Kentucky

United States

Kempower, PowerUp America Open 800-kW EV Charging Site in Kentucky

Kempower and PowerUp America have opened a four-dispenser, 800-kW electric vehicle charging site in Manchester, Kentucky, marking the first location in the comp…

United States

ARCO Design/Build Completes 815 Building in Kentucky Using Tilt-Wall Construction

ARCO Design/Build, a U.S. company, in collaboration with NTS, has completed the 815 Building, a 48,190-square-foot office facility for Heaven Hill Brands at the…

Power Construction

Wärtsilä to Supply Engineering and Equipment for Kentucky Power Plant

Finnish power source manufacturer Wärtsilä has signed an agreement to provide engineering and equipment for a 217MW power plant in Liberty, Kentucky, …

Solar project

Savion and Ares Joint Venture to Manage 496MW US Solar Projects

Ares Management, a global alternative investment manager, has partnered with Savion Equity, a subsidiary of Shell, to form a joint venture named Tango. This col…

Coal Production

US Announces $130M Investment in Coal Production

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has allocated $130 million for coal production initiatives in fiscal year 2025 (FY25) through the Abandoned Mine Land …

Methane

Vision RNG Closes $28.8 Million Sale of Investment Tax Credit Associated With Laurel Ridge RNG Project

On April 15, Vision RNG, a prominent developer of renewable natural gas (RNG) initiatives, completed the sale of the investment tax credit (ITC) from its Laurel…

Energy Storage System

Canadian Solar Subsidiary to Manufacture Utility-Scale BESS in Kentucky

SolBank 3.0 from e-STORAGECanadian Solar subsidiary e-STORAGE announced this week its intentions to open a 3-GWh energy storage manufacturing plant in Shelbyvil…

Hydrogen Technology

UK Beam Institute to Demonstrate Hydrogen-Fueled Spirit Production

The hydrogen-fueled spirit will be barreled and aged at the James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits’ on-site aging facility. Photo courtesy of Mike H…

Pumped Storage

Demonstration to Convert Kentucky Coal Mine to Pumped Hydro Secures Federal Funding

This land near Pineville, Kentucky, formerly the site of a coal mine, will be repurposed as the location of a pumped storage hydropower facility. Courtesy: Rye …

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Tycoon Emmanuel Fritz Paret Acquires 150 Wells, 140 Million Barrels of Oil in Kentucky Reserve Deal

Haitian-American oil tycoon Emmanuel Fritz Paret, CEO of Paret Mining LLC, has acquired a 10,000-acre oil reserve in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The acquisition in…

Pumped Storage

Kleinschmidt Continues Support of Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project for Rye Development

Kleinschmidt Associates has announced its continued support and commitment to the Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project located in Bell County, Kentucky, in collab…

Coal Technology

Researchers Find a Way to Use Coal in Advanced Electronic Devices

A wafer containing memristors fabricated with high-quality two-dimensional carbon processed from bituminous Blue Gem coal mined in southeastern Kentucky, two sa…

Wind Turbine

Kentucky's Largest Utility Testing Wind's Energy Potential With State's First Utility-Scale Turbine

LG&E and KU’s research wind turbine rises to 165 feet. (Photo courtesy of LG&E and KU)Kentucky’s largest utility has built what it says is the state…

Electric Vehicles

Kentucky Electric Cars Now Pay Two Taxes Where Gas Cars Only Pay One

As of January 1st, Kentucky has implemented not one but two new taxes on electric vehicles, both of which are individually higher than what gas vehicles pay on …

Solar Power Plant

Coal-State Kentucky Just Broke Ground on Its Largest Solar Farm

National Grid Renewables has broken ground on what will be the largest solar farm in Kentucky once it comes online in 2024.Kentucky’s largest solar farm i…