For years, green energy developers steamrolled fishing communities and coastal residents, treating the approval pipeline as a rubber stamp. The Pentagon’s pause is simply the first time a federal institution has had both the legal authority and the political will to say no.
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The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to halt wind energy projects across the United States and dropped its challenge to the court ruling that tossed President Donald Trump’s order freezing federal permitting and leasing for wind projects. States that challenged the order hailed the development as one of the most significant legal victories against […]
We are taking unprecedented risks with our electricity system, because those in charge of energy policy have no conception of how it works.
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With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.
“Unlike dispatchable fossil-fuel or nuclear generation, solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand.” — Sargentis et al., 2026
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Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt (paid article) on a phenomenon: more and more plants are being put into operation, but the yield does not increase to the same extent.
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Wyoming’s Golden Eagles are in trouble and need the protection of the Endangered Species Act. That things are going badly for the eagles is no secret, but the Wyoming authorities are ignoring this rapidly growing threat.
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Cairo — Egypt’s discussions with China’s SANY Group have evolved beyond plans for a wind turbine factory to encompass renewable-energy projects with a combined capacity of up to 2,000 MW, as Cairo seeks to build a domestic clean-energy industrial base and position itself as a regional manufacturing and export hub. While Media reports have valued […]
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Word has it that the Feds told the developers to take the deal or they would simply cancel the leases, letting the developers sue to try to get their money back, someday. The Feds have a strong lever here which explains their getting promises from the developers that they would reinvest the refund in oil and gas development.
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Offshore wind stakeholders in California are moving forward with plans to develop 25 gigawatts by 2045, despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy.
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More than 200 carbon blocks will store excess wind power, replacing the natural gas used by an ethanol plant in South Dakota.
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Offshore wind is getting bigger, riskier, and more efficient.
For a year now, in press releases, letters, speeches and interviews, Gov. Wes Moore has had stern words for PJM Interconnection, the electric grid operator serving the state. But Monday, he took his gripes straight to PJM, which held its annual meeting in Baltimore.
...if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders...
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My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.
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For the first time in four years, the organization that manages the wholesale electricity supply for Pennsylvania and a dozen other states, including Maryland, is reviewing applications to build and connect new sources of power to the grid.
Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.
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“Congress now has an opportunity—and an obligation—to correct this flawed process by requiring rigorous, upfront, full-footprint review of radar impacts on air safety and national security before any further offshore wind projects proceed to construction or operation.”
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This secrecy must end. Federal agencies working in secret with wind interests, while golden eagles are being killed in large numbers, is not acceptable.
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Balsa wood is a key component of wind turbines, a near-perfect material for them.
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President Trump’s war on Iran has introduced Americans who haven’t previously followed farm policy to a rather niche topic: fertilizer. It’s estimated that half of global food production relies on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Gulf countries are major producers both of the finished product and of the natural gas that’s used to make it. And up to a third of the global fertilizer trade passes…
Ohio resembles a torture chamber for renewable energy developers, according to new research that examines how regulators in 19 states handle wind and solar project applications. The Buckeye State had the most projects rejected by state regulators, with seven, and the most withdrawn by developers before a decision, with five, says a paper in the […]
Today on Aftermath: How the war in Iran may lead to a boost in renewable energy
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By Vijay Jayaraj Numerous studies by biologists and ornithologists are unequivocal in expressing rising concern about the slaughter of birds and other creatures by so-called eco-friendly technologies. Many of the…
In reality, this was a straightforward business transaction: return the lease money, cancel the projects and let the capital flow to energy sources that work.
Texas state officials have led a successful and concerted effort to prevent offshore wind developments in the Gulf. Over the last few years, key leaders whose signatures and support are required to permit energy developments off the coast signaled to investors that such approvals would be unlikely. So even as five offshore wind projects resume […]
That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years.
He is paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to do natural gas investments it is already doing.
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The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.
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It might as well be a conspiracy to jack up American electric bills.
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