Headline News:

• “Bifacial Rooftop Vertical Solar PanelsIn Norway” • Tromsø, a city in Norway, is north of the Arctic Circle. Most might think that makes it a poor choice for solar power, but, in fact, the roof of Tromsøterminalen, a cold storage facility at the city’s port facility, has the world’s largest installation of vertically mounted bifacial solar panels. [CleanTechnica]

Vertical solar system in Tromsø (Over Easy Solar image)

• “Battery Maker Achieves 600,000-Mile EV Battery Life” • EV batteries mostly rely on graphite anodes, but researchers are developing silicon-anode batteries, partly because silicon can hold up to ten times more energy than graphite. StoreDot says it has integrated a silicon-dominant anode into a proprietary battery cell design. [The Cool Down]
• “Why Even Fossil Fuel Executives Are Opposing Trump’s Offshore Wind Crackdown” • The Trump administration has tried to shut down offshore wind projects. But opposition to this strategy isn’t just from environmentalists and clean energy advocates. Some fossil fuel executives are pushing back out of economic pragmatism. [EVWorld.com]
• “Giant 1.5-GW Wind Farm Planned for France – Its Biggest Clean Energy Project Yet” • TotalEnergies and RWE have been selected to build the largest clean energy power plant in France, the 1.5-GW Centre Manche 2 offshore wind farm. It’s interesting that fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies shifted enough to be chosen for such a large wind project. [CleanTechnica]
• “Japan Faces Fresh Energy Challenge As It Seeks To Expand Power-Hungry Data Centers” • Japan’s current industrial strategy centers around courting AI firms and chipmakers to build data centers and semiconductor plants in the nation. That will require a lot of electricity. But at the same time, Japan has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050. [The Japan Times]

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