** Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs legislation into law classifying nuclear power as “clean energy” after it passed the legislature with bipartisan support.
** The Kansas City area could add another data center — this one to the tune of $12 billion spread across six buildings in Wyandotte County.
** A company halts the environmental permitting process for a proposed $2.36 billion electric vehicle and energy battery manufacturing project in Michigan amid a legal dispute with a municipality challenging the project.
** The North Dakota Senate passes a bill to create tax incentives for oil drilling outside of the state’s primary production areas to encourage development in other geological formations.
** The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared this week it is making good on President Donald Trump’s executive order to ramp up American energy production. In a move that is more “grow, baby, grow” than “drill, baby, drill,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday the department will provide $537 million to fund 543 biofuel projects in 29 states.
** Dow and X-energy are moving forward with an ambitious plan to power Dow’s massive chemical and plastics manufacturing site in Seadrift, Texas, using four advanced small modular reactors (SMRs). This project could eliminate roughly 500,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually and replace aging natural gas-fired assets with nuclear-generated electricity and industrial steam.
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** Coast Guard officials say an oil spill at a Canadian oil refinery is contained and not affecting Michigan on the other side of the St. Clair River.
** You expect to get what you pay for when you buy solar panels. However, research from Germany’s respected Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE reveals that many PV modules are underperforming compared to manufacturer claims.
** India Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently reiterated his pledge to more than double his country’s current renewable energy capacity, telling delegates to the India Energy Week 2025 conference in New Delhi that he wants to increase generation from renewable resources to at least 500 GW.