United states

Offshore Wind Power

House Backs Jones Act Enforcement for US Offshore Wind

The US House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act that enforces Jones Act requirements for all offshore renew…

Energy-Eficient Building

Department of Energy Announces $80 Million for Innovative Building Technologies and Practices

the U.S. Department of Energy announced the Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies 2020 Funding Opportunity Announcement.

Oil&Gas Drilling

U.S. Offshore Rig Count Stable at 14 Units

The number of active rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged over the course of last week, according to a weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes.

Solar Power Panel

Hanwha Q Cells Places First in U.S. Solar Module Market

Hanwha Q CELLS was ranked first in the U.S. solar energy module market in the first half of 2020.

LNG

Chevron Sells More Domestic Gas to Alcoa in Australia

Chevron has signed an agreement to supply a further 37PJ of gas sourced from the three LNG projects located offshore Western Australia to US aluminium group Alc…

Oil Shale

U.S. Shale Producers Devon Energy , WPX Energy in Merger Talks

U.S. shale producer Devon Energy Corp is in talks to acquire rival WPX Energy Inc in an all-stock transaction that would create a combined company worth around…

Solar Power Plant

Irish, US JV Toasts Solar PPA Success in Maine

Irish company BNRG and its US joint venture partner Dirigo Solar are to supply renewable electricity to a public utility in the north-east US under a 20-year po…

Nuclear Fuel

US and Kazakhstan Continue with HEU Elimination Programme

The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration said on 22 September that the last remaining batch of unirradiated highly enriched urani…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iran Opens Navy Base At World’s Most Crucial Oil Chokepoint

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran opened this week a new naval base in a coastal town along the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the Strait of …

United States

California to Ban Sale of Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2035

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035 to fight climate change and smog-foul…

United States

Mitsubishi Power and Entergy Partner for US Decarbonisation

Mitsubishi Power and Entergy have signed a joint development agreement to bring decarbonisation projects to Entergy’s US utility businesses.

Energy Storage Project

NY Governor Announces First Completed Community Solar Plus Energy Storage Project

Project to reduce energy costs for approximately 150 households in Westchester County and New York City, provide power to 12 Tesla EV supercharging stations.

Crude Oil

EIA Sees Global Oil Market Balancing By End-2021

The OPEC+ production cuts and curtailments in the United States are set to help global inventories to continue drawing down for the rest of the year and most of…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Tesla's Value Drops $50 Billion as Musk's Promised Cheaper Battery 3 Years Away

Investors slashed $50 billion from Tesla Inc's market value on Tuesday despite CEO Elon Musk's promise to cut electric vehicle costs so radically that a $25,000…

Solar Power Plant

HBS Completes 11.65MW Anglian Water Solar Farm

A 11.65MW solar farm has been installed by HBS New Energies as part of Anglian Water’s Solar Delivery Programme.