United states

Thermal Coal

Nevada Utility to Convert Last Coal-Fired Plant to Natural Gas

Image by Peter H from PixabayIn the US, Nevada’s largest utility plans to retire its last coal-fired plant by the end of 2025 and convert it to run on nat…

Power Construction

US working on power plant standards for energy transition: US EPA head

Micheal Regan, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency | Photo Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency websiteMicheal Regan, the Administrato…

Tidal Energy

US DOE Invests Nearly $10 Million to Propel Marine Energy Advancements

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently unveiled a significant investment of nearly $10 million directed towards seven projects aimed at accelerating the…

Hydropower Plant

Gilkes Commissions Hydropower Turbine at Water Treatment Plant in the US

Hydro engineers from Gilkes have recently returned from the US, successfully completing the commissioning of the company’s latest hydropower turbine in No…

Energy Storage Project

New Zinc Batteries Take On Dunkelflauten & Dendrites, Too

Zinc batteries are beginning to crowd lithium-ion out of the energy storage picture, with green hydrogen also in play.More renewable energy is pouring into the …

Oil&Gas Drilling

US Drillers Cut Oil Rigs for Eighth Month in a Row, Baker Hughes Says

A drilling rig is seen in the Austin Chalk about two hours outside of Houston, Texas, U.S., May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Ernest ScheyderU.S. energy firms in July cut t…

Wind Farm

New Jersey Residents Challenge Orsted Offshore Wind Farm's $1 Billion Subsidy

Electric power transmission pylon miniatures and Orsted logo are seen in this illustration taken, December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dado RuvicNew Jersey residents have …

Oil Pipeline

Venture Global LNG's Calcasieu Pass 2 Project Gets Final U.S. Environmental Nod

Venture Global LNG's proposed Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) project in Louisiana on Friday received the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) envi…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Framatome's Accident Tolerant Fuel Technology One Step Closer to Market Readiness

Framatome's industry-first, 100% Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) assembly successfully completed its first cycle of operation at a U.S. nuclear power…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Alaska Simplifies Microreactor Regulations

The US state of Alaska has adopted regulations to streamline the regulatory process for the siting of microreactors. The new regulations, which waive some requi…

Biofuel

Drax Increases Pellet Capacity, Considers US BECCS Projects

Drax Group plc on July 27 announced its pellet plants produced approximately 1.9 million metric tons of wood pellets during the first half of 2023, down slightl…

Wind Farm

ACP Statement on Nepa Phase 2 Rule

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) generally supports the Administration’s new guidance intended to help accelerate environmental reviews for clea…

LNG

Nearly 70 Ports Offer Bio-Lng Bunkers

Ships can now bunker bio-LNG at almost seventy ports worldwide, including Singapore, Rotterdam and the US east coast, according to SEA-LNG.A total of 355 LNG-fu…

Electric Vehicles

Used Tesla Model 3 Listed With a Wild $150,000 Price Tag

Tesla has been lowering prices for most of this year but now there is a used Tesla Model 3 with nearly 6,000 km that has a wild asking price of $150,000.This is…

Microgrid

Virtual Power Plants Can Cost-Effectively Support the Grid— If We Let Them

(A rooftop solar system.)Contributed by Mathew Sachs, CPowerStrained by the double burden of increased demand and more frequent extreme weather events, our grid…