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Everett Sloane

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Energy Transition

Developers will add 43.4 GW of utility-scale solar in 2026, a 60% jump on last year and the third record year running

June 3, 2026

Power and Grids

U.S. developers plan to plug 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale capacity into the grid this year, a record if it lands

June 3, 2026

Power and Grids

Grid operators will hook up 24 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage this year, up from a record 15 GW in 2025

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

A severe thunderstorm near Attica, Kansas pushed east at 45 mph on Tuesday, packing 80 mph gusts and mobile-home damage warnings

June 3, 2026

Energy Transition

Texas alone accounts for 40% of new solar and 53% of new battery storage being built across the country in 2026

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

EF-4 packing 180 mph winds tore through Grove Hill, Alabama as Tuesday’s derecho spawned 67 tornadoes across seven Southern states

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

Forecasters now give the Pacific a 70% chance of an above-normal hurricane season — unusually warm waters and evolving climate signals lined up against quiet Atlantic odds

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

A second tropical wave is spinning up in the Eastern Pacific behind the first — NHC tracking back-to-back systems heading toward southern Mexico’s coast this week

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

Wildfire damage above 7,000 feet in California’s Sierra and Mono County is showing up before official fire season begins — early-season timber fires gnawing through high-elevation forests

June 2, 2026

Energy & Climate

Engineers just built solar desalination panels with laser-etched black metal that pull fresh water straight from seawater — no toxic brine, no electricity, just sunlight

June 2, 2026

Power and Grids

Texas’s ERCOT grid is forecast to grow 11% in 2026 — peak demand projected to climb 46.8 gigawatts through 2029 as AI data centers pile into the state

June 2, 2026

Power and Grids

FERC just ordered PJM — the grid serving 67 million Americans — to write new rules letting data centers plug straight into power plants without crashing residential bills

June 2, 2026

Power and Grids

Starting this summer, PJM will have only just enough power to keep the eastern grid stable — data centers connecting faster than utilities can build new plants

June 2, 2026

Nuclear

The DOE just selected TVA and Holtec for $800 million in SMR awards — federal cash flowing to the first two American utilities racing to deploy commercial small reactors

June 2, 2026

Nuclear

The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

A heat dome is rebuilding over the Desert Southwest and southern Plains — Phoenix and Death Valley running toward 110°F with dozens of daily records back under threat

June 2, 2026

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