“Data centers more closely resemble modern factories and other industrial facilities than they do the vast, job-intensive projects of last century,” @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social writes. That spells trouble for American reindustrialization. Read the whole story here: heatmap.news/energy/facto...

New scoop in @heatmap.news: A top nuclear enrichment company inked a deal with a startup to ramp up output of TRISO, a special type of reactor fuel that's essentially meltdown-proof. I went into the history, what China is doing, and the debates around its usefulness. heatmap.news/energy/antar...

NEW in Heatmap AM: 🪨 White House kicks off critical minerals summit ✂️ Low-income energy assistance program escapes funding cuts 🇨🇱 Copper price boom could help Chile’s far-right president @alexckaufman.bsky.social has your daily dose of climate news: heatmap.news/am/trump-min...

In Heatmap AM today: 👩‍⚖️ Doug Burgum says SCOTUS may step in to kill offshore wind 🗽 New FREEDOM Act permitting bill introduced in House 💨 Siemens Energy investing $1 billion on gas turbine production Peruse the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/scotus-of...

SCOOP: @alexckaufman.bsky.social has the exclusive on a new bipartisan permitting reform bill that aims to protect tech neutrality — including offshore wind. Read the full story: heatmap.news/politics/fre...

Offshore wind developers: 5 Trump: 0 Here's @jael.bsky.social on Sunrise Wind defeating the last of the administration's stop work orders: heatmap.news/sparks/sunri...

The EPA is expected to decide the fate of the 2009 “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases any day now. Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social on what to watch for in the final determination: heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

In today’s Heatmap AM: ⬇️ Duke Energy asks customers to lower energy usage amid chill ✅ Energy Department exempts advanced nuclear from NEPA 🇨🇩 Over 200 dead in Congo coltan mine Get up to speed with @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/duke-ener...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has quietly lifted its ban on permits for wind farms unintentionally hurting or killing bald eagles, reversing a policy that implemented a longstanding Trump claim that wind farms are killing bald eagles en masse My latest for @heatmap.news

SCOOP: The Trump administration has lifted its ban on issuing permits to wind farms related to bird protections — while also beginning enforcement actions against operators, @jael.bsky.social reports. Read the full story: heatmap.news/politics/eag...

Our latest Funding Friday wrap-up has us seeing double. @kbrigham.bsky.social gets into two battery recycling startups that raised big rounds, plus a pair of VCs that raised new second funds. All that, plus the Form Energy news, is right here: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

In Friday’s Heatmap AM: ◼️ Much of U.S. at high risk of blackouts by 2030 📈 Copper prices hit all-time high 🇳🇱 The Hague orders Netherlands to cut emissions quicker End your week with the top stories from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/us-electr...

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

The Army Corps of Engineers is looksmaxxing America’s wetlands — at the expense of renewable energy. Here’s @jael.bsky.social in the latest edition of THE FIGHT: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

Today in Heatmap AM: 🚗 EV sales outpace gas-powered cars for first time in Europe ☢️ Trump admin secretly cuts nuclear regulations 💵 Utilities asked for $31 billion in rate hikes last year — over double from 2024 Peruse today’s news from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/tesla-mod...

Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on how Redwood Materials escaped the battery recycling curse — by pivoting to data centers. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

A new kind of climate lawsuit just dropped. Here's @emilypont.bsky.social on how Michigan's case against Big Oil is different from all the others: heatmap.news/climate/mich...

In today’s Heatmap AM: 👋 U.S. officially leaves the Paris agreement (again) 👨‍⚖️ Vineyard Wind project construction halt overturned ⚡ Quebec withheld power from New England transmission during storm Read about all this and more from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/trump-par...

That’s now nearly 5 GW of offshore wind capacity that continue construction between Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, Empire Wind, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind.

BREAKING: Construction on Vineyard Wind can proceed, according to a federal judge. That marks four losses in a row for the Trump administration against offshore wind. Read more from @emilypont.bsky.social: heatmap.news/sparks/viney...

Heatmap's monthly subscriber briefings are where climate and energy experts come to make sense of what’s happening. Become a subscriber to join us this week and save 20% with code SUBSCRIBE20. heatmap.news/st/Landing_S...

NEW in Heatmap AM: ⛏️ Trump takes stake in another rare earths company 🤫 Federal mining agency stops publishing inspection data 🚮 Century Aluminum scraps plan for new smelter Get up to date with @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/trump-usa...

Here's @jeva.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social with your grid forecast for the next couple weeks: heatmap.news/energy/winte...

Today in Heatmap AM: ❄️ 1 million without power in U.S. after major snowstorm 🌊 New rule might accelerate deep-sea mining permits 🧑‍✈️ Tesla ends Autopilot in US and Canada Stay warm with the hottest news from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/winter-st...

It gonna be cold out there this weekend in much of the U.S. While you're huddled up inside, read @jeva.bsky.social's story about why warmer winters might not make us safer: heatmap.news/climate/wint...

The Chevy Bolt is already dead. Again — to be replaced by an internal combustion Buick. Here's @andrewmoseman.bsky.social on why this tells us everything about the U.S. auto market: heatmap.news/electric-veh...

