Financial News on Solar and Renewable Energy

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• Does a shortage of gasoline at 200 Shell stations in Indonesia support that the next era of automobiles there will be electric, as oil production in the country has fallen by over 60% in the last few decades, and as corruption plagues the oil industry?
  - Zero Hedge, 19 October 2025

• Some argue advances in less-expensive perovskite solar cells (which include silicon) mean we are on the brink of the next solar energy revolution. But it all depends on how they hold up in the real world. Critics of the technology worry that perovskite's greater susceptibility to moisture and heat will mean faster degradation. They are also concerned about perovskites generally containing lead, a toxic substance which can have health and environmental impacts.
  - BBC, 16 October 2025

• The renewable energy industry is booming, despite [the environment-hating] Trump's nationalist socialist industrial policy to slow [i.e., destroy] the renewable energy industry in the USA [which only benefits Zhōngguó]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 October 2025

• [The latest nationalist socialist industrial policy from the authoritarian, Trump:] Trump has his administration cancel the largest solar project in the USA - in Nevada, which would have generated 6.2 gigawatts of needed electric power. Another policy to help Zhōngguó rule the world of renewable energy. "This is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with Zhōngguó.", said one Republican governor.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 14 October 2025

• How Zhōngguó provides power to its electric cars and high-speed trains. While Trump is destroying the renewable energy industry in the USA, Zhōngguó is building a network of ultrahigh-voltage power lines to carry solar and wind energy hundreds and even thousands of miles. The line goes from Anhui (near Shanghai) to Xinjiang.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 October 2025

• Trump orders the cancellation of a huge solar energy production facility in Nevada that former President Biden had supported, part of Trump's national socialist industrial policy [to help Zhōngguó lead the world in solar energy]
  - Bloomberg, 10 October 2025

• Trump orders the cancellation of a huge solar energy production facility in Nevada that former President Biden had supported, part of Trump's national socialist industrial policy [to help Zhōngguó lead the world in solar energy]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 October 2025

• Trump's attempts to destroy the wind power industry in the USA is financially hurting Republican states. The top four wind power states in the USA all lean Republican, including Iowa.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 October 2025

• The Trump administration is cancelling $24 billion in renewable energy projects. The move, affecting Republican and Democratic-led states, worsens reductions of more than $7 billion targeting mostly Democratic-led states.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 October 2025

• Orsted, a windpower company, will fire 2,000 people in response to Trump's attacks on wind power generation in the USA, in particular, canceling permits for Orsted projects
  - Comcast's CNBC, 09 October 2025

• Orsted, a windpower company, will fire 2,000 people in response to Trump's attacks on wind power generation in the USA, in particular, canceling permits for Orsted projects
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 October 2025

• Coal is unreliable, expensive and dirty. The Trump is going all in on investments into coal. Coal is neither economical nor reliable. Coal plants are are costly to maintain and increasingly unsound. [The repeatedly-bankrupted] Trump does not understand this economics. The government of Zhōngguó does.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2025

• Zhōngguó is leading the way to a renewable energy future, while the USA under the environment-hating Trump is frozen in the past [by attacking renewable energy and further supporting fossil fuels that cause global heating]
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 October 2025

• The world's most powerful flying wind turbine launched in western Zhōngguó. A gigantic 'power bank' could help communities cut off from the grid during blackouts and strengthen the leading role of Zhōngguó in renewable energy
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 06 October 2025

• Zhōngguó is beating the USA in the battle for leadership in the export of energy. The reason? Trump's environment-hating energy policies. Trump wants the world to buy its fossil fuels, while Zhōngguó wants to sell the world its clean energy technologies - which increasingly is what free markets around the world demand - not Trump's nationalist socialist industrial policies. From January to July, the USA exported $80 billion of oil and natural gas, while Zhōngguó exported $120 in renewable energy technology.
  - Bloomberg, 05 October 2025

• Namibia's indigenous Nama population argues they have been sidelined in a $10 billion renewable energy project being built on their ancestral lands to generate hydrogen using wind and solar energy. The controversy is pitting clean-energy executives from Deutschland against descendants of victim's of Deutschland's forgotten genocide.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 October 2025

• Solar-powered groundwater pumping for farming is worsening the water crisis in Pakistan
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 October 2025

• The Trump administation will keep oil and gas permitting moving unhindered, despite the federal government shutdown that began on Wednesday, while approvals for renewable energy projects will halt
  - OilPrice.com, 01 October 2025

• Self-interest benefiting the public for once: oil executives are unexpected critics of Trump's destruction of the windpower industry in the USA, especially critical of stopping wind projects that had earlier received federal approval. Their concern? That the next liberal administration will cancel their oil and natural gas projects. "Ever-changing policy, particularly as administrations change, is not good for business."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 September 2025

• The most powerful flying wind turbine in the world is launched in western Zhōngguó
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 26 September 2025

• Trump is forfeiting the clean-energy industry/future to Zhōngguó, [by heaping more socialist subsidies on the oil and natural gas industries, and taking them away from the renewable energy industry]
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 September 2025

• Trump tells the world at the UN that renewable energy is a scam [as opposed to Zhōngguó, which is becoming the world leader in highly sought renewable energy], and that climate science is from "stupid people"
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 September 2025

• Shares of Orsted soar after a federal judge allows Orsted to continue its wind farm project in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 23 September 2025

• A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the environment-hating, renewable-energy-hating, Trump administration.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 September 2025

• A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the environment-hating, renewable-energy-hating, Trump administration.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 September 2025

• Zhōngguó is delivering renewable energy to the world, while Trump is making the USA the king of global-heating fossil fuels. Trump is making sure that Zhōngguó controls the future of renewable energy. But is the debt Zhōngguó imposes on countries it helps too burdensome?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 September 2025

• Paying higher prices for electricity? Thank Trump. Bigger electricity bills are a direct result of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which reduced socialist subsidies for renewable energy [KM: to give more socialist subsidies to oil and natural gas companies].
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 September 2025

• Offshore wind power was supposed to save power-starved New England. The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump destroyed those hopes with his attacks on the wind power industry.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 September 2025

• Not only is Zhōngguó the world's leader in energy-storage technology and applications, it plans to greatly increase such capacity by 2027. New plan calls for expansion of energy-storage applications, including more projects in desert areas and at retired coal-fired power plant sites. Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump is sabotaging the renewable energy industry in the USA.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 September 2025

• Wind and solar power generated more than a third of the electricity in Btazil in August, the first month on record the two renewable sources have crossed that threshold
  - Associated Press, 11 September 2025

• Oil giant Saudi Arabia is emerging as a leader in solar energy. The kingdom is betting that sunshine can power new AI data centers and help boost oil exports.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 September 2025

• More nationalist socialist energy policies from the racist Trump: Trump puppet and Energy Secretary Doug Burgum said offshore wind farms have no future in the USA as a source of electricity generation. [Another renewable energy industry Trump gifts to Zhōngguó and Europe.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 September 2025

• Capitalistic socialist Zhōngguó is "the engine" driving countries to abandon fossil fuels that cause global heating. Zhōngguó's vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump is trying to destroy the renewable energy industry of the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump orders federal agencies to fight against offshore wind power, including several agencies that typically have little to do with wind power, including the Health and Human Services Department.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 September 2025

• The Danish renewable energy company Orsted sued the Trump administration on Thursday to prevent it from blocking the completion of a wind farm off the coast of New England
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 September 2025

• The Danish renewable energy company Orsted sued the Trump administration on Thursday to prevent it from blocking the completion of a wind farm off the coast of New England
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 September 2025

• The solar energy industry in Cambodia goes from boom to bust, thanks to Trump's tax/tariff policies
  - Zero Hedge, 03 September 2025

• It is "lost the battle": the European Union is told to accept defeat against the solar power industry of Zhōngguó
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 July 2025

• In windy Iowa, Republican Congresswoman and Trump puppet Marionette Miller-Meeks could be kicked out of office by her voters, after she betrayed Iowa (a state that profits greatly from wind power) by voting to support Trump's (her golden idol) destruction of the solar and wind power industry in the USA. Good riddance. Despite Trump's lies (that Meeks fully supports) that wind power makes electricity more expensive and unreliable, Iowa's power costs are among the lowest in the nation and its grid is among the most stable. Puppet Meeks meekly avoids conceding that wind power pays a lot of taxes and creates a lot of jobs in Iowa (though less now, one company in Iowa filed for bankruptcy after puppet Meeks voted to support Trump).
  - Politico, 01 September 2025

• Many old solar panels built in the early 1990s are still going strong after 30 years, and providing 80% of their original energy capability. That is very important for renewable energy transitions.
  - ZME Science, 29 August 2025

• It is bad enough that the environment-hating Trump is trying to destroy the solar energy industry in the USA. His 50% taxes/tariffs on imports from Bharat will help destroy Bharat's solar energy industry. Once again, another gift from Trump to Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2025

• Overproduction of solar panels in Zhōngguó has led to slashed prices, and countries and buyers in Africa are taking advantage to sharply increase investments in clean energy
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 August 2025

• Why did Trump halt their project? The Revolution Wind project was 80% complete when Trump put it on hold. Union laborers [including idiots who voted for Trump] just want to work.
  - USA Today, 27 August 2025

• Financial losses of solar pnael makers in Zhōngguó deepen, as the industry voews to end its price war
  - Nikkei Asia, 25 August 2025

• With little explanation, the environment-hating Trump plunges the wind power industry into chaos. The environment-hating Trump is halting wind projects that had been approved, financed and underway while providing little to no justification.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 August 2025

• Shares of Orsted plummeted 17%, to a record low, after the environment-hating Trump ordered the company to halt construction of a nearly completed project
  - Comcast's CNBC, 25 August 2025

• Shares of Orsted plummeted 17%, to a record low, after the environment-hating Trump ordered the company to halt construction of a nearly completed project
  - Zero Hedge, 25 August 2025

• Shares of Orsted plummeted 17%, to a record low, after the environment-hating Trump ordered the company to halt construction of a nearly completed project
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 August 2025

• The environment-hating Trump allows the Agriculture Department to end subsidies for solar power on farmland in the USA. Another present for Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 August 2025

• Executives of solar energy companies in the USA argue that the environment-hating Trump's attacks on renewable energy will cause disruptions in power supplies that spike prices, while helping the solar energy industry of Zhōngguó.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 August 2025

• Businesses bringing back recession specials could be the latest sign of deteriorating consumer sentiment
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 August 2025

• The environment- Trump orders work halted on a wind farm that is nearly built - more nationalist socialist industrial planning. The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign to destroy the renewable energy industry in the USA. Zhōngguó says "thank you" once again.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 August 2025

• California's cost-ineffective high-speed train's robbery continues. The state rail authority is scrounging for money to complete its bullet train to nowhere after the Trump Administration last month yanked $4 billion in funds. So now it is proposing to build real estate and solar projects on property that was seized for the train.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 August 2025

• Trump allows the Commerce Department to open a "national security" investigation into the wind power industry (and its imports of wind turbines and parts), further weakening the wind power industry in the USA in order to benefit the renewable energy industry of ... Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 22 August 2025

• As the environment-of-his-Jesus hating Trump destroys the renewable energy industry in the USA, renewable energy companies in Zhōngguó seize more market share in emerging markets. Deals in Asia and Latin America demonstrate Zhōngguó's leadership in renewable energy, as he environment-of-his-Jesus hating (and technologically igonorant geezer) Trump labels wind and solar power "the scam of the century"
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 22 August 2025

• People in Florida may be paying $10 billion more for utilities by 2030, the largest increase in the history of the USA. Florida Power & Light says the $10 billion is needed to pay for new solar and battery storage facilities and to ensure a more reliable power grid. But critics observe that this helps the rich get richer at the expense of poor people, since "about 50 cents of every consumer dollar paid for base rate tariff electric service goes for shareholder return and associated federal income taxes"
  - Moneywise, 22 August 2025

• Africa is buying a record-high number of solar panesl from Zhōngguó. Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Inexpensive solar panels from Zhōngguó are allowing these countries to transition to renewable energy more rapidly.
  - Wired (locked), 21 August 2025

• Clean-energy growth helped Zhōngguó's carbon dioxide emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024
  - Carbon Brief, 21 August 2025

• Trump says that the USA will not approve new solar or wind energy projects, another gift to Zhōngguó.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 August 2025

• Even without tax incentives, solar and wind are beating fossil fuels such as oil and gas in the affordability department. As reported by PV Magazine, Lazard's latest Levelized Cost of Energy report finds that unsubsidized utility-scale solar ranges from $0.038 to $0.078 per kilowatt-hour, while onshore wind comes in at $0.037 to $0.086 per kWh. By comparison, new-build natural gas peaker plants cost $0.138 to $0.262 per kWh, even before factoring in volatile fuel prices.
  - The Cool Down, 20 August 2025

