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Biofuel

West Biofuels Breaks Ground on California Bioenergy Plant

This week, West Biofuels LLC, broke ground on a critically needed 3-megawatt (MW) bioenergy plant in Burney, California, that will convert forest waste and sust…

Solar Battery (Storage)

DOE Offers $3BN Loan to Create Solar and Storage VPPs

The US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment to Sunnova Energy Corp.’s Project Hestia for an up to $3 billion…

Solar Cell

Chinese Institute Made Progress in Improving Perovskite Tandem Solar Cell Stability

The research team of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently has made progress in high efficient and stabl…

Nuclear waste

Hanford Cites Progress in Retrieving Tank Waste, Preps for Future Transfers

Photos taken inside Hanford’s Tank AX-101 before workers started removing radioactive and chemical waste from it in January. As of April 18, crews have re…

Nuclear Technology

Japan Adopts National Strategy on Nuclear Fusion

Japan has adopted its first-ever national strategy on nuclear fusion reflecting the need to create a domestic fusion industry. The strategy calls for the wider …

Canada

Canada Lures Volkswagen’s New Battery Plant North by Matching Billions in Subsidies Offered by US

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a massive deal with German automaker Volkswagen Group to implement its first electric vehicle plant outside…

SMR

US-Korean Partners to Build SMR-Powered Hydrogen Production Facility

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct…

Hydrogen Production

Simulations With a Machine Learning Model Predict a New Phase of Solid Hydrogen

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here…

Electric Vehicles

BMW-Led car2car Project Seeks to Improve Quality of Secondary Raw Materials From Recycled Vehicles

The BMW Group is heading up a new project that explores the circular economy in automotive manufacturing. The company is working with representatives from the r…

Hydrogen Production

USNC, Hyundai Engineering, SK E&C to Partner on Nuclear Hydrogen Production; Mmr and Soec

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a US-based vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C are teaming up to con…

Solid-State Batteries

Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry

Chile President Gabriel Boric announced that his government will nationalize the country’s lithium industry, with the objective of increasing wealth for t…

Energy Storage Project

Chinese Company Reportedly Seeks to Invest $10B in Afghanistan’s Lithium Mining Sector

According to the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, China-based Gochin Company company seeks to invest US$10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium mi…

Energy Storage Project

New Efficient One-Pot Process for Recycling Metals From Spent Li-Ion Batteries

A team from the Korean government-funded research institute The Institute for Basic Science has developed a one-pot liquid extraction process that uses rotating…

Geothermal Heating Project

Webinar – The Supercritical/ Superhot Geothermal Frontier, April 28, 2023

Join this webinar with Dr. Bruce Hill, Chief Geoscientists for CATF and a presentation on supercritical/ superhot geothermal and what it offers.

LNG

Baker Hughes to Supply Gas Turbine for Petronas Sabah LNG Project

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has been awarded an order to be booked in 1Q23 by Black & Veatch, a subcontractor to the JGC and Samsung Heavy Indus…