Thermal

United Kingdom

UK Grants Cornish Lithium £7.2 Million for Cross Lanes Geothermal Lithium Project

Cornish Lithium has secured a £7.2 million grant from the UK Government’s DRIVE35 programme to support drilling, testing and demonstration work at its Cross L…

United States

Amazon Plans Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant for AI Data Center in Texas

Amazon is planning to build a major AI data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, powered by a dedicated natural gas plant with a planned capacity of 7.65 gigaw…

Croatia

ENNA Geo Conducts Geophysical Surveys for Babina Greda Geothermal Project

ENNA Geo, a member of the ENNA Group and developer of the Babina Greda geothermal power plant project, has completed 3D seismic and magnetotelluric surveys in t…

United States

SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines From Colossus Data Center Site by 2027

SpaceX has agreed to begin removing temporary gas turbines that power part of its Colossus AI data center complex, though the final units may remain in place un…

Nevis Geothermal Project Set to Enter Drilling Phase Later This Year

July 28, 2026 — The long-awaited Nevis Geothermal Project is moving into a critical new phase, with a drilling rig expected to be mobilized in the coming weeks…

Vietnam

BIDV, VietinBank Provide $281 Million Credit Package for O Mon IV Power Plant

BIDV and VietinBank signed an agreement on July 24 to provide Petrovietnam with a VND7.3 trillion ($281 million) credit package for investment in and constructi…

United States

XGS Energy Names New Senior Leaders to Scale Geothermal Development

XGS Energy, Inc., a developer of next-generation geothermal power systems, announced the appointment of two senior executives, naming Al Vickers as Chief Operat…

Gas power plant

Alliant Energy Seeks Air Permit for Morgan Valley Natural Gas Plant Amid Air Quality Concerns

Alliant Energy has submitted a 309-page air quality permit application for its proposed Morgan Valley Natural Gas power plant in Linn County near the Benton Cou…

United Kingdom

Bank of England to Bar Thermal Coal-Linked Bonds from Key Lending Operations

The Bank of England will stop accepting bonds linked to thermal coal as collateral for key lending arrangements from October, in a move welcomed by climate camp…

Japan

JERA Invests in Quaise Energy to Advance Superhot Geothermal Technology

July 14, 2026 — JERA Co., Inc., Japan’s largest power generation company, has made a strategic investment in Quaise Energy, a Houston-based developer of …

Gas turbine engine

Mitsubishi Power Wins Boiler Supply Contract for Saudi Fuel Conversion Project

July 13, 2026 — Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received orders to supply key boiler components for a…

Canada

Alberta Awards Eavor $8 Million to Advance Geothermal Drilling Technology

July 7, 2026 — Eavor Technologies Inc. has been awarded $8 million from the Government of Alberta’s industry-supported Technology Innovation and Emission…

Gas turbine engine

Gas-fired power plant planned for Banana

Plans for a new Central Queensland gas turbine power station with a generation capacity of up to 850MW are moving through the approvals process.The gas-fired pl…

Combined cycle power plant

Fermi taps Primoris for Texas power plant construction

Fermi announced on June 30 it selected Primoris Services Corporation to engineer and construct balance of plant infrastructure for six SGT-800 gas turbines at i…

Austria

Vienna Geothermal Test Exceeds Expectations, Could Heat 25,000 Homes

Wien Energie and OMV have reached a major milestone in their deep geothermal project in Aspern, bringing Vienna closer to year-round, climate-neutral heat gener…