• The government of Zhōngguó voews stronger actions to tackle aggressive competition and price wars in the country's solar technology industry, after a meeting in July failed to stop falling prices. Meanwhile in the USA, the environment-hating Trump is trying to destroy all competition in the solar industry.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 20 August 2025

• Trump is strongly criticizing the world's leading energy organization, the International Energy Agency, for stating a business truth: that oil and natural gas use could start declining as the world pivots to cleaner alternatives. This contradicts Trump's hatred of the environment and renewable energy, a hate that gives Zhōngguó more time to dominate the renewable energy industry.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 August 2025

• The environment- hating Trump comdemn his new federal government policies that seek to destroy the renewable energy industry in the USA, as a gift that gives Zhōngguó more dominance in renewable energy technology
  - The Cool Down, 18 August 2025

• How Zhōngguó went from clean energy copycat to global innovator. To congratulate Zhōngguó, Trump is destroying the clean energy industry in the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 August 2025

• A huge solar energy project in the state of Rajasthan, India, is causing a lot of environmental damage
  - Real Clear Markets, 13 August 2025

• The dreams of clean hydrogen technology are fading again in the USA. The market for the clean-burning fuel remains nascent, costs are rising, and Congress just put a lucrative tax credit out of reach for many companies.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025

• Shares of Danish company Orsted A/S crashed 29%, the most on record, after the wind developer announced a rights offering of up to 60 billion kroner ($9.4 billion). he offering aims to stabilize its finances, which have been hit hard by soaring costs, supply chain disruptions, and Trump's attacks on renewable energy projects.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 August 2025

• Shares of Danish company Orsted A/S crashed 29%, the most on record, after the wind developer announced a rights offering of up to 60 billion kroner ($9.4 billion). he offering aims to stabilize its finances, which have been hit hard by soaring costs, supply chain disruptions, and Trump's attacks on renewable energy projects.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump tries to stop wind projects because of potential bald eagle deaths, while easing rules for oil and natural gas companies. Biiger donations/bribes from the oil and natural gas companies, apparently.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump has federal agencies issuing a barrage of restrictions that could halt construction of solar and wind farms on public and private lands
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• "Delusional": economist Jeffrey Sachs on why the hegemony of the authoritarian Christian West has ended. Sachs argues that Zhōngguó is important to the global energy transition to zero-carbon energy, especially in markets outside the USA and Europe.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 August 2025

• One of the largest solar/battery storage projects in the USA is now fully online in Mojave, California. Arevon Energy's Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage.
  - Electrek, 07 August 2025

• Fortescue said on Friday it had secured a private-sector syndicated term loan facility worth 14.2 billion Chinese yuan ($1.98 billion) as the Australian miner looks to support its ambitious decarbonisation plans. The mining giant said at the end of July that it was scaling back and would scrap its green hydrogen projects locally and in the USA.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 August 2025

• The green hydrogen market is facing significant challenges, including high production costs and insufficient market demand, leading to the cancellation or delay of numerous multi-billion-dollar projects
  - Zero Hedge, 06 August 2025

• The solar industry in Zhōngguó has quietly fired 33% of its workers
  - Zero Hedge, 06 August 2025

• In another win for Zhōngguó, the environment-hating Trump allows the EPA to cancel $7 billion in grants for sola energy, so there is more money for socialist subsidies to the environment-worsening fossil fuel industries
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 August 2025

• In a recent visit to Scotland, Trump insulted Scotland's investments in offshore windfarms, describing such windfarms as a "con job". Two days after the authoritarian Trump leaves Scotland, the government of Scotland has approved the construction of the world's "biggest offshore windfarms" with the capability to power six million homes
  - Sky News, 31 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump has authorized the firing of the last of the US climate negotiators earlier this month, helping cement the USA's withdrawal from international climate diplomacy. It may also have handed a huge victory to Zhōngguó, with the USA not participating in the COP30 annual climate talks in Brazil in November. "It is likely that Zhōngguó's voice will be heard more loudly (at COP30), as they have identified growth in green technologies as a key pillar of their economic strategy.", while Trump does his best to destroy the renewable energy industry in the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 July 2025

• As the environment-hating Trump forces the USA to greatly reduce its renewable energy investments, Zhōngguó and Europe pledge to work together to promote their renewable energy industries
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 July 2025

• After 20 years of spending trillions in Middle East wars (which mostly profited USA defense contractors while doing nothing for peace) to gain more economic clout, the USA is rewarded NOT, as PowerChina wins a $4 billion contract to build a large seawater desalination facility in Basra, Iraq. Zhōngguó is signing multiple infrastructure deals across the Middle East.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 July 2025

• Equinor, based in Norway, loses nearly $1 billion from Trump's hostility to wind power, as it suffers delays to its wind energy project off the coast of New York
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 July 2025

• Natural sources of hydrogen: the precious 'white gold' buried in the Earth. Hydrogen stores three times more energy than oil, producing water when it is burnt - an ideal clean energy source, which now requires highly polluting methane gas or coal gasification to be produced. Thus the hunt for naturally-occuring hyrdrogen.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 July 2025

• The next generation of geothermal energy has the potential to generate enough electricity to meet over 100 times of the current global demand. The new geothrermal technology uses deep-drilling techniques much used in the oil fracking industry.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 July 2025

• Zhōngguó has successfully restricted exported of two important metals, antimony and germanium, with exports for both down over 85%.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 July 2025

• Egypt plans to increase its share of renewable production from 13% in 2023, to 42% by 2030, must of the increase from solar energy production
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 July 2025

• The USA was already losing to Zhōngguó in profitting from clean energy technology. The environment-hating Trump's/Republican's latest tax/spending law will make the USA a bigger clean-energy loser, but eliminating tax credits for solar and wind power, while giving more tax credits to the socialist oil and natural gas industries. And with all of that renewable energy, Zhōngguó is making great progress elminating climate-worsening gasoline-powered vehicles.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 July 2025

• Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump administration threatens to quit the International Energy Agency if the IEA continues to support a transitio to renewable energy. Zhōngguó celebrates the stupidity.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 July 2025

• Bharat is now generating 50% of its electricity from clean, renewable energy sources - five years ahead of its 2030 target under the Paris Agreement, with over 40 gigawatts of solar and wind energy generation.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 14 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is allowing the Energy Department to destroy funding for solar and wind projects, ending hundreds of millions of dollars for renewable energy and efficiency initiatives, to give more socialist subsidies to the oil and natural gas industries whose products cause global heating
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 July 2025

• Electric vehicle makers in Zhōngguó are winning more market share in Norway. Norway imposes no taxes/tariffs on imports of such vehicle, making competition fairer (as Norway is not part of the European Union)
  - Comcast's CNBC, 14 July 2025

• In June 2025, solar power became the leading source of electricity in the EU for the first time, surpassing nuclear and wind, while coal hit a record low
  - CBC News, 11 July 2025

• Orsted secures $3 billion in financing for a wind farm project in Taiwan
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2025

• Zhōngguó continues to use more than half of the coal mined in the world, dirtying the environment, while it is leading the world in renewable energy which it continues to transition to. At least Zhōngguó is trying to migrate away for polluting fossil fuels.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 July 2025

• Zhōngguó is building 74% of all current global solar and wind projects, according to a new report, the current build totalling 510 gigawatts.
  - Financial Times, 08 July 2025

• How Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will make Zhōngguó great again - by insuring that Zhōngguó dominates renewable energy and other technologies of the future
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025

• An underwater power turbine has been generating electricity for 6 years off of the coast of Scotland, a big success for tidal energy
  - Associated Press, 07 July 2025

• Zhōngguó disproves another "thou shalt not" lie of the environment-hating Christian Trump: more than 25% of the 500 gigawatts of new electric power to be produced in Zhōngguó will be produced by wind power plants, disproving Trump's lie that Zhōngguó does not use wind power
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 06 July 2025

• Extreme rain is becoming even more extreme, as the world heats up due to the burning of fossil fuels, now made worse as Trump gives new tax credits to the fossial fuel industry by taking them away from the renewable energy industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• In the race to power the future safely, Zhōngguó is racing ahead. While Zhōngguó dominates/sells clean energy to the world, Christian Republicans in the USA end government support for renewable energy to be able to give more socialist subsidies to the oil and natural gas industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• While Trump destroys the solar energy industry in the USA by giving its tax credits to oil and natural gas companies, Zhōngguó has launched a fully seawater-based solar energy system - the first of its kind suitable for industrial use and large-scale power production.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 July 2025

• Trump ends socialist support for the solar and wind industryies, eliminating their tax credits in the new spending/tax law, and gives the socialist tax credits to the socialist oil, natural gas and coal industries that still have to pay nothing for the huge environmental damage their products cause.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 July 2025

• Zhōngguó already has a huge lead in the production of electric vehicles. The lead could become even greater, disastrous, if Trump and Republicans reduce/eliminate incentive programs in the USA for electric vehicles, completely giving the industry to Zhōngguó
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 July 2025

• Zhōngguó already has a huge lead in the production of solar power systems. The lead could become even greater, disastrous, if Trump and Republicans reduce/eliminate incentive programs in the USA for solar power, completely giving the industry to Zhōngguó
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 July 2025

• Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the business decline of Tesla itself, with sales peaking at the end of 2024
  - TechCrunch, 02 July 2025

• How Trump's proposed tax/spending law, to make the rich richer, will end the USA's role as a great power. The proposed law undermines government support for technologies that make the USA competitive in the long-term, gifting Zhōngguó with dominance of more industries such as renewable energy
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 01 July 2025

• The use of coal in the USA has been decreasing for decades, not because of any conspiracies by renewable energy advocates nor investors, but because the economics of renewable energy has become more profitable than burning coal. Investors don't invest in coal because they can't make a profit.
  - Real Clear Markets, 01 July 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025

• Clean/renewable energy investments made in Zhōngguó account for 33% of the total such investments in the world in 2024, an investment of about $625 billion
  - Global Times, 29 June 2025

• Elon Musk attacks former buddy Trump's "Big Beautiful" proposed tax law [to make the rich richer] by calling the proposed law "utterly insane and destructive". "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" Criticizing its dinosaur socialism, Musk writes: "It gives handouts/[socialist subsidies] to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 June 2025

• Elon Musk attacks former buddy Trump's "Big Beautiful" proposed tax law [to make the rich richer] by calling the proposed law "utterly insane and destructive". "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" Criticizing its dinosaur socialism, Musk writes: "It gives handouts/[socialist subsidies] to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
  - The Daily Beast, 29 June 2025

• Elon Musk attacks former buddy Trump's "Big Beautiful" proposed tax law [to make the rich richer] by calling the proposed law "utterly insane and destructive". "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" Criticizing its dinosaur socialism, Musk writes: "It gives handouts/[socialist subsidies] to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 29 June 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó are hurting solar energy companies in Zhōngguó. One-third of Zhōngguó's 121 listed solar producers are in the red; more than 50 along the supply chain have filed for bankruptcy this year.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 June 2025

• New lies from the socialistically subsidized fossil fuel industry. No longer able to deny climate change and globel heating, they are now attacking the economics of renewable energy such as solar and wind power, to delay the transition away from socialistically subsidized fossil fuels.
  - The Verge, 23 June 2025

• Zhōngguó installed its highest solar power capacity for a single month in May, according to official data, which showed mind-boggling figures that the country installed more solar capacity in a month than any other nation did for the entire 2024. With 93 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity installed in May, Zhōngguó smashed its own record of 71 GW in December 2024, per data from the National Energy Administration cited by Bloomberg.
  - OilPrice.com, 23 June 2025

• "Real distress" hits the solar panel industry as a tsunami of bankruptcies loom, as Republicans plan to eliminate tax credits for the solar and wind power industries (while not ending socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas). Another industry Republicans are gifting to Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 June 2025

• A solar company, Wolf River Electric, sues Google for giving damaging information in non-paid AI overviews. When an AI 'halluncination' becomes defamation.
  - Futurism, 19 June 2025

• Turning recently closed coalmines into solar energy plants could add almost 300GW of renewable energy by 2030, converting derelict wastelands to productive use. Researchers from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) identified 312 surface coalmines closed since 2020 around the world, and 134 likely to close by the end of the decade, together covering 5,820 sq km (2,250 sq miles). Strip mining turns terrains into wastelands, polluted and denuded of topsoil. But if they were filled with solar panels and developed into energy plants, the report claims, they could generate enough energy to power as big and power hungry a nation as Deutschland.
  - The Guardian, 18 June 2025

