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Electric Vehicles

Greenpower Receives Orders for 35 Mega Beasts in California

GreenPower Motor Company announced orders for 35 Type D all-electric, purpose-built school buses for the California market. (Earlier post.) GreenPower received …

Electric Vehicles

Top Tesla Gigacasting Supplier Gets Acquired by GM!

Here’s a story from left field that we didn’t see coming! Tesla has jumped ahead of the auto industry in vehicle production time and costs in the pa…

Microgrid

NV Energy Gets $2 Million Grant for Grid Technology

NV Energy, a Nevada-based utility company, has been awarded a $2 million grant to enhance the electricity grid's efficiency and reliability through advanced…

Geothermal Drilling

US DOE Announces $44 Million Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Drilling rig on site of Utah FORGE project site, Nov. 2020 (source: Utah FORGE)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Frontier Observatory for R…

Wave Energy

DOE Announces First Round Prize Winners for Novel Wave Energy Technologies

(Courtesy: Michael Olsen/Unsplash)The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced Phase I winners of the Innovating…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Panasonic to harness solar PV and battery storage for ‘beacon’ Welsh project

The site will harness hydrogen fuel cells, solar PV and battery storage. Image: Panasonic.Japanese electronics giant Panasonic is set to retrofit its Welsh manu…

Electricity Transmission

U.S. Renewable, Grid Battery Projects Battle Transformer Shortage

Wind turbines operate at sunrise in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Big Spring, Texas, U.S., February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/Fil…

Carbon Emissions

US, China Advance Climate Cooperation Following California Talks

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua before a meeting in Beijing, China July 17, 2023. R…

Electric Vehicles

Toyota's Camry, Best-Selling Car in US, Goes All-Hybrid

The next generation of the Toyota Camry, the best-selling sedan in the U.S. market, will come with only a gas-electric hybrid powertrain, the boldest move yet b…

Oil&Gas Drilling

US Appeals Court Scraps Sempra's Port Arthur LNG Emissions Permit

Electric power transmission pylon miniatures and Sempra Energy logo are seen in this illustration taken, December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File …

Carbon Capture

Indonesia Says Exxon Mobil Plans to Invest up to $15 Bln in the Country

ExxonMobil logo is seen in this illustration taken, October 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsU.S. oil major Exxon Mob…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Vallecitos Reactor Removal Complete

Nearly 60 years after shutting down for the last time, the reactor vessel of the prototype boiling water reactor in California has been removed from its contain…

Geothermal Power Plant

US DOE Announces $44 Million Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Drilling rig on site of Utah FORGE project site, Nov. 2020 (source: Utah FORGE)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Frontier Observatory for R…

Solar Power Plant

Intersect Power Turns on Massive Solar + Storage Project in California

Oberon Solar + Storage Facility (Credit: Intersect Power)Intersect Power announced the commercial operation of its Oberon Solar + Storage project, located in Ri…

SMR

Illinois to Lift Moratorium on Nuclear Construction

Governor JB Pritzker has said he will sign a new bill lifting Illinois' ban on the construction of new nuclear reactors, after the state's lawmakers pas…