This Week in Cleantech

Wall Street Journal

Cracks in the off-grid AI data center boom; a court admission that the Trump administration cancelled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants along political lines; BP's talks to sell Lightsource to a Kuwait-backed group; the FCC's new ban on foreign-made power inverters; and Heineken's pilot of a Rondo heat battery to decarbonize brewing in Portugal. WSJ's Clara Hudson joins hosts Paul Gerke and Mike Casey to discuss the heat battery story, plus this week's Cleantecher of the Week: Tim Shepherd and Sylvain Marseille.

This week’s episode covers how the Iran conflict is reshaping global energy strategies, negative power prices in the U.S., and Michigan regulators pushing utilities toward virtual power plants. The hosts also discuss the UK’s plan to boost energy demand during renewable surpluses. Jennifer Hiller of the Wall Street Journal joins to explain why utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion to support AI-driven data center growth—and what it means for ratepayers.