• Shares of solar energy companies in the USA tumbled in extended trade on Monday after Republicans who control the Senate Finance Committee unveiled changes to Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that would phase out solar, wind and energy tax credits by 2028. Shares of Enphase Energy, which makes solar inverters, dropped 15% in after hours trade. Solar panel sellers Sunrun and SolarEdge Technologies both tumbled more than 20%. First Solar lost 9%.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 June 2025

• Renewable energy generation remains the cheapest power to build, as building new natural gas power plants becomes more expensive
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 June 2025

• Without significant socialist subsidies, 'green' hydrogen produced in Africa may be economically unviable for Europe due to high production costs
  - Zero Hedge, 16 June 2025

• Scientists have achieved a new breakthrough that can help produce cheaper green hydrogen. A research team led by researchers from Hanyang University ERICA campus in South Korea developed cobalt phosphides-based nanomaterials by adjusting boron doping and phosphorus content using metal-organic frameworks. These materials have better performance and lower cost than conventional electrocatalysts, making them suitable for large-scale hydrogen production.
  - Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2025

• The environment-hating Trump declares that there will be no more development of wind energy infrastructure under his administration, calling huge windmills blighting the landscape "garbage" and "bullshit"
  - Zero Hedge, 15 June 2025

• Is 'green' hydrogen (from renewable resources) approaching viability? Most hydrogen is produced from steam methane reforming, which produces a lot of global heating CO2. To become viable, electrolyzers need to become more efficient, and a steady supply of power from renewable energy sources is needed. And storing and transporting hydrogen is a challenge.
  - Real Clear Science, 14 June 2025

• Ethanol biofuels, an important source of income for agriculture in the USA, has been a failure for the climate. An expansion of existing biofuels policies under Trump would lead to more greenhouse gas emissions and fewer food crops. The socialist energy program, while benefitting huge corporate corn and soybean farms, has caused economic and social imbalances across rural communities and increases greenhouse gas emissions.
  - Inside Climate News, 13 June 2025

• Biofuel refineries are releasing toxic air pollutants in farm communities across the USA. The ethanol industry has billed itself as a green alternative to oil and gas, but new research finds biofuel refineries are releasing toxic chemicals in farm communities across the nation, while doing little to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  - Inside Climate News, 13 June 2025

• Saudi Arabia's giant hydrogen project reaches 80% completion, and hopes to start exports of 'green' ammonia in 2027
  - OilPrice.com, 12 June 2025

• As energy costs surge, eastern governors blame a grid manager, the non-profit PJM. Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals. The politicians say that PJM has been slow to add new solar, wind and battery projects that could help lower the cost of electricity. And they say the grid manager is paying existing power plants too much to supply electricity to their states. "What the problem is at PJM is that it is controlled and influenced by the corporate energy companies that constitute its membership."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 June 2025

• As Trump's taxes/tariffs loom, the solar energy industry in Southeast Asia faces devastation. Trump's taxes/tariffs are an economic blow to the renewable energy industries in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
  - AL Jazeera, 11 June 2025

• Solar panel manufacturers in Zhōngguó seek an antidote to market ills as glut, price war, taxes/tariffs bite. Market players should aim for technological innovation, enabling higher profit margins and sustainable growth, GCL founder Zhu says.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 June 2025

• Sunnova, one of the largest rooftop-solar installation businesses in the USA, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, a stark illustration of the strains haunting the clean-energy sector in the USA as shifting federal policies shake investor confidence.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 June 2025

• Sunnova files for bankruptcy after SunPower's collapse
  - Zero Hedge, 09 June 2025

• Sunnova Energy said on Sunday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, as the residential solar panel installer buckled under the pressure of mounting debt and weakening demand. The bankruptcy filing of Sunnova comes at a time when the residential solar energy industry in the USA is under immense pressure from higher interest rates; a reduction in incentives in the top market, California; and fears of subsidy rollbacks for clean energy under Trump.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 09 June 2025

• Bankruptcies of solar energy companies signal that the clean energy industry is faltering in the USA, another industry captured by Zhōngguó
  - Bloomberg, 09 June 2025

• The United Kingdom now requires that most new homes being built must be fitted with solar panels
  - Zero Hedge, 08 June 2025

• How hydrogen, the fuel of the future, became 'bogged down in the Bayou'. Air Products bet big on the element, but sentiment has soured, costs are snowballing and customers remain elusive.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 June 2025

• The five worst socialist green energy projects funded by President Biden. From financing eminent domain abuses in Tennessee to climate-friendly ketchup, the Biden administration approved billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
  - Reason, 06 June 2025

• Despite the intentions of the environment-hating Trump, investments into renewable energy are expected to be double that of investments in global-heating-causing fossil fuels. Around $3.3 trillion will flow into the energy sector in 2025 and around $2.2 trillion of that will go to renewable and nuclear energy, energy storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency and electrification, the International Energy Agency said.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 June 2025

• Coal-fired electricity generation in Bharat in May fell at the fastest pace in five years, as overall power demand declined for the first time since August and renewable energy generation rose to a record high. Increased generation from less polluting power sources including hydro and nuclear also led to a decline in natural gas-fired power output, which fell at the steepest rate in nearly three years.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 June 2025

• A solar power boom in Pakistan undercuts coal-fired plants built by Zhōngguó. An increasing flow of cheap solar panels from Zhōngguó to the Pakistan is undercutting demand for power from coal-fired plants that Zhōngguó helped finance and leading to a vicious cycle of stranded assets. With a zero tax rate for solar power imports, Pakistan has emerged as the second-largest destination for solar panels from Zhōngguó, behind only Brazil.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 June 2025

• Bharat is predicted to accelerate the generation of solar power as storage costs decline. Solar power plus storage in Bharat is now cheaper than industrial electricity taxes/tariffs in most states in Bharat, according to a new report.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 04 June 2025

• The 'chicken-or-egg' problem persists for hydrogen, as buyers hesitate. Market challenges persist, especially in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and the USA, as high production costs, lack of long-term demand certainty, and policy uncertainty stall progress.
  - OilPrice.com, 03 June 2025

• The ambitious plans of Colombia for wind energy development, especially in the resource-rich La Guajira region alongside the Caribbean Sea, are facing serious setbacks as major companies pull out and projects stall, industry experts say. Only two wind farms are partially operating today, with a combined capacity of less than 32 megawatts. Key obstacles include limited grid connection infrastructure in La Guajira, recent regulatory changes that reduce financial returns and complex social and leadership challenges.
  - Associated Press, 03 June 2025

• Native American tribes of the Gila River (GRIC) intend to float solar panel systems on a reservoir. Could the technology help the Colorado River? Currently they are installing solar panels above a canal to generate power while testing their ideas. The tactic is mostly new in the USA. As recently as 2022, according to a Bloomberg analysis, most of the world's 13 gigawatts of floating solar capacity had been built in Asia.
  - Inside Climate News, 03 June 2025

• Bharat, a major user of goal to generate electricity, is making much progress in adopting clean, renewable energy
  - Associated Press, 31 May 2025

• Elon Musk and Tesla severely criticize Republican plans to end socialist clean energy subsidies in the proposed tax law. Tesla has been highly dependent on socialist subsidies for years to make Musk rich. For example, the proposed tax law would terminate most credits for electric vehicles at the end of the year, disqualifying Teslas from a $7,500 incentive at a time when the company is experiencing declining sales and backlash linked to Musk's actions to destroy the federal workforce. Musk does point out one huge socialist hypocrisy of Republicans: "There is no change to tax incentives for oil and natural gas, just EV/solar."
  - Politico, 29 May 2025

• Will the USA remain a leader in AI technology (just as Boeing does in aviation) due to tight export controls, or will it lose its lead to Zhōngguó as it did with solar energy and other technologies that are less regulated for exports?
  - Comcast's CNBC, 29 May 2025

• $13 billion in renewable projects at risk in Vietnam due to subsidy reductions. Over 40 investors in Vietnam's solar and wind energy sector are warning they may default unless the government honors its original pricing commitments, according to Nikkei Asia.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 May 2025

• Eavor Technologies, a geothermal startup, has developed a patented drilling tool that reduces the costs of geothermal projects by "tens of millions" of dollars. Eavor helped design its own in-house drilling tool that allows the equipment boring each hole to communicate through magnetic signals while digging nearly as deep as 20 times the height of the Empire State Building.
  - Alexander Kaufman (substack), 28 May 2025

• Trump has authorized the Department of Energy to cancel a partial socialist loan guarantee of $2.92 billion that had been awarded to residential solar panel installer Sunnova Energy.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 May 2025

• The House of Representatives of Republican-controlled Texas allows a proposed law to die that attacked renewable energy. Environment-hating far-right Christian groups oppose renewable energy, but opposition from the state's business lobby proved stronger and the proposed law was allowed to die.
  - The Hill, 28 May 2025

• The first lithium-sodium hybrid electric power station in Zhōngguó starts operations, able to power 270,000 homes with renewable energy
  - Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2025

• Dutch pension fund PME is issuing a broad warning to money managers in the USA, amid concerns that the USA's investment industry is caving in, and kowtowing, to pressure from the authoritarian Trump to abandon basic principles of stewardship. There is growing concern that Republican efforts to destroy Biden-era legislation supporting key industries such as clean energy may result in the USA losing its status as a destination for investor capital. PME is complaining that cowardly (and rich) asset managers in the USA "are not condemning what Trump is doing and how he is operating and how he is handling issues like climate change and demolishing the judiciary". PME has already made clear it is reviewing a $5+ billion mandate with BlackRock, after the world's largest asset manager quit an important net zero coalition to kowtow to Trump.
  - Bloomberg, 26 May 2025

• Financial asset managers in Europe are increasingly skeptical about investing in the USA. There is growing concern that Republican efforts to destroy Biden-era legislation supporting key industries such as clean energy may result in the USA losing its status as a destination for investor capital. "Project economics, supply-chain commitments, and capital flows may now pivot toward more stable jurisdictions like Canada or the EU, unless clarity is quickly restored."
  - Bloomberg, 26 May 2025

• The growth of clean energy, especially solar power, is Bharat is growing faster than global trends. The largest renewable energy project under construction in Bharat is nearly four times the size of the largest projects in the US or Europe. Much like the rest of the world, electricity generated from new solar plus storage facilities is now more affordable than new coal power plants. Moreover, solar power alone is cheaper than operating existing coal-fired plants in Bharat.
  - Global Data, 26 May 2025

• The troubled, $20 billion residential solar industry's future rests on whether Senate Republicans will challenge their Trump-puppety brethren in the House of Representatives and change provisions of Trump's massive tax and spending bill that executives and analysts alike say would devastate the industry.
  - Bloomberg, 24 May 2025

• Solar power in the USA continues to surge, generating more electric power than hydropower in 2025. Solar power is up a staggering 44 percent compared to 2024.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 23 May 2025

• Zhōngguó is making good progress towards becoming the first 'electrostate'. 30% of the economy is electrified, versus 22% for the USA and Europe. Massive investment in electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and renewables has positioned Zhōngguó as a superpower in clean energy technologies, with renewables now making up 10% of GDP.
  - OilPrice.com, 22 May 2025

• Facebook adds another 650 megawatts of solar power to support its growing AI operations
  - TechCrunch, 22 May 2025

• Shares of solar stocks plunge as the just passed Republican tax law is worse than feared for clean energy. RUN is down 37%, Enphase is down 18% and SolarEdge is down 25%.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 22 May 2025

• Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after Trump had the Interior Department lift its order to halt work on the project. In return, the governor of New York agreed to help facilitate the new construction of a new natural gas pipeline for New England and New York.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 20 May 2025

• Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after Trump had the Interior Department lift its order to halt work on the project. In return, the governor of New York agreed to help facilitate the new construction of a new natural gas pipeline for New England and New York.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 May 2025

• Shares of renewable energy companies jump after Trump allows the resumption of the wind energy project offshore of New York
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2025

• A group of evangelical Christians in Indiana is pushing for environmental action, including installing solar panels. Leaders say that they are following the biblical mandate to care for creation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 May 2025

• Bharat sees a future making solar panels for itself, if not the world. Global wariness of solar panels and electric vehicles made in Zhōngguó offers Bharat an opportunity to win market share in these industries.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 May 2025

• Carbon capture startups are forced to fire people amid uncertainty over subsidies during the Trump administration.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 May 2025

• According to J.D. Power, automobile buyers are still interesting in buying electric vehicles and alternatives to buying Musk's Tesla vehicles
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 17 May 2025

• Denmark will evaluate the use of nuclear industry in the country, which has been banned for 40 years, to avoid blackouts, because it is heavily dependent on weather-based renewable energy which is not very compatible with the way power grids need to stabily operate.
  - Barclay's The Telegraph, 16 May 2025

