Green Energy: February 2026

Thursday, February 26, 2026

February 26 Green Energy News

Headline News:

“Trump EPA: Value Of Human Life Is $0” • CleanTechnica’s Zachary Shahan: “As I was reading through the Sierra Club’s response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last night, one line really jumped out at me, that the US EPA under Donald Trump has ‘set the value of a human life to zero when conducting cost-benefit analyses.'” [CleanTechnica]

Life has no value? ? You kidding? (frank mckenna, Unsplash)

“Fuel Supply Gap Could Hold Back The US Nuclear Energy Renaissance” • Soaring demand for power generation, the US goal of quadrupling nuclear electricity generation by 2050, and a looming ban on Russian nuclear fuel imports could create a bottleneck in the nuclear fuel supply chain, according to US enrichment company Centrus Energy. [OilPrice.com]
“How Climate Change Is Impacting Drinking Water In The US” • A study that appeared in Communications Earth & Environment shows that climate change is making access to drinkable water more difficult in the US. Hazards intensified by climate change, like drought and flooding, threaten both the quantity and quality of drinking water. [ABC News]
“How Human-Made Climate Change ‘Intensified’ Europe’s Winter Downpours” • Analysis by World Weather Attribution looked at the likelihood and intensity of the heaviest rainfall events that most severely impacted areas in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The report found a “clear increase” in the intensity of the most extreme one-day rainfall events. [Euronews]
“House Passes Bills That Would Worsen Energy Affordability And Reliability” • House Republicans passed HR 4626, the so-called Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act, and HR 4758, nominally the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act. They would reduce efficiency standards and incentives, adding to costs for consumers. [CleanTechnica]

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Selling at 4 Farmers Markets

In this episode, full-time nurse and part-time farmer Chett Clayton talks about the work that goes into selling at 4 farmers markets.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

The Reality of a Collaboration

In this episode, farmer Emily Erickson-Mills shares her sobering experience of starting a collaborative CSA with other farmers in their area.

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Monday, February 23, 2026

From Traditional to Regenerative Agriculture

In this episode, former big ag scientist-turned-regenerative farmer Herb Young of Squeeze Citrus shares his transition from working with traditional conventional agriculture to regenerative agriculture.

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Sunday, February 22, 2026

February 22 Green Energy News

Headline News:

“US Lab Is Turning Nuclear Waste Into Electricity” • Right now, untreated nuclear fuel stays radioactive for about 100,000 years. However, by using a process called transmutation, scientists can turn that waste into different materials that are much easier to handle. This could drop the storage time from 100,000 years to just 300 years. [Tomorrow’s World Today]

Niobium-tin particle accelerator cavity (Jefferson Lab image)

“‘Solar Sheep’ Help Rural Australia Go Green” • Australian farmer Tom Warren put in solar panels where his sheep had been grazing. Installing a 20-MW solar array added income from solar power. It also made a difference because the income he got from wool increased by 15%. The wool was better and cleaner than it had been without the panels. [The Straits Times]
“The US Is Still Bleeding Coal Jobs, Trump Or No Trump” • Trump has been promising more jobs for coal workers since his first run at the White House in 2015. It all went swimmingly after he took office in 2016, or at least that’s how Trump depicted things in his 2018 State of The Union address. He did badly then. And he’s doing badly now. [CleanTechnica]
“Plant Species Near Extinction Rebounded And Is Thriving After A Solar Power Project Was Installed” • A rare desert plant in Nevada, the threecorner milkvetch, increased from just 12 known plants to 93 after a large solar power project was built nearby. The project was designed in a way that allowed the plant to grow in greater numbers than it had. [Earth.com]
“‘Cuba’s Healthcare System Is Being Pushed To The Brink By US Blockades,’ Says Health Minister” • Cuban officials say the debilitated healthcare system has been pushed to the brink of collapse by the US blockading the country’s oil supply. For one example, authorities say that ambulances are struggling to find fuel to respond to emergencies. ” • [Euronews]

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

February 21 Green Energy News

Headline News:

“How Space-Based Solar Could Help Us Go Past Net Zero Targets” • A space-based solar power system cosists of a large number of sizable satellites in a high-earth orbit, where the sun is visible over 99% of the time. A study commissioned by the UK’s Energy Department suggests that small-scale SBSP could be cost-competitive as early as 2040. [Euronews]

Power beaming demo (NASA, public domain)

