Last Updated on: 31st May 2025, 04:08 pm A 1980s-era semisubmersible crane vessel known as “Heerema’s Workhorse” steamed its way over to Rhode Island last week to gear up for its next assignment, building the 810-megawatt Empire Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Island in New York. It’s a concrete sign that … Read more
Last Updated on: 31st May 2025, 05:20 pm Wizz Air made headlines recently by signing a major deal to purchase sustainable aviation fuel derived from treated human poop. The optics are amusing, but the implications are profound. This isn’t a fringe experiment or a corporate PR stunt. It’s a signal that the aviation industry is … Read more
The US, and Silicon Valley in particular, is obsessed with relatively short term, highly scalable, venture capital (VC) investing. That’s not what cleantech needs, as a JP Morgan Chase banker just pointed out this week. “In traditional VC, the model is to make 100 bets, 90 of which will completely fail, and of the 10 … Read more
Last Updated on: 6th June 2025, 04:11 am Offshore wind power comes with some big benefits. It’s not as cheap upfront as solar power or onshore wind power, but it also comes with some strong benefits. I recently sat down with Susan Muller, a Senior Energy Analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), to … Read more
India’s energy landscape is at a pivotal crossroads, exemplified by the notable recent decline in coal- and gas-fired power generation, which in May 2025 marked the steepest year-over-year drop since COVID-19. The rapid contraction in coal usage, attributed to an amalgamation of economic slowdowns, surging renewable deployment, and increasingly cost-competitive solar and wind projects, suggests … Read more
Last Updated on: 11th June 2025, 10:23 am Canada stands at a crossroads in its energy future, and the path it chooses will define its economic resilience, environmental integrity, and quality of life for generations. As a Canadian who is involved in shaping Ireland’s 2050 energy roadmap through my work with Trifecta Ireland, I see … Read more
Last Updated on: 13th June 2025, 01:50 pm As we’ve pointed out repeatedly, clean energy and electric vehicle production tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 passed by Democrats disproportionately benefit states and districts controlled by Republican Congressmen. It really doesn’t make sense to kill policies that are supporting tens or hundreds … Read more
As I just covered, repealing clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act via the current Republican budget bill will hurt jobs and economic progress in numerous Republican-controlled states, and more than a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives are now asking Republican Senators to help them by doing what they should have … Read more
It was bound to happen, and it did so this morning: the young Bearded Vulture Angèle that had been released last year in the Baronnies, as part of the LIFE GypConnect reintroduction project, and that had wandered to northern Europe, as many young Bearded Vultures do in their second year, has been found dead under … Read more
Last Updated on: 18th June 2025, 12:36 am We’ve covered this topic countless times now, so let’s just do a recap with a short bullet list before getting to the latest news: Republican politicians have been heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry for decades. Therefore, even as we have learned more and more about … Read more