• People are still buying electric vehicles: 24% of people in the USA are very likely to purchase an EV, and almost 50% of the cars in Zhōngguó being sold are electric vehicles
  - AutoWeek, 16 May 2025

• The clean energy boom that could snarl the Republican proposed tax mega-law. Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani and other rank-and-file Republicans are facing a tough choice: resist Trump's efforts to gut the Democrat's climate law, or incur the wrath of constituents who could lose billions in investments and thousands of new jobs.
  - Politico, 16 May 2025

• For the first time, the growth in clean power generation in Zhōngguó has caused the nation's carbon dioxide emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
  - Carbon Brief, 15 May 2025

• Wind power companies in Deutschland are losing millions of dollars in earnings as wind speeds in Europe drop to 50-year lows. Experts say there is no evidence of climate change being at work, noting that previous decades have had similar lulls in wind speed.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 May 2025

• Renewable energy is booming in Texas. But Republicans want to change that. Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave of opposition that seeks more use of oil and natural gas.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 May 2025

• Republicans reduce funding for renewable energy, and increased funding for global heating fossil fuels
  - The Hill, 12 May 2025

• Companies in Zhōngguó are making more energy investments in Africa for renewable energy projects. Solar and wind power make up 59% of the energy projects in Africa made by companies from Zhōngguó, with Africa being an important market for the technology.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 May 2025

• 16 states in the USA sue the Trump administration over termination of federal subsidies for electric vehicle charging stations
  - Zero Hedge, 10 May 2025

• The wind power industry in Europe faces uncertainty over Trump's economic policies
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 May 2025

• Environment-hating Republicans in the Texas Senate pass a proposed law (needs House approval) that would require solar power plants to provide electric power ... at night, by buying backup power from coal and natural gas power plants. . A study by the Texas Association of Business (TAB) found that the legislation would cost the state $5.2 billion more per year -- and cost individual consumers $225 more. In addition to more expensive power, the TAB study found, Texans would also get a higher risk of blackouts in the heat of summer or in future ice storms.
  - The Hill, 09 May 2025

• Researchers in Deutschland grew wine grapes under solar panels to create multifunctional agriculture. The grapes grew just as well, if not better.
  - The Cool Down, 08 May 2025

• As wind farms expand, some can accidentally "steal" each others' wind, 'wind theft' -- causing worries over some countries' energy transition to net zero. If a wind farm is built upwind of another wind farm, it can reduce the downwind producer's energy output by as much as 10% or more.
  - BBC, 07 May 2025

• Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents. Trump has moved to defund the Biden-era law, and hard-right Republicans are demanding its repeal. That has put them at odds with Republicans who represent businesses that have already sunk deep investments into their states and districts assuming the tax credits would materialize.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 May 2025

• How Zhōngguó is reusing the batteries from dying electric vehicles and solar panels. "There is huge potential in the business of new-energy waste, because new energy is where Zhōngguó and the world are going." Zhōngguó has created the state-owned China Resources Recycling Group to build a nationwide recycling network for products from electronics to retired wind and solar equipment.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 May 2025

• Multiple USA states sue the environment-hating Trump for blocking the development of wind energy. Attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging an executive order Trump signed during his first day in office, pausing approvals, permits and loans for all wind energy projects both onshore and offshore.
  - HuffPost, 05 May 2025

• Electricity generation in the USA using fossil fuels declines below 50% for the first time ever
  - OilPrice.com, 05 May 2025

• Rethinking the role of hydrogen in decarbonization. The implementation of 'green' hydrogen (from natural sources) projects has fallen significantly short of initial ambitions, with only a small percentage of planned projects being realized.
  - OilPrice.com, 05 May 2025

• What a $15,000 electric SUV sold by Toyota says about the automobile rivalry between the USA and Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 May 2025

• The Congressional House votes to block California's plan to ban new gas-powered cars. Republicans, joined by a handful of Democrats, voted to eliminate California's electric vehicle policy, which had been adopted by 11 other states.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 May 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs are forcing solar panel firms in Zhōngguó to move operations to Indonesia. Indonesia is now appealing to companies seeking to relocate operations due to high USA tariffs on solar companies in Southeast Asia ( Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia) owned by businesses in Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 May 2025

• How a grassroots movement in Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 May 2025

• Shares of First Solar plummet 11%, after the CEO said the scale and depth of Trump's taxes/tariffs pose a "significant economic headwind" to the company's manufacturing facilities.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 30 April 2025

• A growing number of sizable companies, from mining giants to energy majors, are embracing the hype for natural hydrogen. Hydrogen has long been billed as one of many potential energy sources that could play a key role in the energy transition, but most of it is produced using fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 April 2025

• Meet the non-paid robot replacing four paid-human workers at a time on solar panel projects. The robots are solar by Leapting Technology, based in Shanghair.
  - Clean Technica, 25 April 2025

• Offshore wind is a new target for financial setbacks, thanks to Trump. Many projects are at risk. Trump's move last week to halt a wind project under construction has put the industry in a state of emergency.
  - Barron's, 25 April 2025

• A Republican-authored proposal in the Texas Legislature seeks to open up state funding to encourage the application of oil and natural gas drilling to creating geothermal energy sources
  - The Hill, 24 April 2025

• Shares of Enphase plunge 15% after earnings. Why solar investors are worried.
  - Barron's, 23 April 2025

• Shares of solar panel companies rally as the USA intends to raise taxes/tariffs as high as 3500% on imports of panels from Southeast Asia. Shares of First Solar rose 13%, Sunnova were up over 20%.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 22 April 2025

• The USA wants to impose taxes/tariffs as high as 3500% on solar panels from Southeast Asia
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 April 2025

• The United Kingdom is doubling down on wind energy, seeking to quadruple capacity by 2030
  - Zero Hedge, 21 April 2025

• Airbus is halting its project to build airplanes that use hydrogen as a fuel
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 April 2025

• Trump's policies will slow -- but not kill - the transition to cleaner energy from solar power and other renewable energy sources
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 April 2025

• Trump orders the halt of construction of a vast wind farm off the coast of New York, which was designed to provide enough electricity to power 500,000 homes. The state of New York will halt the "federal overreach".
  - BBC, 17 April 2025

• A federal judge against Trump admin after it cannot find evidence of fraud in clean energy program, ruling such claim are lies.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 April 2025

• Trump wants to reverse the long decline of coal. It will not be easy to do so. Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy -- forces that Trump will struggle to do away with.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 April 2025

• How Trump's tax/tariff trade war is crippling the competitive advantage of the USA in a warming world, worsened by his destruction of the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump is gifting the renewable energy business to Europe and Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 April 2025

• With new executive orders trying to promote coal, Trump repeats the same false promises he made the last time he was president. Just as the coal companies bled coal workers dry, today it is Trump and Republican Party that exploit them with false promises . Coal is not coming back because natural gas and renewable energy are less expensive, and less polluting.
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 10 April 2025

• "Billions of dollars" in electric vehicle and electric battery factories are being cancelled in the USA. Industry investment has plummeted, with just $176 million in clean manufacturing announced in January -- well below the usual $1 billion. Zhōngguó wins again.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2025

• Africa must reject Trump's push to resurrect the coal industry. Clean energy can be the greatest success story of Africa, which is why its leaders must not fall for the pro-coal lobbying of the Trump administration.
  - Al Jazeera, 07 April 2025

• Amid Trump's tax/tariff, one industrial sector in Asia could emerge unscathed - clean energy. Asia and other regions are expected to boost renewable partnerships with Zhōngguó, the clean energy leader of the world
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 April 2025

• A new design is revealed for a hydrogen-powered plane designed by Airbus
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 March 2025

• The non-fossil-fuel power generation capacity of Zhōngguó rises above 2,000 gigawatts for the first time ever, accounting for about 60% of the total installed power capacity of Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 March 2025

• Economic growth now depends on electricity, not oil. Surging demand for electricity presents huge new investment needs as well as regulatory challenges.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 March 2025

• Trump's 'retrograde' policies towards solar power equipment from Zhōngguó will mostly harm the USA. Trump's trade and investment barriers will not halth the rapid global expansion of the solar industry in Zhōngguó, but may put manufacturing projects in the USA at economic risk.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 24 March 2025

• Air pollution in Bharat reduces solar energy output by a third. The scientists said air quality was so bad that shortwave radiation from the sun was not able to reach solar panels on the ground.
  - Barclay's The Telegraph, 21 March 2025

• Renewable energy companies, solar and wind power companies, are shifting strategy under Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 March 2025

• In the USA in 2024, a record first - wind and solar accounted for 17% of total electricity generation, surpassing coal, which fell to a record low of 15%. Also in 2024, solar power generation surpassed hydropower generation for the time. It made up 81% of all new annual power capacity additions in the USA. Natural gas added no net capacity, as new plants were offset with closures.
  - Electrek, 11 March 2025

• Solar energy systems, criticized by Trump, added more capacity - 50 gigawatts - in 2024 than capacity from any other source of electricity.
  - Electrek, 10 March 2025

• Solar energy systems, criticized by Trump, added more capacity - 50 gigawatts - in 2024 than capacity from any other source of electricity.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 March 2025

• Power prices in the northwest of Europe plunge below zero dollars on too much output of solar power. The strongest solar power generation in Deutschland since September sent intraday power prices below zero for the early Monday afternoon, in yet another spate of negative prices that undermine investment in renewable energy capacity.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 March 2025

• The clean energy revolution is unstoppable. Trump is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 March 2025

• The plans of Trump to repeal policies to fight climate change and global heating - could slow the shift in the USA to electric cars, which only helps Zhōngguó. The Trump administration is preparing for Congress to repeal a longstanding waiver that allows California to set its own pollution standards Officials in California say the effort is illegal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 February 2025

• Oil major BP to slash renewable spending and double down on fossil fuels in strategy reset, announcing plans to increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion through 2027 as part of a fundamental strategic reset
  - Comcast's CNBC, 26 February 2025

• Oil major BP to slash renewable spending and double down on fossil fuels in strategy reset, announcing plans to increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion through 2027 as part of a fundamental strategic reset
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 February 2025

• The World Bank shifted policy to help support efforts to fight climate change and global heating. Now the administration of Trump is making deep reductions to spending on clean-energy problems, raising concerns about the commitments of the USA to the World Bank.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 February 2025

• Trump paralyzes the wind power industry in the USA. Trump, who despises wind turbines (and renewable energy in general), has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo. Another source of renewable energy to protect his Jesus' environment that Trump is attacking.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 February 2025

• Why Trump's ending of support for renewable energy could destroy a boom in manufacturing in the USA. A recent bright spot in manufacturing in the USA has been a flood of government funding under the Biden administration: for semiconductors, and for renewable energy. By ending those subsidies, Trump will send American manufacturing back to the doldrums.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 February 2025

• Oil and natural gas companies are lobbying the Trump administration to keep their subsidies for hydrogen, despite Trump's ambition to destroy Biden-era climate incentives.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 February 2025

• The bankruptcy of onetime green-energy favorite Nikola is puncturing hopes for hydrogen in trucking
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 February 2025

• Vast reserves of hydrogen may be hidden under mountain ranges. Mountain such as the Pyrenees and the European Alps are potential 'hotspots'.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 February 2025

• France runs a fusion reactor for a record 22 minutes
  - New Atlas, 18 February 2025

• Global sales of combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2018 at over 80 million vehicles, and by 2023 had declined by 20 millin vehicles
  - Zero Hedge, 16 February 2025

• Trump wants to kill clean energy. He is too late. Clean energy is already economically successful, and hurting clean energy efforts in the USA will gift another industry to Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 February 2025

• Coal power construction in Zhōngguó is at a decade-high despite renewables boom. Despite soaring solar and wind power installations, Zhōngguó launched construction of as many as 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power projects in 2024, the highest level since 2015.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2025

• The natural gas industry gets a payoff from its political donations/bribes to help get Trump re-elected. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a proposal from the nation's largest electric grid operator (PJM Interconnection) that could effectively give new natural gas power plants priority in connecting to the grid over renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 February 2025

• An introduction to a new plan to bring electricity to 300 million people in Africa. Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 February 2025

• Global investment in low-carbon energy transition exceeded $2 trillion for the first time last year
  - Thomson's Reuters, 30 January 2025

• Zhōngguó will be thrilled if Trump kills the 'green economy' of the USA, which will result in Trump handing another industry to Zhōngguó
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 January 2025

