May 28 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Feared Data Center Power Surge Fizzles As Solar Shoves Coal Off The US Grid” • Fears that power-hungry data centers would trigger a surge in electricity demand across the US appear not to be coming true, at least not yet. Early 2026 data suggests the grid isn’t demanding much growth. Renewable energy is also doing well as coal declines. [The Cool Down]

Texas solar and battery system (Digitmed, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• “Nordic Coalition Urges EU To Stand Firm Against New Oil And Gas Drilling In The Arctic” • A Nordic coalition of financial institutions, trade unions, and climate scientists sent a warning to the European Commission, calling on EU leaders to maintain its existing ban on new Arctic oil and gas drilling, as the bloc revises its policy in the region. [Euronews]
• “Record Heat Has ‘Fingerprints Of Climate Change All Over It’” • Record May temperatures have sweltered huge parts of Europe, as countries remain trapped under a “powerful” heat dome. Record high temperatures in France and the UK have caused fatalities. But experts warn the worst is yet to come and this summer might be intensely hot. [Euronews]
• “15-Year Sustainable Aviation Fuel Deal For The UK’s Largest Regional Airline” • Loganair made a 15-year deal on SAF, and it did so at a good time. The SAF industry is far more expansive now than it was in the early 2000’s, when innovation in the field centered on bio-based versions of kerosene aviation fuel. Things have changed since then. [CleanTechnica]
• “TotalEnergies Files To Build 1.5-GW French Offshore Site” • TotalEnergies applied for planning permission for its 1500-MW Centre Manche offshore wind farm off the coast of Normandy. The filing comes eight months after the French State awarded the project. It marks a milestone in the development of what is called France’s largest renewables project. [reNews]

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May 26 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Renewable Energy Just Broke A 100-Year-Old Streak” • When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station fired up in Lower Manhattan in 1882, it ran on coal. Since then, Coal has survived the oil era, the nuclear era, and natural gas. Now it has been surpassed by renewable energy, according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026. [MSN]

Interior of Pearl Street Station (Energy.gov, public domain)

• “Strait Of Hormuz Turmoil ‘Serious’ Risk For Europe, Top UAE Adviser Warns” • Dr Anwar Gargash said at a conference in Prague that the Strait of Hormuz is a European energy problem, not a distant regional one, as the region faces the worst instability in decades. It is a direct challenge to European energy supply and trade. [Euronews]
• “Pope Calls For Robust Regulation Of AI In Manifesto” • In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for common good rather than profit. He issued the sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. [ABC News]
• “Evacuation Zone Shrinks After ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ Of Southern California Chemical Tank Explosion Averted, Officials Say” • About 16,000 people remain under evacuation orders for a possible tank explosion, Garden Grove Police Chief said at a press briefing. That’s down from 50,000. The tank’s temperature has been reduced. [ABC News]
• “Uber: Getting Hard to Justify High AI Costs” • Tech companies and large corporations are all gung-ho about using AI, so there’s a lot of early adoption underway. But how useful is the rush to adopt, and is it providing a positive return on investment? Uber is apparently starting to ask these questions, as AI does not seem to deliver as expected. [CleanTechnica]

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Considering plug-in solar? My expert advice after setting up the DIY energy tech at home  ZDNET

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May 24 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Earth.org Debunks Clean Energy Myths” • Mark Twain liked to say, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you near as much as what you do know that ain’t true.” Sadly, large corporations take advantage of our innate ability to believe false information for their private gain. Here is some myth busting that shows how wrong they are. [CleanTechnica]

Wind farm in China (Hahaheditor12667, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• “Due To Rising Gas Prices, Some Americans Are Staying Home On Memorial Day” • Despite a spike in gas prices in the country, more than 45 million Americans are projected to travel over fifty miles during Memorial Day weekend, according to AAA. But for those Americans who struggle financially, even short-distance travel is out of reach. [ABC News]
• “How Football Fans Are Tackling Sweden’s Fertilizer Problem Using Urine” • Eleda Stadion will open its toilets to an initiative aiming to gather 1,000 liters of human urine to defeat Sweden’s dependence on imported fossil fuel-based synthetic fertilizer. Researchers estimate that urine could replace up to 30% of the country’s synthetic fertilizer. [Euronews]
• “Four Western States Combine Forces To Kickstart A Geothermal Energy Revolution ” • After the Trump regime introduced its energy policy attacking solar and wind, four Western US states with copious geothermal potential (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) formed the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium. [CleanTechnica]
• “Ukrainian Drone Attack Triggers Fire A At A Russian Oil Terminal” • A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region said, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. Authorities said falling drone debris sparked a fire at an oil terminal. [ABC News]

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May 23 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Mozilla Foundation Condemns Data Collection By Cars” • In 2023, Mozilla Foundation claimed online, “Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy.” Now, car companies are still collecting and selling information about drivers from how fast they are driving to who is in the car with them, and much more. [CleanTechnica]

Car in New York (Chris Barbalis, Unsplash)

• “WUF13 Ends With Global Call For Action” • As the World Urban Forum ended in Baku, the debate on the future of cities evolved beyond architecture, infrastructure and skylines to the urgent global question of how can cities withstand conflict, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and inequality without leaving communities behind. [Euronews]
• “EU Businesses Demand Electrification Action” • Companies and business organisations across the EU called for “immediate, bold and effective electrification policy actions” ahead of the European Commission’s forthcoming Electrification Action Plan. The organisations argued that the EU must reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels. [reNews]
• “Evacuation Orders Issued In California City Over Chemical Tank: ‘It Fails Or It Blows Up'” • In a situation that has been called “unprecedented,” tens of thousands of people in Southern California have been told to leave their homes. Officials have issued a dire warning that a chemical tank at an aerospace facility will either fail or explode. [ABC News]
• “German Business Morale Improves Despite Disruptions By The Iran War To Energy Markets” • Germany’s closely watched ifo Business Climate Index increased to 84.9 points in May from 84.5 in April. The index is a highly regarded early indicator of German economic developments, published monthly by the ifo Institute for Economic Research. [Euronews]

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May 22 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “How Lithuania Became A Wild Card For The EU’s Clean Energy Race” • Lithuania has rapidly become a renewables powerhouse after drastically reducing its reliance on polluting fossil fuels. The country’s domestic consumption of renewable electricity jumped from 15% five years ago to 50% in 2025, thanks to huge investment in solar and wind. [Euronews]

Solar farm (Aiseinau, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• “EU Wind Funding Drives Seven-Fold Returns” • Each €1 of public funding for wind delivers €7 annually to the European economy by 2040, according to a study by Trinomics with DTU Wind. The study said targeted EU support for wind innovation and industrial scale-up would generate major economic and energy security benefits. [reNews]
• “Petrostates Tried To Squash This Historic Climate Ruling. The UN Just Voted To Back It” • The UN General Assembly approved a non-binding resolution endorsing the advisory opinion by the UN’s top court last July that called failure by countries to protect the planet from climate change a violation of international law, a win for low-lying countries. [Euronews]
• “Trump Administration Will Ease Refrigerant Rule In Effort To Address Surging Grocery Costs” • The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs. [ABC News]
• “Wood Mackenzie Warns On Data Center Power” • Wood Mackenzie warns that the race to power AI is straining US grid development. Data center developers are pursuing collocated generation and flexible interconnection models due to grid build-outs taking 5 to 10 years, but the projects face greater hurdles than widely understood. [reNews]

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