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Wind Power Project

Delaware Grants Grid Permits for US Wind’s 2 GW Offshore Project

US Wind, owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and Renexia S.p.A., has been authorised by Delaware regulators to install the transmission infrastru…

Dam

Advancing US Hydropower Manufacturing With 3D Printing

A new initiative by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses additive manufacturing to rapidly produce large metal turbine runners…

Electric Vehicles

EPA awarding $735M to assist in purchase of 2,400 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that 70 applicants across 27 states, three Tribal Nations, and one territory have been tentatively select…

Geothermal Heating Project

US DOE to Support Geothermal Heating and Cooling in Five Communities

The US Department of Energy, through the Geothermal Technologies Office‘s (GTO) Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Initiative is supporting five com…

Virtual power plants

US Grants $305 Million Loan Guarantee for California VPP With Ice Storage

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has granted a $305 million loan guarantee to finance Project IceBrick, a virtual power plant (VPP) that will deploy up to 193 …

Nuclear Reactor

Preliminary Design Completed on Russian Prototype Fusion Reactor

The preliminary design of Russia's proposed TRT tokamak nuclear fusion reactor has been completed by JSC NIIEFA.The project, being carried out by specialist…

Nuclear Reactor

NANO Announces Flurry of Microreactor MoUs

Recent memorandums of understanding signed by microreactor developer NANO Nuclear Energy will see it work with the US Department of Energy on evaluating the fea…

United States

Delaware Gives Onshore Nod for US Wind

Image: RenewsUS Wind has received state permits to connect its offshore wind power to the regional electrical grid in Sussex County, Delaware.Delaware Departmen…

Tidal Energy

Turbines Reinstalled at Meygen Tidal Array

Proteus Marine Renewables has reinstalled the AR1500 turbine at the MeyGen tidal array in Pentland Firth.The company, which has had a contract for offshore serv…

Energy Investment

US Department of Energy Invests in Marine Energy and Offshore Wind Research at Universities

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an investment of more than $18 million to fund 27 research and development (R&D) projects aimed at advancing m…

Nuclear Reactor

South Africa ‘Committed to New Nuclear and PBMR’

The South African government remains committed to the use of nuclear energy and is planning to revive its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor programme and embark on new…

United States

Interior Announces Nearly $850M to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure

The Department of the Interior has announced an $849 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to revitalize aging water deliv…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

US and UK Partner With Tokamak Energy on ST40 Upgrade

The energy departments of the US and UK governments are to partner with Tokamak Energy for a USD52 million upgrade of the ST40 fusion facility, which will coat …

Hydrogen Technology

Improved Catalyst Turns Harmful Greenhouse Gases Into Cleaner Fuels, Chemical Feedstocks

A chemical reaction can convert two polluting greenhouse gases into valuable building blocks for cleaner fuels and feedstocks, but the high temperature required…

Electric Vehicle Battery

QuantumScape Releases Next-Generation Solid-State Battery Separator Equipment, Cobra

QuantumScape Corporation, a leader in solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, announced that next-generation heat treatment equipment for its separator pr…