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Wave Energy

Wave Energy Nails Spot Among 68 New Projects Getting $175 Million Love Tap from ARPA-E

ARPA-E, the federal office charged with funneling cash into the advanced energy technology pipeline, has included a project in its latest round of funding that …

Geothermal Power Plant

US Berkeley to Lead Research on Salton Sea Geothermal Lithium

​The US DOE-funded research, led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will characterize the geothermal lithium resource in California's Salton Sea.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi, European, American Officials Discuss Iran's Nuclear File

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abullah held talks on Sunday with several ministers and political leaders on the sidelines of the Munich Sec…

CCS

Hurdles to a Successful Hydrogen Future in the US

Clean hydrogen production and use must increase by 50 fold by 2050, from 10 million tonnes per year to more than 500 million tonnes, if US decarbonization goals…

Wave Energy

U.S. Researchers Gearing up to Test Electromagnetic Wave Energy Device

Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, the researchers at Portland State University (PSU) are preparing to test and validate a new type of el…

United States

U.S. Geothermal Technologies Office Releases 5-Year Program Plan

The U.S. DOE's Geothermal Technologies Office has released an extensive and detailed multi-year program plan to help it achieve its strategic goals in pushing g…

Solar Power Plant

Utility-Scale Energy Storage in US Tripled in 2021 While Growth of Other Clean Energy Stalled

Utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) installations in the US grew 196% to 2.6GW in 2021 but overall clean power installations fell 3%, according t…

CCS

Feds Roll Out $12.1B In Infra Funding for Carbon Capture Tech, Pipelines

The White House is gearing up to spend $12.1 billion under the federal infrastructure bill to develop and deploy carbon capture technologies and build carbon di…

Hydrogen Production

High European Hydrogen Production Costs Point to Likely Imports from US, Middle East

The UK remains the highest priced region globally for low-carbon hydrogen production despite sharp drops in January, S&P Global Platts' new interactive Hydrogen…

United States

Duke Energy Targets Expansion, Plans 1.1-GW Renewables RfP

US electric utility Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) will seek to acquire or contract up to 1.1 GW of intermittent power capacity, specifically renewables, in a bid …

SMR

Report Claims ‘Serious Problems’ with Proposed NuScale SMR

The analysis, released by the institute February 17, primarily focuses on the SMR project the Oregon-based company is building for Utah Associated Municipal Pow…

Oil Price

Supply Shortages are Wreaking Havoc on The energy Industry

The energy sector is facing shortages on all sides, with commodity prices soaring around the world and very little hope that it will be solved in the near term.

Electricity Transmission

Electricity Transmission Key for Reliability in Extreme Weathers

Insufficient interregional electricity transmission is attributed at the core of extended power outages in Texas due to Storm Uri in February 2021.

LNG

US Overhauls Review Policy for Gas Pipelines, LNG

Natural gas companies seeking to build pipelines and LNG export facilities will be subject to more scrutiny over their anticipated greenhouse gas emissions, und…

Nuclear Power Plant

$30B Georgia Power Nuclear Plant Delayed up to 6 More Months

Georgia Power Co. now says the first of two nuclear reactors it’s building at Plant Vogtle near Augusta might not begin generating electricity until as late as…