Energy & Green Tech news — Thursday 22 October 2026

Electrek 22:07 UTC

Residential battery storage maker sonnen is reporting two very different stories today: Its German business has filed for insolvency, while sonnen USA says sales have doubled and it’s preparing to expand. more…

Electrek 21:23 UTC

Tesla skipped one of its top shareholder questions on its Q3 2026 earnings call: when Hardware 3 owners will find out if they get a free computer upgrade for the unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” they paid for. The question ranked fifth by…

Electrek 20:57 UTC

Seattle plans to add up to 200 public curbside Level 2 EV charging stations by 2030, and residents can now request one near their home or apartment. more…

Electrek 20:47 UTC

The iX5 is set to go on sale in early 2027, but BMW is already offering a loyalty discount to sweeten the deal for those looking to stay with the brand. more…

Electrek 20:03 UTC

Tesla says it’s building its own maps to fix some of the most common problems with its “Full Self-Driving” system, including reading speed limits, parking, and choosing routes. The company’s head of AI described the effort on Tesla’s Q3…

Electrek 19:02 UTC

Ferrari’s first electric car, the Luce, will start at $560,800 in the US, with American deliveries planned for the second quarter of 2027. Car and Driver first reported the figure, and Ferrari has confirmed it. That’s roughly $80,000 under…

Electrek 18:25 UTC

Kia is betting its new lineup of affordable EVs, like the EV3 , can beat the incoming wave of Chinese models in Canada, but affordability is only one part of the equation. more…

Electrek 18:00 UTC

Heybike is once again dominating our daily Green Deals edition with another pair of exclusive deals for our readers, but this time on newer models. You can now score the first-ever $500 savings on the Hybrid Longest Range Commuter e-bike…

Canary Media 16:30 UTC

This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everybody! Welcome back to California Wire. This week, I’m going to be talking…

Electrek 16:25 UTC

Volkswagen’s upcoming electric car will be smaller and lower-priced than the ID. Polo, starting at around €20,000 ($22,500). more…

Electrek 16:05 UTC

Record fuel prices driven by the dumb oil war in Iran are fueling a faster-than-expected switch to electric trucks in the world’s biggest freight markets – and Swedish heavy truck brand Scania is scrambling to meet demand with a new…

Electrek 15:56 UTC

Elon Musk now says Tesla will start delivering Optimus humanoid robots to outside customers around the end of 2027. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call, he said the hands, the robot’s durability and its AI all still need work before then…

CleanTechnica 15:39 UTC

At a splashy GM Forward event in New York City on October 21, General Motors laid out its plans to remain relevant in the auto manufacturing business. (Never mind that the industry enjoys a walled garden status in the US, which has chosen…

Electrek 15:02 UTC

New Jersey lawmakers are already looking to walk back one of the country’s most controversial e-bike laws, just months after the sweeping new regulations took effect and sparked widespread backlash from riders, bicycle shops, and advocacy…

CleanTechnica 14:42 UTC

England outside London carried about 1.85 billion local-bus passenger journeys in 2024/25, compared with roughly 1.98 billion before COVID-19. Passenger journeys had recovered to 93.3% of their 2019/20 level, while bus service mileage had…

Electrek 14:39 UTC

Kia’s electric sports car beat out the Tesla Model Y Performance and BYD’s Sealion 7 in a recent comparison test by the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport , ranking first overall. more…

Electrek 14:10 UTC

Humanoid robots aren’t ready to juice up the massive, 240-tonne electric haul trucks Fortescue is putting to work in Australia’s punishing Pilbara. Instead, the company is using specially modified and massively powerful automotive…

Electrek 14:00 UTC

Tesla has lowered its 2026 capital spending forecast. In its Q3 10-Q, the company now says it expects capital expenditures “to be in excess of $20 billion in 2026,” down from the “more than $25 billion” it had guided since April. The…

