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Maryland’s Largest Solar Project Launches, On Old Coal Mine

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Marylanders have apparently been good and nice this year. Rather than getting coal for Christmas, they got a large solar power plant installed on the site of an old coal mine. CPV Renewable Power, part of Competitive Power Ventures, launched the CPV Backbone Solar project a few days before Christmas … [continued]

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Alphabet Buys Intersect For $4.75 Billion — Is That A Good Thing?

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I’m sure everyone here knows the company Intersect. Just kidding, I assume most people don’t know the company, since I had never run across it before. Apparently, though, it’s a data center and energy infrastructure solutions provider. It builds big power projects for data centers and booming electricity needs. Alphabet, … [continued]

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CATL Makes Big Announcement on Sodium Batteries for 2026

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Sodium-ion battery development has been a major story in 2025, as Chris Arcus has been especially eager to highlight and explain. In 2026, I think it could be the biggest battery topic. Battery giant CATL, the largest battery producer in the world, is leaning into the topic and made a … [continued]

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Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup

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Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some solar panels on areas of the land that seem most … [continued]

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Vingroup Signs Strategic Agreements for Green Mobility in Uzbekistan & Kinshasa

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Vingroup announced separate strategic agreements in late December to develop urban infrastructure and green public transport networks in Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Vietnamese conglomerate signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kinshasa and Exposure SARL on Dec. 29 to modernize the African capital’s … [continued]

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