Green Energy

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Headline News:

“A Greenland Sled Dog Champion Fears For His Culture As Climate Change Melts The Ice” • Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were sled dogs. He is now a five-time Greenlandic dog sled champion. But this year he said it’s the first time he can remember when there has been no snow in January. [ABC News]

Dogs training for winter in Finland (Leo Mengoli, Unsplash)

“EU Countries Need To ‘Urgently Coordinate’ To Adapt To Climate Change, EU’s Advisory Board Warns” • EU countries need to “urgently coordinate” to anticipate and mitigate the increasingly frequent effects of climate change, such as flooding, severe storms, and heatwaves, a report from the EU’s advisory board on climate change warned. [Euronews]
“Children Of Chernobyl Workers Have Mutations In Their DNA” • Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the fallout. Researchers from the University of Bonn have shown that children of cleanup workers at the power plant have an increased number of mutations in their DNA. [MSN]
“Japan Successfully Beams Solar Power from Space to Earth in Historic Energy Test” • The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully sent power collected by solar panels in space to a ground station using microwave transmission. The test proves that clean energy can be harvested in space and delivered with no physical cables. [Microgrid Media]
“What’s Driving Up Maine’s Energy Bills? Natural Gas” • People in Maine pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country. But natural gas, not solar PVs and wind turbines, is the primary driver behind soaring power prices, according to a report by The Brattle Group that was released this week by the state’s energy department. [Maine Morning Star]

Headline News:

“China Floating Turbine Passes Testing And Completes A Grid-Connected Flight” • China’s S2000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind Energy System (SAWES) completed a grid-connected test flight in Sichuan Province. The technology is no longer just a concept. It has now generated electricity at altitude and delivered that power into the local grid. [CleanTechnica]

SAWES high-altitude wind turbine (SAWES photo)

“Most Maritime Shipping Battery Propulsion Studies Are Already Obsolete” • Maritime battery studies are based on the battery costs and energy densities available when they were done. But costs in the $300 to $500 per kWh range are now more like $65, and battery room densities of 30 to 50 kWh per cubic meter have gone to 190 kWh. [CleanTechnica]
“Experts Weigh In On Trump Repeal Of Key Climate Finding” • The Trump administration revoked the endangerment finding, a scientific statement that climate change is a danger to public health. It is an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam,” but repeated scientific studies have documented it and the harm has been quantifiable. [Euronews]
“175 MW Energy Storage Project Launched In Maine” • The Cross Town energy storage site in Gorham, Maine, reportedly has 350 MWh of storage. The project’s capacity is 175 MW, the duration is about two hours. The amount of electricity stored in the new battery system should be enough to provide power to about 19,000 homes. [CleanTechnica]
“A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses, But It’s Not Clear Who” • The US National Science Foundation said that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 2,000 climate and weather scientists across the country is to be transferred from a leading research lab to an undisclosed third party. [MSN]