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Crude Oil

More Oil From U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Heads to Europe

Europe is set to receive more cargoes of U.S. crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as the European Union discusses an oil embargo on Russia and look…

Geothermal Power Plant

US DOE Aims to Provide $13 Million for Community Geothermal Projects

Heating and cooling represent significant energy needs for American homes and businesses, and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through the direct use of f…

Energy Security

Russia Slaps Sanctions on Western Energy Firms

Moscow has imposed sanctions on more than 30 EU, US and Singaporean energy companies in a retaliatory move following western penalties imposed on Russian.

Nuclear Reactor

US High Temperature Gas Reactors to be Deployed in the UK

US nuclear reactor design company X-energy has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with nuclear engineering firm Cavendish Nuclear to act as its deploym…

Tidal Energy

First US Tidal Energy Developer Heads to Orkney Test Site

California-based tidal energy developer Aquantis has signed a six-month berth agreement to test its Tidal Power Tug at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) …

Energy Storage System

8 Steps to Streamline Energy Storage Interconnection

Perhaps the greatest threat to achieving ambitious renewable energy goals in the U.S. is the costly and time-consuming process of tying projects to the grid.

Smart Grid

Smart Grid in the US – Evolved Considerably but Greater Levels of Sophistication Needed

The utility operational paradigm is shifting from one of control to one of control and coordination as distributed energy resources proliferate.

Offshore Wind Power

Total, Duke are Winners of Latest U.S. Offshore Wind Auction

France-based TotalEnergies and U.S. power company Duke Energy Corp each won offshore wind leases in federal waters off the coast of North and South Carolina on …

Energy Storage Battery

What Role is Large-Scale Battery Storage Playing on the Grid Today?

With a handful of leading regions deploying grid-scale storage at a faster rate than ever, what sort of impact are these additions having so far on the problems…

Nuclear Reactor

US Cislunar Nuclear Rocket Project Proceeds to Next Stage

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking proposals for Phases 2 and 3 of its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations programme, wh…

United States

Burns & McDonnell to Build US Solar Project

Burns & McDonnell is supporting Buckeye Partners, L.P. (Buckeye) as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for a new 164-MW solar energ…

Solar Power Plant

US Developers Working on 858 GWdc of Solar, 1 TWh of Batteries

US government research shows that solar-plus-storage is starting to dominate the nation’s power grid queues, representing the majority of new power plant appli…

Electric Car

Hyundai Motor in Talks with Georgia to Build EV Plant in the U.S.

Reuters reported on May 9 (local time) that Hyundai Motor Group is in talks with officials in Georgia to build a new electric vehicle (EV) plant in the U.S. sta…

Crude Oil

Biden Sidelined Global Energy Partners with Record Emergency Oil Release

The United States announced a record-sized release of emergency crude oil reserves in March without consulting partners in IEA, leaving them scrambling to match…

Net Zero Emission

Biden-Harris Administration Announces over $2.3 Billion Investment to Cut U.S. Carbon Pollution

DOE Launches $2.25B Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Effort to Increase CO2 Storage Sites, Provides Additional $91M to Advance Carbon Management Approaches, Buildi…