Hydro-Québec once promoted low-cost hydropower to attract data centers. Now it is proposing higher rates and tighter access as demand strains supply.
As grid constraints grow, manufacturers and data center developers are prioritizing guaranteed power delivery over the lowest electricity prices.
Biochar is getting a real-world road test. Verde and Ergon are moving their cold paving partnership toward field projects, carbon credits and commercial use.
Norfolk, Nebraska's wastewater land purchase reflects a broader strategy as utilities secure room for future industrial growth and infrastructure expansion.
Treasury now expects to finalize 45Z clean fuel tax credit regulations in November, extending uncertainty for renewable fuel projects and investment planning.
The UAE is showing what happens when power, capital, permitting, and chip access are coordinated before construction begins, not assembled project by project.
Building electrification replaces fossil-fueled heating, hot water, cooking, and some process loads with high-efficiency electric systems. Here’s how the U.S. economics, financing options, grid constraints, and building performance mandates are reshaping capital planning — and what owners should check before committing to a retrofit.
Core Natural Resources subsidiary CONSOL Innovations was selected for a DOE grant to pilot rare earth element recovery from Pennsylvania coal waste.
Tax incentives are sliding down site selection checklists as states compete on power availability, and several are already rebuilding programs around it.
Ireland could owe up to $30 billion (€26 billion) by 2030 for missing EU climate targets, new fiscal modeling shows, with costs rising after 2030.
Power constraints can delay facility openings, increase carrying costs, and force expensive temporary power investments that reshape project economics for CFOs.
Data centers are absorbing grid capacity that manufacturers need for expansion, forcing executives to treat power access as a site selection variable.
Volvo is putting greener materials inside its newest truck cabs. The move brings recycled plastics, fibers and certified wood into VNL and VNR models.
Blackstone's QTS dropped its final appeal, terminating pursuit of a 2,100-acre Virginia data center campus after courts voided the project's rezoning approvals.
Curtailment orders, discharge limits, and insurance exposure are the water liabilities confronting industrial operations already built and operating in stressed basins.
Chain length may shape how PFAS move through water and respond to treatment. For utilities, that means monitoring and removal strategies need sharper focus.
New 2025 research and a shelved EPA study add fresh evidence on fireworks pollution, as U.S. cities split over drone alternatives for July 4, 2026.
California’s SB 343 update gives cartons fresh labeling clarity. New MRF data shows stronger sortation, but recovery work remains.
Costa Rica's experience illustrates what happens when environmental protection is treated as an economic design problem rather than a compliance obligation
PJM has issued multiple grid reliability alerts as extreme heat pushes electricity demand toward a potential summer record across the Mid-Atlantic.