A federal judge ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully clawed back more than $250 million in Solar for All grants intended for clean energy initiatives across Texas, siding with a legal challenge brought by Harris County after the EPA terminated the program in August 2025.
A coalition of eight states led by California and New York filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration's deals to pay private companies over $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds to cancel offshore wind project leases. The legal action escalates an ongoing battle over the administration's efforts to discourage wind energy expansion in favor of fossil fuels.
Ethiopia has reduced electricity delivered to Bitcoin miners to just 23% of contracted levels due to lower water inflows straining the country's hydroelectric reservoirs. The power cuts reflect growing pressure on Ethiopia's energy infrastructure as drought conditions impact hydropower generation.
Mexican federal prosecutors, the Navy, and Puebla state police raided a property in Tlaola in the state's remote Sierra Norte region, seizing approximately 300 cryptocurrency mining rigs that had been illegally connected to a hydroelectric dam.
Massachusetts has introduced new regulations mandating that data centers with peak demand exceeding 25 megawatts must supply their own electricity from clean energy sources. The state mandate represents a shift in how states are addressing the infrastructure costs of the growing technology and computing boom.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a €200 million ($232 million) investment package for Greenland during a two-day visit, signaling EU solidarity with the Danish territory as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for annexation. The package focuses on critical minerals, satellite communications, and renewable energy.
Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3, an AI weather forecasting model that learns directly from real-time satellite data rather than physics simulations. The model delivers hourly forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution—five times more detailed than its predecessor—and is designed to improve predictions for renewable energy production, precipitation, and localized weather events.
Geothermal developer Fervo Energy secured a contract to supply 396 megawatts of clean power to Google from its Cape Station project in Utah starting in 2028, with an option for an additional 600 MW by 2030. The deal sent Fervo's shares up approximately 14-15%.
OpenAI was issued warrants worth approximately $5.5 billion in power infrastructure firm SB Energy to secure a 20-year lease agreement. The arrangement was disclosed in draft IPO documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal ahead of SoftBank's planned public offering of SB Energy.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has retreated from demands that new AI data centres be powered entirely by renewable energy, following pushback from state and territory leaders at national cabinet. The federal government secured a broad agreement on data centre development but allowed carveouts for jurisdictions to use coal and gas power.
Tanzania inaugurated the Julius Nyerere dam and hydropower plant on Saturday, a $2.9 billion project constructed by an Egyptian consortium over five years. Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly attended the ceremony.
South Korean tech company Naver Corp. has invested in a U.S. startup that is developing wave-powered floating data centers for AI infrastructure. The investment amount was not disclosed, but represents part of Naver's push to strengthen next-generation AI data center capabilities.
German energy company RWE reached a $1.22 billion settlement with the Trump administration to relinquish offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana. The deal marks the fifth such buyback, bringing the total cost of offshore wind lease terminations to nearly $4 billion.
A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the Department of Defense must end its freeze on reviewing onshore wind energy projects, delivering a legal setback to the Trump administration. At least 125 utility-scale wind projects across 25 states have been stuck in limbo due to the Pentagon's halt on reviews.
The Trump administration will announce a 15% tariff and price floor system on polysilicon and related products as early as Thursday, targeting China's 93.5% control of the critical material used in solar panels and semiconductors. The measures follow a Section 232 national security investigation launched in July 2025.
SpaceX has significantly increased its procurement of Tesla's Megapack battery storage systems, spending $329 million on the devices so far in 2026, representing a major inter-company transaction between Elon Musk's aerospace and electric vehicle companies.
SpaceX has significantly increased its procurement of Tesla's Megapack battery storage systems, spending $329 million on the devices so far in 2026, representing a major inter-company transaction between Elon Musk's aerospace and electric vehicle companies.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration's EPA did not have the legal authority to terminate and claw back $20 billion in clean-energy funding that had already been distributed to eight nonprofit groups in February 2025.
North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated that combining multiple forecasting models can improve day-ahead solar energy predictions by up to 13% compared to the best single model, based on testing with California utility data from 2019-2022.
Bitcoin mining's annual electricity demand rose to approximately 190 terawatt-hours by December 2025, a 38% increase from 138 TWh in June 2024, with preliminary Cambridge research showing miners increasingly drawing power from low-carbon sources, particularly hydropower which has overtaken natural gas as a primary energy source.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers called on the Trump administration Thursday to take action against imports of partially finished solar cells that they say are being used to dodge trade duties and improperly claim federal manufacturing tax credits.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that U.S. generating capacity will increase by approximately 75 gigawatts this summer compared to 2025, representing a significant expansion in power generation infrastructure.
The World Bank Board of Directors approved $265 million in financing for the Ifahsa Pumped Hydropower Storage Project in northern Morocco, marking one of the most significant clean energy infrastructure investments of its kind on the African continent.
