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Energy Saving

USDA Awards REAP Grants to Bioenergy, Biogas Projects

The USDA on Oct. 3 awarded $104 million in loans and grants to more than 300 clean energy projects under the Rural Energy for America Program. Biogas and bioene…

Hydrogen Technology

DOE Selects GE Vernova to Develop AI Assistant for Hydrogen Safety

Image credit: 123rfGE Vernova has been selected by the US Department Energy’s (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) to lead a project aiming…

Solar Power Plant

First Solar Opens 3.5 GW Solar Factory in Alabama

US thin-film specialist First Solar has opened a $1.1 billion vertically integrated thin-film solar factory in the US state of Alabama. It said the 3.5 GW facil…

Nuclear Reactor

Project Pele Microreactor Breaks Ground

Image credit: DOEThe US Department of Defense (DOD) has broken ground on the Project Pele transportable microreactor project at Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…

Renewable Energy

Japan Can Raise Renewable Energy Share to 80% by 2035

Japan could boost the share of renewable energy in its electricity production to 80 percent by fiscal 2035 by expanding the use of storage batteries and enhanci…

Energy Storage Project

US Earmarks More Than $3BN to Support Domestic Battery Manufacturing

The Investing in America agenda is poised to generate $16bn in total investment. Credit: mineral vision/Shutterstock.The US Department of Energy (DOE) has alloc…

Offshore Wind Power

China and the US Have the Largest Wind Power Capacity in the World

China is ahead of the United States in wind turbine capacity, with three times the capacity of the second-placed American country. The US has also made signific…

Electric Vehicle Charging

The Feds Give Nanograf $60M to Build a Huge EV Battery Materials Factory in Michigan

Chicago-based NanoGraf will build a $175 million factory to produce 2,500 tons of silicon anode material to support up to 1.5 million EVs per year.NanoGraf&rsqu…

Nuclear Reactor

Molten Salt Reactor Gets NRC Go-Ahead

Representatives from Natura Resources, the Zachry Group, Abilene Christian University, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and the Georgia …

Solar Power Plant

Could Biden’s Solar Projects on Federal Land Expedite the US Green Revolution?

Credit: Joseph Sohm via Shutterstock.The Biden administration announced in late August that it had finalised a proposal to increase the use of solar energy on f…

Nuclear Reactor

Front-End Design Milestone for Westinghouse Micoreactor

The company has submitted the Preliminary Safety Design Report for its eVinci reactor to the US Department of Energy's National Reactor Innovation Center (N…

Nuclear Reactor

Construction Permit Granted for Molten Salt Research Reactor

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a licence to Abilene Christian University for the construction of a molten salt research reactor on its campus i…

Offshore Wind Power

13 GW Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Lease Sale Set for Late October

The US Department of Interior (DOI) plans to hold a lease auction on 29 October for eight offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Maine, capable of delivering approx…

Carbon Emissions

Occidental’s 1POINTFIVE to Get up to $500M US DOE Funding for South Texas DAC Hub

US DoE to award up to $500m to Occidental’s 1PointFive for the South Texas DAC hub. (Credit: Michael from Pixabay)Occidental’s fully owned subsidiar…

Solar Power Plant

Powin and Bhe Renewables Link for US Solar and Storage Microgrid Project

Product rendering of Powin’s Centipede Stack800 battery energy storage system. Credit: Powin.Energy storage solutions provider Powin has partnered with BH…