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Sage Geosystems Raises Over $97 Million To Deploy World’s First Commercial Pressure Geothermal Power Generation Facility
Ormat Technologies and Carbon Direct Capital co-lead Series B financing, which will support the development of Sage’s first next-generation geothermal power generation project. Sage Geosystems, the company pioneering Pressure Geothermal, closed over $97 million in Series B funding to advance its geothermal power generation and energy storage solutions, including its ...
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ChargePoint & Midwestern Wheels Deliver Seamless EV Charging for Wisconsin Communities
ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, today announced that the company is enabling Midwestern Wheels, a licensee of Avis Budget Group, to deliver reliable EV charging to its rental car customers and those living in their local communities. New public charging deployments at Midwestern Wheels’ ... [continued]
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Seaweed Blooms Suggest The Ocean Is Geoengineering Itself
Two studies published this year put a spotlight on how changes in the ocean are affecting the planet and the global economy.
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What Mark Carney Told The World In Davos This Week
Mark Carney lit up the stage at Davos this week with a clear eyed vision of what the world and Canada will need in a post-US era.
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Imported Materials Are Manageable, Imported Energy Reprices Economies
Europe’s gas crisis in 2022 is often described as a supply shock driven by geopolitics, but that framing misses the core lesson. The crisis was not caused by import dependence in general, nor by shortages of industrial feedstocks. It was caused by reliance on an imported energy carrier that sat ... [continued]
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Germany’s Hydrogen Strategy Delayed Electrification by Pulling the Workforce the Wrong Way
Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no customers and no suppliers has been examined from multiple angles in this series, starting with the pipeline from nowhere to nowhere itself and the energy and other demand flows that won’t materialize, then moving through Germany’s misguided analyses that led to it, the implications of ... [continued]
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Introducing The New Volvo EX60 SUV
The EX90 was Volvo’s first blank sheet electric vehicle and mapped out the road ahead for the company. It was a fully digital vehicle built on Volvo’s modular electric vehicle platform that is controlled by a completely new vehicle control system programmed completely in house at Volvo. The launch was ... [continued]
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New Coal-Killing Geothermal Energy Anomalies Discovered In The US
A new cost-cutting, AI-driven, underground exploration system is revealing hidden geothermal resources in the US, and investors are taking notice.
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Thousands More Ultrafast EV Chargers Planned For European Countries
Many European countries will get new 400 kW public EV chargers by 2028. They are Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Estonia. Over 250 fast-charging hubs will be installed at major shopping and commercial centers and each hub will have as many as 12 charging ports. The total ... [continued]
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2025 Volkswagen Group Sales Show EV Revolution Is Still Moving Forward
Volkswagen Group saw strong sales in 2025 and now has nearly a 20% market share in Germany. New EVs are coming in 2026.
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A US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Startup Takes Aim At Fossil Fuels
The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is on track to scale up sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste gas in a reactor powered by light, not heat.
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Start of the Circular Economy: Zwickau Vehicle Plant Launches Business Areas
Zwickau vehicle plant to become Volkswagen AG’s centre of excellence for the circular economy From 2030, up to 15,000 vehicles are to be disassembled and recycled annually The Free State of Saxony is funding the project with around eleven million euros The results of the 2024 collective agreement will be ... [continued]
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Scaling Solar Smarter: Innovation, Supply Chains, & the Future of Clean Energy
What does it really take to build a stronger, smarter, clean energy future? In this episode of CleanTech Talk, we delve into the forces shaping the next era of solar energy. With decades of experience leading in the global energy space, from ABB and Schneider Electric to Enphase and now ... [continued]
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Republicans Set to Kill Giant EV Charging Program
Following up on the counterproductive decision to pull the plug on the US EV tax credit, Republicans in Congress are now looking to kill the giant US EV charging program that was created by Democrats during the Biden administration. Yes, this is the program Donald Trump tried to halt in ... [continued]
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Maxell Develops All-Solid-State Battery Power Module Compatible with ER Battery Size
Reduce battery replacement frequency, contributing to improved maintainability and reduced environmental impact. Maxell, Ltd. (TOKYO: 6810) has developed an all-solid-state battery power module which matches the same size and output voltage as a lithium thionyl chloride battery (ER battery). ER batteries are widely used in industrial equipment backup systems, smart meters, and IoT ...
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