Texas

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Announces It Produced 10 Million 4680 Battery Cells at Giga Texas

Tesla announced it produced 10 million 4680 battery cells at Gigafactory Texas. It is a good sign for the automaker’s production ramp-up, which relies hea…

LNG

Totalenergies Buys $219M Stake in US LNG Developer

TotalEnergies will buy a 17.5% stake in US liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade for $219 million, the French group said on Wednesday, part of a broader de…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Confirms Powerwall-Backed Virtual Power Plants in Texas and Puerto Rico Soon

Tesla has confirmed that it will soon launch virtual power plants using Powerwalls in Texas and Puerto Rico.The company even confirmed it already has some signi…

United States

Despite ‘Religious War’ Over Fossil Fuels, Texas Lawmakers Approve $1.8 Billion for Microgrids

During the Texas Legislature's recent session, renewables were blamed for causing the outages related to Winter Storm Uri. But a resilience bill providing $1.8 …

Oil Price

US to Add More Than Six Million Barrels of Oil to Reserves to Address Supply Disruptions

The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility at Freeport, Texas. The US Department of Energy says the reserve system has a 'long history of protecti…

Electric Vehicles

America’s First US-Built Electric Mini-Truck Begins Street-Legal Homologation

The AYRO Vanish has grabbed headlines over the past year as it rolls ever closer to production at AYRO’s Texas factory. Now the electric mini-truck’…

Offshore Substation

First American-Built Offshore Substation Sails Away

Ørsted and Eversource have marked the sail away of the first American-built offshore wind substation, which departed a Texas fabrication facility and is …

Battery

Research Discovery Unlocks Thermal Energy Storage Optimization

Researchers at Texas A&M University have established foundational design principles for composite phase change materials to store thermal energy rapidly. This b…

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…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

Gas power plant

New York Investment Group to Acquire 2.1GW of Gas-Fired Assets in Texas

Image: 123rfNew York-based LS Power has announced it will acquire 2,145MW of natural gas-fired generation in the ERCOT North region of Texas through a special-p…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Achieves Its Goal of 5,000 Model Ys a Week at Giga Texas

Tesla has achieved its goal of producing 5,000 Model Y vehicles in a week at Gigafactory Texas, which was the original goal for volume production at the plant.T…

Energy Policy

Texas Senate Approves Tight Permit Restrictions on Solar, Wind

Under a new bill, existing projects could be retroactively removed if new permit requirements are not made. New solar and wind farms would need to win the appro…

Gas power plant

New York Group Acquiring More Than 2.1 GW of Texas Gas-Fired Capacity

New York-based energy investment firm LS Power on May 8 said it has reached an agreement with Brazos Electric Power Cooperative to acquire 2,145 MW of natural g…

SAF

Nacero Invited by DOE to Submit Part Ii Application for Loan Guarantee to Finance Texas SAF Facility

Nacero's flagship facility in Penwell, Texas (Photo: Nacero Inc.)Nacero Inc. announced May 5 that its Nacero Texas subsidiary has been invited by the U.S. D…