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Solar Power Generation Drives Electricity Generation Growth Over The Next Two Years
Electricity generation by the U.S. electric power sector totaled about 4,260 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2025. In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. electricity generation will grow by 1.1% in 2026 and by 2.6% in 2027, when it reaches an annual total of 4,423 BkWh. The three main dispatchable ... [continued]
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Avoiding Contrails on Night & Winter Flights Is Aviation’s Fastest Climate Win — New T&E Study
A new analysis by T&E shows that 25% of European aviation’s contrail-related global warming comes from night flights in autumn and winter, which make up just 10% of European air traffic. Contrail warming is highly seasonal and concentrated in time: in 2019, 75% of European contrail warming occurred between January to ... [continued]
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TVA Rebates 10,000 Heat Pump Water Heaters in Q4 of 2025, Showing a Wildly Successful Model
By Vidhisha Moopnar The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public power provider in the United States, via its EnergyRight program has a straightforward mission: serve the Tennessee Valley by delivering affordable, reliable energy while conserving natural resources and supporting economic development. Over the years, TVA has built a strong ... [continued]
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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline
Germany’s 400 km hydrogen backbone segment is now pressurized, full of fossil hydrogen, and waiting. There are no meaningful suppliers connected to it and no contracted offtakers drawing molecules out. That fact alone makes it worth slowing down and doing the accounting carefully, because large infrastructure decisions do not become ... [continued]
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The 8 (Or 11) Electric Cars That Increased Their US Sales In The 4th Quarter
Everyone knew US electric car sales would be down in the 4th quarter. After the $7,500 US EV tax credit was killed, the only question was how far sales would drop. I like looking for surprises, though, and trying to find out what will happen or what happened that people ... [continued]
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Whisper-Quiet BLUETTI Elite 30 V2 Portable Power Station — 600W 288Wh: Double the Runtime. Half the Waste.
The first thing I seek in technology, amidst the numerous conveniences accessible in modern society, is quiet. Power outages and the desire of many to be off the grid have led to certain portable power technologies becoming popular with the modern adventurer. Whether one wants to use more intermittent solar ... [continued]
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Addressing the Scale-Up Challenge for Clean Energy Process Technologies
By Dhruv Soni, Senior Technical Program Manager at Tesla Battery Minerals and Metals, CELI 2025 Fellow In the clean energy boom of the 2020s, the United States has continued to lead the world in early-stage innovation, especially across next-generation chemical process industries such as carbon capture, hydrogen and ammonia, sustainable ... [continued]
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Germany Unveils New EV Incentive Plan
Germany has announced a new incentive program for EVs, PHEVs, and EREVs that includes imports from Chinese manufacturers.
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80 Fast EV Charging Ports Coming To Queens & Long Island
The good news about public EV chargers keeps coming. Just a bit after reporting about 88 new fast chargers planned for Brooklyn, NY, here’s another recent and relevant development. In nearby Queens and a little further out in Long Island, there will be a total of 80 public fast charging ... [continued]
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Pricing Fertilizer Emissions Cuts Climate Pollution Without Making Food Expensive
Pricing fertilizer emissions sounds like a recipe for more expensive food, but when the numbers are worked carefully, it turns out to be a policy that cuts emissions sharply while barely moving grocery prices. The reason is simple and counterintuitive. Fertilizer is a large share of farm costs and an ... [continued]
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Oh, So That’s Why EV Charging Stations Are Still Hot Property
It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma: If EV sales are crashing, why are hundreds of new public EV charging stations still popping up all over the country like mushrooms after the rain? There are more than a few answers to that question, and the coming wave of used EVs ... [continued]
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Pressurized Steel, Missing Demand: Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone In Energy Flows
The German hydrogen backbone without customers or suppliers—a pipeline from nowhere to nowhere—is real steel in the ground, pressurized and defended as inevitable, yet it is being built for an energy system that does not need it. That claim sounds provocative until the energy flows are laid out in full. ... [continued]
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US EV Sales Drop 2% in 2025, But Up 162% Compared to 2021
I just wrote about 4th quarter US EV sales. As expected, they don’t look great. Sales dropped a ton in the 4th quarter after Republicans killed the $7,500 US EV tax credit. However, we all know that the 3rd quarter was a blockbuster quarter for US EV sales for the ... [continued]
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Lowest US EV Sales Since 4th Quarter of 2022 — CHARTS
As expected, the US electric vehicle market took a hit in the 4th quarter. With the $7,500 federal EV tax credit ending at the end of the 3rd quarter (after Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump prematurely killed it), people rushed to buy EVs before October, and then the market ... [continued]
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Geoengineering The Ocean — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The latest research examines the risks and rewards of geoengineering the ocean to make it absorb more carbon dioxide.
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