Lineage, world’s biggest cold-storage operator, suing #solar power operator #AltusPower & contractor for over $1 billion in damages from massive fire whose smoke plumes were visible across Los Angeles. https://t.co/PcjVXF4l0a via @WSJ
China’s oil reserves have given it huge power over the global crude market—and a critical new defense against the West https://t.co/GXPqGSeDL1 via @WSJ
CA create program to try more quickly pay claims for damages, deny short-term bonuses for utility CEOs for a year if the company starts a fire that kills at least one person & put requirements on attorneys seeking to represent victims. https://t.co/yqxdxBL8l2
Radiant, LA area company building world’s only plug-in ready, transportable commercial #NuclearPower microreactors, announced U.S. Army executed binding agreement up to $750 million dollars to develop and deploy 15 Kaleidos nuclear microreactors https://t.co/AwhfgdjciH
U.S. startups are finally delivering a battery in which rare, hard-to-get elements are replaced with the same stuff found in ordinary table salt, writes Christopher @Mims https://t.co/yXDt1FRcoC via @WSJ
@REPlusEvents@Vegas here we come for Nov. 16 largest No. American renewable energy convention! Cheap Vegas buffet is dying, but a few holdouts are trying to keep the all-you-can-eat circus going. https://t.co/pkqTJ1rGy8 via @WSJ
More installing solar batteries at home; #Sunrun announced partnership w/ #Tesla & #RenewHome, use stored power in large numbers of home solar batteries to supply artificial intelligence data centers & #PJM Interconnection, largest power grid in U.S. https://t.co/u6XTdyTei6
#PeakEnergy commercial battery maker just landed in #Sacramento; sodium-ion batteries cost more than lithium ones, its battery systems still save customers money: technology does not heat up like lithium, eliminates expensive cooling technology. https://t.co/xm7wxjUyMO
One family in Pennsylvania sold its struggling farmland for $22 million, joining a new class of multimillionaires who are cashing in on the AI data-center boom https://t.co/JkMvdcRSKQ via @WSJ
9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld restrictions on using commercial & industrial gas appliances; directly affects roughly 1.3 million water heaters and industrial boilers in L.A., Orange, Riverside San Bernardino counties, notes defendent #SierraClub .https://t.co/niNV8Q2lcW
Trump Energy Department hits target on small #nuclear reactors. Work on new reactors fraction of size of existing plants producing power today has been accelerating in recent years--#WhiteHouse has framed development “nuclear renaissance.” https://t.co/BEwekyLXuH via @politico
A Jeff Bezos-backed startup is betting that Americans are fed up enough with car prices to consider buying a $25,000 two-seat, all-electric pickup truck with hand-crank windows and no radio #SlateAuto#EV https://t.co/eaGXTrPwHF via @WSJ
EV startup #Rivian is laying off hundreds of employees, as the automaker seeks to make its business profitable while launching a key new model https://t.co/5H5hE8A4VL via @WSJ
Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor #AI#datacenters https://t.co/XWNyrRpoqc
Tech companies are earmarking unprecedented sums of money to finance the build-out of massive #DataCenters, with a planned $85 billion equity raise by #Google parent #Alphabet being the latest example https://t.co/npuGqmPLW0 via @WSJ