Energy & Green Tech news — Friday 16 October 2026

CleanTechnica 23:48 UTC

T&E’s Kädi Ristkok explains why postponing the ETS2 is a bad idea As EU leaders meet to discuss competitiveness and soaring energy bills, Italy, Poland and Czechia are pushing to postpone Europe’s new carbon market for road transport and…

CleanTechnica 23:39 UTC

If you’re an author and would like to submit your book for potential publication through CleanTechnica Press, we are now soliciting manuscripts for our second book. We will likely choose just one or two books in the next 12 months, and…

CleanTechnica 23:02 UTC

The DeLorean Motor Company has hitched the iconic DeLorean name to the new Airspeeder series, a showcase for cutting edge "flying car" eVTOL technology. The post DeLorean Takes A Ride On Tesla’s “Flying Car” Coattails appeared first on…

Electrek 20:42 UTC

Montréal Metropolitan Airport now has 120 EV chargers online, with another 48 on the way as the airport expands. more…

Electrek 19:51 UTC

In the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we’ll focus on the Tesla Roadster unveiling, but we may also cover a few other topics. more…

Electrek 19:26 UTC

Canadian EV customers are delaying buying decisions while they wait for more Chinese EVs to reach their shores, according to a new survey, suggesting widespread awareness of China’s EV dominance is causing EV buyers to ignore Western…

CleanTechnica 18:59 UTC

There is an old expression that goes like this: “Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” There is a corollary to that adage: “Everybody knows we have to stop polluting our environment, but nobody wants to…

Electrek 18:00 UTC

Closing out this week’s Green Deals is Lectric’s freshly launched Spooky Sale with up to $762 e-bike bundle savings (that include two FREE mystery gifts) starting from $999 . Right behind that group of treats is the Worx 40V 20-inch…

Electrek 17:14 UTC

Two California Highway Patrol officers are recovering from serious injuries after a Tesla drove into their patrol car at a crash scene on Interstate 80 in Fairfield. The 22-year-old driver told investigators he was asleep with Tesla’s…

Electrek 17:06 UTC

Volkswagen is set to recall “several thousand” electric vehicles, including the ID.4 and ID. Buzz. The company is urging owners to limit charging to 80% until a fix is available. more…

CleanTechnica 16:23 UTC

My colleague Tina Casey is doing a story about the new Tesla Roadster and flying cars, so I hope she will pardon me for this intrusion. What we saw at the reveal was a totally irrelevant mind game cooked up inside the drug addled cranium…

Electrek 15:15 UTC

Kia launched a first-of-its-kind remote car-sharing program in Korea using the PV5 electric van. more…

Electrek 15:02 UTC

Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped making financial sense to farm are growing berries again – with solar panels overhead helping pay the bills. more…

Canary Media 14:23 UTC

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. It’s a great time to have an electric vehicle — and more Americans are getting the message. Despite President Donald Trump’s…

Electrek 13:58 UTC

There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap…

CleanTechnica 13:56 UTC

Electric ships attract attention because the vessel is the visible technology. Put a large battery into an inland cargo vessel, replace the diesel propulsion system with electric motors, and the decarbonization story appears…

PV Magazine 13:36 UTC

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has issued a final affirmative injury determination in its Solar IV investigation targeting crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, imported from India…

PV Magazine 12:17 UTC

China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) and Ministry of Science and Technology have proposed prohibiting exports of selected high-efficiency perovskite and tandem solar manufacturing technologies, alongside new restrictions on advanced…

Electrek 12:07 UTC

Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028. That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced…

PV Magazine 10:09 UTC

P2X Solutions is injecting renewable e-methane produced at its plant in Finland into the country’s natural gas network, enabling distribution to domestic customers and access to other European markets via the Balticconnector pipeline…

Energy Monitor 09:45 UTC

New Zealand has expanded its renewable energy portfolio with the official opening of the Kōwhai Park solar farm at Christchurch Airport.

