The home is becoming a grid resource as solar, storage, EV charging and flexible loads replace simple export credits.
BC Hydro’s change to net metering looks, at first glance, like another rooftop solar fight. The old Rate Schedule 1289 is closing to new customers on July 1, 2026, and new self-generation customers will move to Rate Schedule 2289, where excess generation is paid at 10¢/kWh in the billing cycle … [continued]
Future Proof Shipping gave hydrogen cargo shipping something most hydrogen shipping announcements never provide: working vessels. H2 Barge 1 and H2 Barge 2 were not artist renderings, conference-stage concepts or another memorandum of understanding. They were inland cargo vessels converted to hydrogen fuel-cell operation and put into real freight service … [continued]
Primary and final energy are accounting ledgers; useful energy shows what the economy actually gets.
The COP31 proposal for electricity to supply 35% of global final energy demand by 2035 is useful, ambitious and better than a renewables target on its own. It pushes the climate conversation beyond power generation and into vehicles, buildings and industry, where fossil fuels remain embedded. It also exposed a … [continued]
Agrivoltaics works where panels provide useful farm functions such as shade, crop protection or water resilience, not merely where crops survive beside solar.
Agrivoltaics is appealing because it seems to solve two land-use problems at once. Put solar panels and farming on the same land, and the conflict between food and electricity appears to soften. The farm keeps producing, the panels produce power, and the project can be described as more sophisticated than … [continued]
Hydrogen demand gets smaller when speculative energy uses are filtered out and the surviving industrial molecule uses remain.
Hydrogen demand is usually discussed as if the world is about to discover a giant new fuel market. That is the wrong starting point. Hydrogen is already a very large industrial molecule, but most of that demand is tied to the fossil-fuel system, fertilizer, methanol and process chemistry. It’s a … [continued]
Industrial cement graphic showing calcium-silicate rock entering a complex processing plant and ordinary cement leaving as the main product.
Brimstone’s cement story is interesting because it is not only a cement story. The company’s public positioning is now much bigger than ordinary Portland cement without limestone process CO₂. Brimstone is presenting itself as a Rock Refinery: a process that starts with calcium-bearing silicate rock and co-produces multiple industrial materials … [continued]
China’s electric heavy-truck plan treats freight electrification as corridors, depots, charging, swapping and grid infrastructure, not just vehicle sales.
China’s new electric heavy-truck target is not interesting because another government wrote down a 2030 number. It is interesting because the target is tied to the system around the truck. The Ministry of Transport plan points to 40% of new heavy-truck sales being electric by 2030, 20% of the total … [continued]
Energyminer has something much better than a rendering. Its Energyfish is a small floating hydrokinetic turbine, mostly underwater, anchored in a river current, sending power to shore through a cable and feeding a land-side power box for grid-compliant electricity. It is not a dam, not a conventional run-of-river hydro plant … [continued]
Cement decarbonization is a layered pathway: less Portland, lower clinker, better design, substitutes, recycling and selective CCS.
Cement decarbonization attracts miracle stories. One company has a new binder. Another has a carbon-negative aggregate. Someone else has an electrochemical process, a hydrogen kiln, a low-carbon limestone route, a supplementary cementitious material, a recycled cement process or a carbon-capture retrofit. Some of these ideas are useful. Some will become … [continued]
A cheap red-flag pass can often show whether a climate-tech claim deserves deeper diligence, sharper questions or a hard pause before money or policy support follows.
Climate-tech claims usually arrive with a promise and a request attached. The promise is that a new process, fuel, device, material, reactor, storage system or platform will solve a difficult part of decarbonization. The request is for public funding, private capital, procurement support, regulatory preference, a grant, a mandate, a … [continued]