• The growth of the electric vehicle industry in Zhōngguó has been extraordinary. More than half of new cars sold are electric, putting the world's largest automarket on a path to all but erase gas-powered cars over the coming decades. Zhōngguó accounted for more than 60% of global electric car sales in 2024. Zhōngguó's EV revolution and successes helps cement its dominance in clean technology and its claim on global climate leadership, just as the administration of Trump doubles down on planet-heating fossil fuels and demonizes clean energy. The IEA predicts global oil demand is going to level off at the end of this decade and start declining in the 2030s, with EVs playing a big role in this downward trend.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 January 2025

• Trump's desire to retreat from clean energy goals, puts the USA out of step with the rest of the world, and gives the renewable energy industry to Zhōngguó
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 January 2025

• Trump, issues executive orders designed to stop the country from tranisitioning to renewable energy. This will also benefit Zhōngguó as it successfully takes control of another global industry.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 January 2025

• Renewable energy giants shrug off Trump's anti-wind energy policies: "Electrification is absolutely unstoppable."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 22 January 2025

• South Korea to shrink biomass energy subsidies after criticism over links to deforestation. Environmental activists generally applauded the reforms but criticized loopholes and slow timelines for phasing out the subsidies.
  - Associated Press, 21 January 2025

• Zhōngguó broke its own record in installing renewable power in 2024, as the world's top polluter continues to succeed with its transition to renewable energy, while Trump shifts the shifts away from fighting global heating by doing the bidding of the oil, coal and natural gas industries.
  - Financial Post, 21 January 2025

• Wind energy and renewable companies in Europe were pressured after Trump signed an executive order on Monday to halt US offshore wind lease sales in federal waters temporarily. Adding to the industry-wide gloom, Danish offshore wind developer Orsted revealed impairment charges that exceeded Wall Street analyst expectations. Shares of Orsted plunged as much as 18% in Copenhagen - the most since November 2023 - after the company revealed an impairment charge worth 12.1 billion Danish kroner ($1.68 billion) at its troubled US unit.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 January 2025

• Wind energy and renewable companies in Europe were pressured after Trump signed an executive order on Monday to halt US offshore wind lease sales in federal waters temporarily. Adding to the industry-wide gloom, Danish offshore wind developer Orsted revealed impairment charges that exceeded Wall Street analyst expectations. Shares of Orsted plunged as much as 18% in Copenhagen - the most since November 2023 - after the company revealed an impairment charge worth 12.1 billion Danish kroner ($1.68 billion) at its troubled US unit.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 January 2025

• Canoo, an electric vehicle startup, files for bankruptcy
  - Zero Hedge, 21 January 2025

• USGS researchers have unveiled the first map of prospective locations for hydrogen gas in the contiguous USA -- and there is a lot more hydrogen than they previously thought beneath up to 30 states. In a study published last month, the same researchers calculated that Earth's total buried hydrogen reserves could amount to 6.2 trillion tons (5.6 trillion metric tons) of gas. Just 2% of that would supply all the energy required to power the world for 200 years, they said.
  - Live Science, 20 January 2025

• The electric power grid of France in 2024 relied 95% on nuclear and renewable energy sources
  - Bloomberg, 20 January 2025

• Large solar farms are going natural to cut the grass on their fields - allowing sheep to graze on the grass. The sheep are better suited than lawnmowers to fit between small crevices and chew away rain or shine. Agrivoltaics, a method using land for both solar energy production and agriculture, is on the rise with more than 60 solar grazing projects in the USA.
  - Associated Press, 19 January 2025

• 25,000 charge cycles and 80% capacity achieved in a lithium-sulfur battery breakthrough. The new battery showed impressive performance, retaining half its capacity even when fully charged in just over a minute at high temperatures.
  - Interesting Engineering, 19 January 2025

• WSJ editorial argues that "Trump speaks truth to wind power. He says wind farms only work because of subsidies. He is right". Trump is right only to the extent that the fossil fuel industry only works because of subsidies and from not having to pay for the environment harm their products (including plastics) cause. So the Journal should not complain about subsidies for wind power.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 January 2025

• The solar industry in Deutschland has "a lot of distress", being hurt by a slump in demand, and more bankruptcies and firings of workers
  - Zero Hedge, 06 January 2025

• After fierce lobbying, the Treasury Department establishes rules for billions in subsidies for hydrogen technology in the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 January 2025

• Researchers discover that co-location of solar panel farms, and raising sheep, does not negatively impact wool production. The findings of the study were that the quality of the wool produced by these sheep was no worse than wool produced by sheep grazing out in the open.
  - The Cool Down, 01 January 2025

• President Jimmy Carter could have helped launched a huge solar power industry in the USA (a market now controlled by Zhōngguó) in 1979, when he asked Congress for $1 billion to promote solar power. Shortly thereafter, Ronald Reagan became president, whose environmental record was horrible, including drastic funding cuts for Department of Energy renewables research. Republicans should not whine about the successes of Zhōngguó with solar power today - it is all the fault of their hatred of environmental protection and innovation.
  - Splinter, 30 December 2024

• Sekisui Chemical to mass-produce solar films in $2 billion project. The chemical company based in Nihon announced Thursday that it will establish a subsidiary in January to produce perovskite solar cells, which are light and flexible.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 December 2024

• "If 1.5 million people in Deutschland have them, there must be something in it." - how solar panels on balconies are becoming more popular. Balcony solar panels can save 30% on a typical household's electricity bill and, with vertical surface area in cities larger than roof space, the appeal is clear.
  - The Guardian, 18 December 2024

• Tanker ships are now being fitted with sails to cut carbon footprints. The appeal of sails may grow as shippers transition from oil to pricier, cleaner marine fuels.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 December 2024

• Zhōngguó is rushing ahead with plans to build a prototype Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) device by 2030 that would become the largest human-made object in space.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 December 2024

• The solar power enthusiasts importing their own equipment from Zhōngguó. Fed up with cost estimates from residential solar installers, DIYers are taking matters into their own hands.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 December 2024

• Electric power prices and natural gas prices jump in Germany, amid weak generation of windpower
  - Zero Hedge, 13 December 2024

• The USA hits Zhōngguó with new taxes/tariffs on solar wafers and tungsten products. Steep new taxes take effect 1 Janaury 2025, an attempt to fight the prowess of Zhōngguó in dominating the clean energy market
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 December 2024

• Here is how much that cleaner energy can save for the USA, in lives and money. Widespread adoption of heat pumps could prevent thousands of premature deaths and save billions on energy bills.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 December 2024

• The demain for oil in Zhōngguó could peak in 2025. Oil demand in Zhōngguó, the world's top crude oil importer, could peak as early as 2025 as the penetration of electric vehicles and LNG trucks is accelerating, state-owned Zhōngguó National Petroleum Corporation said on Tuesday.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 December 2024

• BP will merge its offshore wind-energy business with that of Japanese power-utility JERA to create a standalone company, in line with BP's strategy to focus on its more profitable oil-and-gas operations.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 December 2024

• Companies that imported millions of solar panels from Southeast Asia could have to pay taxes/tariffs on them "ranging from 30% to more than 230%", according to a new report from Bloomberg. Companies have until December 3rd to install the panels, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection has pledged strict enforcement to prevent stockpiling, potentially exposing importers to audits, inspections, and billions in backdated taxes/tariff costs.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 December 2024

• Elon Musk announces that Tesla will stop making electric vehicles (he can't compete with Zhōngguó), and switch to vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Maybe seeking new socialist subsidies?
  - Eco News, 02 December 2024

• California cannot use all of its solar power. As residents see sky-high bills, solar plants in California don't even operate at full capacity. The state needs more electricity storage systems and been electric power transmission capabilities.
  - SF Gate, 02 December 2024

• Zhōngguó builds up 600 gigawatts of electric power in Gobi and western deserts equal to half of the electric power capacity of the USA (1100 gigawatts). Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between Zhōngguó and the USA.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 November 2024

• The CEO of Northvolt resigns as the big hope of Europe for its own battery champion files for bankruptcy. On Thursday, the company sought bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to allow it to restructure its debt, scale back its business and secure a sustainable foundation for its continued operation.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 22 November 2024

• The CEO of Northvolt resigns as the big hope of Europe for its own battery champion files for bankruptcy. On Thursday, the company sought bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to allow it to restructure its debt, scale back its business and secure a sustainable foundation for its continued operation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 November 2024

• Zhōngguó, the industry leaders in solar energy, are leading the 'green energy' movement of Asia. "Buying equipment and components from suppliersin Zhōngguó, who have mastered the supply chain and solar tech, gives us the best opportunity to generate green energy with a price that is low enough to compete against fossil fuels."
  - Zero Hedge, 20 November 2024

• $250,000,000+ - Gautam Adani, chair of Adani Group in Bharat, and one of the world's richest people, was indicted with others on bribery and fraud charges unsealed Wednesday in federal court in New York. Andani and other defendants are accused of bribing government officials in Bharat with more than $250 million in bribes to obtain solar energy supply contracts worth more than $2 billion in profits.
  - NBC News, 20 November 2024

• Gautam Adani, chair of Adani Group in Bharat, and one of the world's richest people, was indicted with others on bribery and fraud charges unsealed Wednesday in federal court in New York. Andani and other defendants are accused of bribing government officials in Bharat with more than $250 million in bribes to obtain solar energy supply contracts worth more than $2 billion in profits.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 November 2024

• Trump might destroy the USA's opportunity to be a leader in climate healing technology. Five charts show that Zhōngguó is winning this technology battle. Nearly half of the wind and solar energy in the world is generated in Zhōngguó. Zhōngguó has 339 gigawatts of Zhōngguó - eight times more than the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 November 2024

• The re-election win of Trump is a worry for an already struggling wind industry. Faced with rising costs and thin margins, wind energy developers have lately been reducing their ambitions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 November 2024

• Shares of Plug Power drop 9%, down 60% for the year, after the hydrogen-technology provider turned in a disappointing quarterly report and weak guidance. Also, investors are worried that Trump's policies will not be as favorable to green energy as those from a Democratic administration.
  - Investor Business Daily, 12 November 2024

• The Trump campaign has vowed to pull the USA out of the Paris accord, as Zhōngguó becomes a global champion of renewable energy and appears more committed than ever, seeing the profits to be made from renewable energy technology, something Trump hates.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 November 2024

• Deutschland has a renewal energy outage, due to cloudy weather (less solar), with huge consequences. The foggy weather of the last few days has brought green electricity production to a virtual standstill. Not only have particularly climate-damaging power plants been brought into operation as a replacement for wind and solar power, but prices have also exploded. And all of this seems to be just a foretaste of winter.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 November 2024

• Tycoon drives Bharat's competition against the solar-energy dominance of Zhōngguó. Gautam Adani, the founder of one of the biggest business conglomerates in Bharat, lies at the intersection of the Bharat's clean energy challenge to Zhōngguó.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 November 2024

• Solar and wind are rolling out rapidly in the USA. They account for about 19 percent of energy generation today, and could reach more than 40% by 2030. This clean energy will rapidly replace coal, and many expect it will simply replace natural gas as well. But that is a mistake: In fact, solar and wind will depend on gas for decades to come. This is because natural gas is needed to generate power at night or when the wind isn't blowing.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 November 2024

• Shares of Vestas drop 11% after profit guidance trimmed. The Danish wind-turbine maker said higher costs and warranty provisions would push its profit margin to the lower end of its guidance range this year.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 November 2024

• Shares of solar energy companies plummet after Trump wins re-election, on fears that Trump will diminish their businesses. The benchmark Invesco Solar ETF was down more than 11% in premarket trading. The solar panel manufacturer First Solar tumbled 14%. Residential solar stocks Sunrun and Sunnova fell 18% and 21%, respectively. Inverter manufacturer Enphase tumbled 12% and Nextracker was down nearly 12%.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 06 November 2024

• Why the solar panel boom in Zhōngguó is an economic bust for its leading companies. Shielded by taxes/tariffs and fostered by subsidies, a solar panel commands triple the price in the USA compared with Zhōngguó and Europe, but expanding in America has become trickier.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 November 2024

• Companies in Zhōngguó used the climate subsidies under the Biden administration to expand their dominance of the solar industry. For example, a year go, the Biden administration accused one of the largest solar manufacturers in Zhōngguó of evading American taxes/tariffs. Now the company is building a massive panel factory in Texas -- and it could receive more than $1 billion in tax subsidies under President Biden's signature climate law.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 03 November 2024

• Shocking rise in whale, dolphin, and porpoise strandings as wind farms proliferate around the British coast
  - Zero Hedge, 30 October 2024

• The fastest-part part of Tesla's business is not selling cars, but rather its energy generation and storage business
  - Sherwood News, 25 October 2024

• The USA Treasury Department said on Thursday it would allow some mining companies to use tax credits aimed at boosting American production of solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and other clean energy components, a shift in position after industry pressure.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 24 October 2024

