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Electric Vehicles

Volvo Says New EX90 Electric SUV to Offer Premium Surround Sound System

In November 2022, Volvo announced the new 7-seater EX90 electric SUV, calling it a new era for the Swedish brand. This was welcoming news from the brand that pl…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft to Buy Power From Helion Fusion Plant

Global technology company Microsoft has signed an agreement with fusion energy developer Helion Energy for the provision of electricity from its first fusion po…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

Carbon Emissions

Biden Power Plant Plan Gives Industry Time, Options for Cutting Climate Pollution

The long-awaited proposed rules, which rely heavily on carbon capture and hydrogen, are only part of the policy needed to get the U.S. to 100 percent clean elec…

Rooftop Solar

Rooftop Solar Could Power One-Third of U.S. Manufacturing Sector

The technology currently supplies less than 0.1% of industrial electricity.Mounted on the rooftops of industrial buildings, solar panels could meet the entire e…

Solar Panel

Terabase Energy Launches Automated Solar Panel Installation Setup

Terafab climate controlled environmentDigital automation company Terabase Energy has officially launched Terafab, a digital field factory for solar panel instal…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft Agrees to Buy Power From a Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Fusion Startup That’s Yet to Produce Any Electricity

David Paul Morris—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is making a bold bet that it can get power from nuclear fusion in half a decade’s time.More from Fo…

Solar Panel

Rooftop Solar Panels Could Power One Third of Us Manufacturing Sector, Claims Study

Mounted on the rooftops of industrial buildings, solar panels could meet the entire electricity demand of up to 35% of U.S. manufacturers. A new study, publishe…

Energy-Eficient Building

The Struggle to Design Green Buildings Amid Shifting Legal, Tech Landscape

The push to prepare American cities and towns for greater climate resilience has become more urgent in recent years as scientific evidence of warming mounts and…

Floating Offshore Wind

Totalenergies Joins Two Floating Offshore Wind Consortia

TotalEnergies has announced that it is joining two consortia led by Ocergy and Esteyco which recently were awarded Phase One of the FLoating Offshore Wind ReadI…

Renewable Diesel

Vertex Energy Suffers Failure in Feedstock-Pumping System During Start-up of Renewable Diesel Unit

Following Vertex Energy’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company’s renewable diesel unit at its Mobile, Alabama, refinery, held April 28, the facil…

Renewable Diesel

Oleo-X Launches Feedstock Facility for Renewable Diesel and SAF

Oleo-X has announced the launch of its renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) feedstock pretreatment facility.Located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, …

SAF

Calumet Celebrates First Production, Initial Shipments of SAF

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. on May 10 celebrated the first production and initial shipments of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from its Montana Ren…

Nuclear Technology

Augmented Reality Enhances Radiation Protection Training

A method using augmented reality (AR) to create accurate visual representations of ionising radiation, developed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge …

Spent Fuel (Used Fuel)

NRC Gives Approval for Holtec’s New Mexico Used Fuel Facility

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final licence to Holtec International to build and operate the Hi-STORE consolidated interim storage f…