Photo: China News Service Global energy investment is on track to hit a record $3.3 trillion in 2025, according to the new International Energy Agency’s (IEA) annual World Energy Investment report, even as the world navigates economic turbulence and rising geopolitical risks. The lion’s share of that money – about $2.2 trillion – is heading…

Photos courtesy Enbridge Canadian oil and gas pipeline giant Enbridge just launched its first solar farm in Texas, adding more clean energy to its “all-of-the-above” energy mix, mainly fossil fuels. Enbridge’s Orange Grove Solar project in Jim Wells County now sends up to 130 megawatts (MW) of clean electricity to the Texas ERCOT grid. That’s enough…

Schumacher Electric launched the SEV1670 12-Amp Level 1 portable EV charger, delivering up to 12 amps of power using a standard household outlet. The SEV1670 features a universal J1772 connector, which allows compatibility with most electric vehicles in the U.S. Schumacher will begin offering the product online and through select retailers in May. “At Schumacher,…

Photo: FirstEnergy The third of a quintet of West Virginia solar farms just came online, and while that’s a renewable milestone, there’s a disappointing hitch. 3 out of 5 West Virginia solar farms are online FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a 5.75 megawatt (MW), 17,000-panel solar farm at Marlowe in Berkeley…

Photo: Ørsted Trump’s tariffs are about to drive up the cost of clean energy projects in the US, and energy storage is set to take the biggest hit, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. In its latest report, “All aboard the tariff coaster: implications for the US power industry,” Wood Mackenzie lays out what…

Photo: Boviet Solar Vietnamese solar panel maker Boviet Solar just opened the doors to its first US factory — a huge new PV module plant in Greenville, North Carolina. The company dropped $294 million into the state-of-the-art facility, which will pump out Boviet’s Gamma Series monofacial and Vega Series bifacial solar panels. They’re using advanced…

Photo: EnBW Germany’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, EnBW’s He Dreiht, just hit a big milestone: The first enormous turbine is now up in the North Sea. He Dreiht – which means “it spins” in Low German – is using Vestas’s massive 15 megawatt (MW) turbines, the first project in the world to install…

General Motors and LG Energy Solution will commercialize LMR battery technology in prismatic battery cells for GM electric trucks and full-size SUVs. This initiative builds on their partnership to develop prismatic cell design and manganese-rich chemistries. GM plans to become the first automaker to use LMR battery technology in EVs. Ultium Cells, a joint venture…

Photo: BlueSky PIT Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), already the first airport in the US to be fully powered by a microgrid, is expanding its solar field with utility Duquesne Light Company (DLC) and solar owner and operator IMG Energy Solutions. The new solar project will add more than 11,216 panels to the airport’s existing solar…

Photo: Sunrun Sunrun just turned thousands of homes into the US’s largest virtual power plant to help keep the lights on in California this summer. The company’s virtual power plant, CalReady, has more than quadrupled in size, linking together around 75,000 home batteries from over 56,000 Sunrun customers with solar + storage. As summer heat…