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Today’s Green Deals are being led by ALLPOWERS’ Black Friday sale, which finally launched through Cyber Monday with new low prices on units like the R2500 Solar Generator bundle with a 600W solar panel for $1,499, among others. Continuing coverage of Black Friday appliance deals, we spotted GE’s 2-in-1 Electric Dryer and Ventless Heat Pump Dryer falling in price to $1,750, after spending much of the year above $2,000. There’s also a new low price on Leviton’s Level 2 48A Hardwired EV Charging Station at $559, with its smarter counterpart sitting $77 higher. And bringing up the rear is Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus Portable Power Station beating out the brand’s direct Black Friday sale to return to the $89 low. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Lectric XPeak 2.0 e-bike pre-order special, Samsung’s Bespoke all-in-one washer/dryer Black Friday deal, and more.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

ALLPOWERS Black Friday sale drops R2500 solar generator with 600W panel to new $1,499 low (Save $700)

ALLPOWERS has begun its official Black Friday event that is taking up to $1,800 off power stations and bundles through December 3. Among the offers we’re seeing several new low prices, like on the R2500 Portable Power Station that comes bundled with a 600W solar panel for $1,499 shipped. Normally this solar generator package would run you $2,199 at full price, with the largest discount we’ve seen this year being a drop to the former $1,559 low back during Amazon’s Prime Day event in October. Now, during this Black Friday event, you can score $700 off its usual going rate at the best price we have seen to date – even beating its Prime Day low by $60. You’ll also find this bundle matching the price over at Amazon.

As we’ve seen with the other Black Friday sales from other brands, there’s some additional savings and free gifts being offered here too. To start, you can get an extra 5% taken off any order of $3,000 to $3,499, with that number increasing to 7% off on orders between $3,500 and $3,999, and up to 10% off once your total hits $4,000 or more (extra savings has not been factored in below). Likewise, when you spend over $1,900 you’ll get a free PB100 24,000mAh Power Bank, while spending over $2,300 gives you a free SP027 100W Portable Solar Panel, and over $3,200 lands you a free SF200 200W Portable Flexible Solar Panel.

Arriving in a sleek and streamlined unit, ALLPOWERS’ R2500 power station delivers a 2,016Wh LiFePO4 battery capacity with 14 output ports that can dish out up to 2,500W of power, peaking at 4,000W. It provides the typical collection of smart controls that you can access through its app alongside four methods of recharging its own battery – AC, solar, auto, and dual AC with solar. Connecting it to a standard wall outlet refills the battery in about 1.3 hours, while utilizing its 1,000W solar input can do the same in two hours time. These times can be cut down to just one hour when connecting both to an AC outlet while using the max solar input too.

There’s a few other great bundle options for this model, as well, with the solo power station starting things at $999, down from $1,599. From there, you can bundle it with a 200W solar panel for $1,179, or go further with a 400W solar panel at $1,359. If you want to expand the unit’s capacity, you can double things to 3,168Wh with an expansion battery for $1,399.

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GE’s 2-in-1 electric washer/ventless dryer saves space or doubles up for faster laundry duty at $1,750 ($1,150 off)

As part of its ongoing Black Friday sale, Best Buy is offering the GE Profile 4.8 cu. ft. UltraFast Electric 2-in-1 Washer & Dryer with Ventless Heat Pump for $1,749.99 shipped. This ENERGY STAR appliance normally sits at $2,900 most days, with occasional discounts popping up every couple of months over the course of 2024. We’ve mainly seen in keeping above $2,000 during most sales, though we did spot it dropping to the $1,749 low earlier in the year. Today, you’re getting a near-match to its lowest rate at $1,150 slashed from its price tag, coming in as the second-lowest price that we have tracked that lands just $1 above the all-time low.

Scoring this 2-in-1 washer/dryer for your home gives you far more freedom when it comes to your laundry setup, as its ventless heat pump tech, aside from “providing 50% more energy efficient airflow drying,” allows for it to be placed anywhere regardless of any pre-existing vents, saving you space or even allowing you to double up to get through Laundry faster. Complete with the usual smart controls you’d expect, accessed through the SmartHQ app, it will also automatically update itself through your home’s Wi-Fi, and even sends notifications and status alerts to your smartphone. One such example of an update is a recent one that directed its airflow system to separate hair and pet dander from fabrics before the wash cycle begins, collecting it into the EZ Access lint filter (which has saved my girlfriend and her family from plenty of suffering from their allergies since using one).

