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Electric Car

Toyota Builds 1MW Hydrogen System for US Department of Energy

The $6.5m project is being funded by the DOE and could be operational within three years

Germany

Germany Prepares for Possible Nationalisation of Gazprom Germania - Paper

The German government has set up a holding company to carry out a possible nationalisation of Gazprom Germania, the energy business abandoned by Russia's Gazpro…

Smart Meter

EDF Looks to Pay as You Go Meters amid British Billing Crisis

Electric utility company Électricité de France (EDF) has announced support packages for British consumers, one of which involves using smart prepayment meters…

Crude Oil

U.S. Crude in SPR Hits Lowest Level Since January 1985

U.S. crude inventory in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) fell by 8.1 million barrels in the latest week to the lowest level in more than 35 years, accordin…

Oil Refinery

Venezuela’s Second Largest Refinery Resumes Gasoline Production

Venezuela's state oil and gas company PDVSA has restarted gasoline production at the country's second largest refinery after repairing a breakdown.

United States

DOE Cybersecurity Project Funding to Bolster Grid Resilience

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $45 million in funding for projects that will create and test technology to protect the electric grid from cyber…

Wind Power Project

New Report Finds Value of Wind Energy Far Exceeds Costs

Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and attractive prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energ…

United States

US DOE Announces $44M Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Through Utah FORGE, the U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding for up to 17 awards that will build on FORGE's existing work on EGS technologies.

Floating Offshore Wind

Researchers Design Novel Floating Wind Turbine for Deep Waters

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories created a tool that they plan to use to design a novel floating wind turbine that the…

Nuclear waste

Nuclear Waste Recycling Startup Wants to Solve the ‘Ball and Chain’ Problem Holding Back Nuclear

Ed McGinnis knows firsthand about the nuclear waste problem in the United States after working for the Department of Energy from 1991 to 2021.

Geothermal Power Plant

Enhanced Geothermal Energy System R&D Gets a Boost From DOE Money

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy field laboratory announced up to $44 million for projects to develop and…

Hydropower Plant

Smart Tools to Enhance the Flexibility of Hydropower Turbines in the US

A team of GE Research engineers has been awarded a project through US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to improve the operating capacity …

Nuclear Technology

Can AI Improve the Profitability of Nuclear Energy?

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory said they believe artificial intelligence could save the nuclear industry more t…

Hydrogen Project

Equinor’s H2H Saltend Selected to Proceed as One of the First Large-Scale Hydrogen Projects in the UK

Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that Equinor’s Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend) production facility has been …

Electricity Transmission

Norway to Impose Power Export Controls

Photo: Ásgeir Eggertsson / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeNorway is preparing a framework for limiting electricity exports at ti…