• The "clean energy transition is failing": hedge funds are engaged in a climate short bets on green tech stocks
  - Zero Hedge, 21 October 2024

• Electric motors are about to get a major upgrade thanks to Benjamin Franklin. Electrostatic motors are in testing and have massive potential.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 October 2024

• Bharat plans a massive upgrade and expansion of its power transmission system, expecting investment opportunities of $109 billion to support the integration of renewable energy sources and storage solutions.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 October 2024

• The cost of producing 'green' hydrogen makes it prohibitive, says study. Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is more cost effective than producing hydrogen for fuel, say Harvard researchers.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 October 2024

• Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar energy generation in Knox County, Ohio. The hometown newspaper is helping. After the local paper was sold to Metric Media, part of a 'pink slime' network, the Mount Vernon News published one-sided coverage and dubious claims about solar power. Opposition to solar was stoked by a group whose major donor -- a retired natural gas-industry executive -- also leads a pro-gas dark-money organization.
  - ProPublica, 08 October 2024

• Solar and wind energy prices plummet to record lows. Countries across Europe have invested heavily in wind and solar energy projects in recent decades as the price of these clean energy sources has decreased in line with the falling costs of installations.
  - OilPrice.com, 04 October 2024

• Ferrari has filed a patent for a hydrogen engine that could revolutionize the way we think about sports car engines. This engine is not only revolutionary for its use of hydrogen, but also because it is mounted upside down, which is highly unconventional for high-performance engines. The proposed engine is a hybrid, combining a combustion engine fuelled by hydrogen at the rear and an electric motor at the front, enabling all-wheel drive.
  - Union Rayo, 04 October 2024

• GE Vernova suffers $300 million loss in Q32024 due to its offshore wind turbine business
  - Master Resource, 03 October 2024

• How the USA lost the solar power business 'race' to Zhōngguó - by good, old-fashioned capitalism less prevalent in the USA.
  - Bloomberg, 30 September 2024

• When Hurricane Helene hit, this disaster-proof neighborhood in Cortez, Florida, kept their lights on. Housing designed for strong hurricanes, and secure solar panels on the roof, proved themselves during the hurricane.
  - Fast Company, 30 September 2024

• Ultra-cheap energy, and cars from Zhōngguó, drive the electric vehicle revolution in Nepal. A dam-building spree has led to low energy prices and widespread electric vehicle adoption in a country otherwise dependent on fossil fuel imports.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 September 2024

• Bharat is seeking bids to supply 6,000 megawatts of electricity from renewable energy power projects for assured peak-hour supply with storage
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 September 2024

• A big increase in wind and solar power has pushed wholesale prices to zero or below for many hours of the year, spurring a big change in the way people use power in some parts of the world.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 September 2024

• Shell abandons hydrogen projects in Norway due to a lack of demand
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2024

• Electric vehicles are "up to twice as expensive" to operate as gasoline-fueled vehicles in the UK
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2024

• Combining solar power with farming is getting easier. Developers are wary of added costs. Agrivoltaics may help farms use less water and protect fruit from frost, but many U.S. farmers can still make more money renting their land to developers.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 September 2024

• Power prices in France turned negative for hours on Tuesday morning amid tepid demand in a struggling economy and increased renewables generation
  - Zero Hedge, 18 September 2024

• Broken blades, angry fishermen and rising costs slow offshore wind power. Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 September 2024

• The Biden administration increases taxes/tariffs on products from Zhōngguó. The administration moved to block off a popular tariff-free path for Chinese apparel coming into the United States, and added stiff levies on electric vehicles, solar panels and other products.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 September 2024

• Shares of solar companies rise as Wall Street says that Harris won the debate against Trump. First Solar jumped 8%, SolarEdge soared 9.7%, Sunnova was ahead 5%, and Sunrun gained 8.5%.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 September 2024

• Silver: the unsung hero of the new economy. Silver demand continues to surge, driven by technologies like solar power and AI.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 September 2024

• Solar energy firm Lumio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after getting caught up in a "severe liquidity crisis" following a fall in market demand.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 September 2024

• Solar farms have a superpower beyond clean energy. The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 September 2024

• BMW and Toyota plan to make hydrogen-powered EVs mainstream with partnership. BMW said it would release hydrogen-powered versions of one of its existing model lines in 2028 as part of its strategy -- which Toyota shares.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 September 2024

• The green subsidy scam. After almost 50 years, neither solar nor wind-power are cost-competitive, especially when the additional costs of addressing their inherent intermittency are included -- costs that others must pay. And new technologies, such as direct air capture of carbon, will only be commercially viable if the U.S. imposes carbon taxes of several hundred dollars per ton, which few politicians will be willing to do. The overwhelming majority of green energy subsidies reward politically powerful constituencies and businesses whose primary purpose is not to build better energy mousetraps but to build only ones that qualify for the largest subsidies.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 September 2024

• Britain awards 10 contracts for offshore wind projects. The successful outcome of the government auction for renewable energy projects may bolster a wind industry battered by rising costs.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 September 2024

• Enerpoly, based in Sweden, has flung open the doors to its zinc-ion battery megafactory in the north of Stockholm -- making it the first manufacturing facility to use this battery technology at a large scale in the world. Zinc has many benefits in batteries over lithium.
  - New Atlas, 03 September 2024

• Solar cell/panel manufacturers in Zhōngguó have just been through a bloodbath of an earnings season, but there are tentative signs the massive glut that is plaguing the industry could be starting to ease. The financial pain looks to be planting the seeds for a turnaround, although a meaningful rebound is unlikely until next year.
  - Bloomberg, 30 August 2024

• Wealthier homeowners nab billions in tax credits for energy efficiency. IRS data shows a huge disparity between rich and poor in a major Biden climate effort.
  - Politico, 28 August 2024

• The electric grid in the USA adds batteries at 10-times the rate of natural gas in the first half of 2014. By the end of 2024, 96 percent of the grid additions in the USA will not add carbon to the atmosphere.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 26 August 2024

• Toyota has unveiled a new unpreceded combustion engine technology that might allow internal combustion to persist for several more years. This new engine, the Renaissance engine, can use any fuel, producing slightly fewer emissions than other engines. It is relatively efficient in its fuel type, which may be gasoline, synthetic e-fuels, biodiesel, or hydrogen.
  - Ecoticias, 26 August 2024

• Imports of silver into Bharat will double in 2024 on demand due to solar power and investor demand
  - Thomson's Reuters, 23 August 2024

• Most policies to fight global heating and climate change do not work. Here is what science says does reduce emissions. Relying on green subsidies alone has failed, but combining various economic tools has helped limit climate-warming emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 August 2024

• The electric grid system of Brazil caps power from wind and solar, threatening renewable energy projects
  - Thomson's Reuters, 22 August 2024

• Coal power defined Becker, a town of 5000 people in Minnesota. Can solar power win the people over to the transition? One of the largest coal-fueled electric plants in the USA is being replaced with thousands of acres of solar panels and a test of long-duration batteries. It is also a test of the economic consequences, especially for jobs, in the transition from coal to solar.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2024

• Ford Motor reduces its expansion into electric vehicle. Ford said it would invest less in battery-powered cars and scrap a planned electric three-row sport utility vehicle.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2024

• Ford Motor shrinks its EV rollout plans as demand lags. The automaker expects to take $1.9 billion in related special charges and write-downs as automakers continue adjusting their EV plans because of softer-than-expected demand.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 August 2024

• Clean fuel startups were supposed to be the next big thing. Now they are collapsing. Hydrogen and biofuel projects have become money pits, threatening climate progress.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 August 2024

• The Solar Investment Tax Credit is safe from repeal even if Republicans win in 2024, despite the Republican's pretend opposition to such tax credits. Their "thou shalt not" lie (about opposing such credits) is that their red states disproportionately benefited in terms of capital investments, expansion of manufacturing, job creation and economic growth. A Financial Times analysis revealed that, in the legislation's first year alone, $180 billion of investment were committed to districts represented by Republicans in Congress, compared to approximately $10 billion in districts represented by a Democrat.
  - The Hill, 18 August 2024

• Large parts of Canada are ideal for future hydrogen production, global analysis suggests. Canada has lots of space for wind turbines (to generate electricity to produce hydrogen by electrolysis. Though windmills will requrie more rare earth metals for the magnets.
  - Tech Xplore, 16 August 2024

• The dark side of the electric vehicle revolution: road taxes. Pay-per-mile fees have emerged as the most likely solution to dropping gas revenues linked to electric vehicles.
  - Politico, 14 August 2024

• Most states now levy a dedicated fee on electric vehicle owners. Some also have rolled back other incentives, such as New Jersey's decision this year to restart sales tax on EVs. Or they have reconfigured registration fees to land more heavily on EVs, as in Maryland. The justification from both Democratic and Republican policymakers for making EVs more expensive is that states are staring down a budgetary cliff. The gasoline tax -- long the backbone of transportation funding -- has lost potency as vehicles become more efficient. Now, the rise of electric vehicles threatens to make the gas tax obsolete everywhere.
  - Politico, 14 August 2024

• Refueling a hydrogen car in California is so annoying that drivers are suing Toyota
  - Los Angeles Times, 13 August 2024

• One week after shares of SunPower drop over 20%, the solar panel company declares bankruptcy. Factors include higher interest rates, and higher taxes/tariffs on imports of solar panels from Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 August 2024

• Some biofuels are good for the environment. But some biofuels also have serious implications for environmental justice and land-use competition, affecting food security, sustainable infrastructure, and land-based carbon sinks. "Not all biofuels are beneficial when their full environmental impacts are assessed, [and] some of the most important, such as those produced from corn, sugarcane, and soy, perform poorly in many contexts."
  - JSTOR Daily, 08 August 2024

• Why people in California have some of the highest power bills in the USA. Utilities are investing billions to upgrade infrastructure and build out green energy, passing budget-breaking costs to households.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 August 2024

• Residents of California face the second-highest average electricity bills in the USA, driven by investments in wildfire mitigation, grid upgrades, and renewable energy integration. The surge in electricity costs has left nearly 1 in 5 California households behind on their energy bills.
  - OilPrice.com, 07 August 2024

• 7 in 10 people in the USA say that extreme heat is impacting their electricity bills, even while many of these Americans vote for politicians who are lobbied[/bribed to deny the existence of global heating
  - The Hill, 07 August 2024

• Share of rooftop solar installer SunPower fall 32%, as the company has filed for bankruptcy, after struggling for months in the face of high interest rates and allegations of misconduct in its reporting practices. SunPower stock fell 32% to 55 cents per share Tuesday. Its shares have collapsed nearly 90% this year.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 06 August 2024

• Zhōngguó rules the solar energy industry, but its industry at home is in trouble. The solar sector shows how Zhōngguó conducts industrial policy: it chooses industries to dominate, floods them with loans and lets companies fight it out.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 August 2024

• The USA has been spending billions to revive manufacturing. But Zhōngguó is in another league. State support in Zhōngguó for industry is much greater than other nations, with subsidies, loans and other perks fueling trade tensions with the West.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 August 2024

• Business model failures of green-energy revive bets on natural gas. European energy giants Shell and BP are sticking to their core business as clean-energy investments make slow progress.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 August 2024

• Robots are coming, and they are on a mission: install solar panels. Energy companies say a labor shortage is one big obstacle to installing more solar power. The companies are turning to machines to speed things up.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 August 2024

• Some 'charger hogs' are ruining the electric vehicle experience. EV fast chargers are not generally designed to completely fill an EV's batteries, so the chargers slow down once the batter is 80% full. But some people wait until their batteries are charged over 90%, which takes a long time, and creates long lines at the chargers.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 05 August 2024

• The rapid expansion of solar power capacity in Zhōngguó is crowding-out farms for much-needed crops
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 August 2024

• Zhōngguó has achieved a historic milestone by surpassing electricity production with coal with wind and solar energy. Solar power is projected to surpass coal as the primary energy source of Zhōngguó by 2026.
  - OilPrice.com, 01 August 2024

• Wind and solar power generation to surpass 40% of the power capacity of Zhōngguó by year-end. Wind and solar accounted for 38.4 per cent of overall installed capacity in the first half of the year, while coal-fired capacity fell to 38.1 per cent.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 July 2024

• Net-zero environmental targets could double the demand for copper by 2035
  - Zero Hedge, 24 July 2024

• A global supply glut of panels is hurting producers but also helping installations. A global supply glut has pummelled solar panel prices over the past two years, leaving swaths of manufacturers unprofitable in Europe, threatening US President Joe Biden's ambition to turn America into a renewable energy force and even ricocheting back on the companies in Zhōngguó that dominate the global market.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 22 July 2024

