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United States

Total Takes US$7-Billion Hit on Exposure to Canada's Oil Sands

Total SE announced an US$8.1 billion writedown after the push to curb carbon emissions and the coronavirus pandemic challenged assumptions about the viability o…

Energy Storage System

MHPS Will Supply Battery Energy Storage Systems to Help Balance the California Grid

Hecate Grid Awards 20 Megawatt Storage Contract for Southern California Project.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

HyGear Signs North American Contract

On-site hydrogen generation specialist HyGear has signed an agreement to supply its Hy.GEN technology for use in fuel cell vehicles operating in two North Ameri…

Nuclear Technology

America’s Big Plan To Bring Nuclear Energy To Space

The United States nuclear power sector has been in steep decline for years.

United States

Could Rising US-China Tensions Change Global Energy Markets?

The widening rift between the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China – has had analysts and market observers using the phrase ‘Cold War…

Wind Farm

WEC Energy Group to Acquire 85% Ownership in US Wind Farm

US-based WEC Energy has agreed to acquire an 85% stake in the 155MW Tatanka Ridge Wind Farm in South Dakota for $235m.

Solar Company

US Racking Company Moves Manufacturing to China

Despite strong revenue growth in its domestic market, Quick Mount PV – which was acquired by Netherlands-based Esdec last year – is abandoning its U.S. manufa…

Nuclear Power Plant

Framatome and Lockheed Martin Partner to Modernise US Nuclear Plants

Framatome and Lockheed Martin have signed a teaming agreement that will integrate Lockheed Martin’s Discrete Logic Solving System.

United States

Another Permian Oil Producer Files For Bankruptcy

Permian oil producer Rosehill Resources said on Monday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest shale casualty of the collapse in oil pr…

Oil Price

Oil steady as U.S. Stimulus Hopes Counter Demand Concerns

Oil prices were steady on Tuesday as hopes for additional U.S. measures to stimulate the economy countered a demand outlook dampened by rising of coronavirus ca…

Microgrid

Distributed Fossil Fuels Dominate in Microgrids Installed in the US

Distributed fossil fuel generation accounted for 86% of installed microgrid capacity in the US in 2019, according to a new report issued by Wood Mackenzie.

CCS

ExxonMobil Discovers New Material to Enhance Carbon Capture Technology

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new material.

Nuclear Policy

USA Lifts Nuclear Finance Ban

The USA has lifted its legacy prohibition on funding nuclear energy projects overseas.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Nikola Breaks Ground on $600m Arizona Facility

Nikola Corporation has broken ground on its $600m Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing facility that will produce the US start-up’s hydrogen-electric heavy-duty tru…

Oil Price

Oil Prices Edges up on Weak Dollar, U.S.-China Tensions Weigh

Brent crude LCOc1 was up 26 cents at $43.57 a barrel at 0944 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 was up 29 cents at $41.36.