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Energy Storage Project

The Long-Duration Energy Storage Dilemma

Energy Vault's energy storage systems use gravity to store and release renewable energy on demand, giving grid-scale reliability to clean energy sources in …

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Biden Plans to Slash Planet-Warming Pollution From Power Plants

Joe Biden at COP26 in Glasgow. (Image by the World Economic Forum, Flickr.)The Biden administration is preparing to propose limits on greenhouse gas emissions f…

Hydropower Plant

Emrgy Secures $18.4 Million in Series a Funding to Expand Operations and Deploy Distributed Hydropower Projects

Emrgy, a woman-led renewable energy technology and project developer, has secured $18.4 million in a Series A funding round led by Oval Park Capital, with Key i…

EV Market

Used EV Sales Are Thriving as Prices Continue to Fall

Sales of used electric vehicles are growing at a rapid rate. Per a new report from industry analysts Cox Automotive, sales of pre-owned EVs rose 32% in Q1 2023.…

Power Construction

Residents Get Up Close to the City’s Industrial Heritage at Miles Platting Gasholder

National Grid has welcomed local people to get a glimpse of the industrial past at the site of the dismantling of their gasholder on Saxon Street in Miles Platt…

Biofuel

West Biofuels Breaks Ground on California Bioenergy Plant

This week, West Biofuels LLC, broke ground on a critically needed 3-megawatt (MW) bioenergy plant in Burney, California, that will convert forest waste and sust…

Solar Battery (Storage)

DOE Offers $3BN Loan to Create Solar and Storage VPPs

The US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment to Sunnova Energy Corp.’s Project Hestia for an up to $3 billion…

Nuclear waste

Hanford Cites Progress in Retrieving Tank Waste, Preps for Future Transfers

Photos taken inside Hanford’s Tank AX-101 before workers started removing radioactive and chemical waste from it in January. As of April 18, crews have re…

Nuclear Technology

Dynamic Radioisotope Power System Development for NASA Missions

The multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is tested at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. The…

Nuclear Technology

US Warns Russia Not to Touch Us Technology at Zaporizhia NPP

The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department o…

Nuclear waste

US DOE Contract Awarded for Hanford Site Work

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to…

Carbon Emissions

Four Proposals to Reduce Colorado’s Ozone Pollution and Improve Air Quality, Explained

If there's one thing that can be agreed upon when it comes to protecting Colorado's environment, it's that the state must act to clean its air. But …

SMR

US-Korean Partners to Build SMR-Powered Hydrogen Production Facility

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct…

Carbon Emissions

Systematic Review of Studies on Air Pollution Shows Strong Link Between Traffic Pollution and Increased Death Rates

An international team of health experts, hygienists, pollution specialists and biostatisticians has found, via systematic review of almost 200 studies on air po…

Hydrogen Production

Simulations With a Machine Learning Model Predict a New Phase of Solid Hydrogen

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here…