In the Friday Heatmap AM: 📈 Fervo is going public 🚗 GM to replace Bolt production with internal combustion Buick 📝 Energy Department is “revising” $83 billion of loans End your week with the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/fervo-ipo

BREAKING: The Energy Department today announced cuts and alterations to $83 billion of Biden-era loans — though it won't say which ones, or even how many of them are new. Here's @emilypont.bsky.social with what we know: heatmap.news/sparks/83-bi...

This week on SHIFT KEY: Why did America's climate emissions surge in 2025? Is this the end of economic decoupling? And how much of the increase comes down to Trump? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social gets into all these questions and more with @rhg.com's Ben King: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

NEW in Heatmap AM: ❎ Trump says Greenland deal developing, backs down on tariffs 🪨 2 geothermal startups raise $212 million combined 🇯🇵 World’s largest nuclear plant back online in Japan Read up on the latest from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/geotherma...

SCOOP: The Trump administration has refused to allow safety fixes on half-built Vineyard Wind turbines. Read more from @emilypont.bsky.social and @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/tru...

One of the hottest companies in climate tech, according to our Insiders Survey — @zanskargeothermal.bsky.social — just raised a $115 million Series C. Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social with the details: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

“The most popular scope 3 models assume an entirely American supply chain. That doesn’t square with reality.” Deft summary of our latest paper by @emilypont.bsky.social in @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/sustainabili... Open access paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks about freedom extraordinary reverence. Yet in his comments about Greenland, he betrays not only its citizens’, but also his own, according to @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/dou...

By the time New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill finished her inaugural address, she'd already signed two executive orders on energy. @zeitlin.bsky.social has the details: heatmap.news/sparks/new-j...

In Heatmap AM today: 🇬🇱 Trump threatens EU with tariffs over Greenland 🌞 Solar power to grow 50% in two years 🤝 Brazil and US in talks on rare earths deal Catch up on all the news after the long weekend with @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/us-solar-...

Delve into the world of solar technology and storage systems! On Tuesday, February 20, hear from Helio Volta, Shoals, and kWh Analytics about market challenges, deployment risk, and trends to watch in 2026. Register to join the conversation from Heatmap Labs: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

BREAKING: A judge has overturned a stop work order from the Trump administration, allowing the Coastal Virginia offshore wind project to proceed. The decision marks the third defeat for the president — this week. Here's @jael.bsky.social with more: heatmap.news/sparks/coast...

My latest for @heatmap.news: I spoke to numerous representatives of the AI data center industry about how they’re addressing the rising number of projects being opposed and canceled. My conclusion? They get how bad the PR crisis is. But they’re not doing enough to stop it — at all.

Today in Heatmap AM: 🧾 Trump requires tech companies to pay for more power in PJM 🍃 Empire Wind wins in court 🚙 Ford in talks with BYD to buy batteries End your week with the top stories from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/empire-wi...

Emissions accounting is far from an exact science — but the most possible supply chain models ignore a major factor in what's actually being emitted. Read @emilypont.bsky.social's story on what scope 3 models are missing: heatmap.news/sustainabili...

BREAKING: Judge lifts Trump’s stop work order on Empire Wind, marking the administration’s second court defeat this week on offshore wind. @jael.bsky.social has the story: heatmap.news/sparks/empir...

NEW in Heatmap AM: 📞 Heatmap’s second annual survey is here 🤠 Wyoming set for US’ largest data center 🫗 Global wind execs warn of “spillover” from US lease holdups Read @alexckaufman.bsky.social on today’s top stories: heatmap.news/am/wyoming-d...

I talked with @heatmap.news about promising climate tech, & which solutions still need a lot of work. The higher point is we will need way more deployment & way more innovation than folks are realizing, and we need to scale up the public & private systems to deliver it: heatmap.news/insiders-sur...

This week on SHIFT KEY: @jessedjenkins.com answers our Heatmap Insiders Survey questions, including: - What is the most exciting climate tech company? - Are data centers slowing decarbonization? - When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak? Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

many of the smartest people in energy and decarb told us they want people to find descriptions more relatable and appealing than “climate change”

Almost a year into Trump 2.0, where does the global effort to decarbonize stand? To find out, Heatmap picked the brains of 55 leading figures in the climate world — and their responses were fascinating. Read all about our second annual Insiders Survey: heatmap.news/insiders-sur...

Introducing… the @heatmap.news insiders’ survey. We spent many weeks asking deeply pressing, candid questions of some of the smartest people we know in energy & climate. The result: a crucial look into the future of climate action.

Today in Heatmap AM: 🛢️ New EPA rule would limit states in rejecting pipelines 🌬️ PJM files brief in defense of offshore wind 🌕 Energy Department says it’s building nuclear on the moon Get your daily dose of climate news from @alexckaufman.bsky.social: heatmap.news/am/epa-pipel...

​Join the Heatmap News team in D.C. on Tuesday, January 27! We’re bringing together policymakers and energy experts to explore the frontlines of America’s transmission buildout. Thank you to our sponsor @thirdwayenergy.bsky.social for making this event possible! Register here: luma.com/ygrq14dq