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Offshore Wind Power

Cable Laying Resumes at Vineyard Wind

Prysmian’s cable-laying barge Ulisse has resumed cable-laying operations at the first U.S. large-scale offshore wind project, located off the coast of Mas…

Geothermal Power Plant

US DOE Funding Opportunity – Energy Projects in Rural or Remote Areas

Geothermal projects are eligible for funding under the Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas program of the OCED and U.S. Department of Energy.

Carbon Emissions

Electrification, Higher Equipment Efficiencies, and More Zero-Carbon Power Sources Will Reduce U.S. Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Through 2050

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions drop 25% to 38% below what they were in 2005 by 2030, according to projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration…

Energy Storage Battery

Interconnection Requests Surged in 2022 Adding to Deep Backlog

Voltage transmission lines above city. Courtesy National Grid ESO.Requests to connect to the U.S. transmission grid grew by 40% in 2022, including nearly 2,000 …

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Technologies Eligible for Patents for Humanity Award

The Patents for Humanity program of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been expanded with a new green energy category, including geothermal technologies. …

Wave Energy

Prize Launched to Forge Path for Powering Coastal Cities With Ocean Waves

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office has launched the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) in partnership with…

Hydropower Plant

Corps Builds and Installs New Scada System at J. Percy Priest Hydropower

The Nashville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has installed the first part of a new supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at the …

Pumped Storage

U.S. And Thailand Partner on Pumped Storage Hydropower Development

(photo courtesy USTDA)The U.S. Trade and Development Agency announced it has awarded a grant to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) for a fe…

Hydropower Plant

PMAs Need to Take Additional Steps to Better Manage Climate, GAO Report Says

News reports focus on drought's affect on power production at sites like Hoover Dam, but overlook more abundant hydro supplies in places like the Pacific No…

Nuclear Policy

Lawmakers Back Measure to Bolster U.S. Nuclear Energy Sector

Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.), Tom Carper (D., Del.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) have introduced S. 1111—the Accelerating Deployment of Versati…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Mine Water Projects to Benefit From Us DOE Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced funding opportunities for clean energy projects, including geothermal, on current and former mine lands.

Nuclear Power Plant

The Future Looks Bright for Nuclear Power—Dare We Use the ‘R’ Word Again?

The term nuclear renaissance was very popular in the early 2000s. Nuclear power plant operators had substantially improved existing plant performance, and many …

Carbon Emissions

Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called Cfcs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

A U.S. chemical plant in Louisiana that produces a common refrigerant may be partly to blame for increased emissions of CFCs—chemicals thousands of times more …

Wind Farm

ØRsted and Google Sign the First Wind Power Purchase Agreement in the US

Google has signed a 150 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ørsted to purchase renewable energy generated by Helena Wind Farm for the next 15 years, a…

Energy Storage Project

FERC Issues Draft EIS for Goldendale Energy Storage Project

Staff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the U.S. have prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for licensing of the 1,200 MW Goldend…