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  1. China’s Offshore Solar Giant Is Real, and It’s Doing the Most

    Click to watch: China’s HG14 offshore solar project turns the sea into a power grid, with fish farming reportedly sharing the space below.

    Dear Cherubs, China has done what it so often does with infrastructure: taken a perfectly sensible idea and scaled it up until it looks like a dare. Off Dongying, in Shandong province, CHN Energy says it has brought online a 1-gigawatt open-sea offshore solar project built with 2,934 PV platforms, more than 2.3 million modules, and 11,736 steel piles hammered into the seabed. In other words, it is solar power, but with a shipping-industry gym membership.

    A SEA OF PANELS

    This is not your garden-variety floating array. CHN Energy describes the project as a fixed-pile offshore PV system, designed to sit about 8 kilometers from shore and handle waves, tides, strong winds, and seasonal sea ice without immediately filing for retirement. pv magazine reported that the panels are mounted on 60-by-35-meter steel platforms, tilted at 15 degrees, and connected through a 66-kilovolt subsea cable system with onshore transmission infrastructure. So yes, the engineering is serious. The drama is mostly in the size.

    WHY IT MATTERS

    The developer says the plant should generate about 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to meet the needs of roughly 2.67 million urban residents, while avoiding around 1.34 million tons of carbon dioxide and saving more than 500,000 tons of standard coal. Those are company estimates, so treat them as reported projections rather than holy scripture, but the basic point is hard to miss: this is a very large clean-power machine with a very large ambition. CHN Energy also says the site uses a “PV-above, farming-below” model, mixing power generation with aquaculture. Multi-use land? More like multi-use sea.

    The timing is not random either. Reuters reported that China connected the world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang in 2024, and The Guardian reported in June 2025 that China added 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 gigawatts of wind in just the first five months of the year, with installed solar capacity passing 1,000 gigawatts. So this offshore project is not a quirky one-off; it is part of a national habit of building renewable energy at a scale that makes other countries look like they are still printing brochures.

    The hot take is simple: the future of solar may not always be rooftops and deserts. Sometimes it looks like a steel fortress at sea, built to wrestle weather, salinity, and gravity into submission. For readers who enjoy the bigger-picture angle on energy megaprojects, thisclaimer.com also tracks similar scale-and-geopolitics stories with a very internet-friendly sense of proportion.

    Sources list
    CHN Energy — https://www.ceic.com/gjnyjtwwEn/xwzx/202411/c315e1982ebc4a68844a7473a2734d18.shtml
    pv magazine International — https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/china-commissions-worlds-largest-1-gw-open-sea-offshore-solar-project/
    Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
    The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
    thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
    YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@thisclaimer?sub_confirmation=1

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #China #cleanPower #climateChange #climateTech #dongying #energy #energyTransition #environment #marineEngineering #offshoreSolar #renewableEnergy #shandong #solarFarm #sustainability
  2. China’s Offshore Solar Giant Is Real, and It’s Doing the Most

    Click to watch: China’s HG14 offshore solar project turns the sea into a power grid, with fish farming reportedly sharing the space below.

    Dear Cherubs, China has done what it so often does with infrastructure: taken a perfectly sensible idea and scaled it up until it looks like a dare. Off Dongying, in Shandong province, CHN Energy says it has brought online a 1-gigawatt open-sea offshore solar project built with 2,934 PV platforms, more than 2.3 million modules, and 11,736 steel piles hammered into the seabed. In other words, it is solar power, but with a shipping-industry gym membership.

    A SEA OF PANELS

    This is not your garden-variety floating array. CHN Energy describes the project as a fixed-pile offshore PV system, designed to sit about 8 kilometers from shore and handle waves, tides, strong winds, and seasonal sea ice without immediately filing for retirement. pv magazine reported that the panels are mounted on 60-by-35-meter steel platforms, tilted at 15 degrees, and connected through a 66-kilovolt subsea cable system with onshore transmission infrastructure. So yes, the engineering is serious. The drama is mostly in the size.

    WHY IT MATTERS

    The developer says the plant should generate about 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to meet the needs of roughly 2.67 million urban residents, while avoiding around 1.34 million tons of carbon dioxide and saving more than 500,000 tons of standard coal. Those are company estimates, so treat them as reported projections rather than holy scripture, but the basic point is hard to miss: this is a very large clean-power machine with a very large ambition. CHN Energy also says the site uses a “PV-above, farming-below” model, mixing power generation with aquaculture. Multi-use land? More like multi-use sea.

    The timing is not random either. Reuters reported that China connected the world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang in 2024, and The Guardian reported in June 2025 that China added 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 gigawatts of wind in just the first five months of the year, with installed solar capacity passing 1,000 gigawatts. So this offshore project is not a quirky one-off; it is part of a national habit of building renewable energy at a scale that makes other countries look like they are still printing brochures.