PV Magazine 13:31 UTC

Solar tracker and foundation solution provider PV Hardware USA (PVH USA) has announced a major expansion of its original Houston, Texas, manufacturing facility. The expansion adds approximately 3,180 m2 of manufacturing space, increasing…

PV Magazine 13:28 UTC

From ESS News TCL SunPower has launched a new hybrid energy storage cabinet for the commercial and industrial (C&I) segment in Europe. The X5 has a base unit rated at 50 kW/100 kWh and scaled to 400 kWh by connecting up to four units in…

Electrek 13:00 UTC

Ford opened orders for the 2027 Mustang Mach-E , which now offers a standard extended-range battery for under $40,000. A new Trail model is also joining the lineup. more…

PV Magazine 12:50 UTC

This summer, after years of searching for a buyer, oil major Shell sold German battery storage manufacturer Sonnen to family office Tiven. The company, based in Wildpoldsried in Germany’s Allgäu region, has now filed for insolvency…

PV Magazine 12:30 UTC

Chinese solar cell and module maker Aiko Solar has revealed plans to upgrade and convert its Tianjin base from passivated emitter and rear contact (PERC) solar cell capacity to 6 GW of its all-back-contact (ABC) cell capacity. Aiko’s…

CleanTechnica 12:29 UTC

Solar power has helped keep wholesale electricity rates down in Texas and California over the past five years, regardless of partisan politics and heat waves, too. The post Solar Power Keeps Insisting Upon Itself, Red State Or Blue…

PV Magazine 11:30 UTC

The government of Iraq has decided to eliminate customs duties on solar energy systems imported into the country. According to reports from the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the country’s Council of Ministers decided on the measure “to support…

Canary Media 11:30 UTC

Google just upped the ante on its plans to leverage the energy use of thousands of homes and businesses to free up space on the grid for data centers. The tech giant and the California-based firm Voltus announced Thursday that they are…

CleanTechnica 11:21 UTC

Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, wrote an important article this morning. In it, he decried Elon Musk and his decision to take down Ukraine’s access to Starlink, which allows the country to protect itself from Russian attacks…

Electrek 11:00 UTC

Redwood Materials and Rivian are expanding their existing EV battery partnership, adding a fresh battery material recycling effort to the EV startup’s Normal, Illinois, vehicle factory and, potentially, other Rivian-owned sites. more…

PV Magazine 10:45 UTC

Rwanda’s Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL) has opened a tender for a 200 MW floating solar power plant alongside an 800 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The project is set to be built at Lake Sake, within the Ngoma…

PV Magazine 10:15 UTC

French energy company Engie has started construction of a 29.8 MW solar plant paired with a 20 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Saint-Jean-Froidmentel, in France’s Centre-Val de Loire region. The project, known as Parc du…

PV Magazine 10:01 UTC

A research team in Italy has investigated the performance of a direct-expansion, dual-source heat pump that uses air and solar energy as heat sources and CO₂ as the refrigerant. The researchers aimed to identify optimal operating…

Energy Monitor 09:51 UTC

Peak Energy has closed a $108m Series B round to accelerate manufacturing and expand the deployment of its sodium-ion energy storage systems.

PV Magazine 09:42 UTC

The Spanish region of Castilla y León plans to extend its environmental impact tax to large-scale photovoltaic installations from 2027 under a draft bill on tax, financial and administrative measures. The proposed reform would expand the…

PV Magazine 09:15 UTC

Mining giant Rio Tinto and thermal energy storage specialist Rondo Energy have commenced front-end engineering and design on a project seeking to integrate a 30 MW/360 MWh heat battery into the existing steam system at the Yarwun alumina…

PV Magazine 09:14 UTC

A research team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has compared the performance of east-west ground-mounted PV systems with that of conventional single-axis trackers (SATs), finding that east-west installations can…

PV Magazine 09:00 UTC

On October 9, the LONGi Energy Storage Intelligent Manufacturing Base was officially inaugurated in Suzhou High-Tech Zone. The opening of the new base is also an important step in extending the “LONGi ONE” strategy to manufacturing…

