syracusecrunch.com: The Syracuse Crunch and IBEW Local 43 are partnering to hold a donation drive on April 12 benefiting the McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center, collecting snacks, juice boxes, baby bottles, and wipes for children and families navigating abuse allegations in Onondaga County.
opvp.navajo-nsn.gov: Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, and IBEW are coordinating to bring electricity to 13,000 homes across a 27,000 square mile tribal area, with IBEW sending electricians annually through the Light Up Navajo initiative while advocating for federal funding to sustain the effort.
sciencedaily.com: Researchers at Kyushu University used a spin flip metal complex to harness singlet fission, producing roughly 1.3 energy carriers per photon absorbed and achieving a 130 percent quantum yield, a result that could point toward next generation solar cells capable of capturing far more sunlight than current technology allows.
Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to be acquired by Paramount Skydance in a $110 billion deal, ending a bidding war after Netflix withdrew its offer. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory and shareholder approval.
The IBEW called for transparency and regulatory scrutiny following a second round of CBS News layoffs and plans to shut down CBS News Radio, warning that a proposed merger of CBS News with CNN raises serious questions about the future of union broadcasting jobs.
Per a new EIA report, wind and utility scale solar generated a record 17 percent of US electricity in 2025, up from less than 1 percent in 2005. Utility scale solar rose 34 percent year over year, while combined wind and solar reach 19 percent when residential installations are included.
A UPenn Kleinman Center policy blog identifies five key risk categories reshaping the US grid: locational congestion, temporal price uncertainty, volume variability from renewables, extreme weather tail risk, and flawed regulatory design, as demand from AI data centers and electrification accelerates.
EEI and IBEW presented Senators Susan Collins and Jack Reed with the John D. Dingell Award for their sustained bipartisan support of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, with Collins securing a $20 million funding increase to bring total LIHEAP funding to $4 billion in FY2026.
IBEW Local 430 has filed plans to build an 11,500 square foot union hall in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin to replace its current facility in Racine, serving approximately 150 members as both a business office and meeting hall.
IBEW Local 271 Business Manager Jeimeson Saudino pushed back against claims circulating at a packed Sedgwick County town hall, saying modern data centers use closed loop cooling systems rather than millions of gallons of water daily and pointing to projects in Oklahoma and Kansas where data center development reduced local property taxes.