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Chinese Electric Bike Imports Across Africa Rise 60%
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Africa’s shift to renewables and electric mobility is increasingly powered by Chinese equipment, with South Africa importing the majority of its solar, battery, and wind gear and North Africa driving a surge in Chinese electric scooters and mopeds. The continent shows a clear divide: consumer-focused North Africa leads in fully built EV imports, while East and West Africa emphasize commercial use, local assembly, and battery-swapping networks to support ride-hailing and delivery services.
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FRANK LASEE: How Wind And Solar Are Quietly Inflating Electricity Bills
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— Sep 24, 2025
In the first five months of 2025, solar and wind dominated new U.S. electricity generation. Of the 15 gigawatts (GW) added, solar was 11.5, wind was 2.3, and gas was just 1.3, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory…
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DAVID BLACKMON: Solar, Wind Might Not Be Totally Dead Under Trump
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— Aug 24, 2025
In an interview with Politico out this week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright pushed back against critics’ claims that the Trump administration’s policies will kill off the U.S. wind and solar industries. “What we’re doing…
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The Daily Show · 9.6M views · Sep 9, 2026
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Trump Admin Slaps Solar, Wind Operators With Retroactive Rent Bills
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— May 18, 2020
The Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the…
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Retail Giant Raises Motor Oil Price, Caps Customer Purchases As Iran War Drags On
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BONNER RUSSELL COHEN: Food Trumps Green Energy, Wind And Solar
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— Sep 8, 2025
“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” said President Trump in an Aug. 20 post on Truth Social . “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” Trump’s remarks came six weeks after enactment of his One…
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A Major Backer Of Green Energy Admits Again That Solar And Wind Power Alone ‘Can’t Reliably Keep The Lights On’
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— Apr 1, 2025
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, historically a supporter of green energy initiatives, acknowledged that wind and solar alone “can’t reliably keep the lights on” without “major breakthroughs in storage” and wrote that it’s…
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JOHN STOSSEL: A Dam Good Argument
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— Sep 8, 2024
Instead of using fossil fuels, we’re told to use “clean” energy: wind, solar or hydropower. Hydro is the most reliable. Unlike wind and sunlight, it flows steadily. But now, environmental groups want to destroy dams…
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Biden’s Green Energy Darlings Fear Getting Walloped By The Weather
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— Aug 21, 2025
Wind and solar companies are increasingly shelling out for specialized insurance to protect against weather risks, like the sun not shining enough, the wind not blowing enough or storms wiping out energy infrastructure…
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DAVID BLACKMON: There’s A Reason Why Oil Giants Are Still Investing In Wind And Solar
Opinion
— Sep 18, 2024
British oil giant BP announced Monday that it is selling the business unit that manages its suite of U.S. onshore wind-power operations as part of its ongoing efforts to simplify its overall business and become more…
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Chiefs Post “WONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” After Dominant Monday Night Win
The official @Chiefs account posted “WONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 🏈” after their Week 1 Monday Night Football victory. Reactions are overwhelmingly positive from fans celebrating the 31-10 win, Patrick Mahomes' return, and strong team performances.
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ACME Solar Signs 300 MW SECI PPA
Business
— Jul 21, 2026
ACME Solar, through ACME Renewtech Fifth, signed a 25-year SECI PPA for a 300 MW ISTS-connected wind-solar hybrid project at tariffs around ₹3.25 per kWh, expanding its contracted portfolio to 6,870 MW of an 8,070 MW total. The company also pursuing solar-plus-storage deals, including a 1,200 MWh FDRE project at ₹6.28 per unit and a 200 MW solar project with 100 MWh BESS, contributing to an overall roughly 8.1 GW portfolio with multiple PPAs and storage integrations slated to start around 2027–2028.
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CHRIS TALGO: Eastern European Outage Shows Weakness Of ‘Renewable’ Energy
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— May 4, 2025
Like most of Western Europe, Spain and Portugal have been at the forefront of the green movement in recent decades. Both nations have embraced renewable energy sources, especially wind and solar, as they have…
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DAVID BLACKMON: Is The Solar Boom About To Implode?
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— May 28, 2025
By now most everyone agrees that the wind industry is in big trouble, not just in the United States, but globally, as escalating supply chain issues and the impacts of Biden-era inflation eat away at project economics…
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DAVID BLACKMON: Shale Gas And Nuclear Set To Power The US Into The Future
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— May 21, 2025
While countries like Canada, the UK, Australia, and those in the European Union continue their obsession with intermittent power sources like wind and solar, the United States has been blessed with one powerful…
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Biden’s Green Energy Darlings Had A Brutal Past Few Weeks — But It Could Have Been Worse
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— Aug 19, 2025
The Trump administration has dealt a series of blows to wind and solar energy in recent weeks, with the Treasury Department delivering the latest strike on Friday, though some experts who spoke with the Daily Caller…
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High court leaves mail-ballot security rule frozen for midterms
Kavanaugh says the USPS barcode and portal rule may be lawful, yet timing blocks it; Alito and Thomas dissent that the government met the stay standard as ballots already move.
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‘Held Out As Long As We Could’: How House Some Conservatives Got To ‘Yes’ On Trump’s Megabill
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— Jul 3, 2025
The conservative holdouts to President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill said the president’s alleged commitment to strictly enforce the phase down of solar and wind credits won them over. Though a flank of House…
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Renewables Could Soon Contribute To Nationwide Energy Scarcity, Regulatory Authority Warns
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— May 15, 2025
Electricity supply across the United States could become unstable over the summer months if weak generation from solar and wind energy coincides with high rates of energy consumption, a reliability assessment released…
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Biden Scraps Trump Plan To Weaken Environmental Rules To Build Renewables in California
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— Feb 18, 2021
The Biden administration on Wednesday said it would scrap a Trump-era proposal to weaken environmental protections for millions of acres of California desert to ease development of wind and solar energy projects. The…
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‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies
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— Jun 29, 2025
The Senate dealt a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — taking a page out of House Republicans’ playbook to crack down on green energy tax…
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DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: Biden’s Hypocrisy On Climate Change Is Painfully Obvious
Opinion
— Jun 17, 2024
President Joe Biden has repeatedly called climate change an “existential threat,” worse than nuclear weapons. Yet, Biden’s green energy mandates result in a greater U.S. demand for wind turbines, solar panels and…
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Mitch McConnell Returns To Senate After Months Of Missed Votes
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DAVID BLACKMON: The Biden-Harris Energy Transition Will Just Have To Wait
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— Oct 16, 2024
Google has made big news in the energy space over the past week, and all of it conflicts with the Harris-Biden goals of a glorious future powered entirely by windmills, solar arrays and presumably some combination of…
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Germany’s Impending Energy Crisis Set to Leave US Military Families in the Cold
Opinion
— Aug 16, 2022
Germany’s headlong leap into green energy has come back to bite them. Their windmills and solar panels won’t keep them warm this winter and Putin is more than happy to tighten the flow of energy. And it gets cold in…
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