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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

Record breaking renewables

Writer: Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick

Despite everything in the US, the Energy Information Administration STILL expects 93% of the record breaking new energy capacity to be installed in the US this year to be solar, batteries, and wind. New energy installed will hit the highest levels in 20 years, up nearly 30% over 2024. That's a big deal!


I wrote more about it on LinkedIn this morning, including about the strategic importance of learning from execution of these plans now, in order to improve continued price drops, vs focusing our energy on trying to get the federal government to invest in more renewables.


Speaking of learning, we're going to learn a lot at our biggest Green Tech Startup Session yet on March 14th. Register for free here, I expect our 30th startup to sign up today!


And now we offer you the best updates from around the green tech and sustainability world today. Email subscribers get 3 just for you.


-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Visual of the Day

3D-Printing Concrete

After water (!) concrete is said to be the human most-utilized substance on earth, and it accounts for 7% of all anthropogenic carbon emissions. This is a photo of a 3D-printing system for concrete. Increased efficiency is one of 7 "key ingredients of a ‘net zero concrete’ strategy" outlined in a new Nature article today.


Today's Updates

Table of Contents


  • Agriculture (11 stories) - L'Occitane's AgroCaatinga farming in Brazil, Aflasafe biocontrol expansion in Africa, autosteer tech for e-tractors, and Indonesian land reform highlight agricultural innovations amid climate challenges


  • Carbon (3 stories) - Tax breaks drive Gulf Coast CCS expansion; Ukraine war fires spike emissions; Tahmoor coal mine's ownership shift amid pollution concerns


  • Circular (6 stories) - NC nonprofit's solar reuse hub opens; global waste stats show 18lbs e-waste/person; Starbucks pilots paper cups; bamboo wipes launch


  • Ecosystems (16 stories) - Extinctions in Brazil's Uatumã River and Bangladesh turtle deaths contrast with Ecuador's Chocó Forest recovery and Arctic wolf adaptations, while UN "30 by 30" biodiversity commitment lags globally


  • Efficiency (6 stories) - Heat pump incentives in MA towns, phase change materials advance, Trump delays appliance standards, ski resorts adapt, CA demand response costs rise


  • Finance (12 stories) - Major deals: Brookfield's $1.7bn National Grid renewables buyout, EIP's €150m BayWa stake; Standard Chartered hits $982m in sustainable finance; UK green sector grows 10%


  • Grid (28 stories) - Tech giants shift to gas backup while grid innovations emerge: Meta/Microsoft data centers strain capacity, Toumetis AI prevents outages, Energy Dome and Hydrostor deploy storage solutions, record solar peaks in Australia, PJM faces $7B interconnection delays


  • Indigenous (3 stories) - Monitoring threats near isolated tribes in Brazil while Indigenous forest protection programs face USAID funding cuts; Dogwood Alliance aids tribal conservation


  • Industry (15 stories) - Tongwei's record HJT module, ACEEE's industrial electrification map, H2Global's €2.5B tender, Sellafield cuts, Grangemouth's £200M transition, and Texas nuclear expansion lead industrial developments


  • Policy (62 stories) - FERC independence threatened by Trump orders, USDA renewable grants frozen, environmental justice battles continue, as agencies and activists navigate policy shifts


  • Renewables (13 stories) - BP retreats from renewables as NSW's Winterbourne wind gains local backing; France launches 400MW solar tender while US forecasts record 32.5GW solar growth in 2025


  • Transport (5 stories) - PG&E's V2G forum, CPKC's hydrogen locomotives, fleet EV savings, Cargill's WindWings success, federal charging station closures


Agriculture

L'Occitane's AgroCaatinga farming in Brazil, Aflasafe biocontrol expansion in Africa, autosteer tech for e-tractors, and Indonesian land reform highlight agricultural innovations amid climate challenges



Carbon

Tax breaks drive Gulf Coast CCS expansion; Ukraine war fires spike emissions; Tahmoor coal mine's ownership shift amid pollution concerns



Circular

NC nonprofit's solar reuse hub opens; global waste stats show 18lbs e-waste/person; Starbucks pilots paper cups; bamboo wipes launch



Ecosystems

Extinctions in Brazil's Uatumã River and Bangladesh turtle deaths contrast with Ecuador's Chocó Forest recovery and Arctic wolf adaptations, while UN "30 by 30" biodiversity commitment lags globally



Efficiency

Heat pump incentives in MA towns, phase change materials advance, Trump delays appliance standards, ski resorts adapt, CA demand response costs rise



Finance

Major deals: Brookfield's $1.7bn National Grid renewables buyout, EIP's €150m BayWa stake; Standard Chartered hits $982m in sustainable finance; UK green sector grows 10%



Grid

Tech giants shift to gas backup while grid innovations emerge: Meta/Microsoft data centers strain capacity, Toumetis AI prevents outages, Energy Dome and Hydrostor deploy storage solutions, record solar peaks in Australia, PJM faces $7B interconnection delays



Indigenous

Monitoring threats near isolated tribes in Brazil while Indigenous forest protection programs face USAID funding cuts; Dogwood Alliance aids tribal conservation



Industry

Tongwei's record HJT module, ACEEE's industrial electrification map, H2Global's €2.5B tender, Sellafield cuts, Grangemouth's £200M transition, and Texas nuclear expansion lead industrial developments



Policy

FERC independence threatened by Trump orders, USDA renewable grants frozen, environmental justice battles continue, as agencies and activists navigate policy shifts



Renewables

BP retreats from renewables as NSW's Winterbourne wind gains local backing; France launches 400MW solar tender while US forecasts record 32.5GW solar growth in 2025



Transport

PG&E's V2G forum, CPKC's hydrogen locomotives, fleet EV savings, Cargill's WindWings success, federal charging station closures


 
 
 

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