Solar, wind, storage, hydrogen, and the policy landscape driving the global energy transition. Coverage of the projects, the capital, and the politics reshaping power generation.
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Subscribe to RenewablesSolar and wind capacity continue to expand globally, driven by falling costs, federal and state policy incentives, and growing corporate procurement. Our renewables coverage tracks utility-scale project development, battery storage deployment, hydrogen pilot programs, and the grid modernization investments required to integrate variable generation at scale. This section covers the capital, the technology, and the regulatory landscape shaping clean energy.
The Thursday session closed with sharp moves at both ends of the leaderboard, leaving oil producers, miners and clean energy funds with little in common.
A tariff is a tax collected at the border on imported goods, and on traded energy equipment such as solar panels it raises landed costs, pushes supply chains toward new countries, and shifts costs among importers, manufacturers and power buyers.
Oil majors, gold miners and clean energy funds each sent their own signal at Wednesday's close, with bullion and uranium adding to the cross-currents.
Microsoft says Copilot will read local files, act across apps and run local AI models on Copilot+ PCs. The permission details are still missing.
A look at how oil majors, miners, precious metals and clean energy names lined up at the close, and what the spread between the best and worst performers says about the tape.
Every unpatented mining claim across all twelve BLM states. Leadfile audits, due diligence, site selection, regional prospecting, entity investigations, and AOI monitoring — delivered as complete report packages.
Europe's solar surge is wrecking midday prices in Spain and France. For battery owners, that is the point.
Kincardine's first big repair meant towing a turbine and its floater to Rotterdam and back. The bill and the delay are now shaping how Green Volt gets built.
Producers, miners and renewable developers closed the week on separate footings, with the move in each group set by its own commodity and policy drivers.
India is funding transmission and storage, the U.S. Senate is haggling over permits, SSE leans on its networks, and First Solar goes to court. Making clean power is no longer the hard part.
Gold Fields' Windfall project in Quebec has hit a permitting wall even as CEO Mike Fraser defends a contested Northern Star takeover bid and a Ghana lease dispute, while Panama edges toward a negotiated Cobre Panama restart and Glencore secures approval to mine coal in Australia through 2045.
The EPA is walking away from its authority over power-plant carbon emissions. Fund managers, European wind developers and Congress are building anyway — proof the clean-energy expansion no longer waits for Washington's permission.
This week in energy: BP quietly explored and then walked away from a bid for Devon Energy's $4.5 billion Eagle Ford asset, Hormuz tanker traffic collapsed to single digits pushing shipping rates past $1 million a day, and Rystad Energy laid out a path for Venezuelan output to nearly double by 2030. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
As Hormuz risk sends VLCC freight rates into uncharted territory, Trafigura is spinning its supertanker fleet into a standalone, Oslo-listed company — letting outsiders buy a piece of the boom it built.
This week in energy: Saudi Aramco cuts all European crude allocations for October after a pipeline attack, Kazakhstan deepens its reliance on Russian gas, and Global Atomic wins conditional U.S. backing for its Niger uranium mine. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
AI-powered predictive maintenance combines sensor data, machine learning, and historical failure patterns to forecast equipment problems in power plants, grids, and renewable assets before they cause outages.
This week in energy: drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline sent oil surging past $100 a barrel, USA Rare Earth broke ground on a $1.2 billion South Carolina magnet facility, and a federal court blocked the Trump administration's order to keep a shuttered Michigan coal plant running. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
Shopify has acquired Tailwind Labs, bringing the world's most-installed CSS framework in-house nine months after AI tools gutted its revenue.
This week in energy: Brent crude approached $96 a barrel as renewed U.S.-Iran strikes kept the Strait of Hormuz on edge, U.S. diesel prices hit an all-time high, and Citadel emerged as a potential buyer of U.S. shale assets. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
ArcPy scripting techniques—including the arcpy.da cursor module, batch geoprocessing loops, and enterprise system integration—let energy companies automate the mapping and analysis of pipelines, grids, and renewable sites at scale.
Glencore emerges as the wildcard in Anglo American and Teck's $1.4 billion Chilean copper synergy plan, while Smackover Lithium locks in a decade-long supply deal with LG Energy Solution and Defense Metals sharpens its rare earth resource in British Columbia.