Another of its standout features is the inclusion of the SmartDispense technology that allows it to hold up to 32 loads of detergent and fabric softener before you’ll need to refill it. You can even scan the barcode on whatever detergent bottle you’re using so that the unit’s AI can adjust the dispensed amounts out based on the brand and your laundry’s load size.

Leviton level 2 48A EV charger

Save $140 on Leviton’s level 2 48A hardwired EV charging station while it’s at a new $559 low

Amazon is offering a rare chance at savings during this Black Friday season on Leviton’s Level 2 48A Hardwired EV Charging Station for $559 shipped. Normally sitting full price at $699, this is the first discount we’ve spotted on this standard EV charger in 2024 since seeing it last during 2023’s Black Friday period at $595. After nearly a year of no price changes, we’re finally seeing it come down with a 20% markdown, saving you $140 while also giving you the new lowest price that we have tracked.

This level 2 EV charger from Leviton arrives compatible with most EVs on the market – Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Subaru – plus, you can even use it to charge your Tesla vehicles with the supplied adapter, often averaging around 25 miles per hour of charging. It comes housed within a water-resistant enclosure to protect it from adverse elements and inclement weather, with its charging cable designed to prevent freezing and cracking too. This is a hardwired model that comes easy to install indoor or outdoors, but keep in mind that it does require a 60A breaker.

If you would prefer this charging station with additional smart controls, the alternate Leviton Level 2 48A Smart Hardwired EV Charging Station is also seeing a discount to the second-lowest price of $636 shipped, down from $749. You’ll get the same compatibility, performance, and features here, but with the added bonus of smart control functionality though the My Leviton App via Wi-Fi.

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Get 99Wh/31,000mAh of juice through Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus LiFePO4 power station at $89 low

Jackery is offering a return low price through its official Amazon storefront on the Explorer 100 Plus Portable Power Station that is down at $89 shipped, after clipping the on-page $40 off coupon. Already down from its full $149 price tag, we’ve mainly seen discounts bring the costs down to either $100 or $90 throughout 2024, with the first drop further to the $89 low occurring during September’s Labor Day sales, only repeating for a short-lived Prime Day time period. Today though, you’re looking at another chance to grab it for your personal backup power needs at the lowest price we have tracked – even beating out Jackery’s direct Black Friday rates by $1.

If you’re in need of a larger, but still portable backup power solution for your personal everyday devices, Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus definitely beats out plenty of power banks with its 99Wh (31,000mAh) LiFePO4 battery capacity and 128W output power speeds. The compact form factor stashes away inside your bag for charging-on-the go during your regular everyday travels and trips out of town alike. The dual USB-C ports and the single USB-A port cover your devices, while the unit’s own battery can be refilled to 70% in about an hour via a wall outlet, while it takes up to two hours for it to reach full. What’s more, there’s solar charging capabilities here with a max 100W solar input, with recharging through this method taking about two hours. You can also plug it into your car’s auxiliary port for a full battery in up to three hours. There is one bundle option to get the station with a 40W solar panel for $170, after clipping the on-page $60 off coupon.

With Jackery’s Black Friday sale still going, many of the best deals on larger power station units can be found there, however, there are a few standouts that are being matched or beaten out at Amazon, which provide more capacity and more output power levels:

If you’re looking for even larger options, be sure to check out the full spread of Jackery’s Black Friday sale, which has plenty of low prices across power stations, solar generator bundles, and even new releases. 

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The savings this week are also continuing to a collection of other markdowns. To the same tune as the offers above, these all help you take a more energy-conscious approach to your routine. Winter means you can lock in even better off-season price cuts on electric tools for the lawn while saving on EVs and tons of other gear.

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Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia.

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ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action.

Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute contract tweaks, the two giants of artificial intelligence struck a $100 billion partnership on Monday, hours before Altman boarded his flight to Abilene, a city of about 130,000 residents roughly 180 miles west of Dallas.

It helped that Huang and Altman had been part of President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. a week earlier, allowing the president to be briefed on the agreement days in advance. 

The deal, which Huang described to CNBC as “monumental in size,” marks a watershed moment in the tech industry, as capital and influence are increasingly concentrated in the hands of the two companies closest to the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.

