March 11, 2026

Energy

Energy

MN Department of Commerce to hold home energy rebate hearing

BEMIDJI — The Minnesota Department of Commerce will host a Home Energy Rebate Program hearing from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24, in the Beaux Arts Ballroom at Bemidji State, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE. The Home Energy Rebate Program was funded through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which invests $500 billion in

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Greener greenhouses promise more energy-efficient growing power

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Commercial greenhouses in Europe are testing new energy and water efficiency technologies in support of the green transition. In the province of Almería in southeastern Spain, farmers grow an estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million metric tons of fruit and vegetables every year in what has become known as Almeria’s sea of

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Nowhere to sell: As local bans proliferate, renewable energy companies must prioritize politics

Ayelet Hines is director of community engagement at Tigercomm. To understand why 15% of U.S. counties have passed bans on renewable energy — with a 111% increase over the past year — you must understand two fundamental tensions at work right now. First, there is the tension of climatological imperative — the ultimate action-forcing factor that has governments,

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Thai Tycoon to Create $20 Billion Firm With Energy and Telecoms Merger

Thai billionaire entrepreneur Sarath Ratanavadi plans to merge his energy and telecoms companies in a new firm, which will be worth around $20.5 billion. Ratanavadi, with a net worth of $10.8 billion as of July 17, owns Gulf Energy Development, one of Thailand’s largest power producers by installed capacity. The businessman, number 5 on Forbes’ list

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NineDot Energy Upsizes Revolving Credit Facility to $50 Million

NineDot Energy battery site in the Northeast Bronx (Photo: Business Wire) Commitment from NY Green Bank doubled based on NineDot’s demonstrated performance and advancement of New York’s energy storage deployment NEW YORK, July 17, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NineDot Energy®, the leading developer of community-scale battery storage projects in the New York City metro area, today announced the

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Transparent Energy Introduces Strategic Advisory Board

FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Transparent Energy, the national leader in auction-based energy procurement for renewable energy, traditional power, and natural gas, today introduced the members of its inaugural Strategic Advisory Board: Derek Ashbaugh, former Managing Director, Global Trading and Origination at BP; Meg Carey, energy procurement and sustainability entrepreneur and consultant

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DOE proposes AI to accelerate energy research

The Department of Energy unveiled on Tuesday the details of a sweeping new initiative that could dramatically increase the federal government’s work on artificial intelligence. DOE, alongside its network of 17 national labs, is pledging to “build the world’s most powerful integrated scientific Al systems.” But the initiative — dubbed Frontiers in Al for Science,

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Lucid improves energy efficiency of the ‘Air’

According to Lucid, the Air Pure 2025 with its 84-kWh battery pack now has an EPA-estimated range of 420 miles, or 5 miles per kWh, making it the most energy-efficient model currently on the market. The model also features the longest range in Lucid’s lineup, and the lowest cost, starting from $69,900. The improvement was

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EY Renewable Energy Attractiveness Index: Ireland Fifth

“Over recent years there has been a clear step change in the policy settings that enable investment in clean energy at scale. “We are now increasingly seeing the return on this, with a year-on-year tripling of renewable energy added to the grid in 2023.”  BESS key to renewable roll-out As the renewable energy and electrification

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VEON’s Kyivstar Extends Energy Resilience of Network

Kyivstar addresses power blackouts with industrial-grade generator fleet Amsterdam and Kyiv, 17 July 2024: VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Kyivstar continues to invest in resilient connectivity for Ukraine, with plans to deploy and additional 848 industrial generators

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