Headline News:

• “Vineyard Wind 1 Finishes Monopile Installation” • The CIP-Avangrid joint venture Vineyard Wind has completed monopile installation at the 804-MW Vineyard Wind 1 site off the coast of Massachusetts. An announcement on Vineyard Wind’s website shows all 62 monopiles installed. Vineyard Wind is starting cable laying, which will run through April. [reNews]

Ship loading wind components (Wosketomp, CC-BY-SA 4.0)

• “25% Of Americans Avoiding Tesla Tech Because Of Elon Musk” • Three things are no secret: (1) Elon Musk benefits more than any other individual from Tesla’s success, (2) Elon Musk has gotten extremely involved in political matters (emphasis on “extremely”), and (3) many people won’t buy Tesla products because of those first two facts. [CleanTechnica]
• “Constellation Energy To Buy Calpine In Blockbuster $16.4 Billion US Power Deal” • Nuclear power provider Constellation Energy agreed to buy privately held natural gas and geothermal company Calpine Corp for $16.4 billion. It is one of the biggest acquisitions in US power industry history. The deal comes at a time of rising electricity demand. [Reuters]
• “L.A. Fires Show The Reality Of Living In A World With 1.5°C Of Warming” • The Southern California blaze was a kind of hell. Residents at a nursing home were evacuated in wheelchairs and pushing walkers, many in their night clothes, as embers fell. Fire fighters, with hoses at the ready but without water at hydrants, could only watch as houses burned. [Time Magazine]
• “Three-Wheeled Electric Vehicles Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels” • A market for three-wheeled electric vehicles is beginning to take shape, and that’s good news for the US EV startup Aptera. The company just earned a big vote of confidence from the A-list battery manufacturer LG Energy Solutions, smoothing the path to full production this year. [CleanTechnica]

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