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Researchers built an AI system that talks to wind turbine operators, and predicts failures before they occur

Wind turbines are among the most mechanically demanding machines in modern energy infrastructure — massive rotating structures exposed around the clock to temperature swings, vibration, and unpredictable loads.…

By Daniel Garcia · October 29, 2026

Researchers built an AI system that talks to wind turbine operators and predicts failures before they occur

Shell's Mars deepwater platform that produced its billionth barrel of oil, one hundred thirty

one hundred thirty miles south of New Orleans, a platform built for 500 million barrels of oil has pumped a billion, doubling its own design life after three decades at sea

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 29

Gas

Renergen’s Virginia Gas Project reaches stable liquid helium production, with first deliveries to offtakers imminent

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

China

China’s petrochemical stockpiles near depletion as US-Iran war cuts feedstock supply, driving wholesale price inflation

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

Brent crude

Brent crude jumps 4% to $113 as drone strikes hit Saudi Aramco field and Dammam airport

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

Cheniere Energy signs long-term LNG supply deal with QatarEnergy covering deliveries through 2054

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

EU awards $249 million to Aker BP and Höegh Evi for large-scale Atlas CCS project in Norway

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

Google

Google and Ignite Energy Access partner to bring off-grid solar power to over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

Solar park

At World’s End solar park, crews planted 224 trees and over 49 hectares of grassland, adding winter shelters for reptiles

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

MISO

MISO awards $1.23 billion Iowa transmission project to Ameren, GridLiance, and Dairyland Power Cooperative consortium

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

Solar carport panels went live over a theme park parking lot

Beneath 36 steel canopies over a theme park’s asphalt, 22,908 panels went live in October, and the lot produces more power than the rides upstairs consume all year

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 29

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Five years of surveys at Germany’s Lauterbach solar park found skylark territories increased from four to about 20

By Anke Maree · Oct 29

Researchers built an AI system that talks to wind turbine operators and predicts failures before they occur

Researchers built an AI system that talks to wind turbine operators, and predicts failures before they occur

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 29

Eleven turbines off Aberdeen Bay near a golf course coastline, eleven turbines keep

Eleven turbines keep turning off Aberdeen Bay past a decade of legal fights launched from a nearby golf resort, and they still generate power today

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 29

For AI models predicting wind turbine stress feeding them a richer picture of the wind matters more than making the model smarter

For AI models predicting wind turbine stress, feeding them a “richer picture” of the wind matters more than making the model smarter

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 29

Slow ocean winds that standard models ignore are quietly wearing down offshore turbines faster than engineers expected

Slow ocean winds that standard models ignore are quietly wearing down offshore turbines faster than engineers expected

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 28

Scotland

Scotland’s Whitelee wind farm cleared 900 hectares of commercial forest, beginning a 2,547-hectare moorland restoration for black grouse and wading birds

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

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Japan

Japan’s science minister visits Kyoto Fusioneering to back fusion energy industrialization push

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

Pool type reactor in Lockhart Texas where reactor went critical, swimming pool went

In Lockhart, Texas, a reactor the size of a swimming pool went critical at 15 megawatts eleven months after groundbreaking, and it stands as the fastest private nuclear build on record

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 29

Waterford 3 reactor and switchyard where a bus transfer failed after shutdown, 75 percent power

On the Mississippi near Killona, a reactor at 75 percent power tripped on October 16, hours before its scheduled shutdown, and a backup bus transfer failed too

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 28

The Nuclear Company 6.6 GW campus

The Nuclear Company proposes 6.6 GW nuclear campus for eastern Kentucky

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 28

Holtec

Holtec recovers tilted fuel assembly at Palisades nuclear plant using purpose-built device, clearing path for restart

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 27

Abandoned nuclear cooling tower now used as a sound lab, grays harbor county

Grays Harbor County hides two abandoned cooling towers where sound tests now measure below 20 decibels, and the unfinished nuclear site became a working acoustics lab

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 27

Rome

Near Rome, Georgia, Rocky Mountain sends water through a 700-foot tunnel, then reverses three turbines to pump it uphill overnight

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 29

Swift Dam with floating fish collector

Washington’s Swift Dam uses a floating salmon collector and trucks to bypass barriers while upstream passage reopens 117 miles

By Anke Maree · Oct 29

Scotland's Pitlochry Dam hydropower facility

At Scotland’s Pitlochry Dam, salmon swim through 34 connected pools to reach Loch Faskally as visitors watch

By Anke Maree · Oct 28

Solar panels anchored by rock ballast atop Virginia's capped Ivy Landfill, virginia s old

At Virginia’s old Ivy Landfill, 7,000 solar panels sit on buried trash anchored only by loose rock, and engineers used gravity instead of posts to keep every anchor off the waste below

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 28

Dam in France

France’s redesigned Poutès Dam opens seasonally for migrating salmon while aiming to preserve 85% of its former hydropower output

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 28

Offshore gas platform converting seawater into hydrogen off Scheveningen

Off Scheveningen, an aging gas platform ran 8 miles of offshore cable to split seawater into hydrogen, and the rig never stopped pumping gas

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 27

SunHydrogen 12.3% solar-to-hydrogen

SunHydrogen reaches 12.3% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency as its Austin pilot keeps moving forward, pushing the panel technology closer to real-world deployment

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 25

Nel Hydrogen US $12 million PEM electrolyzer

Nel Hydrogen US lands a $12 million PEM electrolyzer order from a U.S. technology company, adding another large commercial win to its hydrogen pipeline

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 22

Energy

Bloom Energy says solid oxide fuel cells can close the gap between surging U.S. data center power demand and slow grid expansion timelines

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight using a crystal that acts as its own “spark plug”

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 15

Oregon State researchers found a shortcut to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry

Oregon State researchers found a “shortcut” to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry thought was unavoidable

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 12

SunHydrogen and Honda renewable hydrogen panel

SunHydrogen and Honda are keeping their renewable hydrogen panel partnership alive through 2028, giving the technology more runway to move from prototype toward deployment

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

- Plug 280 MW electrolyzer e-SAF

Plug lands a 280 MW electrolyzer order for a Danish e-SAF project, while the broader partnership now stretches beyond the 1 GW mark

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

WATTMORE GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen

WATTMORE joins GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen microgrid research effort, putting its technology into a project testing how hydrogen can fit into resilient local power systems

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 10

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Google and Ignite Energy Access partner to bring off-grid solar power to over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa

Oct 29

2

one hundred thirty miles south of New Orleans, a platform built for 500 million barrels of oil has pumped a billion, doubling its own design life after three decades at sea

Oct 29

3

At World’s End solar park, crews planted 224 trees and over 49 hectares of grassland, adding winter shelters for reptiles

Oct 29

4

MISO awards $1.23 billion Iowa transmission project to Ameren, GridLiance, and Dairyland Power Cooperative consortium

Oct 29

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Beneath 36 steel canopies over a theme park’s asphalt, 22,908 panels went live in October, and the lot produces more power than the rides upstairs consume all year

Oct 29

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Five years of surveys at Germany’s Lauterbach solar park found skylark territories increased from four to about 20

Oct 29

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Ameren Missouri gets the green light to acquire 400 MW of solar projects

Oct 29

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Exciting Opportunities in Green Energy Technology

Oct 29

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