• California to launch a 'hydrogen hub' to expand zero-emission technology. The project will include more than 10 sites to produce energy for the ports of Long Beach, Oakland, and Los Angeles.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 July 2024

• Metals are why Zhōngguó is so interested in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan's bounty of so-called critical minerals has enriched the country and grabbed the attention of entrepreneurs scrambling to control the ingredients needed to fight climate change. Zhōngguó the biggest producer of electric vehicles and batteries, is right next door and eager to buy.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 July 2024

• Why electricity costs twice as much in Britain as in the USA - Britain keeps on building solar farms that are mostly useless in Britain's dark winter days, so the country also has to build more back-up electricity generation - effectively doubling the cost of electricity.
  - Daily Skeptic, 19 July 2024

• Coming bankruptcy for SunPower after installations of solar panels and shipments of solar panels are halted
  - Zero Hedge, 19 July 2024

• Manufacturing more cars and trucks using gasoline, and fewer electric vehicles, as automakers change plans
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 July 2024

• High prices, ongoing subsidies, and growing demand have helped oil producers in the USA take in record profits despite global efforts to spur greater use of renewable energy and electric cars
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 July 2024

• Wall Street wants to invest in the battery storage boom in the USA. A surge in solar power lets battery companies charge up during the day when power prices are low and sell in the evening at higher prices.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 July 2024

• A beach in Nantucket is closed after the failure of wind turbine blade scatters "fiberglass shards"
  - Zero Hedge, 17 July 2024

• Deutschland plans to cut and reform subsidies it pays to renewable energy producers because of rising costs for the government, a move which may fuel uncertainty over future investment
  - Bloomberg, 17 July 2024

• Zhōngguó is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
  - ABC Australia, 15 July 2024

• Shares of SolarEdge Technologies are down 12% this morning, after the company announced it will cut 400 jobs in order to restore profitability. This news dragged down the stock price of other solar companies pre-market: SunPower down -4.8%, First Solar down -4.6%, and SunRun down -5.8%.
  - Barron's, 15 July 2024

• Who would have predicted that after all of the subsidies of the Inflation Reduction Act, the USA would not by now have topped the renewables construction peak, which was achieved under the Trump administration? Instead, wind and solar are now much more expensive. As a result, while utility-scale solar construction has expanded, utility-scale wind construction has dropped significantly in the U.S. The year 2020 is still the high watermark for combined solar and wind construction.
  - The Hill, 12 July 2024

• A big wreck is about to happen at the intersection of artificial intelligence 'boulevard' and net zero 'avenue'
  - Zero Hedge, 12 July 2024

• Wind power expansion meets grassroots resistance in the northeast of Brazil. Those with legal title to their lands are benefitting, those without title are not.
  - Associated Press, 11 July 2024

• For the first time ever, electricity generation in the USA from utility-scale solar and wind exceeded the power output of nuclear power plants
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2024

• The possibility of hydrogen-powered flight means greater opportunities for fossil-free travel, and the technological advances to make this happen are moving fast. New studies from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, show that almost all air travel within a 750-mile radius (1200 km) could be made with hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2045, and with a novel heat exchanger currently in development, this range could be even further.
  - Chalmers University of Technology, 11 July 2024

• Zhōngguó is building two-thirds of the wind and solar projects in the world. Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 - six years ahead of planned goals.
  - The Guardian, 11 July 2024

• The energy storage business of Tesla is growing -- and it could be the next big earnings driver for Tesla. Tesla said it more than doubled its energy storage deployment in Q2 from the previous quarter.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 10 July 2024

• Zhōngguó outspends the USA on nuclear fusion energy research. Zhōngguó wants to dominate commercial fusion, a long-dreamed-of clean energy source that is attracting new investment.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 July 2024

• The rapid growth of renewable energy supplies in Zhōngguó is overwhelming its electrical grid. The rapid deployment of wind and solar power in Zhōngguó has worsened regional power imbalances, forcing the country to idle increasing amounts of renewable generation when it overwhelms local consumption.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 July 2024

• Shares of SunPower are down over 20% after the struggling solar company's accountant quit amid allegations of misconduct by senior executives
  - Bloomberg, 05 July 2024

• Shell pauses construction at major biofuels facility as European market falters. Shell will pause construction work at its biofuels facility in Rotterdam as it seeks to cut costs in pursuit of better returns for investors.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 July 2024

• Gig-economy serf drivers are boosting the need for public chargers for electric vehicles. Rideshare drivers who work for companies such as Uber are increasingly turning to electric vehicles to reduce fuel costs.
  - Harvard Business School, 02 July 2024

• Companies based in Zhōngguó are increasing their acquisition of major copper, cobalt and lithium mining projects in Africa, dominating the critical minerals market, as Beijing positions itself to lead the global green energy transition. In one of the most recent investments, JCHX Mining Management is close to finalising a deal to buy the Lubambe copper mine in Zambia.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 01 July 2024

• People in Costa Rica question/criticize a $2 million subsidy given by the state oil company, RECOPE, to Ad Astra Rocket company to help them develop hyrdrogen technology
  - Tico Times, 29 June 2024

• Trump, in his ignornce, says clean energy is a scam. That could benefit Zhōngguó, experts say. President Biden's landmark climate law could be repealed in a Trump administration. Economists said that would jeopardize $488 billion in American investments.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 June 2024

• The biggest wind and solar construction company in Europe, Statkraft, has revised its plans for the future, now expecting to build fewer new wind and solar installations than before. The reasons for the revision are higher costs and lower electricity prices that are compromising the profitability of these projects.
  - OilPrice.com, 27 June 2024

• Shares of SolarEdge are down 17% after the company announced that one of its customers has filed for bankruptcy. SolarEdge customer PM&M Electric has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It owes SolarEdge $11.4 million via a secured promissory note.
  - Investor Place, 25 June 2024

• Green hydrogen: is this the breakout moment for Australia amid US$127 billion boom down under?
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 25 June 2024

• Wind energy is starting to revive. The election could throw a wrench in the works. New turbines are popping up offshore and on land. High interest rates and local opposition have been a drag on projects for several years.
  - Barron's, 22 June 2024

• Antin backs hydrogen-equipment supplier GTL Leasing. The infrastructure-focused firm committed about $100 million to the provider of bulk trailers and storage tanks.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 June 2024

• End all energy subsidies now! The energy crisis is decades past, and technology advances in oil and natural gas drilling have yielded booming supplies, allowing the U.S. to become a major oil and natural gas exporter. So maybe it is time (or past time) to end the dense and expensive thicket of federal energy market interventions (including subsidies and mandates for wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles, plus fuel economy standards).
  - Master Resource, 13 June 2024

• The demand by the solar panel industry for silver could squeeze silver supplies in the future, sending up prices at a time when silver is underpriced to gold
  - Money Metals, 11 June 2024

• The Biden Administrations adds taxes/tariffs to shield the struggling solar industry in the USA. Solar panel manufacturers in the USA are pushing for further protections for their new factories against cheaply priced imports from Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 June 2024

• Zhōngguó is near to exceeding its target for the production of 'green' hydrogen - 200,000 tons, beating the rest of the world combined
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 June 2024

• As the use of solar power surges in the USA, wind power is in trouble. Wind power is also more vulnerable than solar power to many of the biggest logistical hurdles that hinder energy projects today: a lack of transmission lines, a lengthy permitting process and a growing backlash against new projects in many communities.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 June 2024

• Hydrogen offers Deutschland a chance to take a lead in green energy. A subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp, the venerable steel producer in Germany, is landing major deals for a device that makes the clean-burning gas from water. On both sides of the Atlantic, government are granting huge socialist subsidies to promote hydrogen technology.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 May 2024

• Europe is spending billions on infrastructure for hydrogen, but where are the supplies of hydrogen?
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024

• The world faces a shortage of minerals needed for the renewable energy transition
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 May 2024

• The world faces a shortage of minerals needed for the renewable energy transition
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 May 2024

• Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current policy guidelines to transition the electricity and vehicle infrastructure of the USA to renewable energy, according to a University of Michigan study.
  - University of Michigan News, 15 May 2024

• President Biden raises taxes/tariffs on $18 billion worth of imports from a more competitive Zhōngguó. President Joe Biden plans to impose a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicle imports, a 50% tariff on Chinese solar cells and a 25% tariff on certain Chinese steel and aluminum imports.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 14 May 2024

• President Biden raises taxes/tariffs on $18 billion worth of imports from a more competitive Zhōngguó. President Joe Biden plans to impose a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicle imports, a 50% tariff on Chinese solar cells and a 25% tariff on certain Chinese steel and aluminum imports.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 May 2024

• Zhōngguó criticizes the proposed new taxes/tariffs imposed by the Biden administration as "unfair" tech-transfer policies that "burden" commerce in the USA
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 14 May 2024

• The obscure Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 2 (Democrats) to 1 (Republican) in a partisan split on Monday on a new rule that could help speed up wind and solar energy
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 May 2024

• New rules to overhaul electric grids could boost wind and solar power. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way power lines are planned and funded in the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 May 2024

• New rules to overhaul electric grids could boost wind and solar power. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way power lines are planned and funded in the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 May 2024

• The state of Georgia is a magnet for data centers and other cutting-edge industries, but vast electricity demands are clashing with the green-energy goals of the companies demanding more electricity.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 May 2024

• Wrecked by a storm just before its launch: the fate of the largest floating solar farm in the world, on a lake behind a dam in Bharat
  - Zero Hedge, 11 May 2024

• The global solar power boom is driving a surge in silver demand. Miners are expanding their operations and ramping up production as prices for the precious metal climb to decade highs.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 May 2024

• Renewable energy rises over 30% of the electricity supply of the world. Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises, following a rapid rise in wind and solar power.
  - The Guardian, 07 May 2024

• Renewable energy needs to be stored. Zhōngguó is at the forefront. Environment ministers from the G-7 Western economies have targeted a sixfold increase in storage for renewable energy by 2030. Most of that will come from battery energy storage systems.
  - Barron's, 04 May 2024

• After installation, solar panels become a maintenance nightmare, as sales-oriented solar panel companies ignore costly service and maintenance owed to customers
  - Zero Hedge, 03 May 2024

• The dark side of solar poewr: some of the most productive farmland in the USA is at risk. No one knows how much cropland nationwide is currently under solar panels or leased for possible future development. Solar leases in Indiana and surrounding states can offer $900 to $1,500 an acre per year in land rents, with annual rate increases, according to a Reuters review of solar leases and interviews with four solar project developers. In comparison, farmland rent in top corn and soybean producers Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa averaged about $251 per acre in 2023, USDA data shows.
  - Fast Company, 29 April 2024

• Solar construction workers in New York State -- whose numbers are expected to grow rapidly to meet climate goals -- are transient, may not receive benefits and are subject to racial disparities in pay, finds a new report from the ILR School's Climate Jobs Institute.
  - Cornell University News, 26 April 2024

• First Solar and six other manufacturers of solar cells in the USA allege that Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are flooding the USA market with cheap solar cells that threaten the domestic industry. The manufacturers are requesting that the Commerce Department impose taxes/tariffs on solar cell imports from the four countries as a remedy.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 April 2024

• Rooftop solar panels are flooding the electric grid of California. As electricity prices go negative, California is struggling to offload an oversupply of solar power.
  - Bezos' Washington Post, 22 April 2024

• Toyota's hydrogen future is crumbling as owners file lawsuits, call for buybacks. Frozen pumps. Skyrocketing fuel costs. Plummeting resale values.
  - Inside EVs, 18 April 2024

• The economic damages due to climate change and global heating by 2050 will cost 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2 degrees Centigrade
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 17 April 2024

• California, the biggest market for residential solar power in the USA, has sales and installations declining significantly. Nationwide, sales are installations have declined 13%.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 April 2024

• Daytime solar power glut in California, with rooftop sales plunging 90 percent. Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business.
  - Mish Talk, 14 April 2024

• Zhōngguó protests a new investigation by the European Union into the 'dumping' of wind-turbines by companies in Zhōngguó. The European Union is investigating whether subsidies from the government of Zhōngguó allow its windpower companioes to export low-cost turbines around the world and obtaining more market share at the expense of wind power companies in Europe and the USA ... financed by their governments
  - SCMP, 11 April 2024

• Renewable energy technologies from Zhōngguó are pouring into Latin America
  - Economist, 11 April 2024

• Much the same as the oil industry, trillions in subsidies for wind and solar power have not made these sources of renewable energy much cheaper for people in the USA
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 09 April 2024

• The solar eclipse will cut 30 gigawatts of solar power across the electrical grids of the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2024

