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US Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Sale Draws $82.7 Million in High Bids

Aug. 12 — The Trump administration’s latest sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico attracted nearly $82.7 million in high bids on Wednesday…

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Verdek’s Florida Sheriffs Association EV Charging Contract Renewed Through 2028

Verdek, LLC has announced that its contract under the Florida Sheriffs Association Cooperative Purchasing Program for Electric Vehicle Charging, Power Stations,…

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FIA Confirms 406.320 mph Hydrogen-Powered Land Speed Record

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile has confirmed a new provisional World Land Speed Record for a hydrogen internal combustion-pow…

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S&C Electric and Argonne Expand Research Partnership to Advance Grid Technologies

Aug. 7, 2026 — S&C Electric Company and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have expanded their collaboration through a new umbre…

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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…

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EVgo to Deploy Superchargers Across U.S. Metropolitan Network

Aug. 5, 2026 — EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ: EVGO), one of the largest public fast-charging infrastructure providers for electric vehicles in the United States, announced…

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Ørsted Begins Commercial Operations at Old 300 Storage in Texas

Aug. 5, 2026 — Ørsted has announced that Old 300 Storage, a 250 MW/500 MWh battery energy storage system in Needville, Texas, has reached commercial ope…

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Texas Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Statewide Audit

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a temporary halt to data center connections to the state’s power grid as officials review the sector’s growing im…

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First Hydrogen from Lingen Reaches Marl as GET H2 Nukleus Advances

Aug. 4, 2026 — The first renewable hydrogen produced at RWE’s electrolysis site in Lingen, Lower Saxony, has reached Evonik’s Marl Chemical Park in…

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RWE and Google Sign 15-Year Power Purchase Agreement for Oklahoma Solar Project

RWE and Google have signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for the full output of RWE’s 155-megawatt Crooked Creek Solar project in McCurtain County, O…

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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…

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Framatome Secures NRC Approval to Manufacture Advanced Reactor Fuel Enriched Up to 10%

Framatome’s nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington, has received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license a…

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Japan Weighs Foreign Bank Financing for U.S. Gas Power Projects

Japan is considering financing from foreign banks for natural gas-fired power generation projects in the United States as part of its $550 billion U.S. investme…

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Argent LNG Secures U.S. Approval for Exports to Free-Trade Partners

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Argent LNG’s request to export liquefied natural gas from its proposed Louisiana terminal to countries that hav…

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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…