The government began looking into the factors that led a consortium including Mitsubishi and a Chubu Electric Power unit to withdraw from wind power projects in three areas off Akita and Chiba prefectures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/12/companies/government-review-mitsubishi-exit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mitsubishi #wind #renewables #energy
China’s solar, battery and electric vehicle companies have expanded their foreign investment plans in recent years, having pledged more than $210 billion since 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/tech/china-green-tech-overseas-factories/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #renewables #wind #solar #energy #batteries
Use of fossil fuels could begin to drop in about five years' time thanks to China’s rapid adoption of renewables and its increasing reliance on electricity, clean-energy think tank Ember has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/09/energy/china-green-push-global-fossil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #china #renewables #fossilfuel #wind #solar
Gabriele Svelto
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Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat is a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals, although researches say the situation might have been unique. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/28/economy/mitsubishi-wind-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #mitsubishi #wind #renewables #energy #environment
Sky-high electricity costs, coupled with the piecemeal support successive governments have given to big industrial power user, are said to have made power prices an obstacle to the U.K.'s shift towards cleaner energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/28/energy/electricity-costs-britain-net-zero/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #uk #energy #electricity #coal #netzero #emissions #fossilfuels #renewables #wind #solar
Ina milestone that could reshape the world’s energy balance, China’s wind and solar capacity has now overtaken its fossil fuel plants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/20/world/china-clean-energy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #solar #wind #energy #renewables #china #pollution #climatechange
Tom
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Hedge funds are betting against oil stocks and winding back shorts on solar in a reversal of positions that dominated their energy strategies over the past four years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/11/energy/hedge-funds-green-energy-oil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #renewables #oil #hedgefunds #investors #solar #wind
Hedge funds are betting against oil stocks and winding back shorts on solar in a reversal of positions that dominated their energy strategies over the past four years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/11/energy/hedge-funds-green-energy-oil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #renewables #oil #hedgefunds #investors #solar #wind
China’s breakneck expansion of renewable power continues to set records — but an increasing amount of that wind and solar energy is being wasted because the grid isn’t up to scratch. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/05/energy/china-renewables-power-grid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #solar #wind #renewables #energy #china
On Ireland's western seaboard, researchers are flying a giant kite in the hopes of generating renewable electricity and sparking a "revolution" in wind energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/04/energy/kite-wind-clean-energy-ireland/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #wind #renewables #energy #ireland
Agaric Tech Collective
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Good news in hard times.
"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"
Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, won't burst into flames.
Because its salt. Like sunlight, its EVERYWHERE.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/
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Good news in hard times.
"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"
Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, won't burst into flames.
Because its salt. Like sunlight, its EVERYWHERE.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/
Good news in hard times.
"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"
Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, won't burst into flames.
Because its salt. Like sunlight, its EVERYWHERE.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/
Tim Chambers
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The #OneBigBeautifulBill will make it harder to develop #wind & #solar #energy projects, despite the removal of some contentious provisions, industry advocates & lawmakers said.
The #Senate dropped a proposed excise tax on solar & wind energy projects that don't meet strict standards after last-minute negotiations with key #Republican senators seeking better terms for #renewables.
#Trump#OneBigUglyBill#MagicMinute
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-big-beautiful-bill-live-updates-2025-07-02/
The #OneBigBeautifulBill will make it harder to develop #wind & #solar #energy projects, despite the removal of some contentious provisions, industry advocates & lawmakers said.
The #Senate dropped a proposed excise tax on solar & wind energy projects that don't meet strict standards after last-minute negotiations with key #Republican senators seeking better terms for #renewables.
#Trump#OneBigUglyBill#MagicMinute
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-big-beautiful-bill-live-updates-2025-07-02/
The #Senate also changed language about which #solar & #wind projects can use the 2022 #InflationReductionAct’s #TaxCredits.
In the Senate's final version, projects will be able to use the lucrative credits if they begin construction before 2026.
A previous version was based on when the projects enter service.