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Biofuel

Braya Lands $300 Million Investment for Refinery-Conversion Project in Atlantic Canada

Photo: Braya Renewable FuelsBraya Renewable Fuels announced April 20 a USD$300 million preferred-equity investment from Energy Capital Partners, a leading energ…

Electric Vehicles

NIO Planning Small Budget EVs For European Expansion

Chinese EV giant NIO plans on building on its initial Europe success with a new lineup of affordable compact cars. However, given NIO's premium status they …

Renewable Diesel

Petrobras Assesses Coprocessing Expansion, Standalone Renewable Diesel Production

Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned petroleum company, announced April 17 that it is conducting new project studies to expand the production of coprocessed re…

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…

Solar Power Plant

China’s Solar Industry Surges: Q1 Report Reveals Record Growth

China‘s solar industry has experienced a surge in growth during the first quarter of 2021, according to the latest report from the National Energy Adminis…

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…

Wind Farm

1st Wind Turbine Installed in China’s Westernmost Prefecture

The installation of the first wind turbine in Kizilsu Kirgiz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was completed on April 22, 2023. [Photo/X…

Nuclear Technology

Dynamic Radioisotope Power System Development for NASA Missions

The multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is tested at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. The…

Nuclear Technology

US Warns Russia Not to Touch Us Technology at Zaporizhia NPP

The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department o…

Nuclear waste

US DOE Contract Awarded for Hanford Site Work

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Partnership Formed to Deploy Seaborg’s Power Barge

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg Technologies have established a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plan…

Carbon Emissions

Four Proposals to Reduce Colorado’s Ozone Pollution and Improve Air Quality, Explained

If there's one thing that can be agreed upon when it comes to protecting Colorado's environment, it's that the state must act to clean its air. But …

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…