Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome
Frost writes tiny runes on windows in the north, while far south, cicadas tremble the air and ripe fruit perfumes the shade. It all feels measured, like a held breath.
This week shares that feeling of poised energy. We track power. A 25 year solar plus storage pact in Egypt pairs daylight with night. Germany commits to a vast offshore wind cluster. Brooklyn readies an EV charging depot with batteries that take strain and smooth the pulse. Intelligence trims waste as AI and satellites cut retrofit materials for a grain warehouse. And on the ground, new standards and training aim to scale agroecology, so fields hold knowledge as surely as they hold rain.
Together these stories sketch an infrastructure of patience. Systems that store, share, and steward. Quiet machinery that lets the sun and the sea keep their promises. Here is where that patience shows up this week, from grid scale projects to the choices we make at home.
Top Climate Solutions Of The Week
Finance is meeting engineering, and storage is turning intermittent resources into dependable supply. A few highlights:
- Scatec signed a 25 year PPA for Africa’s largest solar plus storage project in Egypt, securing revenue to finance construction and deliver firm clean power to the grid. Read more at PV Magazine.
- Vattenfall reached a final investment decision on Germany’s largest 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster, unlocking construction and long term clean electricity. Details at Recharge.
- XCharge North America and Energy Plus will build a Brooklyn EV charging depot with 9.46 MWh of battery storage, enabling fast charging while reducing peak grid demand. Coverage at CleanTechnica.
- GeoStruXer and Bentley used AI combined with satellite data to optimize a Saudi grain warehouse retrofit, reducing materials and embodied carbon without sacrificing performance. Story via TriplePundit.
- Regeneration International launched a standard and training program to scale agroecology, giving farmers tools and verification to adopt regenerative practices at scale. Learn more on their announcement.
Technology and policy are moving, and still, progress is made by people who keep showing up. If your energy feels thin right now, you are not alone.
If you are struggling...
If you are tired, angry, anxious, or stuck, you are not broken. You are responding to a lot. Many of us survived by learning to stay a little bit gone, present enough to function and absent enough to endure. I call this the long dissociation. Naming it can feel like a breath out. It is not failure. It is intelligence that kept you safe. And it is not the end of the story.
Maybe you also feel messy. You care, and you also contradict yourself. You recycle and you forget. You want justice and you lose your temper. That does not disqualify you. There is power in the gift of contradiction. Holding tension with honesty can widen your field of action. It makes room for imperfect people to show up, which is the only kind of people we have.
When the world feels heavy, our minds rehearse catastrophe. That is understandable. Try adding one more rehearsal. Practice possibility thinking. Ask what you will do if help arrives, if a door opens, if your effort works. Write a short checklist for good news. Keep it on your phone.
Small acts count. Drink water. Step outside. Text one friend. Give twenty minutes to something you love. Rest without guilt. You are not alone, and your care still matters. We need you here, exactly as you are, taking the next doable step.
For people and planet,
Bri Chapman
brichapman.com