United states

Thermal Coal

Consumers Energy Takes Next Step to Become Coal-Free by 2025

Consumers Energy has closed Karn coal-fired units 1 and 2 in Michigan’s Bay region.Named for former Consumers Energy President Dan E. Karn, the plant bega…

LNG

Totalenergies Buys $219M Stake in US LNG Developer

TotalEnergies will buy a 17.5% stake in US liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade for $219 million, the French group said on Wednesday, part of a broader de…

Solar Panel

Baywa R.E. And Meyer Burger Partner for Solar Panels

BayWa r.e. is partnering with Meyer Burger Technology AG, a global solar technology company, to procure high-performance solar panels from its production site i…

Nuclear Equipment

US Nuclear-Powered Submarine Enters S. Korean Port

The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN 727) arrives in Busan for a regularly scheduled port visit in April 2017 while conducting routine pat…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Confirms Powerwall-Backed Virtual Power Plants in Texas and Puerto Rico Soon

Tesla has confirmed that it will soon launch virtual power plants using Powerwalls in Texas and Puerto Rico.The company even confirmed it already has some signi…

Biofuel

EIA: Biofuels Are Displacing Petroleum-Based Distillate Fuel Oil Consumption on the West Coast

Consumption of distillate fuel oil in the US West Coast, as measured by product supplied, decreased to its lowest level since 2002 last year and continues its d…

Battery

Lyten Opens First Automated Battery Pilot Line in Us to Produce Li-Sulfur Batteries

Lyten, Inc., developer of the Lyten 3D Graphene decarbonization supermaterials platform, commissioned its Lithium-Sulfur battery pilot line at its facility in S…

Hydrogen Production

Salt Structures in Newfoundland Show Promise for Hydrogen Storage

Vortex Energy has located a minimum of two structures for halite exploration.The exploration stage company and its contracted consultant partners completed an a…

Carbon Storage

Climate Change: Challenges of Capturing Sufficient Carbon Through Large-Scale Seaweed Farming

The potential of global seaweed farming to help capture sufficient carbon may not be feasible given the large ocean areas needed to remove between 2.5 and 13 gi…

Offshore Substation

Cabling Works at Full Steam on First Large-Scale Us Offshore Wind Farm

Prysmian Group/LinkedInPrysmian Group, the supplier of the submarine cables, said that the operations proceed on time with the schedule and that their cable-lay…

Geothermal Power Project

Pilot Geothermal Heating Project Breaks Ground in Massachusetts

Utility company Eversource has broken ground on a pilot project in Framingham, Massachusetts that aims to determine the cost-effectivity of geothermal heating. …

Electric Vehicle Battery

GM, Samsung Sdi to Build $3B Battery Plant in Indiana

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced plans to bring a more than $3 billion EV battery cell plant to St. Joseph County, creating 1,700 manufacturing jobs. The…

Solar Power Plant

New Mexico Leases State Land for 125-MW Solar Project

New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard awarded a lease to Revolve Afton Solar to construct a solar array on state land in Doña …

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…