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Planted raises $31.8 million to put more robots to work building solar projects and scale its automated construction platform

The energy industry is in a unique position where it appears that there are no limitations or a ceiling for what developers can do. The integration of technology…

By Prince Sibanda · September 21, 2026

Planted $31.8 million robots

Steel oil processing facility on Alaska North Slope tundra with Arctic pipeline in foreground, across 100 miles

Across 100 miles of Arctic pipeline on Alaska’s western North Slope, a new oil field delivered its first barrels this spring and reset what the frozen tundra can produce

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 21

GE Vernova

GE Vernova commissions Vietnam’s first LNG power plant and announces $200 million HVDC manufacturing facility at Hanoi summit

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

Drone

BLM approves drone monitoring and low-tech stream restoration projects at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

Oil

S-Oil reaches final investment decision for Axens’ Liquid Phase Isomerization technology at its aromatics complex

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

Exposed gas pipeline compression coupling pulled loose in Jackson clay soil after gas pipeline explosions, shifting clay soil

A 68 day wait on a leak logged as nonhazardous ended with a house explosion in south Jackson, while the clay under the street had already pulled the pipe out of its coupling

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 20

BLM

BLM sells 940 acres of federal land in Southern Nevada to Las Vegas for $94 million to enable 6,000-home development

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

Planted $31.8 million robots

Planted raises $31.8 million to put more robots to work building solar projects and scale its automated construction platform

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 21

Texas

Texas Governor orders audit of data center grid connection requests as ERCOT faces 474 GW demand backlog

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 21

SEG Solar HJT module production

SEG Solar starts commercial HJT module production at its second U.S. factory, adding another domestic line for next-generation solar manufacturing

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 21

Solar panels spanning a California irrigation canal at Project Nexus solar canal California, 1 2 miles

Stretched over 1.2 miles of a California irrigation canal, the solar canopy at Project Nexus fed the grid and kept more water in a valley that was already counting every drop

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 21

Solar

SolarEdge and Infineon extend partnership to develop solid-state circuit breakers for 800 VDC AI data centers

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 21

Data center

S&P Global examines ENGIE-QTS power purchase agreement and data center energy demand trends in ERCOT

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 21

wind farm overlapping with forest ecosystem

Three Korean wind farms sent the forest’s mammals in opposite directions, with deer becoming least likely around the newer turbines while wild boars did the reverse and became most likely to show up around those very same machines

By Anke Maree · Sep 21

Energy

2026 Business Energy Census finds 73% of customers still willing to pay premium for renewable energy

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 21

Turbine

From a salvaged truck axle and a cold hillside, one stubborn Navy captain quietly planted the roots of America’s wind power revolution by turning a scrappy campus turbine into the blueprint that built an entire industry

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 21

GE Vernova

GE Vernova secures 71.5 MW onshore wind turbine supply deals with BBWind and Greenvolt Power in Germany

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

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Boiling water nuclear reactor buildings at pre-dawn with neutron sensor scram lighting, one failed neutron

One failed neutron sensor in an 867-megawatt Illinois reactor tripped half its shutdown logic at 4 a.m., and the unit sat at zero power five days later

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 21

Europe s nuclear plants are bending in the heat but quietly proving they were built to weather the storm and a

Europe’s nuclear plants are bending in the heat but quietly proving they were built to weather the storm and a landmark new study shows energy losses have plummeted 91% since 2003

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 21

Antares U.S. Air Force award

Antares lands a $161 million U.S. Air Force award to push its space nuclear reactor program closer to deployment

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 20

Lightbridge Idaho’s test reactor

Lightbridge secures a slot inside Idaho’s test reactor, clearing the way to irradiate its advanced nuclear fuel under real reactor conditions

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 20

500 metric ton reactor pressure vessel being lowered into nuclear reactor building on Somerset coast, half built reactor

A 551 ton steel vessel came down onto its support ring inside a Somerset reactor building with 1.6 inches of gap on either side, where the crane that did the final inch was not the big one outside

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 19

TRISO fuel compacts

A 1 to 20 megawatt microreactor went critical in Idaho with no pumps and no moving parts in its cooling, while the record it actually set is narrower than the coverage suggests

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 18

Gloved hands holding a tiny alphavoltaic chip converting alpha particle electricity in a lab, startup s 5

A startup’s $5.2 million defense contract targets the most energetic nuclear decay particle, and bench tests show a solid state chip converting alpha emissions directly into electricity for space hardware

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 21

Every morning your coffee leaves behind a second harvest that scientists are quietly turning into ultra pure

Every morning, your coffee leaves behind a “second harvest” that scientists are quietly turning into ultra-pure fuel for planes, trucks, and a cleaner energy future — and the leftover grounds still have more to give

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 20

vanadium flow battery tanks beside solar panels at a Gujarat utility-scale site, 100 mwh liquid

A 100 megawatt hour flow battery at India’s biggest solar park runs on 5.9 hours of dissolved vanadium, but the country has had non lithium grid storage since long before anyone tendered this one

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 20

New England energy

New England built a “clean energy bridge” to Canada, and when winter struck hardest, it went dark and sparked a $90 million battle over who left the lights off

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 20

WellSense

WellSense partners with Precise Downhole Solutions to bring fiber optic well surveillance technology to Canadian operators

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 19

Methanol

Cargo ships are betting their future on green methanol as a cleaner energy source, and tiny “pop-up” factories built from repurposed car engines that convert waste gas on-site may be the only way to produce enough of it to power a global fleet

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 19

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

Beneath Western Australia s red iron rich soil a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions

Beneath Western Australia’s red, iron-rich soil, a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions of years and scientists just learned how to turn up the power by injecting water into ancient rock

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 11

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen s biggest

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen’s biggest problem by selling a “hidden ingredient” found in every drop of water and using the profits to fund clean fuel production at prices that could make federal subsidies irrelevant

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 8

KBR 250 MW Nebraska project

KBR lands the front-end engineering job for a 250 MW Nebraska project designed to turn renewable hydrogen into e-methane

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 7

Boston

A Boston startup is testing underground lightning strikes to turn ancient rock into a hydrogen factory using machines named Zeus and Thor

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 24

Latest News

1

Texas Governor orders audit of data center grid connection requests as ERCOT faces 474 GW demand backlog

Sep 21

2

One failed neutron sensor in an 867-megawatt Illinois reactor tripped half its shutdown logic at 4 a.m., and the unit sat at zero power five days later

Sep 21

3

Hunga Tonga’s eruption accidentally “vacuumed up” methane from the sky in a way scientists had never witnessed before, and the culprit was a chemical chain reaction triggered by ash, seawater, and sunlight that tracked across an entire ocean for ten days

Sep 21

4

A startup’s $5.2 million defense contract targets the most energetic nuclear decay particle, and bench tests show a solid state chip converting alpha emissions directly into electricity for space hardware

Sep 21

5

S&P Global examines ENGIE-QTS power purchase agreement and data center energy demand trends in ERCOT

Sep 21

6

Three Korean wind farms sent the forest’s mammals in opposite directions, with deer becoming least likely around the newer turbines while wild boars did the reverse and became most likely to show up around those very same machines

Sep 21

7

Across 100 miles of Arctic pipeline on Alaska’s western North Slope, a new oil field delivered its first barrels this spring and reset what the frozen tundra can produce

Sep 21

8

Europe’s nuclear plants are bending in the heat but quietly proving they were built to weather the storm and a landmark new study shows energy losses have plummeted 91% since 2003

Sep 21

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