PV Magazine 09:35 UTC

A research team in Turkey has assessed the potential of air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) to replace coal-fired heating in commercial poultry houses in cold climates. Combining experimental measurements, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)…

PV Magazine 09:27 UTC

Trina Solar said on Oct. 15 that it plans to acquire a 1.6% stake in Chinese PV encapsulation film manufacturer Changzhou Betterial Film Technologies for CNY 40 million ($5.88 million). The deal covers 3.27 million shares held by Jiangsu…

PV Magazine 09:13 UTC

September brought unusually large swings in solar irradiance across Asia, with few regions experiencing a typical month and some areas around 30% above or below normal breaking records, according to analysis using the Solcast API . Japan…

PV Magazine 08:43 UTC

The UN Climate Change Conference COP31 will take place in Türkiye in November 2026. A flagship target is to raise the share of final energy demand met by electricity from 20% today to 35% by 2035 . Rising electricity demand signals rising…

PV Magazine 08:23 UTC

China has a significant cost advantage over Germany, the United States and Japan in green hydrogen production, with average costs projected at $120/MWh, according to a recent analysis by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University…

PV Magazine 08:05 UTC

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published cybersecurity recommendations to protect industrial control systems accessible via the internet. The agency strongly recommends securing networked control systems. The…

PV Magazine 08:00 UTC

Researchers at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have developed a leaching route that strips base metals from end-of-life solar cell waste in under 10 minutes while leaving the silver behind, avoiding the…

Canary Media 07:30 UTC

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Clean energy installations have persisted at record levels despite President Donald Trump’s best efforts to stop them. But the first year of Trump’s second term did leave a mark on…

Energy Monitor 07:29 UTC

Australia’s VicGrid has selected ACCIONA as the development partner for the Gippsland offshore wind transmission project.

PV Magazine 07:17 UTC

Eight major Chinese polysilicon manufacturers, including Tongwei and GCL Technology , met behind closed doors in Hangzhou on Oct. 11 to discuss measures to curb below-cost sales and reduce output amid persistent overcapacity. The meeting…

PV Magazine 07:06 UTC

According to the OPIS Global Solar Markets Report released on Oct. 13, Free-On-Board (FOB) China TOPCon M10 cell prices fell 0.86% week on week to $0.0463/W, while FOB China TOPCon 210R cell prices fell 0.66% to $0.0454/W. The declines…

PV Magazine 06:13 UTC

New Zealand-headquartered energy storage company ArcActive has switched on a lead-acid battery system pilot installed at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus 7.25 MW microgrid battery testing facility. ArcActive’s system combines its…

PV Magazine 06:11 UTC

More than 45% of all silicon-based solar module production in the United States during 2027 is forecast to take place within a radius of roughly 100 miles from the centrally located I-45 Industrial Corridor in Texas, dominated by assembly…

PV Magazine 04:00 UTC

With sustained policy support, India has rapidly grown its domestic supply of PV modules over the past few years. Now it is moving into the more challenging sectors of cell and wafer manufacturing. The second Approved List of Models and…

CleanTechnica 03:50 UTC

Monthly wind generation in the first nine months of 2026 was an average of 68% higher compared with the same period in 2025 in ISO New England (ISO-NE): Monthly generation from wind was highest in September of this year at 668.9…

Electrek 03:36 UTC

Tesla has finally re-unveiled its next-generation Roadster , originally unveiled in quite different form back in 2017. So since I did a technical breakdown of how it would work last time, I thought I’d give a quick update with what we know…

CleanTechnica 03:25 UTC

Three regional transmission organizations (RTOs) set records for peak hourly load this past summer, according to data reported on Form EIA-930 and presented in the Hourly Electric Grid Monitor: PJM peaked at 162.6 gigawatts (GW) on July 2…

CleanTechnica 02:46 UTC

It’s hard to keep track of where Waymo robotaxis are going to launch, are testing, are launching, are open to some people but not others, are open to everyone, etc. Three cities where it recently launched robotaxi service are Tampa, San…

CleanTechnica 01:55 UTC

If Implemented, Methane Gas Projects Could be Approved Without Proper Review of Harmful Impacts Washington, DC — Today, at its monthly meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed two new measures to speed up approval…

Electrek 01:43 UTC

Tesla has unveiled a new version of its next-generation Roadster. As expected, it received Tesla’s latest design “cyberfication” and cold-gas thrusters to allow it to jump and flip through the air. The livestream featured impressive stunts…

Electrek 01:00 UTC

Until the Tesla Roadster, “there was only one car in the flying car market,” Alef said. To welcome Tesla to the race, Alef released a video of its flying car flying over the old Roadster. more…

CleanTechnica 00:52 UTC

This is our latest family member EV. It’s my third daughter’s used 2023 Hyundai IONIQ 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s been a progression: It started with a couple of family pioneers (my brother and me) first dipping a toe in the water…