Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Reporter, writer and analyst. I cover energy, climate change and geopolitics. Contact me via my website www.alexanderckaufman.com and subscribe to kaufman.nyc.
Happy Friday. Here's the final Heatmap News AM for the week:
1. Trump officially revokes the endangerment finding, the legal basis for all federal climate regulations.
2. Ohio weighs a bill that would kill off wind and solar development.
3. China's flat-or-falling emissions trend continues apace.
4. Rivian's stock ...
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Another sunny perspective on the direction of the U.S. solar market:
www.latitudemedia.com/news/solv-en...
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Good morning! Here's what's in Thursday's Heatmap News:
1. Alabama is considering a bill to end a century of popular elections for its utility commission in the wake of Democrats' sweep to power in Georgia last year.
2. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says the Trump administration is "absolutely" going to appeal its ...
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Erik Prince has a new mercenary company that’s essentially serving as an American Wagner Group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Here's what's in Tuesday's edition of Heatmap News AM:
1. A new bipartisan bill aims to provide the backstop insurance nuclear developers have been asking for.
2. Hybrids are outpacing EVs in the U.S.
3. Equinor is pausing investments in carbon capture.
4. India's solar manufacturing sector sees the trade with the...
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Here's what's in Tuesday's edition of Heatmap News AM:
1. The EPA is poised to finalize its plan to roll back the "endangerment finding," essentially dealing a death blow to all federal climate policy and instituting what the agency called the "largest act of deregulation" in U.S. history.
2. BYD is suing the U.S. o...
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I have a new exclusive in the Substack this morning.
It's a scoop on NEXALUS, an Irish startup with a cutting-edge approach to cooling down computer servers, making a deal with ALPS ALPINE to start mass manufacturing its invention.
The story highlights the varying technologies used to cool data centers, and how nove...
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We hear a lot about data centers, their cooling systems, and how much water it takes to keep servers from overheating.
Until finding this chart, however, I hadn't seen anything that spelled out how different data centers choose different cooling technologies.
Data centers that specialize in AI software, for example...
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I wrote about Bad Bunny's halftime show in this morning's Heatmap newsletter, but I wanted to go a little deeper in my Substack.
If you want to know how I got so into writing about Puerto Rico and its energy system, you can read that here.
I also rounded up the 9 best books in my library on Puerto Rican history tha...
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Good morning! Here's what's in Monday's post-Super Bowl edition of Heatmap News AM:
1. Ørsted's projects in the U.S. are back on schedule.
2. Tesla has started staffing up for its solar manufacturing buildout.
3. Trump just reopened the Atlantic Ocean's only marine national monument to commercial fishing.
4. Con...
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