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Geothermal Drilling

Wells2watts Completes Test Well for Closed-Loop Geothermal

Wells2Watts geothermal test well at the Baker Hughes Energy Innovation Center at the Hamm Institute for American Energy in Oklahoma City. (source: Baker Hughes)…

Hydrogen Production

Biden Awards $7 Billion in Hydrogen Hub Money to 16 States

The Biden administration has announced that seven proposed "hydrogen hubs" in 16 states will share $7 billion in federal grants to jump-start the emerging indus…

Oil&Gas Drilling

US Drillers Add Most Oil Rigs in a Week Since March, Baker Hughes Says

U.S. energy firms this week added the most oil rigs since March, boosting the oil and gas rig count for the first time in four weeks, energy services firm Baker…

Hydrogen Project

Houston Named One of 7 Hydrogen Hubs in the Nation, Pres. Joe Biden Says

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) intends to transition a second reactor into hot shutdown, the International Atomic Energy Agency (I…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Exxonmobil Hires SBM Offshore to Build FPSO for Sixth Oil Development off Guyana

Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore has gotten its hands on a contract to perform front end engineering and design (FEED) for an FPSO vessel, which is destined to …

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Releases Official API Documentation to Support Third-Party Apps

Tesla has officially released its API documentation to support third-party apps – after years of operating in a gray zone with an unofficial API.For now, …

Offshore Wind Power

New Jersey's First Offshore Wind Farm Just Gave a $100M Promise to Be Online by 2025

Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted just put up a $100 million guarantee that it will have New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, Ocean Wind 1, onlin…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla's Latest Funky Product Is 2 Bottles of Beer for $150

Tesla has started selling a limited edition CyberBeer + CyberStein product, the latest in a line of funky products, and like many others, this one isn’t c…

Energy Storage Project

Stellantis, Samsung SDI Announce Kokomo, Indiana, as Site for Second Gigafactory

Stellantis N.V. and Samsung SDI announced that Kokomo, Indiana, will be the site for a second battery manufacturing facility in the United States as part of the…

Electrolyzer

FPL Pilot Project to Produce Electricity With Hydrogen

Florida Power & Light (FPL) has unveiled a pilot project to produce electricity using clean hydrogen from a facility in Okeechobee County.The project, called th…

Uranium Project

Enrichment Operations Start at US Haleu Plant

US nuclear fuel and services company Centrus Energy Corp has begun enrichment operations at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The company said it …

Biofuel

USDA Increases Forecast for Soybean Oil Use in Biofuel Production

The USDA increased its forecast for 2023-’24 soybean oil use in biofuel production in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, re…

Microgrid

Pepco, Block Energy Breaking Ground on Residential Microgrids for Affordable Housing in Maryland

Block Energy LLC is working with utility Pepco on a new project to create zero-emission community energy systems for an affordable home complex in Fairmount Hei…

Microgrid

PG&E to Launch $79M Microgrid Incentive Program

(Freemont Fire Station Microgrid. Credit: City of Freemont, California.)Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced the launch of its Microgrid Ince…

Hydropower Plant

DOE Announces $38 Million to Support Hydropower, Releases New Hydropower Vision Roadmap

(Image credit: WFranz on Pixabay)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 66 hydro facilities will receive more than $38 million in incentive payments…