    The hot take is simple: the future of solar may not always be rooftops and deserts. Sometimes it looks like a steel fortress at sea, built to wrestle weather, salinity, and gravity into submission. For readers who enjoy the bigger-picture angle on energy megaprojects, thisclaimer.com also tracks similar scale-and-geopolitics stories with a very internet-friendly sense of proportion.

    Sources list
    CHN Energy — https://www.ceic.com/gjnyjtwwEn/xwzx/202411/c315e1982ebc4a68844a7473a2734d18.shtml
    pv magazine International — https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/china-commissions-worlds-largest-1-gw-open-sea-offshore-solar-project/
    Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
    The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
    thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
    YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@thisclaimer?sub_confirmation=1

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #China #cleanPower #climateChange #climateTech #dongying #energy #energyTransition #environment #marineEngineering #offshoreSolar #renewableEnergy #shandong #solarFarm #sustainability
  3. The impact is already visible. In the month after SunZia came online, California wind generation rose 37% and gas generation fell 35%. That is what new transmission is supposed to do; move cheap #CleanPower from where it is abundant to where it can displace #FossilFuels.

    Largest US renewable project b...

  4. The impact is already visible. In the month after SunZia came online, California wind generation rose 37% and gas generation fell 35%. That is what new transmission is supposed to do; move cheap #CleanPower from where it is abundant to where it can displace #FossilFuels.

    Largest US renewable project b...

  5. Renewable energy myths debunked: Separating fact from fiction to accelerate sustainable power solutions and combat climate challenges. Clean energy is more viable and transformative than ever before. #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

  6. Renewable energy myths debunked: Separating fact from fiction to accelerate sustainable power solutions and combat climate challenges. Clean energy is more viable and transformative than ever before. #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

  7. EU renewable energy generation hits 49.3% in Q3 2025, marking a 4% increase from last year and signaling strong commitment to clean energy transition #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

  8. EU renewable energy generation hits 49.3% in Q3 2025, marking a 4% increase from last year and signaling strong commitment to clean energy transition #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

  9. Pentagon Reviews Clog Wind Project Pipeline

    Why is the Pentagon blocking 165 wind energy projects in April 2026? Learn how this delay affects US energy goals and project developers.

    #windenergy, #pentagon, #cleanpower, #usenergy, #energydelay

    newsletter.tf/pentagon-blocks-

  10. The Pentagon has stopped 165 wind projects, which is 30 gigawatts of power. This is a much larger delay than the industry saw in 2025.

    #windenergy, #pentagon, #cleanpower, #usenergy, #energydelay
    newsletter.tf/pentagon-blocks-

  11. Do you live in Austin?

    Did you know the Austin City Council is set to vote on allowing Austin Energy to deploy NEW natural gas power plants?

    Do you think that’s a terrible idea?

    Yeah, click here to tell them to vote NO

    actionnetwork.org/letters/tell

    #austin #energy #naturalgas #fossilfuel #pollution #greenhouse #cleanpower

  12. Do you live in Austin?

    Did you know the Austin City Council is set to vote on allowing Austin Energy to deploy NEW natural gas power plants?

    Do you think that’s a terrible idea?

    Yeah, click here to tell them to vote NO

    actionnetwork.org/letters/tell

    #austin #energy #naturalgas #fossilfuel #pollution #greenhouse #cleanpower

  13. Meta Taps Space for Perpetual Power to Feed AI Hunger

    Meta is getting solar power from space to help run its AI. This will give them power all day and night.

    #MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI

    newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-

  14. Meta Taps Space for Perpetual Power to Feed AI Hunger

    Meta is getting solar power from space to help run its AI. This will give them power all day and night.

    #MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI

    newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-

  15. Meta will now get solar power from space, which is a new way to get energy 24/7. This is different from regular solar power that only works when the sun is out.

    #MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI
    newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-

  16. Meta will now get solar power from space, which is a new way to get energy 24/7. This is different from regular solar power that only works when the sun is out.

    #MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI
    newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-

  17. Canada's nuclear future is 🔥! With 17,800 MW of new capacity projected by 2050, nuclear energy is key to decarbonizing our grid. Let's build on the success of CANDU and power a cleaner tomorrow. 🌍⚡️

    #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #Decarbonization #NetZero #CANDU

  18. Canada's nuclear future is 🔥! With 17,800 MW of new capacity projected by 2050, nuclear energy is key to decarbonizing our grid. Let's build on the success of CANDU and power a cleaner tomorrow. 🌍⚡️

    #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #Decarbonization #NetZero #CANDU

  19. Canada's nuclear future is 🔥! With 17,800 MW of new capacity projected by 2050, nuclear energy is key to decarbonizing our grid. Let's build on the success of CANDU and power a cleaner tomorrow. 🌍⚡️

    #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #Decarbonization #NetZero #CANDU

  20. #Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
    Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
    semafor.com/article/02/13/2026

  21. theconversation.com/what-the-u

    The UK’s first deep geothermal plant in Cornwall now generates steady, 24/7 renewable power for roughly 10,000 homes using heat from deep underground and also yields lithium, showing geothermal’s potential in strengthening the UK’s electricity supply.

