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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…

Oil Price

U.S. Shale Swings From Losses to Record Cash Flows

U.S. shale focuses on returning capital to shareholders in 2022.

Carbon Emissions

Carbon Capture Challenges are Not Deterring Investor at Bill Gates’ Firm

In the United States, there is a voluntary market for companies to pay to capture their carbon, but there is not any government regulation or a federally mandat…

Solar Power Panel

US Agrivoltaics Benefit From Government Funding Boost

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office announced the Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale funding opportunity.

Natural Gas

U.S. Natural Gas Prices Could Soon Hit $10

Warmer than usual spring weather and record LNG exports to help Europe reduce dependence on Russian gas could send the U.S. benchmark natural gas prices to abov…

United States

Republic Services and Archaea Energy Form Renewable Gas JV

The $1.1bn joint venture involving Republic Services and Archaea Energy will convert landfill gas sites into renewable natural gas across the US.

Oil Price

Oil Rises, Defying Stock Market Falls as Supply Concerns Persist

Oil prices climbed for a third straight session on Friday, shrugging off concerns about global economic growth as worries about tightening supplies underpinned …

Natural Gas

Why are U.S. Natural Gas Prices Soaring?

U.S. natural gas prices are surging, with the benchmark futures contract rising to a 13-year high of $8.74 per million British thermal units, at a time when tha…

Electric Car

US Students Challenged to Design Next-Generation BEV

The US Department of Energy, General Motors and MathWorks provide $6mn in the next-generation battery electric vehicle design challenge.