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Ever wonder how a wind turbine or a solar panel works? Why siting solar is so much easier than siting wind? Why wind turbines just keep getting bigger? We've got you covered in today's SHIFT KEY Summer School episode! Listen Heatmap News and wherever you get your podcasts.

Activists in Newton, MA discovered a point of leverage to try and slow the barrage of natural gas pipe replacements in the city. Then, after a year of challenging every inch of new pipe, National Grid came back with a proposal - let's work together. heatmap.news/energy/newton-…

NEW SHIFT KEY SUMMER SCHOOL We’re having Jesse D. Jenkins teach a few lessons from his Intro to Electricity class for the pod. Today’s session: The history of wind turbines & solar panels, their modern engineering, and how they feed power into the grid heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…

NEW: Fusion startup Avalanche Energy just landed a $10 million grant from Washington State to build out a commercial-scale test facility for fusion technologies. Read more below from katie brigham, feat. Robin Langtry. heatmap.news/climate-tech/a…

NEW: Avalanche Energy, a startup building tabletop-sized fusion reactors, just landed a $10 million grant from Washington state, one of the largest government-led fusion investments to date heatmap.news/climate-tech/a…

The Department of Energy just canceled a nearly $5 billion loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express, a massive transmission project, following a phone call from Trump. Matthew Zeitlin has more below: heatmap.news/sparks/doe-gra…

I received an update on this story about a new grey hydrogen plant that was planned at the Port of Stockton. The Port just rescinded its approvals after enviro groups won a settlement to require a full environmental review. heatmap.news/economy/hydrog…

“Going into 2028, Democrats will need an actual plan to stabilize or cut electricity costs.” An electricity price crisis is rapidly approaching, Robinson Meyer warns. Democrats need to be prepared: heatmap.news/politics/elect…

To further appreciate why this is important, see Robinson Meyer's latest @heatmap: "The Electricity Affordability Crisis Is Coming": heatmap.news/politics/elect…

Expiration of tax credits brings new urgency to the longstanding problem of the interconnection queue: heatmap.news/energy/interco…

"The way NextEra sees it, NextEra will come through fine. But many other — especially many other smaller — players may struggle." Matthew Zeitlin parses what NextEra’s latest earnings call says about the post-OBBBA future for renewables: heatmap.news/energy/nextera…

NextEra's take on the post-IRA world: it's good to be well capitalized and be able to start and have started construction on your renewables projects

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Inside this morning’s climate briefing: ✅ Energy Department yanks $5 billion guarantee for Grain Belt Express ✅ Oklo lands a major deal with Liberty Energy ✅ FERC greenlights rapid gas buildout in the Midwest and Southwest heatmap.news/climate/trump-…

It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term price increases if not a broad affordability crisis. The setup is bad and getting worse. I wrote about it for Heatmap News:

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Even though I’m worried about coming electricity rate hikes, I also tried to put together a story under which demand growth won’t be that bad. What would that world look like? I think if you say data center froth subsides + AI capex falls + EVs collapse + a mild recession,

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are all these climate tech startups just data center startups now? lately, cleantech companies of all stripes are finding lucrative early deployment opportunties for building and powering AI data centers in a cleaner, more energy efficient manner heatmap.news/climate-tech/d…

“I think the proportion of pitches that we see that reflects some kind of data center messaging has gone from maybe one out of 20 to one out of five,” Matthew Nordan tells katie brigham. Why climate tech companies are pivoting to data centers ⬇️ heatmap.news/climate-tech/d…