Huang now presides over the world’s most valuable public company, worth nearly $4.5 trillion after gaining $170 billion following Monday’s announcement, while Altman runs the most prominent startup on the planet, valued at half a trillion dollars.

OpenAI’s ascent to the forefront of generative AI has relied on Nvidia’s high-powered graphics processing units (GPUs). Now the companies are more intimately linked than ever, as they plan to carve a path to jointly building the next wave of AI supercomputing facilities.

“You should expect a lot from us in the coming months,” Altman told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in an interview at Nvidia’s Silicon Valley headquarters on Monday. “There are three things that OpenAI has to do well: we have to do great AI research, we have to make these products people want to use, and we have to figure out how to do this unprecedented infrastructure challenge.”

Altman and Huang negotiated their pact largely through a mix of virtual discussions and one-on-one meetings in London, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., with no bankers involved, according to people close to the talks who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The arrangement calls for Nvidia to invest $10 billion at a time in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. As the buildout unfolds, Nvidia will also supply the cutting-edge processors powering a host of new data centers.

While OpenAI gets more intimate with Nvidia, it has to maneuver through a number of high-stakes relationships with other key partners.

OpenAI only informed Microsoft, its principal shareholder and primary cloud provider, a day before the deal was signed, the people familiar with the matter said. Earlier this year, Microsoft lost its status as OpenAI’s exclusive provider of computing capacity.

The pact also comes less than two weeks after a disclosure from Oracle indicated that OpenAI agreed to spend $300 billion in computing power with the company over about five years, starting in 2027. At the start of the year, OpenAI joined Stargate, a multibillion-dollar project announced by President Trump and backed by Oracle and SoftBank, to build out next-generation AI infrastructure.

Going forward, all of OpenAI’s infrastructure projects will fall under the Stargate umbrella.

Representatives from Microsoft, Oracle and SoftBank didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Nvidia and OpenAI provided scant details about where and when the buildout will take place, other than to say that the first of the 10 gigawatt sites will go online in the back half of next year.

Executives said they’ve reviewed between 700 and 800 potential locations since unveiling Stargate in January. In the months that followed, they fielded a flood of proposals from developers across North America offering land, power, and facilities. That list has been narrowed as OpenAI weighs energy availability, permitting timelines, and financing terms, the company said.

In Monday’s announcement, OpenAI described Nvidia as a “preferred” partner. But executives told CNBC that it’s not an exclusive relationship, and the company is continuing to work with large cloud companies and other chipmakers to avoid being locked in to a single vendor.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang arrive to attend the State Banquet during U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit, at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Britain, September 17, 2025.

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For Nvidia, the investment in OpenAI is historic in size, but it’s just a big piece of a rapidly expanding portfolio.

Last week, Nvidia put $5 billion into Intel as part of a joint venture to co-develop data center and PC chips with the troubled chipmaker. Nvidia also said it invested close to $700 million in U.K. data center startup Nscale, a move that resembles Nvidia’s backing of U.S. AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave, which held its IPO in March.

Tranches of money

The financing structure for the OpenAI deal is designed to avoid hefty dilution. The initial $10 billion tranche is locked in at a $500 billion valuation and expected to close within a month or so once the transaction has been finalized, people familiar with the matter said. Nine successive $10 billion rounds are planned, each to be priced at the company’s then-current valuation as new capacity comes online, they said.

The relationship between Nvidia and OpenAI long predates the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.

Back when OpenAI was still a small nonprofit research lab and Nvidia was best known for building graphics chips for video games, Huang personally delivered his company’s first DGX supercomputer to OpenAI’s office in 2016. At the time, the startup was located in San Francisco’s Mission District, in a building that’s now home to Elon Musk’s xAI.

Almost a decade and trillions of dollars in value later, Huang and Altman are perhaps the most significant power players in the tech industry.

In October of last year, Nvidia formalized its financial stake in OpenAI, joining a $6.6 billion funding round that valued the company at $157 billion. A month later, in Tokyo, OpenAI executives met with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to brainstorm what to call their next phase of expansion. Out of that session came “Stargate,” a codename that has since become shorthand for OpenAI’s most ambitious buildout plans.

Stargate now encompasses every major deal for compute capacity, including this week’s partnership with Nvidia. Securing the rights to the name required some careful maneuvering, but OpenAI has embraced it as the banner for its long-term infrastructure strategy.

