U.s.

Renewable Diesel

USDA: Soybean Planted Area Down 5%, Stocks Down 18%

The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service on June 30 announced that an estimated 83.5 million acres of soybeans have been planted in the U.S. fo…

LNG

US Dept of Energy Grants Export License to Gulfstream LNG

Gulfstream LNG Development has received an export authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its proposed liquefied natural gas export plant in…

Oil & Gas Trade

Chevron Offers to Sell Oil and Gas Properties in New Mexico, Texas

Chevron is offering to sell several oil and gas properties in New Mexico and Texas, according to marketing documents seen by Reuters, as the U.S. oil major look…

Crude Oil

Oil Prices Gain 2% On Bigger-Than-Expected Decline in Us Crude Storage

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose about 2% on Wednesday as the second straight weekly draw from U.S. crude stockpiles was bigger than expected, which offset w…

Thermal Coal

Biden Brags About Killing Coal Plants as Grid Operators Warn of Rolling Blackouts

President Joe Biden boasted that there will be no more new coal-fired power plant developments in the U.S. during a Wednesday speech in Chicago, Illinois, even …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Decades of Research Are Still Needed Before Fusion Can Be Used as Clean Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion science in December 2022. For the first time, more energy was released …

Solar Panel

In April, U.S. Electrical Generation by Wind Exceeded Coal While Solar + Wind Out-produced Nuclear Power.

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), wind produced mor…

Thermal Coal

Solar and Wind Power Surpass Coal in the US

It’s a first for the two renewables combined without adding hydropower.For the first time, solar and wind have generated more U.S. power than coal as meas…

Hydrogen Production

Yara to Invest in Blue Ammonia Capacity in U.S.

As part of its journey to decarbonize agriculture and serve clean ammonia segments, Norwegian fertilizer company Yara has announced it will boost its clean ammo…

Solar Cell

Joint Venture Invests $1.5B to Boost American-Made Solar

A new U.S. joint venture formed by Vikram Solar, Phalanx Impact Partners and Das & Co. announced plans to invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically inte…

Biofuel

VEGOILS-Palm Falls Over 3% After News of Smaller-Than-Expected US Biofuel Mandate

Malaysian palm oil futures fell more than 3% on Wednesday following news of a U.S. plan to implement a smaller biofuel mandate than it had initially proposed.Th…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Woodside Sanctions $7.2 Billion Deepwater Oil Project

Australia’s energy giant Woodside has made a final investment decision to develop a deepwater oil project in the Perdido basin in the Gulf of Mexico located 30…

Gas Turbine

U.S. Pipeline Giant: Energy Transition Will Need More Natural Gas Infrastructure

U.S. natural gas infrastructure will have to expand so that gas can serve as a backup power generation fuel amid soaring wind and solar capacity in the energy t…

Photovoltaic （PV）

RWE’s Largest Utility-Scale Energy Storage System Goes Live in California

RWE continues to expand its renewables portfolio in the U.S., connecting its first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to the California Independ…

Thermal Plant

U.S. Making Water Efficiency Gains in Power Sector

As the U.S. moves away from the most water-intensive electric power generating sources, the country’s water withdrawals for power plant cooling remained relati…