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Ucaneo and Siemens opened a 150-ton-per-year electrochemical DAC plant in Berlin's Marzahn district, Germany's first project to combine direct air capture with permanent geological CO2 storage.

Twelve's AirPlant One opened June 10 in Moses Lake, producing roughly 50,000 gallons of power-to-liquid jet fuel a year for Alaska Airlines and Microsoft.

The U.S. startup says its 100 cm2 mini-module reached 30.4% conversion efficiency and is now in third-party certification, as it pushes tandem solar from the lab toward utility-scale manufacturing.

Fervo Energy priced 70 million shares at $27 each on May 13, surging 33% on its first trading day to push its market cap past $10 billion.

Swedish startup SaltX Technology and cement giant Holcim have produced Portland-quality clinker using electricity alone, replacing the rotary kiln with a new Electric Clinker Reactor.

The 30 MW EFGL project off southern France began generating electricity on May 4, marking a milestone for floating offshore wind and anchoring a larger 250 MW follow-on.

Fervo Energy, the Houston enhanced geothermal developer behind Utah's Cape Station, filed an S-1 with the SEC on April 17 to list on the Nasdaq as FRVO, with banks led by J.P. Morgan and a private valuation around $3 billion.

A Nature Energy paper from Nanchang University achieves 26.61% certified efficiency with cesium doping, while a private Chinese cell surpasses all single-junction silicon cells at 27.98%.

Microsoft staff have informed carbon removal developers that the company is pausing new purchases, a move that rattles a market in which the tech giant accounted for 96 percent of 2025 credit purchases.

Merino Energy debuts the Mono, a single-unit heat pump that plugs into a standard 120-volt outlet and costs roughly half the price of a conventional mini-split, as California races to install millions of heat pumps by 2030.

The North Carolina startup says its electro-thermal sorbent system operates at more than double the efficiency of thermal competitors, with 3-5x lower capital costs, after years of DOE-backed development.

Carbon TerraVault has completed construction of carbon capture equipment at Elk Hills and targets first CO2 injection in spring 2026, marking a milestone for California's carbon management ambitions.