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The $100 billion commitment from Nvidia represents only part of what’s required for the planned 10-gigawatt buildout. OpenAI will lease Nvidia’s chips for deployment, but financing the broader effort will require other avenues. Executives have called equity the most expensive way to fund data centers, and they say the startup is preparing to take on debt to cover the remainder of the expansion. 

As OpenAI’s compute necessities increase, a big question is where the company will host its workloads, which have to date been largely housed in Microsoft Azure. Taking the work in-house would push OpenAI closer to operating as a first-party cloud provider, a market led by Amazon Web Services, followed by Azure, Google and Oracle.

Executives have openly floated the idea, suggesting it may not be far off. Some even indicated to CNBC that a commercial cloud offering could emerge within a year or two, once OpenAI has secured enough compute to cover its own needs. For now, demand for training frontier models leaves little capacity to spare, but OpenAI isn’t done looking for new opportunities.

As Altman and Huang hammered out details of the arrangement that was announced this week, OpenAI’s infrastructure team was in Tokyo meeting with SoftBank’s Son to discuss broader financing and manufacturing support.

The parallel talks underscored the scale of Altman’s ambition, and the web of global players now involved in bringing it to life.

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Orsted shares jump 7% after U.S. court overturns Trump project block

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Burbo Bank, Liverpool Bay, England, viewed from the sea turbines on Burbo wind farm off the U.K. coast.

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Shares of Danish renewables giant Orsted jumped on Tuesday, after a U.S. judge ruled the embattled firm can resume construction of an offshore wind farm that was halted by the Trump administration.

The decision means Orsted can resume work on the nearly completed Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Shares of the Copenhagen-listed company were among the top performers on the pan-European Stoxx 600 index during morning deals. The stock price, which notched a fresh record low last month, was last seen up around 6.6%.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday granted a preliminary injunction sought by Orsted to overturn the Trump administration’s stop-work order, allowing construction on Revolution Wind to resume while the lawsuit progresses.

Orsted on Monday said it would start work on the project “as soon as possible.”

The company’s shares have tumbled 22.4% this year amid the Trump administration’s more aggressive stance towards renewables.

On Sept. 5, the Danish firm cut its full-year operating profit outlook following lower-than-normal offshore wind speeds during July and August. Orsted also received approval from shareholders for an emergency 60 billion Danish krone ($9.48 billion) rights issue to raise capital. Norwegian energy group Equinor said it would pledge almost $1 billion of fresh capital as part of the fundraising.

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The court victory represents a significant reprieve for the Danish company, which has been hit hard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on offshore wind projects.

Since his return to the White House earlier this year, Trump has clamped down on the wind power industry. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order suspending new or renewed onshore and offshore wind leases.

The U.S. president, who is championing America’s oil and gas industries, told reporters in January that his administration was “not going to do the wind thing.”

The Department of Transportation last month said it was withdrawing $679 million of funding for a dozen infrastructure projects that support offshore wind development and would instead redirect the money to upgrade existing ports and other infrastructure, where possible.

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Blink + Hubject unlock easier EV charging across North America

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Blink Charging (Nasdaq: BLNK) has struck a deal with Hubject to make charging easier for EV drivers across North America.

The agreement will bring Blink into Hubject’s intercharge eRoaming platform as a charge point operator. That means electric mobility service providers (eMSPs) and their customers in the US, Canada, and Mexico will soon have access to Blink’s charging stations through their existing apps. In turn, Blink drivers will gain better access to stations connected through Hubject’s network.

Hubject, which already connects more than 1 million charging points and 2,750 partners worldwide, expects the integration to strengthen its North American presence by adding Blink’s wide-ranging network of chargers, from Level 2 workplace stations to DC fast charging. Blink, meanwhile, anticipates more customers will plug in, thanks to Hubject’s reach.

“Our collaboration with Blink marks an important step in expanding our North American intercharge network,” said Trishan Peruma, CEO of Hubject North America. “By integrating Blink’s network into our eRoaming platform, we aim to help reduce barriers that have historically complicated EV charging and to support the continued growth of EV adoption across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.”

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Blink Charging’s president and CEO Mike Battaglia added, “Connecting the Blink Network to Hubject’s platform will allow more drivers to benefit from interoperable charging while traveling.”

The integration will use the industry-standard OCPI protocol to keep billing and communication between networks secure and reliable. Deployment is planned in phases throughout 2025, with full integration targeted for the end of the year.

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