“RWE Signs With Vestas For 1.4-GW Vanguard West Turbine Deal” • RWE has confirmed a contract with Vestas to supply 92 turbines to its 1.4-GW Vanguard West offshore wind farm off east England. The OEM will also be responsible for delivery and commissioning of the V236-15MW units at the array. RWE aims to bring the project online in 2029. [reNews]
“Ampyr Acquires 530-MW East Yorkshire Solar Farm” • Ampyr Solar Europe has completed its acquisition of the 530-MW East Yorkshire Solar Farm from Boom Power. Plans for the array near Howden in East Yorkshire were approved by the UK government in May 2025. It will connect to National Grid’s substation at Drax power station from 2029. [reNews]
“Sierra Club Statement On Trump Administration Opening Millions Of Acres Of Protected Public Lands To Mining” • The Department of the Interior announced that it will revoke two public land orders to open more than two million acres of public lands in Alaska to drilling and mining. The now-rescinded public land orders date to the 1970s. [CleanTechnica]
“Origis Completes 500-MW Swift Air Solar Project” • Origis Energy brought online three Swift Air Solar facilities in Texas. Origis planned, developed, and built the Swift Air Solar facilities in three phases, with the final phase delivered in late 2025. These solar projects represent more than $650 million in investments the region. [Solar Power World]

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Friday, February 20, 2026

Defining Biochar

In this episode, biochar scientist and citizen scientist advocate Francesco Tortorici defines what biochar is and what it can potentially do for our soils.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

February 18 Green Energy News

Headline News:

“Quiet, Comfortable, And Low Emissions: How This ‘Flying’ Ferry Is Transforming Stockholm’s Waterways” • Built across fourteen islands, Stockholm is naturally suited to waterborne transport. Only a bit over a year after it started, an electric ferry project has been declared a resounding success by the Swedish Transport Administration. [Euronews]

Candela ferry (Candela image)

“Foundation Installation Complete At 1.2-GW Baltic Power” • Foundation installation has been completed at the 1,200-MW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Polish waters. The joint-venture between ORLEN Group and Northland Power installed all 78 monopiles at the array, along with 60 out of 78 transition pieces, and 30 out of 76 turbines. [reNews]
“Bayer Agrees To $7.25 Billion Proposed Settlement Over Thousands Of Roundup Cancer Lawsuits” • Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement to resolve thousands of US lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. [ABC News]
“Waymo Looking To Buy 50,000 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Robotaxis For $2.5 Billion” • Waymo is scaling up. How much, and how quickly? Those are the questions, and now we may have a hint at an answer. Reportedly, the self-driving tech leader is looking to purchase 50,000 Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric cars in the next few years, at a cost of about $2.5 billion. [CleanTechnica]
“BNEF Study Shows US Sustainable Energy Technologies Met Rising Demand Growth In 2025” • US electricity demand rose considerably in 2025 for the first time in decades according to the 2026 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook recently published by BloombergNEF and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. [Renewable Energy Magazine]

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

February 17 Green Energy News

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]

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

February 14 Green Energy News

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]

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

New England Dodged a Winter Storm Cannon Ball

TAKING THE INITIATIVE: Carl Pope’s Blog

Carl Pope

Last month was one of New England’s better Januarys. Post-Thanksgiving, the region won a rare rating from the North American Reliability Council, It warned that New England uniquely was at “high risk to natural gas pipeline capacity. It warned that “Natural gas production often falls off in extreme winter temperatures, as supply infrastructure is affected by freezing issues, and Generator Operators that fail to secure firm fuel delivery are frequently unable to access fully subscribed pipelines.”

The warning is shown below in NERC’sual winter assessment by the vertical cross bars. No region except New England was put on this super warning list.

Scattered across an array of recent NERC assessments were repeated warnings: New England’s dependence on aged and leaky gas pipelines, combined with its status as a region at the end of limited gas supplies, makes it particularly vulnerable to power outages. When gas and water combine in freezing temperatures they form gas hydrates. The hydrates freeze and plug pipelines, both those which fuel electric power lines and smaller distribution pipes which heat homes and businesses. In the last two major winter storms to hit New England before this year, the power system suffered major outages of both gas and electricity generated by gas. Indeed, more than half of the power serving the region during those major storms came from drawing down emergency supplies of oil. Had the storms lasted a few more days, oil reserves would have been depleted. The entire regional grid could have shut down in freezing weather. That, NERC had warned, was a serious threat this winter.

