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Hydrogen Project

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $750 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen Technologies

Funding from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Advance Electrolysis Technology, Reduce the Cost of Clean Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, and Pro…

Solar Power Panel

California Nem 3.0: Sunnova Offers ‘Free’ Batteries to Counter Upcoming Policy Change

California is one month away from implementing a policy that reduces how much customers with solar panels are paid for surplus power sent to the grid. The proce…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

New Zero-Emissions Ferry to Begin Operating in San Francisco

A new zero-emissions ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology has arrived in San Francisco, where it will undergo trial runs and preparations to carry pas…

Electric Car

Porsche and Up.labs Found First Joint Startup: Pull Systems for Vehicle Data

Porsche AG and its partner UP.Labs have jointly founded their first company; Los Angeles-based startup Pull Systems is developing a machine-learning-as-a-servic…

Electric Car

Honda Announces Next Steps in Preparation for EV Production in Us

Honda announced key next steps in the establishment of its EV Hub in Ohio. In October 2022, Honda announced that it would invest $700 million to retool several …

Electric Vehicle Charging

US Opens Infrastructure Program for Communities

The US Department of Transportation released the first funding charge through a new infrastructure-building program. The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CF…

Solar Technology

Robotics Company Validates Tech to Automate Solar Plant Construction

Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation received $1.9 million from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to develop the robotics system, which delivers, detects, lifts an…

Wind Turbine

How Much Energy Does a Single Wind Turbine Produce? It Depends

Wind energy is the leading renewable energy source in the U.S., and also the lowest-cost source of renewable energy. However, depending on the size or type of t…

Energy Storage Battery

U.S. Energy Storage Market Continues to Expand Rapidly

Across all segments of the industry, the U.S. energy storage market installed 4.8 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2022, nearly equal to the combined 2020 and 2021…

Nuclear Reactor

NRC Approves Restart of Nist Test Reactor

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized the restart of a test reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Md. The r…

Nuclear Technology

Scientists Help Enhance Advanced Nuclear Reactor Analysis

Sandia National Laboratories engineers Kyle Clavier, left, and Dan Clayton have developed a standardized screening method to determine the most important radioa…

Carbon Emissions

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

More frequent and moisture laden weather surges highlight how California’s wet and dry cycles are being sharpened by the warming climate.

Solar Technology

The Benefits of Floatovoltaics: Putting Solar Panels on Reservoirs

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAn international team of environmental scientists is touting the benefits of solar panels on floating platforms atop reservoirs…

Nuclear Fuel

Senate Hearing Focuses on Securing the Entire U.S. Nuclear Fuel Cycle

In this screenshot from a video recording of the hearing, Huff, Wagner, and Dominguez answer a series of questions from Sen. ManchinRight now, our country is de…

SMR

Nuscale Places First Long-Lead Material Production Order With Doosan

A rendering of a NuScale VOYGR plant. (Image: NuScale)NuScale Power, the Portland, Ore.–based small modular reactor developer, announced last week that it…