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Buried under 87 days of negative prices at the Waha Hub in West Texas, Permian gas became a liability drillers paid buyers to haul away, and the oil kept flowing regardless

On a Tuesday morning in April, a West Texas driller was doing something that sounds impossible: paying someone else to take its natural gas. Not discounting it. Not…

By Hugo Rojas · October 4, 2026

Permian Basin wellhead flaring gas during Waha Hub negative gas prices, west texas permian

Permian Basin wellhead flaring gas during Waha Hub negative gas prices, west texas permian

Buried under 87 days of negative prices at the Waha Hub in West Texas, Permian gas became a liability drillers paid buyers to haul away, and the oil kept flowing regardless

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 4

Brent crude

Brent crude settles near $107 a barrel as physical supply tightness outweighs US-Iran diplomatic progress on Hormuz

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Asia

Asia projected to lead global liquids storage capacity additions through 2030, GlobalData finds

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Crude

Brent crude falls below $100 as Saudi Arabia restarts East-West pipeline after drone attack shutdown

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Energy

Excelerate Energy selects Nord Gas Solutions to supply regasification module for its first FSRU conversion project

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Pipeline

NDT Global commercially launches QUADRA™ UHR inline inspection system for pipeline operators at IPCE 2026 in Calgary

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

West-facing solar panels on a Texas roof capturing late afternoon peak sunlight, austin west facing

In Austin, west-facing solar arrays pushed 49 percent more power into the 3 to 7 PM peak window than south facing panels of the same size, and the grid’s pricing clock made that the more valuable half of the day

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 4

- Lightstar Illinois community solar

Lightstar is doubling down on Illinois, expanding its community solar and battery-storage footprint across the state

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 4

Cebu

Cebu floating solar farm uses elastic moorings tested through one million wave cycles

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

bamboo floating solar platform on open seawater off the Shandong coast, 100 kw solar

A 100 kW solar platform off the Shandong coast floats on engineered bamboo tubes in open seawater, and the Yellow Sea is running its own durability test on every joint

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 3

Solar robots

Australian solar projects deploy five autonomous robots to increase module installation efficiency

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Drone

Autonomous drone inspects operating Rødsand 2 turbines using cameras and thermal imaging

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

18-megawatt turbines rising from South China Sea swells at the Yangjiang Fanshi wind farm, sitting 50 miles

Sitting 50 miles off Guangdong in 174 feet of South China Sea water, 33 turbines with 958-foot rotor spans became the first cluster of 18-megawatt offshore machines ever to enter full commercial operation

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 4

DeepOcean

DeepOcean and TFKable Group form joint venture to deliver integrated inter-array cable services for offshore wind

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Offshore wind farms are giving scientists a surprising new window into the slow fading of a current that keeps winters

Offshore wind wake losses reached 38% and extended 34 miles downwind

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 3

Sofia fixed-bottom wind farm turbine being installed 121 miles into the North Sea

Sitting 121 miles into the open North Sea on a seabed that was farmland in the last ice age, the world’s farthest fixed bottom wind farm sends its power home through a cable longer than the trip out

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 3

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Viaro Energy

Viaro Energy partners with Terrestrial Energy to assess molten salt reactor technology for UK industrial decarbonization

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

DOE Natura’s Texas MSR-1 project

DOE sends 4,700 pounds of historic reactor salt to Natura’s Texas MSR-1 project, giving the molten-salt program a rare stockpile of legacy material to work with

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 4

nuclear waste batteries being assembled inside a shielded hot cell at Vallecitos Nuclear Center, never ran 40

Sealed inside a 1980s generator that never ran, 40-year-old strontium-90 waste from a Tennessee federal stockpile is being wired into batteries for the ocean floor, and the assembly site is America’s oldest private nuclear plant

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 4

Palisades fuel load assembly being lowered into reactor vessel cavity, lake michigan shore

On the Lake Michigan shore, a 204-assembly fuel load began at a reactor emptied for scrapping four years ago, and a single tilted bundle halted the comeback

