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Double bubble curtain surrounding an offshore wind foundation installation at sea.

Two giant bubble rings were built around offshore wind foundations near Virginia Beach, but the seabed exposed what they could not stop

By Adrian Villellas
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September 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Solar panels on concrete supports at the New Haven landfill

New Haven turned an old trash hill into a solar plant, and 1,900 panels now power homes without clearing farmland or forest

By Kevin Montien
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September 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
RheEnergise High-Density Hydro energy storage facility at Cornwood in Devon, England.

A small Devon power plant uses liquid dense enough to float concrete, and it could change where clean energy gets stored

By ECONEWS
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September 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Seminoe Reservoir canyon in Wyoming, site of the pumped storage project

A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir

By Sonia Ramírez
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September 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Rendering of the Westinghouse AP300 small modular reactor design.

Westinghouse wants up to 91 nuclear units across several countries, but the real bottleneck may begin inside U.S. licensing offices

By Kevin Montien
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September 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Ripe cranberries growing beneath elevated solar panels in Massachusetts.

A Massachusetts cranberry bog grew under solar panels, and the result shows why shade can help crops without proving sweeter fruit

By ECONEWS
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September 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rendering of the proposed West Somerset Lagoon tidal power project in the Bristol Channel.

Great Britain plans to build a 22.5-kilometer-long tidal barrier, consisting of 206 giant concrete caissons and 125 turbines, which would generate enough electricity for about 2 million households

By Gabriel FO
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September 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illustration of mixed plastic waste undergoing a thermal treatment process developed to produce high-purity hydrogen.

A new reactor turned bottles, bags and car plastics into hydrogen, and the carbon problem stayed trapped in solid material

By ECONEWS
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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Solar panels and wind turbines at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in eastern Oregon.

Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig

By Sonia Ramírez
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September 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Solar panels installed above rows of grapevines at an agrivoltaic vineyard in Saint-André-de-Lidon, France.

A French winegrower put 6,000 solar panels over his vines, and the hardest climate trade-off may be the name on the bottle

By Adrian Villellas
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September 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of solar panels stretching over the Casa Blanca Canal across the Arizona desert.

Arizona covered a desert canal with 2,556 solar panels, and the first U.S. pilot is testing whether expensive shade can save water

By ECONEWS
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September 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

By ECONEWS
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September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

By Kevin Montien
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August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ship operating beside an offshore wind turbine in dense fog at sea.

Ships sailing between offshore wind turbines face a problem that barely existed a generation ago, and with thousands more giant towers heading to European waters authorities are rethinking how vessels navigate through these artificial forests

By Sonia Ramírez
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August 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Floating solar panel system built on a circular salmon farming pen in southern Chile.

An island off Chile turned to solar panels floating on water for electricity, and the unusual installation shows what happens when renewable energy has to work somewhere ordinary land-based solar simply does not fit

By Adrian Villellas
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August 28, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Artist's impression of the proposed Mersey Tidal Power barrage across the River Mersey.

Britain wants to build a wall across a working river with 28 turbines, hold back a 33-foot tide and generate power for 120 years, but the giant project still has not been told exactly where to stand

By Adrian Villellas
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August 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
An IceCube mDOM sensor is lowered into a deep borehole in the Antarctic ice.

IceCube’s detector spreads 5,160 light sensors across a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice between 1,450 and 2,450 meters deep, using Earth itself as a shield to catch neutrinos arriving upward from the northern sky

By Sonia Ramírez
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August 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of solar panels installed on a former landfill in New Haven, Connecticut.

New Haven placed 1,900 solar panels on a former landfill, producing 1.4 million kilowatt-hours yearly for 200 homes and $1.5 million over 20 years, while 63 gigawatts of capacity wait across 4,312 closed sites

By Adrian Villellas
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August 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Aerial view of the Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset, Minnesota, where an 85-megawatt solar project is being developed.

Minnesota’s Boswell Solar project brings 177,675 panels and 85 megawatts to a coal-fired site, inheriting an old grid connection in a rare test of how infrastructure shapes renewable cost.

By Kevin Montien
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August 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Large piles of discarded wind turbine blades cut into sections for disposal.

Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more

By Kevin Montien
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August 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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