“ENTRA1’s website is a cyber Potemkin village, all façade with no reality. The site has buttons bragging: ‘drawing on 45+ years of experience’ … ‘portfolio experience of ~6B$ in energy and infrastructure projects’, … ‘delivering on a ~30GW SMR project pipeline.’ Click on those boxed claims for further information and the result is literally nothing.”
When the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced this month that it had reached a mammoth deal — financial and timing details unspecified — to acquire 6,000 MW (6 GW) of purchased power from a wide array of NuScale small modular reactors to be owned by ENTRA1–it produced some head-scratching.
What the heck is ENTRA1? It’s not an easy question to answer, although online sleuthing provides some useful details. The name first surfaced in the fall of 2023, when NuScale announced a sketchy deal with an Ohio data center developer with ENTRA1 described as NuScale’s partner with exclusive rights to develop, manage, own and operate energy production plants powered by NuScale’s SMRs.…
Continue Reading“Maybe ending dues to the Solar Energy Industries Association is part of the ‘soft costs’ that need to go. After all, other solar executives, including David Bergeron of SunDanzer Development, never joined SEIA for this reason.”
An adage of political economy is that the market picks winners, leaving losers for government. Residential solar is no exception. The grim news continues with PosiGen, a company “making solar panel leasing accessible and affordable for all homeowners, regardless of their credit score or income level.”
The story is told by Ryan Kennedy in pv magazine USA, Residential Solar Installer PosiGen Ceases “most of its operations” (August 26, 2025).
… Continue ReadingResidential solar installer Posigen announced it will cease most of its operations through the United States, effective immediately. The company cited “significant financial difficulties” in a WARN Act termination notice to its employees.
The New York Times, the climate alarmist paper of record, is sponsoring the “Climate Forward” conference in New York City on Wednesday September 24th. Will it be a wake? Consider the latest promotional push by Times reporter David Gelles:
“This has been perhaps one of the most consequential years ever for United States climate policy,” he notes, promising “frank discussions about what it all means.”
Announced Speakers
The announced speakers are fringe: Brian Schatz (Senate Democrat, Hawaii); Abigail Dillen (Earthjustice); Scott Strazik, (GE Vernova); Manish Bapna, (Natural Resources Defense Council); and Bob Mumgaard (Commonwealth Fusion Systems).
Where is everybody? Will Al Gore and John Kerry appear to rally the demoralized? Michael “Climategate” Mann? What about Angry Joe Romm? John Holdren? Jigar Shaw and Jennifer Granholm of Biden’s U.S.…
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