PV Magazine 08:36 UTC

A research team in China has investigated how large-scale solar installations affect soil organic and inorganic carbon pools in desert environments, aiming to identify the main drivers of carbon accumulation and the threshold effects…

PV Magazine 08:30 UTC

Solar generation in Italy reached 5.32 TWh in Italy in September 2026, up 27.1% from the same month in 2025, according to grid operator Terna’s monthly electricity report. Solar accounted for 48.6% of electricity generated from renewable…

PV Magazine 08:17 UTC

LG Electronics , a unit of South Korea’s LG Corp, has unveiled the Multi V 7, a new variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air-to-air heat pump system for commercial heating and cooling applications. The system, presented at the Harfko 2026 HVAC…

Energy Monitor 07:52 UTC

Ofgem has opened a tender process for the offshore transmission assets that will connect the 2.9GW Hornsea 3 wind farm to the UK power grid.

PV Magazine 07:45 UTC

The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) has launched pre-qualification for its Noor PV Multisites program, which calls for a total of at least 350 MW of solar capacity. The program will be delivered under a turnkey engineering…

Canary Media 07:30 UTC

Massachusetts has made meaningful strides in recent years to get its robust energy-efficiency incentives into the hands of lower-income households who need them most. Now, a provision tucked into a pending energy bill could undermine that…

PV Magazine 07:00 UTC

German renewable energy producer Encavis has signed its first hybrid power purchase agreement (PPA) combining solar and wind generation, agreeing to supply Spanish energy company Visalia with 60 GWh of renewable electricity annually over…

PV Magazine 06:30 UTC

France’s National Assembly economic affairs committee has adopted an amendment to remove Article 82 from the 2027 budget bill, which proposes changes to existing solar power contracts. Led by Julie Laernoes, a member of the Ecologist and…

PV Magazine 05:48 UTC

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has proposed revised rules for electricity spot markets, introducing explicit provisions allowing renewable energy projects and their on-site battery storage systems to participate…

PV Magazine 05:41 UTC

US-headquartered metal roof engineering company S-5! has released a white paper challenging the assumption solar attachment points must be directly located over purlins to ensure structural adequacy. The ‘Solar Mounting Off Purlin on Metal…

PV Magazine 05:37 UTC

Generation from U.S. small-scale solar photovoltaic systems smaller than 1 MW reached 92,979 GWh, up from 18,812 GWh a decade ago, according to the latest Annual Electric Power Industry Report from the U.S. Energy Information…

CleanTechnica 03:43 UTC

Sierra Club Urges Congress to Reauthorize EV Charging Program in Upcoming Funding Deal WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national electric vehicle (EV) charging network is making tangible progress: Texas recently awarded $226 million for 321 new…

CleanTechnica 02:57 UTC

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Linn County Board of Supervisors denied a rezoning application for the proposed Morgan Valley Energy Center in a unanimous 3-0 vote last night. Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant…

CleanTechnica 02:30 UTC

Butte, MT — On Wednesday, conservation groups sued to overturn a Trump administration rule that leaves threatened wildlife with no certain, meaningful protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Read the complaint here. Plaintiffs…

CleanTechnica 01:35 UTC

I haven’t covered a Tesla earnings release and call in a while, but I thought I’d give a quick summary since this quarter was pretty interesting. Last quarter I wrote this after the delivery release, but I didn’t write up the earnings…

CleanTechnica 01:12 UTC

Deepway Star semi trailer from China joins the growing number of trucking brands on Australian roads. Information was shared over LinkedIn, Facebook, and through phone interview. Mark Blackburn, Managing Director of VCF Transport Services…

Canary Media 00:23 UTC

Balcony solar legislation has finally arrived on Capitol Hill. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, introduced the first federal bill aimed at legalizing solar panels that simply plug into an outlet. The legislation…