• As Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary of the USA, whines about the overcapacity of electric vehicle production in Zhōngguó - a sign of economic success, the commerce minister of Zhōngguó calls such accusations "groundless" - just good competition (something the USA never has liked)
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 April 2024

• Janet Yellen faces diplomatic test in urging Zhōngguó to reduce exports of green energy technology. The USA wants to persuade Zhōngguó to reduce its green energy industrial strategy as the Biden administration subsidizes its own supply chain.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 April 2024

• Zhōngguó 'Shock 2.0' sparks global backlash against flood of cheap products from Zhōngguó. Emerging economies have joined the USA and Europe in shielding domestic manufacturers from a rising tide of imports from Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 April 2024

• Hydroelectricity output in Bharat fell 16% at the steepest pace in at least 38 years during the year ended March 31, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, as erratic rainfall forced further dependence on coal-fired power amid higher demand.
  - Mises Institute, 01 April 2024

• The solar panel indusrty of Germany, once a leader, is facing serious economic challenges. Domestic manufacturers are caught between low prices from Zhōngguó and protectionist policies of the USA, even as demand increases.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 March 2024

• Shares of Nikola soared by more than 15% Thursday morning. The stock got a boost from some company-specific news as well as fresh publicity for hydrogen as a transportation fuel.
  - The Motley Fool, 28 March 2024

• In the latest of countless cautionary tales about green energy, a large-scale Texas solar farm has been devastated by a hail storm that took much of the facility off-line for an unknown duration. The March 15 storm battered thousands of panels with hail described as anywhere between golf ball- and baseball-sized.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 March 2024

• A "historic breakthrough": the installed wind turbine cost in Zhōngguó has hit a record low price, dropping 45% since last year. The cost is now just one-fifth the equivalent cost in the USA, solidifying Zhōngguós place as a global leader in renewable energy.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 March 2024

• SLB (Schlumberger) to invest nearly $400 million in carbon capture company in push to scale technology in a project in Norway
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 March 2024

• Canada had designs on being a hydropower superpower. Now its rivers and lakes are drying up. About 70% of the country is suffering from abnormally dry or drought conditions, forcing it to start up power plants fueled by gas or coal to meet mushrooming demand.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 March 2024

• Infrasound (less than 20 hertz) from wind turbines could a "huge threat to the entire biodiversity", including the health of humans
  - Zero Hedge, 26 March 2024

• Heat and drought are sucking US hydropower dry. Hydropower in the Western US last year was the lowest it has been in decades, and 2024 is not looking much better.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 March 2024

• The climate law that President Biden signed in 2022 has created a large and growing market for companies to buy and sell clean-energy tax credits. Companies have registered 45,500 projects for possible sale on a new tax-credit marketplace.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 March 2024

• Scientists in Korea invent a catalyst that can generate hydrogen from municipal sewage. The invention is based on finding a catalyst that can effectively drive the urea oxidation reaction, thereby amplifying the efficiency of both hydrogen generation and wastewater treatment.
  - OilPrice.com, 19 March 2024

• Electric transmission buildout could cost Americans trillions of dollars
  - Zero Hedge, 16 March 2024

• Zhōngguó is manufacturing huge numbers of solar panels, and upsetting markets for sand. The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9% (80% is sufficient for construction). Less than 0.1% of the sand mined each year is suitable for solar panel production. The price for such high-quality sands is over $55/ton.
  - Economist, 14 March 2024

• How Zhōngguó came to dominate the world in solar energy. Beijing is set to further increase its manufacturing and installation of solar panels as it seeks to master global markets and wean itself from imports.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 March 2024

• $1,000,000,000,000+ - The oil industry has sought to block state backing for renewable energy technology since the 1960s. Research shows the oil industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while the oil industry enjoyed vast subsidies for propping up its polluting business model. In 2022, the total subsidies for fossil fuels -- including costs to society -- came to $760 billion in the US and $310 billion in the European Union, according to the International Monetary Fund.
  - The Guardian, 08 March 2024

• The percentage of households in Maine burning home heating oil is the highest in the country. Yet no other state is adopting climate-friendly heat pumps as fast. In 2023 heat pumps outsold gas furnaces in the United States for the second year running, a climate win.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 March 2024

• Rural America set to be transformed by a federal plan for to use up to 55-million acres of solar farms. The Biden administration to propose designating as much as 55 million acres of public lands as potential sites for industrial-scale solar farms.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 February 2024

• The new hot climate investment is heat itself. Batteries that store heat can replace fossil fuels for steelmaking and other industrial processes.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 February 2024

• Renewable power growth in the USA is setting new records with the support of government subsidies. Wind and solar power are projected to become more popular than natural gas in replacing coal.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 February 2024

• The world is on the threshold of a natural hydrogen "gold rush", geologists say. Geologic hydrogen far more abundant, accessible than previously thought.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 February 2024

• The switch to renewable energy is weakening the highly important electrical grid system of the USA. Random supplies from renewable energy and natural gas suppliers are destabilizing the electric grid.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2024

• Can the USA break the control by Zhōngguó of the solar industry? Zhōngguó controls the majority of the solar supply chain in the world. The USA is trying to build its own supply chain, but it will be difficult.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 February 2024

• Why are solar panels 44% cheaper in Zhōngguó than the USA? The short answer is that everyting in Zhōngguó is cheaper from matierals to electricity to labor. Trump proposes 60 percent taxes/tariffs on Zhōngguó. To date, Biden took tariffs Trump imposed and increased most of them.
  - Mish Talk, 12 February 2024

• Summer has long stressed electric grids. Now winter does, too. Electric utilities, which designed their system to meet peak demand in sizzling weather, are straining to keep up during the cold.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 February 2024

• The cost of Presdient Biden's tax credits for renewable energy are soaring. Fast growth in clean energy and electric vehicles boosts estimates by $428 billion while cutting emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 February 2024

• Carbon emissions in Zhōngguó are predicted to decline earlier than expected. The massive expansion of renewable energy in Zhōngguó is accelerating so fast that climate watchdogs now expect the greenhouse gas emissions could peak as soon as this year in Zhōngguó.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 February 2024

• President Biden's climate law, the dishonestly-named 'Inflation Reduction Act', will cost taxpayers double - now costing about $800 billion, because the unlimited subsidies offered are being claimed by more companies than expected.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 February 2024

• Europe is importing a solar boom. Cheap solar modules from Zhōngguó are helping the EU deliver on its promises of renewable energy. Companies that make solar panels in Europe are teetering on the brink of failure; the outlook for them is not so much cloudy as apocalyptic.
  - Economist, 08 February 2024

• Nine states in the USAM are working together to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps powered by electricity (especially from renewable sources), in an effort to eliminate natural gas and oil furnances.
  - Newhouse Wired, 07 February 2024

• Some of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in the USA (such as Martha's Vineyard) are being classified by the Biden administration as "low-income" in order to qualify for an electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy program.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2024

• The USA wanted a homegrown solar industry. Zhōngguó is building a lot of it. Zhōngguó's biggest solar companies are expanding in the USA, where they will reap generous subsidies from the government of the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 February 2024

• Solar panel makers in Europe ask the European Union for "emergency" actions to block the "significant oversupply" of solar panels from Zhōngguó. A glut of solar panels from Zhōngguó has triggered a "drastic reduction in price" in Europe. Group representing around 80 firms calls for three-pronged response within weeks (including more subsidies), or import curbs if that is not feasible.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 01 February 2024

• The western provinces of Canada have been hit by the worst drought in years and provincial utilities are getting into losses as their hydropower generating capacities are lower amid low reservoir levels
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2024

• Pumped storage hydropower plants can bank energy for times when wind and solar power fall short
  - Science, 25 January 2024

• The rooftop solar industry could be on the verge of collapse due to the many business scams/loans for rooftop installations. In late 2023 alone, more than 100 residential solar dealers and installers in the USA declared bankruptcy, six times more than in the previous three years combined. At the root of these struggles is the complicated financial engineering that helped companies raise money but that some investors and analysts say was built on a framework of lies.
  - Marc Benioff's Time, 25 January 2024

• Global emissions from electricity set to fall even as power demand climbs, the IEA predicts. Starting this year, record generation from renewables and nuclear will cover rising power demand from growth in emerging markets, AI and data centers, the agency says.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 January 2024

• The Biden administration on Friday issued guidance that makes much of the country eligible for socialist tax credits intended to offset the cost of installing electric vehicle chargers. Consumers and businesses can claim the credit for charging equipment installed for public or private use at homes or on business properties.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 January 2024

• The multibillion-dollar clean energy bet gone wrong. Offshore wind turbines are proving too risky for many utilities.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 January 2024

• Flexible geothermal power makes it easier to harness the inner heat of the Earth. Next-generation plants that respond to demand could be key to making a low-carbon energy source more economically appealing.
  - Nature, 19 January 2024

• $2 billion in subsidies, only 2 electric vehicle stations opened, the holdup is 'social justice'
  - Zero Hedge, 19 January 2024

• Goldman Sachs predicts "battery price deflation" through 2030
  - Zero Hedge, 19 January 2024

• Flush with $2 billion in subsidies from the USA government, new factories in the USA face a familiar challenge. Worries are growing in Washington that a flood of products from Zhōngguó could put new American investments in clean energy and high-tech factories at risk. Impose more taxes/tariffs on products from Zhōngguó to fight Zhōngguó's more successful industrial policy.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 January 2024

• A nascent market for clean-energy tax breaks is surging faster than expected, with deals totaling as much as $9 billion already done and tens of billions more expected this year. Solar-project developers can more easily raise money by selling tax credits directly to big companies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 January 2024

• Zhōngguó invests huge into the 'green' industry to jolt its ailing economy. Capital is pouring into factories that make items such as electric vehicles, batteries and renewable-energy gear as Beijing looks for new sources of growth.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 January 2024

• Capping a legal battle that had raged for over a decade, a federal judge in late December handed the Osage Nation a major victory by ordering wind farm developers to dismantle 84 turbines they had erected on 8400 acres of tribal land in northeastern Oklahoma. The renewable energy project, known as Osage Wind, should never have been constructed in the first place because the developers -- Osage Wind LLC, Enel Kansas LLC, and Enel Green Power North America -- did not have the required lease from the Osage Minerals Council.
  - Real Clear Wire, 17 January 2024

• When Congress voted to spend hundreds of billions to switch electricity production to solar and wind, it forgot something: transmission lines. So, more subsidies. More tax credits, which is to say more subsidies by taxpayers. A 30% tax credit would go toward qualifying new transmission lines going to renewable sources. The total amount of credits available is again uncapped.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 January 2024

• Some business argue that California has dealt a financial blow to renewable energy. Some companies are leaving the state or reducing their presence there after California greatly reduced incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 January 2024

• Missing profits may be a problem for the green transition
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 January 2024

• Hertz will shrink its electric vehicle fleet after being burned by price cuts at Tesla. Hertz blamed the sharp drop in the value of electric vehicles and higher repair costs for its decision to sell 20,000 cars.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 11 January 2024

• Hertz plans to sell 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, as it returns its focus to cars powered by gasoline
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 11 January 2024

• Hertz plans to sell 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, as it returns its focus to cars powered by gasoline
  - Zero Hedge, 11 January 2024

• Zhōngguó faces a challenger in its dominance of solar energy technology - ultrathin solar film technology from Nihon
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 January 2024

• Diamonds made with solar power are offering fiancées fashion that is ethical. Lab-grown diamonds, relatively unknown a decade ago, now make up a fifth of diamond sales by value.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 January 2024

• Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
  - Economist, 10 January 2024

• A meltdown in some of the most-hyped energy-transition metals is wreaking havoc across the mining world, stalling projects, scuppering deals and triggering a scramble for cash that promises to reverberate through the industry for years. Lithium -- the ultra-light metal used in electric-vehicle batteries -- has plunged more than 80% from a late-2022 record, as the market whiplashed from shortage fears to a mountain of surplus inventories. Nickel and cobalt have also tumbled, weighed down by an influx of new production amid concerns that the shift to EVs may not be as smooth and quick as predicted.
  - Bloomberg, 09 January 2024

• Legislation in France weakens its commitment to clean energy, and strengthens the commitment to nuclear energy
  - Zero Hedge, 09 January 2024

• ACWA Power, an unlikely success in the solar industry based in Saudi Arabia, now worth $50 billion. It has 24 GW of power projects running, and about 30 GW under consrtuction. One advantage is that it receives loans interest-free from the country's sovereign fund.
  - Economist, 04 January 2024

• Impacts are undocumented for half of the mining areas in the world. As the race to extract minerals and metals for clean-energy technologies accelerates, researchers must take more steps to map and study mines globally.
  - Nature, 03 January 2024