New England and its neighboring coastal states had developed a robust strategy to provide a reliable backstop to unreliable gas power: tap the dynamic and virtually 24/7 winter winds off its coasts. Five major Atlantic offshore wind projects, with a combined capacity of 6 GW and a demonstrated super high performance in winter storms, were poised for completion or construction over the next several years. One, Vineyard Wind was already delivering partial power. Revolution Wind, the other project closest to New England, was scheduled to start this winter. Three more projects further south would follow to stabilize the entire East Coast grid by adding 20% to the New England’s grid capacity and adding the bulk of that capacity in a winter when the region is currently vulnerable.

When President Trump on his Inauguration Day announced his hostility to wind power, particularly offshore wind, the Governors responsible for the projects that seemed most at risk negotiated with the President. He demanded, and received, their support for unneeded natural gas pipelines. In exchange, Trump promised to allow the offshore wind project to be completed. (NERC had said New England needed less reliance on gas power, but the Governors decided the offshore projects were critical, and pipelines were Trump’s price.)

Then, on December 22, Trump broke his word and issued “stop completion” orders for all five Atlantic offshore projects. Among them Vineyard win, which was already operating, and Revolution, which was about to open. The only viable, reliable strategy to stabilize the New England grid had just been blown up by the President, who had no Plan B to offer – just more gas which would simply freeze into hydrates.

The next day the weather service announced that a new, tropical storm, named Winter Storm Fern, was forming over the Gulf of Mexico and aiming to bring massive cold weather, snow and ice to a region stretching from Texas to New England. The New Year prospects for New England were grim. With work frozen on all offshore wind power, and Winter Storm Fern makings its way through the South towards New England, the region prepared for the worst. Meteorologists warned that immediately behind Fern was another Tropical storm, a Northeaster, along the Atlantic Coast.

Fern, of course, we now know, devastated much of the United States. Over a million Americans lost power; hundreds of thousands are still in the dark. The death toll is approaching 100. The damages are estimated at $6 billion. The South and the mid-Atlantic were socked the hardest. New England got record snow from Fern, but so cold was the weather that hydrate plugging of the gas system was avoided – only snow fell, no water. New Englanders kept their power-and the heat it provides. When Northeaster Gianne came roaring along the coast, like Fern it too concentrated its snow and ice on the south. Then, as it moved north, it remained far enough offshore that the New England grid was spared, narrowly, a second time.

So, 2025-6 will go down in the record book, but perhaps not the New England record book for damages. Better yet, as Fern and Gianne made their devastating way through the Eastern United States, some incredibly important good news made its way from Federal Courthouses huddling in the snow. In a series of five rulings, one for each of the offshore projects Trump had shut, federal judges lifted Trump’s “stop work” order. They allowed the 6 GW of incremental, winter weather resilient offshore wind projects to resume construction and start adding reliable power before next winter.

The Judges in each case had inspected the classified and allegedly “new” risks posed to national security by allowing power generation off the Atlantic Coast, and in each found the Trump Administration’s arguments unpersuasive and inadequate. That doesn’t mean Trump won’t appeal; but it strongly suggests that if he does, he will lose at least in the Appellate Courts.

The war on the New England grid by Washington isn’t over. And the New England States need to gird for bigger battles to come. Trump’s attacks on the only viable, reliable and domestic source of power available to an entire region are on a scale with the kind of destruction that Russia is inflicting on the Ukraine. New England must demand that Trump explain: where is the power going to come from, power that won’t freeze, power that thrive in winter storms?

This winter isn’t over either. The Vineyard Wind and Revolution projects have been delayed and won’t help for another year. But by next year they may both be online, providing New England with the affordable, reliable winter storm power it has lacked so long.

“To learn more about Carl’s views on the environment, energy and climate, read “Climate of Hope” which he has co-authored with former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and which can be purchased online or from your local book store.

A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Carl Pope is the former executive director and chairman of the Sierra Club. He’s now the principal advisor at Inside Straight Strategies, looking for the underlying economics that link sustainability and economic development and serves as a Senior Climate Advisor to former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics Inc, and Zero Population Growth.

Mr. Pope is also the author of the books: Sahib, An American Misadventure in India and Hazardous Waste In America. Carl Pope is the co-author with Michael Bloomberg of Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet. How to attack climate change as a series of manageable challenges, each with a solution that can make our society healthier and our economy stronger.

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