Climate-tech is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
New-energy vehicles (BEVs and PHEVs) hit a record 67% of new car sales in China in September, crossing two-thirds of monthly sales for the first time.
The NRC finalized a rule allowing commercial reactor license applicants to reuse DOE and DOD demonstration data, the first major reactor-regulation change under Executive Order 14300, potentially slashing licensing cost and time for advanced-nuclear startups even as the agency faces workforce attrition and proposed staff cuts.
EPRI failure data shows U.S. grid-battery failure rates have fallen more than 97% since 2016 even as cumulative deployments grew 250-fold, with batteries now failing at a rate comparable to legacy oil-filled substation transformers — a data point that undercuts the fire-risk narrative currently bottlenecking storage siting and permitting.
The DOJ is moving to revoke offshore wind permits, an action Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse warns could 'blow up' the bipartisan Senate permitting deal he co-sponsors.
Google has scaled its PJM virtual power plant past 1 GW as demand response revenue in the nation's largest wholesale market surged 240% year-over-year to $523.6 million in 2025, with emergency demand response driving 88% of that total.
A California energy newsletter column contrasts incumbent utility- and vendor-run virtual power plants (Sunrun, Tesla) with a radical new participant-driven VPP model, framing the open business-model question of who captures value from aggregated distributed energy resources.
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