Thursday, 1 October 2026

A desalination plant planned for Aqaba, Jordan, will take no more than 27% of its electricity from a purpose-built solar farm in the desert near the site, with the rest drawn from a grid powered mostly by fossil gas, according to Climate Home News.

The plant will double the power needs of Jordan's water sector, Climate Home News reported.

The project received USD 295 million in support from the UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF), according to Climate Home News.

Annual emissions from producing the plant's non-renewable power would be equivalent to running 160,000 petrol-run cars for a year, based on an analysis by Climate Home News of figures the project's developers supplied to the GCF.

Northern Lights has signed Öresundskraft as its second Swedish carbon capture and storage customer, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. The agreement follows the storage provider's earlier deal with Stockholm Exergi.

The addition brings Northern Lights' portfolio to seven industrial customers across four countries, OEDigital reported. The deal remains subject to certain agreed requirements.

Ranchers across Colorado have urged the Supreme Court to side with Boulder in its climate case against Suncor and Exxon Mobil, according to Grist.

The ranchers argued that local governments cannot keep absorbing rising costs from worsening heat, drought, fires, and flooding while still providing disaster relief, grants, and infrastructure repairs to keep ranchers in business, Grist reported.

Some conservative legal scholars contend that nothing in federal law or the Constitution would prevent Boulder's lawsuit from proceeding in Colorado state court, according to Grist. Proponents of that argument include Jonathan Adler, an environmental law professor at William & Mary Law School, Grist reported. Two former heads of the EPA under Republican presidents, Christine Todd Whitman and William Reilly, are also identified as prominent proponents of allowing the case to move forward in state court.