- A coal-powered energy plant in Bangladesh has faced intermittent shutdowns since it began operating in December — a sign of the operational and economic challenges many new coal plants will face in the coming years, the New York Times reports.
- According to a recent regulator report, the United States’ power grid may be susceptible to outages this summer as it faces the stressors of climate change events and attempts to transition to cleaner energy sources. “The system is close to its edge,” John Moura, director of reliability assessment and performance analysis at NERC, tells the Washington Post. “More needs to be done to bolster the system’s resilience.”
- While much of the Eastern U.S. was engulfed in smoke from Canadian wildfires earlier this month, “a host of researchers” leveraged new carbon tracking technologies designed to determine how much carbon is in the atmosphere and where it came from, according to Forbes. The technology could impact how legislators think about carbon regulation and even help combat greenwashing.
- Two legacy vehicle manufacturers, Ford and General Motors, have struck deals with Tesla to use the electric car giant’s charging technology. The catch? “Four months ago, the Biden administration endorsed a rival charging technology when setting the rules for companies seeking access to $7.5 billion in federal infrastructure funding,” Politico reports.
- BP and Orsted have reached a resolution in the companies’ territorial dispute in the UK North Sea, signaling the revitalization of a carbon capture project led by BP and a wind farm by Orsted — over a decade after the British government approved both projects, according to Reuters.
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