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 3

Fermi 2 reactor scram control room panel with amber indicator lights, one failed electrical

One failed electrical bus at a Michigan lakeside plant killed a 1,150-megawatt reactor’s protection system power, and the chain of events it set off shows how a single lockout can cascade through three separate systems

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 2

120-foot mock reactor Virginia facility towering above engineer at base

A 120-foot mock reactor in the Virginia hills sat silent for a decade, and two veterans schooled in rocket deadlines revived it to chase the data center power crisis bearing down on American grids

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 1

NDT

NDT Global commercially launches QUADRA™ UHR inline inspection system at IPCE 2026 in Calgary

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Victory Mills hydropower plant New York

Victory Mills hydropower settlement addresses eel passage, invasive fish control and eagle protection

By Anke Maree · Oct 4

MIT scientists made a pill sized battery out of paper that powers sensors and stimulators deep inside your body before

MIT develops dissolvable paper battery that operated for three days inside a living stomach

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 4

Washington's Lewis River Hydropower facility

Lewis River model links juvenile salmon production to improved collection at hydropower dams

By Anke Maree · Oct 4

Energy

3t and Siemens Energy open Aberdeen Power Academy to train substation fitter apprentices for Scotland’s expanding electricity grid

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 3

Ordinary raindrops falling through a pencil thin tube just powered a row of glowing lights in a discovery that could turn

Raindrops flowing through narrow tubes generated electricity with five-orders-of-magnitude efficiency improvement

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 2

Data center

Data centers adopting 800 VDC power architecture as AI workloads drive demand for higher-efficiency, fuel-cell-compatible infrastructure

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Plug 1 MW electrolyzer New Zealand

Plug sends a 1 MW electrolyzer to New Zealand, where it will help build out hydrogen fueling for heavy-duty trucks

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 3

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NewHydrogen is scouting Utah for the first ThermoLoop deployment, looking for a site where heat could do the heavy lifting in clean hydrogen production

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 26

Hyroad IMC Logistics’ hydrogen truck fleet

Hyroad starts fueling and servicing IMC Logistics’ hydrogen truck fleet in California, putting the zero-emission rigs into regular support operations

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 23

SunHydrogen Austin ProtoHub

SunHydrogen moves its Austin ProtoHub forward as full-size hydrogen modules close in on the 9% efficiency mark

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 19

Power to Hydrogen and Repsol AEM electrolysis

Power to Hydrogen and Repsol push AEM electrolysis past a 1,250-hour pilot, giving the technology a long-duration test under its belt

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 16

NewHydrogen third patent ThermoLoop

NewHydrogen has filed a third patent around ThermoLoop, its heat-driven process designed to make hydrogen without relying on conventional electrolysis

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

OroCarbo 12 Haffner systems

OroCarbo reserves 12 Haffner systems for a string of renewable hydrogen hubs planned across the Western U.S.

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

Latest News

1

Autonomous drone inspects operating Rødsand 2 turbines using cameras and thermal imaging

Oct 4

2

NDT Global commercially launches QUADRA™ UHR inline inspection system at IPCE 2026 in Calgary

Oct 4

3

In Austin, west-facing solar arrays pushed 49 percent more power into the 3 to 7 PM peak window than south facing panels of the same size, and the grid’s pricing clock made that the more valuable half of the day

Oct 4

4

Lightstar is doubling down on Illinois, expanding its community solar and battery-storage footprint across the state

Oct 4

5

Victory Mills hydropower settlement addresses eel passage, invasive fish control and eagle protection

Oct 4

6

Viaro Energy partners with Terrestrial Energy to assess molten salt reactor technology for UK industrial decarbonization

Oct 4

7

Sitting 50 miles off Guangdong in 174 feet of South China Sea water, 33 turbines with 958-foot rotor spans became the first cluster of 18-megawatt offshore machines ever to enter full commercial operation

Oct 4

8

MIT develops dissolvable paper battery that operated for three days inside a living stomach

Oct 4

Editorial Voices

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Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor

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Prince SibandaStaff Writer

Anke MareenStaff Writer

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