SpaceX will launch NROL-172 on May 11 with NRO intelligence satellites on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. The mission advances the agency's proliferated satellite constellation under a new U.S. Space Force contract.
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A large fire broke out at Monroe Energy's Trainer refinery in Pennsylvania on June 25, prompting a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents. The Delta Air Lines subsidiary reports no community health risks from its air monitoring, while firefighters continue battling the blaze that started in a process unit pump room.
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home will aggregate more than 16 GW of home batteries and smart devices into the largest U.S. distributed power plant, targeting data center demand driven by AI. Sunrun shares rose as much as 26 percent on the news as investors anticipate recurring revenue.
A heat-induced transformer explosion at an RTE substation in Ergué-Gabéric cut power to up to 106,000 Breton households on June 23, with 68,000 still affected the next morning. The outage arrived one day after RTE publicly stated there was no concern for electricity supply this summer despite rising demand and infrastructure strain from record temperatures.
