RWE Signs 433 MW Wind Power Purchase Agreement With Oracle to Supply Texas Data Centers
RWE announced a 433-megawatt virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Oracle on September 17, 2026, under which Oracle will buy...
Month: September 2026
OpenAI Publishes Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a Six-Pillar Plan for AI Safety for Teens
OpenAI published the "Australian Youth Safety Blueprint" on September 18, 2026, a six-pillar roadmap for AI safety for teens that...
EDF Reaches Financial Close on 394 MW Utah Solar 1 Project, Construction Set to Begin
EDF power solutions North America reached financial close on the Utah Solar 1 project on September 18, 2026, clearing the...
Mazama Energy Raises $135 Million to Scale Superhot Rock Geothermal Power in Oregon
Mazama Energy said on September 17, 2026, that it raised $135 million in new capital, including an oversubscribed Series B...
Gallup-Walton Survey Finds 96% of Teachers Report Classroom Device Use, but Most Want Less Screen Time
Ninety-six percent of U.S. K-12 public school teachers say their students use learning devices such as laptops, Chromebooks, tablets or...
Google Agrees to Buy Certificates From Stegra’s Green Hydrogen Steel Plant
Google said on September 17, 2026 that it has agreed to purchase environmental attribute certificates (EACs) for up to 91,000...
Great British Energy Launches £30 Million Community Energy Fund
Great British Energy, the UK government's publicly owned clean energy company, launched £30 million in funding on September 17, 2026...
Florida Approves Statewide AI Rules for K-12 Schools and Colleges
The Florida Board of Education voted on September 16, 2026 to adopt the state's first statewide rules governing artificial intelligence...
Hithium Launches 4 MWh Sodium-Ion Energy Storage System
Chinese battery maker Hithium unveiled the infinity Power N4.0MWh on September 16, 2026, a 4 MWh sodium-ion battery energy storage...
Eos Energy Receives $87 Million DOE Loan Advance for Thorn Hill
Eos Energy Enterprises announced on September 14, 2026, that it received an $87 million advance under the second tranche of...
Canada Launches National AI Literacy Initiative With Amii
The Government of Canada launched its National AI Literacy Initiative on September 9, 2026, in Edmonton, Alberta, a new national...
UNESCO Publishes “The Algorithm in the Room” on AI’s Impact on Education
UNESCO published "The Algorithm in the Room: Seeing and Confronting the Implications of AI for the Future of Education" on...
European Commission Approves €125.8 Million for Three Cross-Border Renewable Energy Projects
The European Commission approved grants worth €125.81 million on September 17, 2026, to finance works actions on three Cross-Border Renewable...
CFE Develops Proyecto Oasis BCS, a Solar-Battery-Hydrogen Microgrid for Isolated Baja California Sur
Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is developing "Proyecto Oasis BCS," an integrated renewable microgrid combining solar power, battery storage...
Premier Energies and RCT India Form Joint Venture for 12 GWh Battery Storage Manufacturing Facility in Telangana
Premier Energies Limited, a publicly listed Indian solar manufacturer, and RCT India, the Indian arm of Germany's RCT Group, signed...
Cubby Launches “Cubby for Professors,” an AI Teaching Assistant for Law School Faculty at 20-Plus Universities
Cubby, a New York-based legal education company, announced on September 3, 2026 the launch of "Cubby for Professors," a new...
China Awards Construction Contracts for Damao Banner 1GW Wind-Solar-Hydrogen Project in Inner Mongolia
China awarded approximately 1.7 billion yuan (about 239 million US dollars) in construction contracts for a 1 gigawatt wind-solar-hydrogen project...
NC State Study Finds AI-Generated Images Can Support Species Conservation, but Not Replace Real Data
Researchers at North Carolina State University's Center for Geospatial Analytics found that AI-generated images can improve computer models used for...
EverestLabs Launches Navigator, an Agentic AI Platform for Materials Recovery and Recycling Plants
EverestLabs, a Fremont, California-based industrial AI company, launched Navigator on August 24, 2026, a multi-agent AI platform built for material...
University of Sydney Signs ChatGPT Edu Partnership With OpenAI, Funds AI Sustainability Research
The University of Sydney will give roughly 80,000 students and staff access to OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu tool under a multi-year...
India’s Battery Storage Additions Jump 84-Fold to 8.2 GWh in H1 2026
India added 8.2 GWh of battery energy storage capacity in the first half of 2026, up roughly 84-fold from 98.4...
