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Entergy Texas’ 1,215-MW Orange County Advanced Power Station enters service, projected to save customers over $1 billion

Entergy Texas just flipped the switch on its 1,215-megawatt Orange County Advanced Power Station, adding a new round-the-clock power source to Southeast Texas. The plant can power more…

By Kelly Lippke · October 21, 2026

Texas

Texas

Entergy Texas’ 1,215-MW Orange County Advanced Power Station enters service, projected to save customers over $1 billion

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

Pipeline

Canadian Utilities begins construction of $2.9 billion Yellowhead Pipeline to deliver natural gas across Alberta

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

MMA

MMA proposes second Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale covering 1.05 million acres, scheduled for March 2027

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

Pump jack at the restarted Schoonebeek oil field in the Netherlands, every well europe

Pumping wastewater that is 90 percent of everything brought to the surface at every well, Europe’s largest onshore oil field at Schoonebeek restarted last month after injection moved underground

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 21

Oil

Source Rock Royalties pays $4 million for gross overriding royalty across 126,000 acres of Alberta oil sands leases

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

Hengyi

Hengyi Industries awards Honeywell contract to more than double Brunei refinery capacity by 2029

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

Solar array panels standing on former Sanford Maine brownfield site, 17 acre maine

On a 17 acre Maine lot once buried under circuit board waste for three decades, a 7 megawatt solar array now powers nearly 960 subscribers

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 21

Floating solar modules anchored across an Ohio village reservoir, 12 acre ohio

On a 12 acre Ohio reservoir, 9,222 floating solar modules feed the village grid, and officials found open water cheaper than clearing nearby farmland for the same array

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 20

Scientists crack a stubborn crystal flaw in kesterite solar cells

Scientists crack a stubborn crystal flaw in kesterite solar cells, unlocking a certified efficiency record of 15.3%

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 20

Solar

Standard Solar acquires two eastern Washington solar projects from OneEnergy Renewables to supply rural utilities with nearly 16 MW of clean power

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Floating panels on pond power a Mendocino County winery completely, 74 year old

On a 74 year old Mendocino winery, 252 floating panels on a tenth of an acre pond cover every watt the vineyard uses, and the farm lost no cropland to get there

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 19

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Researchers flipped a 1.5 MW turbine backwards to measure something no one had captured at full scale before

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 21

Wind

A planned Alaska battery could let Shaktoolik’s diesel generators run 2,200 fewer hours annually as wind takes over

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

massive wind farm with several turbines

Oregon’s 119-MW Leaning Juniper IIB wind farm is getting new equipment to supply Google’s data centers in The Dalles

By Anke Maree · Oct 21

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Wake steering makes wind turbines slightly louder, and a ring of 24 microphones just caught it for the first time

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 21

wind turbines being installed at refinery peninsula

St. Croix refinery peninsula could host 6 MW of vertical wind turbines, paired with 6 MW of solar and batteries

By Anke Maree · Oct 21

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Scorched substation transformer after Seabrook transformer fire during heat wave, seabrook parking lot

Near a Seabrook parking lot, two transformers failed four minutes apart as heat climbed past 95 degrees, and one burst into flame while the reactor stayed online

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 21

Oklo Texas isotope facility

Oklo moves a second Texas isotope facility forward under DOE’s nuclear launch initiative, doubling down on the state as a base for advanced nuclear production

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 21

Terrestrial Energy new NRC report

Terrestrial Energy files a new NRC report aimed at cutting red tape from future IMSR deployments and speeding the reactor toward market

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 21

Sealed concrete cocoon of a plutonium reactor beside the Columbia River, columbia river nine

Beside the Columbia River, nine sealed reactors from a wartime weapons program sit cocooned for 75 years, and only one now welcomes tourists instead of fallout

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 19

Princeton physicists say fusion energy has a back door

Princeton physicists say fusion energy has a “back door” that seven decades of research walked right past

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 18

Nuclear

Poland and Westinghouse launch long-lead component procurement for country’s first nuclear power plant, targeting 2036 startup

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 18

Rusting cargo ship converted into a floating power plant at dock

Decades ago a rusting cargo ship near New England began sending power ashore from one converted hold, and it kept the lights on for over a decade

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 21

Montana

Montana’s proposed Gordon Butte plant would pump water 1,025 feet uphill, then release it to generate 400 MW

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 21

Home battery unit that helped deliver 745 megawatts to California grid, 120 000 home

On the night of October 6, over 120,000 home batteries in California pushed 745 megawatts onto the grid, and no residential fleet had ever matched a power plant at that scale

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 20

underground mine targeted for water battery storage

Near Joshua Tree, two abandoned iron-mine pits could become a 1,300-MW water battery with four underground turbines

By Anke Maree · Oct 20

Nevada

Near Nevada City, two proposed lakes would feed a 750-MW underground power station that pumps water back uphill

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Existing dam targeted to receive turbines

Two retired lock chambers at West Virginia’s Robert C. Byrd Dam could house six turbines generating 28.5 MW

By Anke Maree · Oct 20

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

Nel $7 million submarine electrolyzer

Nel adds another $7 million in submarine electrolyzer orders spanning U.S., U.K. and French programs, widening its footprint across allied naval fleets

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Nel $12 million Collins Aerospace order

Nel lands a $12 million Collins Aerospace order to build electrolyzer stacks for U.S. Navy submarines, taking hydrogen technology beneath the waves

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Latest News

1

Researchers flipped a 1.5 MW turbine backwards to measure something no one had captured at full scale before

Oct 21

2

Canadian Utilities begins construction of $2.9 billion Yellowhead Pipeline to deliver natural gas across Alberta

Oct 21

3

Near a Seabrook parking lot, two transformers failed four minutes apart as heat climbed past 95 degrees, and one burst into flame while the reactor stayed online

Oct 21

4

A planned Alaska battery could let Shaktoolik’s diesel generators run 2,200 fewer hours annually as wind takes over

Oct 21

5

Decades ago a rusting cargo ship near New England began sending power ashore from one converted hold, and it kept the lights on for over a decade

Oct 21

6

Oregon’s 119-MW Leaning Juniper IIB wind farm is getting new equipment to supply Google’s data centers in The Dalles

Oct 21

7

Oklo moves a second Texas isotope facility forward under DOE’s nuclear launch initiative, doubling down on the state as a base for advanced nuclear production

Oct 21

8

MMA proposes second Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale covering 1.05 million acres, scheduled for March 2027

Oct 21

Editorial Voices

Carlos Albero RojasCEO

Daniel GarciaChief Editor

Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor

Kelly LippkeStaff Writer

Prince SibandaStaff Writer

Anke MareenStaff Writer

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