Georgia

Solar Power Plant

The US's Oldest Solar Factory Filed for Bankruptcy in 2017 – But Now It's Back

Suniva, once the US’s oldest and largest solar cell maker, has been dormant for six years, but now it’s going to reopen its Georgia factory.Suniva i…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Vogtle 4 start-up moved to 2024

The in-service date for the second AP1000 plant at the site near Waynesboro, Georgia, has been revised after a motor fault was discovered in a reactor coolant p…

Electric Vehicles

Hyundai Speeds up Construction of Us EV Plant to Get IRA Incentives

Hyundai Motor Group is looking to accelerate the construction of a new plant located in Georgia in order to benefit from federal EV incentives that favor domest…

Solar project

Qcells to Sign $3 Billion Supply Agreement for US-Made Polysilicon

REC Silicon ASA is entering into a supply agreement between its subsidiary, REC Solar Grade Silicon LLC, and Hanwha Q Cells Georgia, Inc., a wholly owned unit o…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Hyundai and LG Energy Solution up US Investment for Battery JV

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest an additional $2 billion in their battery cell manufacturing joint venture (JV) at the Metaplant i…

SMR

Fuel Loading Begins at Vogtle 4

Vogtle 4 (Image: Georgia Power)The process of loading the 157 fuel assemblies into the core of the second AP1000 reactor at the site is pivotal for the reactor,…

Energy Storage Project

Georgia Co-op to Test Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Storage in Pilot Project

(Snapping Shoals EMC CEO Shaun Mock, second from left, and Board of Directors Jake Carter, from left, Walter Johnson, Gene Morris, Lance Harper, Jeanette Berry,…

SMR

NRC Authorizes Fuel Loading and Operation at Vogtle 4

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load fuel and begin operation of Vogtle Unit 4 in Georgia. This is the…

Photovoltaic （PV）

RWE, PPC to Invest in 280 MW of Solar Projects in Greece

RWE Renewables’ Hickory Park Solar project in Georgia. Source: RWE Renewables.German energy group RWE AG (ETR:RWE) and Greek power utility PPC SA (ATH:PPC…

Electric Vehicles

Kia Expands Georgia Plant to Produce Electric EV9 SUV With $200M Investment

Kia is expanding its only manufacturing plant in the US to make room for its first electric three-row SUV. The Kia EV9 will be the automaker’s first EV as…

CCS

Inside-Out Heating and Ambient Wind Could Make Direct Air Capture Cheaper and More Efficient

What started as a simple errand to deposit a check at a bank drive-through became the kind of "aha" moment found mostly in books and movies.Georgia Tech researc…

Microgrid

Georgia Power, Form Energy to Deploy 100-Hour Iron-Air Battery System

Grid-scale energy storage developer Form Energy announced it is moving ahead under an agreement with Georgia Power to deploy a 15 MW/1500 MWh iron-air battery s…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Vogtle 3 Reaches Full Power

The unit is now in the final stages of start-up testing ahead of starting commercial operation and is expected to be declared in service next month.Vogtle 3 pic…

Biofuel

Gulfstream G700 sets speed record from Savannah to Tokyo on SAF

Photo: Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced May 22 the all-new Gulfstream G700 set a speed record using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF…

Biofuel

States in US South 1st to Harvest Nuseed Carinata Cover Crop for Biofuel Feedstock

Carinata harvest in Georgia (Photo: Nuseed)Nuseed carinata harvest is underway in the southern United States, starting near Tifton, Georgia.Nuseed has been work…