This Week in Cleantech (6/28/2024) - AI could strain the grid, or make it a lot smarter

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.
This week’s episode features Semafor climate and energy editor Tim McDonnell, who reported on AI's impact on the grid and how the technology could be used to ease the strain.
This Week in Cleantech — June 28, 2024
This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Warwick Wise, Head of Video at ABB. He went out to the plains of New Mexico to see how the latest detection and monitoring technology helped find methane leaks and seal them off. Congratulations, Warwick!

1. Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants — AP News
2. US energy production exceeds consumption by widest-recorded margin — Reuters
3. Coal power plant outages remain historically high, NERC report finds — E&E News
4. Wildfire Threats Make Utilities Uninsurable in US West — Bloomberg
5. The solution to the AI power boom is a better grid, not a bigger one - Semafor

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