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Nuclear waste

US DOE Funds Consent-Based Siting For Used Nuclear Fuel

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced funding of $26m for groups of university, non-profit, and private-sector partners that will work with communitie…

Solid-State Batteries

Scientists Create Long-Lasting, Cobalt-Free, Lithium-Ion Batteries

In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt—which is often mined using child labor—in the batteries that power electric cars and othe…

Net Zero

Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Concept Aircraft Becomes Nasa’s Newest X-Plane: X-66A

NASA and Boeing announced Monday evening at a presentation at AIAA Aviation in San Diego that the aircraft produced through the agency’s Sustainable Flight Dem…

Electric Vehicle Battery

DOE to Award up to $60M for Advanced Battery R&D Consortium

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $60 million for the creation of an Advanced Battery R&D Consortium (DE-FOA-0002965) to convene major manufact…

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

PCC H2 Transforms Carbon Reduction With Revolutionary Hydrogen Plant

Louisville-based PCC Hydrogen Inc (PCC H2) is making significant strides in the production of low carbon and negative carbon hydrogen with its plans to construc…

Biofuel

USDA Funds Wood Energy Projects

The USDA on June 9 announced the U.S. Forest Service is investing a combined $43 million in 123 projects through the Community Wood Grants and Wood Innovations …

Biofuel

USDA Maintains Forecast for Soybean Oil Use in Biofuel Production

The USDA maintained its forecast for 2023-’24 soybean oil use in biofuel production in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, r…

Wave Energy

Jacobs Finishes Engineering Work for Oregon Wave Energy Test Site

this week said it has completed the underground infrastructure engineering for the PacWave South project in Oregon, which will become the first full-scale test …

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…

Battery

DOE Gives Conditional Loan Commitment for $850M to Kore Power for Battery Plant in Arizona; NMC and LFP

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment for an $850-million loan to help finance the constructio…

Nuclear Reactor

DOE Seeks Feedback on Two Rfps to Acquire Haleu for Advanced Reactors

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking feedback on two draft requests for proposals (RFPs) to acquire high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial m…

Renewable Diesel

Report: Wood Pellet Production Grows in Spain

Spain produced a record 768,000 metric tons of wood pellets in 2022, according to a report filed with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service’s Global Agric…

Rooftop Solar

The United States Has Best First Quarter in History for Total Solar Panels Installed

The U.S. solar industry installed 6.1 GW of solar capacity and had its best first quarter in history, according to the US Solar Market Insight Q2 2023 report re…

Offshore Wind Power

Orion Installs First Monopile at Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Farm

Offshore works have begun at the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US with the first of 62 foundations installed by DEME’s specialised floa…

Solar Battery (Storage)

AES Buys 2-Gw Solar-Plus-Storage Project in California From Avantus

US power company AES Corp (NYSE:AES) on Wednesday said it has acquired the largest permitted solar-plus-storage project in the US, the 2-GW Bellefield scheme, i…