


Devon’s “Hillside Battery” Tries to Make Pumped Hydro Work Without Mountains
On the outskirts of Plymouth, a china-clay mine is hosting

Google’s $4.75bn Intersect bet: buying time in the grid queue
Alphabet’s deal for Intersect is less about owning solar farms

Who should pay for AI’s power binge?
On January 13, 2026, Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, offered a

The peaker paradox: how AI is keeping America’s dirtiest power plants alive
A few months ago, a power plant in Chicago looked

Google’s clean-power land grab in Asia is turning into a data-center moat
On December 16, 2025, Google signed two energy deals that

From kilns to crust: Holcim’s Fujairah pilot turns cement’s CO₂ into rock
At a giant cement plant on the Gulf of Oman,

From oilfield to CO₂ vault: Denmark’s North Sea bet on offshore carbon storage
Denmark is turning a depleted oilfield in the North Sea

From manure to megawatts: turning cattle farms into carbon-negative power plants
The world’s cows are a major source of methane, one

Net-zero at 35,000 feet: why airlines are betting on permanent carbon removal
Boeing’s new deal with Charm Industrial, following Airbus’s earlier agreement

The Data Center vs. the Planet: Big Tech’s Land-Grab in Durable Carbon Removal
As AI data centers drive up emissions and power demand,

Copper is coming for solar’s silver habit
Australia’s ARENA has committed up to A$25.3 million to SunDrive

Pulse power for the AI era: nickel-zinc steps into the data-center spotlight
As AI workloads swing from idle to full throttle in

The 331°C well that turns AI’s power problem into a geology problem
A Khosla-backed startup has drilled into some of the hottest

Meta just put a price on “green iron.” Here’s why that could change heavy industry
On Tuesday, October 21, 2025 (Pacific), Meta did something deceptively

Can a “CO₂ tender” clean up America’s ports? A Los Angeles switcher will be the first big test
Pacific Harbor Line’s new partnership with Remora brings mobile carbon

The missing middle gets funded: EIP’s $1.36bn bet on the AI-era grid
Energy Impact Partners (EIP) has closed Flagship Fund III at

Beyond tonnes: Google’s Vaulted Deep pact targets methane, not just CO₂
The search giant’s 50,000-tonne deal with Vaulted Deep looks modest

EU’s 2040 Target Crunch: Who Wins – CCUS, CDR or Hydrogen?
The 90% Dilemma The European Union is on the brink

Batteries as server racks: Tesla’s Megablock goes after storage’s soft-cost problem
Tesla has packaged four Megapack 3 units, a transformer and

Germany’s 500GW battery queue is a bubble built by policy
Behind the eye-popping headline number sits a misfiring connection regime

Northern Lights, Switched On: Europe’s First Cross-Border CO₂ Storage Goes Live
By any measure, it’s a milestone: Norway’s Northern Lights project

IFC’s $250M Oman Solar Bet: Overcapacity, Geopolitics, and the Future of Clean Tech
When the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) approved a

Makersite’s €60M Series B and AI for Scope-3 Emissions
In boardrooms and factories around the world, a once-obscure term
Rainmaker’s Rise and Fall: A Startup’s Bold Plan to End Drought—and the Backlash that Blamed It for a Flood
On July 2, a small California startup called Rainmaker Technology



























