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The Tesla Diner Is a Runaway Success. But Not for the Reason You’d Think.
Strip away the restaurant and the hype, and Tesla Diner is an 80-plug fast-charging station plunked right in the middle of a former charging dessert.
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Big scoop: The solar permitting freeze is so bad a renewables developer — Clearway — asked Trump if they can swap an unpermitted solar farm in Nevada for a data center and gas power plant instead. My latest for @heatmap.news
Scoop: Clearway Asks Trump to Swap Solar Farm for Data Center and Gas Plant
The large renewables developer changes tack “in response to federal energy objectives.”
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Close out your week with Heatmap AM: 🇨🇳 China raised its 2030 renewable energy goal by 53% 🙅 Meta quits clean energy pact amid gas buildout ↪️ @woodmac.com report shows Hormuz workaround isn’t working Read all about it from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/china-ren...
China Eyes a Major Increase in Renewable Energy Consumption
On Meta quits, Elon Musk’s solar plans, and federal coal reserves
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Lime, the e-scooter company, found ways to do what most companies can't: cut emissions from its supply chain. @emilypont.bsky.social explains how: heatmap.news/sustainabili...
How E-Scooter Company Lime Cut Its Supply Chain Emissions
The company’s latest sustainability report, shared exclusively with Heatmap, shows that carbon intensity per kilometer traveled has dropped 81% since 2019.
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The dream of feeding power back onto the grid from EVs has long remained stubbornly out of reach. Now, Massachusetts is running a new pilot program to make it a reality. @kbrigham.bsky.social has the exclusive: heatmap.news/electric-veh...
Exclusive: Massachusetts EV Owners Can Now Get Paid to Power the Grid
A new 60-home pilot program aims to expand vehicle-to-grid charging.
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What’s in Heatmap AM this morning? 🤝 U.S. and Saudi Arabia poised to announce a nuclear deal 💵 200 new signatories join the Ratepayer Protection Pledge ☀️ China to phase out low-efficiency solar panels Plus lots more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/saudi-us-...
Saudi Arabia Wins a Deal to Import American Nuclear Reactors
On Trump’s power pledge, America’s offshore nuclear, and Japan’s offshore wind
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What happens when Trump’s anti-renewables policies collide with data center electricity demand? Prices get weird. @zeitlin.bsky.social has the latest: heatmap.news/energy/q2-20...
Trump Made the Renewable Power Market Weird
A new report from LevelTen Energy shows that advance purchase prices are down for solar but up for wind.
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What’s new in today’s Heatmap AM: 📈 BNEF raises estimate for data center power demand 83% for 2035 🇨🇦 Trump’s Canada tariffs an ominous sign for U.S. automakers 🚙 Germans pick EVs over internal combustion cars Plus all the rest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/data-cent...
Data Center Electricity Demand Ballooning as Support Collapses
On solar PPAs, German EVs, and copper prices
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EVs run on big, fancy batteries. But they also need small, dumb ones to run simple electronics — the same ones you’d find in a gas-powered car. Here’s @andrewmoseman.bsky.social on why getting rid of the old lead-acid 12-volt is such a headache: heatmap.news/electric-veh...
Why Your Smart EV Still Has a Dumb Battery
Yes, we’re talking about lead acid.
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Some of the most outspoken members of the eco-right are no longer in office. As the Alliance for Market Solutions’ Alex Flint writes, that’s not hypocrisy — it’s the political system at work. Read more in his piece for Heatmap Ideas: heatmap.news/ideas/republ...
How to Unlock Republican Support for Climate Action
GOP lawmakers know climate change is real. But they lack political incentives to do anything about it.
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In this Monday’s Heatmap AM: 🌊 New UK PM backs North Sea oil and gas drilling ban 👍 EU integrates carbon removal into emissions market 🤖 Anthropic strikes $10M data center deal with Meta Plus more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/eu-carbon...
The EU Rides to DAC’s Rescue
On British oil, Claude’s friend request, and Russian nuclear
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If we said ”smoke is back,” would you know what year it was? The East Coast is experiencing its third air quality crisis in four years. As @jeva.bsky.social writes, it’s time to start planning for a smoky new normal: heatmap.news/adaptation/e...
The East Coast’s New Forever Problem
Smoke is back. Again. It’s time to make a plan.
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SCOOP from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: @heinrich.senate.gov is out with a new bill to break up the energy transmission queue by taking “connect and manage” nationwide — a sign that a larger permitting deal may be on the horizon. heatmap.news/daily/heinri...
Scoop: A Key Democrat Wants to Break America’s Worst Energy Bottleneck
Senator Martin Heinrich’s bill, which makes it easier to connect new power plants to the grid, is an encouraging sign for bipartisan permitting reform.
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Should you go for a run after work today? Your mileage may vary, but if you’re in the Upper Midwest or Mid-Atlantic, the answer is: probably not. @jeva.bsky.social talks with an exercise scientist about how smoke affects our workouts: heatmap.news/climate/smok...
How Bad Is Exercising in Wildfire Smoke?
Your mileage may vary — but you’ll probably want to keep the outdoor runs to a minimum.
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The latest from Heatmap AM: 💧 Puerto Rico’s latest water crisis stretches to second month 🛢️ Oil traders warn of bigger market impacts from renewed Iran hostilities 🔌 Michigan governor releases a 10-point data center plan Check it out, from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/puerto-ri...
Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Stretches into Another Month
On Hungary’s BYD scandal, seawater uranium, and saving styrofoam
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Beautiful (and ominous) neon sunsets will grace the East Coast tonight thanks to (deadly) wildfire smoke. Here’s @jeva.bsky.social on where the smoke is coming from, why it turns the sky orange, and where it’s going next: heatmap.news/climate/oran...
Orange Skies Are Back
Where is the smoke worst, where will it go next, and what causes that color?
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"We’ve thought about if it’s possible to ever set a goal of bringing heat-related deaths down by 50%, but we don’t even have a baseline number or a way to say, 'This is the starting point for this goal or strategy,'" FAS's Grace Wickerson tells @jeva.bsky.social
Heatmap News@heatmap.news · 3w agoHeat waves like the one in Europe last month kill a lot of people. Figuring out how many, however, can be complicated. @jeva.bsky.social explains what makes heat deaths so tricky to count: heatmap.news/climate/heat...
What’s in Heatmap AM this morning? ⚡ PJM hit its capacity price cap, failed to meet minimum safety margin ☀️ Google back a 1.6GW solar project 🌭 Fusion startup Realta takes over former Oscar Mayer plant Plus exclusive thorium news! From @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/pjm-capac...
PJM Once Again Hits Its Price Cap at Latest Auction
On America’s thorium progress, Google’s solar buy, and Chinese nuclear
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Heat waves like the one in Europe last month kill a lot of people. Figuring out how many, however, can be complicated. @jeva.bsky.social explains what makes heat deaths so tricky to count: heatmap.news/climate/heat...
Why Heat Waves Are Tricky Killers
Deciding what counts as a heat death is more difficult than it sounds.
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Q: Which tech-boosting U.S. senator’s family just sold 3,500 acres to Microsoft for a data center in Wyoming? A: Read @jael.bsky.social’s latest for The Fight: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
How Congress’ Biggest Tech Booster Got Wrapped Up in a Data Center Land Deal
Microsoft says it bought nearly 3,500 acres of land near Cheyenne from the family of Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis.
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The latest class of @activatefellows.bsky.social is heavy on geologic hydrogen, which uses specialized tech to generate fuel from hard pockets of rock. Here’s @kbrigham.bsky.social on why we’re likely to see more companies like these very, very soon: heatmap.news/climate-tech...
The Next Big Thing in Hydrogen
“Geologic hydrogen” companies make up a hefty portion of the latest Activate Fellowship class, announced Tuesday morning — a reliable harbinger of investments to come.
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This morning in Heatmap AM: ↪️ Dubai is planning a new container terminal away from the Strait of Hormuz ⚛️ U.S. has 74GW of new nuclear in the pipeline 👷 IBEW clocks record membership gains Find all that and more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/dubai-hor...
The UAE Is Planning a New Port to Bypass the Strait of Hormuz
On American nuclear, a labor union record, and climate tech’s resurgence
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Start your week with Heatmap AM: 🐻 Trump expected to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments ⚛️ $4.5B in new funding for fusion 📉 Chile’s copper production is down while prices remain high Check in with @alexckaufman.bsky.social for the rest: heatmap.news/am/trump-nat...
Trump Poised to Shrink Two National Monuments in Utah
On fusion’s record year, nuclear satellites, and Chilean copper
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The Big Apple is going to have to think small to make progress toward its climate goals. Here’s @zeitlin.bsky.social on what’s getting in the way: heatmap.news/energy/new-y...
New York City’s Climate Progress Has Hit a Wall
The July 4 heat wave showed just how far the metropolis has to go to reach its decarbonization goals.
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the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance just launched its first three FireSat satellites into orbit, marking the start of a 50+ satellite constellation designed to image earth in ultra-high resolution every 20 minutes, detecting wildfires in near real time
The Satellites Hunting Wildfires in Real Time
The Earth Fire Alliance is aiming for a constellation of high-resolution sensors that can capture the whole globe every 20 minutes.
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End the week with Heatmap AM: ⚡ PJM blew past its all-time electricity demand peak 🇦🇺 India strikes a deal with Australia to by uranium nuclear fuel 🔌 Chicago is getting a VPP Plus all the rest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/pjm-recor...
PJM Just Shattered Its Peak Demand Record
On the India-Australia uranium deal, a U.S. general’s warning, and Chicago’s VPP
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NEW: Did a Meta data center project taint key water supplies in the capital city of Wyoming? City officials say yes, Meta isn’t exactly denying it, and some residents are concerned a cover-up is afoot. One of the wildest stories I’ve reported for @heatmap.news hands down.
Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well
Water pollution in Wyoming has big implications for the future of data center development.
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A new investing framework from Generate Capital, @rhg.com, and @calstrs.bsky.social aims to use dollars for maximum energy transition acceleration. @emilypont.bsky.social has the details: heatmap.news/climate/tran...
New Climate Investing Framework Aims for Maximum Acceleration
Generate Capital, CalSTRS, and the Rhodium Group have teamed up on a new Transition Acceleration Framework to measure and assess emissions impacts.
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What’s new in Heatmap AM? 🛢️ Oil prices rise as bombing resumes in Iran 🏃♀️ China set to eclipse U.S. in nuclear capacity by 2030 🚢 Trump-backed rare earths mines mostly exporting to Asia And all the rest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/global-nu...
Global Nuclear Capacity Set for a 44% Jump by 2036
On Trump’s mineral paradox, China’s Great Green Wall, and sodium-ion batteries
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