    #GeothermalEnergy #Renewables #CleanPower #SustainableEnergy

  22. Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

    In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

    12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

    Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

    12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

    This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

    12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

    Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

    12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

    I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

    #ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

  23. @Casey

    I think it's all greenwashing and backed by BigOil.

    They'd love to see huge capital sunk into hydrogen infrastructure (as it is with power stations, petro-chemical industry, and transport systems) to lock in future demand for a product of which 99% is produced from fossil methane, and which can only go green once we have a significant excess of renewable electricity. That's something that is not going to happen for a long time if ever thanks to new renewable capacity being mostly incremental, and with so much being sucked up by data centres and AI.

    #hydrogen #greenhydrogen #renewablehydrogen #renewableenergy #renewables #usa #unitedstates #energy #fuelcells #zeroemission #decarbonization #energypolicy #manufacturing #recycling #supplychain #electrolysis #electrolyzer #electricity #energytransition #cleanpower #greenenergy #cleanenergy #cleanhydrogen #sustainable #sustainability

  24. How does the Clean Power Alliance’s credit rating affect you? As a joint-powers authority governed by two counties and 36 municipalities, CPA benefits from a great credit rating by financing clean-energy projects on more favorable terms – ultimately resulting in reduced costs for Thousand Oaks ratepayers.

    When it obtained an A- rating in 2023, the CPA estimated it would save around $20 million/year. It’s done such a good job with energy and fiscal management since then that Standard and Poors just upgraded that rating to A.

    One result of HR1, the federal tax bill enacted this past summer, is that the overall energy supply is likely to become dirtier and more expensive in the medium term, according to CPA CEO Ted Bardacke.

    Given that backdrop, it’s up to municipal governments to do all we can to ensure a ready supply of cleaner and less expensive energy.

    #CreditRating #renewableenergy #climate #energy #cleanpower #cca #thousandoaks #venturacounty #tocc

  25. Let’s avoid this bad “green” board room toxicity and embrace ALL clean energy without bias! Nuclear is not the villain; it’s a powerful ally in our fight against climate change! 💚⚡️ #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #EnergyFuture #CartoonLaughs

  26. Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

    In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

    12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

    Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

    12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

    This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

    12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

    Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

    12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

    I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

    #ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

  27. Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

    In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

    12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

    Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

    12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

    This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

    12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

    Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

    12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

    I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

    #ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

  28. California's grid-scale batteries are game-changers! Covering 44% of the evening demand, they’ve reached 17 GW in just five years. Imagine if every grid added tens of GW—smoothing out peaks, replacing gas peakers, and keeping power flowing after sunset.

    The result? Cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy. Fewer outages, lower bills, and a big boost in emissions cuts. This is how we build a sustainable future!

    #ClimateAction #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #CleanPower

  29. Ah yes, the year 2025 when the sun apparently became our personal power plug. 🌞🔌 Let’s all wave goodbye to fossil fuels and pretend we didn’t see those nuclear plants 🏭 quietly chuckling in the corner while solar takes its victory lap. 😂🌍
    electrek.co/2026/01/16/us-elec #solarenergy #renewablefuture #cleanpower #fossilfuels #nuclearenergy #HackerNews #ngated

  30. Nuclear just had a record year — 2 667 TWh!

    Reactors don’t “age badly” either: most run above 80% capacity for 50+ years.

    Growth is led by Asia, home to 56 of 68 new builds in the past decade and 59 of 70 now under construction.

    world-nuclear-news.org/article

    #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #ClimateAction

  31. Ever wonder how uranium becomes clean, reliable electricity?

    This quick guide breaks it down without melting your brain.

    Worth a read if you love science and keeping the lights on. 😉⚛️

    world-nuclear-news.org/article

    #NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #EnergyEducation

  32. “China pushed more than one million people out of their homes in west-central China a quarter-century ago and flooded a vast area for the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. This year, China has been installing enough solar panels every three weeks to match the power generation capacity of that dam.”

    nytimes.com/2025/10/10/busines

    #CleanPower #Solar #China

  33. Finland has launched the world’s largest sand battery, a groundbreaking energy storage system that can store heat for months and power an entire town for a week. Finland’s sand battery helps stabilize the energy grid, ensuring renewable sources like wind and solar can still provide power during periods of low generation.
    Sand batteries could become a key player in solving the renewable energy storage crisis.
    #EnergyInnovation #SandBattery #FinlandTech #RenewableSolutions #CleanPower