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GE Vernova and LS Electric form joint venture to develop VSC-HVDC technology for Korea’s next-generation power grid

On August 26, 2026, GE Vernova and LS Electric announced they’d signed an agreement to establish a joint venture centered on Voltage-Sourced Converter High-Voltage Direct Current (VSC-HVDC) technology—a…

By Kelly Lippke · September 3, 2026

GE Vernova

A rusted wellhead standing among orphaned oil wells in pasture

Oklahoma lawmakers voted 85 to 6 to let companies convert orphaned oil wells into geothermal heat sources, and the bill then stalled one chamber later with more than 19,000 wells still unplugged

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

Offshore gas vessel

A gas vessel the length of 4 city blocks sat shut in 177 miles off Darwin while crews cleaned two fouled heat exchangers, and the compressor seal work was the part that went to plan

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

SLB

SLB launches two artificial lift technologies for U.S. land operations to cut equipment wear and boost production efficiency

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 2

Texas

Texas upstream oil and gas sector loses 1,200 jobs in July 2026, recording second straight monthly decline

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 2

Gas stove burner flame in a home kitchen, gas stove benzene risk, 47 million american

A team put sensors in 87 homes and measured a gas stove on high emitting benzene at up to 25 times the electric rate, and the bedrooms were still above health limits hours after the flame went out

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 2

Oil

Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil output climbs to record recent highs as Bay du Nord deepwater project advances through regulatory review

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 1

Monarch 311 MW solar portfolio

Monarch has finished a 311 MW solar portfolio in Texas, and 250 MWh of battery storage now sits alongside it to hold power for later

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 3

Algae, tiny fish

A “living solar panel” the size of a grain of rice just won a global wildlife vote that scientists hope will change how we see the ocean’s smallest creatures, and it does so by stealing chloroplasts from algae to photosynthesize like a plant

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Scorched connector beneath rooftop solar panels after one of 212 rooftop solar panel fires

Rooftop solar fires across Britain reached 212 in 1 year against 91 three years earlier, and the number that spread beyond the array itself nearly tripled over the same stretch

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

SolarWindow ultra-thin product

SolarWindow is turning solar into something manufacturers can peel and stick, launching an ultra-thin product aimed at U.S. production lines

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 3

Home solar

Across Virginia homes and small businesses, a statewide rooftop solar bulk-buy program unlike anything tried before is pooling thousands of residents to slash installation costs by up to 30 percent

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

GE Vernova

GE Vernova and LS Electric form joint venture to develop VSC-HVDC technology for Korea’s next-generation power grid

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

GE Vernova

GE Vernova launches 170 kV SF₆-free switchgear at CIGRE Paris 2026, completing its full transmission-grid GIS range

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Three still wind turbines on a County Wexford hillside behind a rural farmhouse, county wexford turbines

A couple 3,400 feet from a County Wexford ridge complained about turbine noise for 12 years, and a Dublin judge silenced half the wind farm after the operators ignored the manufacturer’s offer to fix it

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

GE Vernova

GE Vernova awarded Stage 3 contract for Queensland’s 780 MW Supernode battery storage project, covering all three development stages

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 2

Collapsed wind tower lying on Oklahoma farmland after calm-day wind tower collapse, 538 foot wind

A wind tower near an Oklahoma town let go at 23 minutes past 7 with no gust anywhere on the plain, and 8 months later the same model dropped its whole top section onto a German field

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 2

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Uranium

U.S. uranium concentrate production reached 2.1 million pounds in 2025, the highest output since 2017

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Data centers are betting billions on small nuclear reactors but experts say the technology may not arrive in time and costs remain far above wind and solar

Data centers are betting billions on small nuclear reactors, but experts say the technology may not arrive in time and costs remain far above wind and solar

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 3

Nuclear

LLNL and Ampera launch THUNDER project to develop thorium-based TRISO nuclear fuel

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

elk eating crops near nuclear site

Elk learned to hide inside an 890-square-mile nuclear site by day and raid farmers’ fields by night, so Idaho opened another 80 square miles to hunters

By Anke Maree · Sep 3

Paks nuclear plant on the Danube river during record low water Danube nuclear plant shutdown, 44 year old

A Hungarian nuclear plant on the Danube got down to 1 working turbine out of 8 before rain in Austria arrived, and the plant downstream in Romania went all the way to nothing

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

Pacific Fusion $1 billion New Mexico campus

Pacific Fusion breaks ground on a $1 billion New Mexico campus built to push fusion from the lab toward industrial scale

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 2

DOE

DOE and Montana release Final Environmental Impact Statement for 422-mile North Plains Connector transmission line

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

Off Oregon America s first major wave energy testing site just opened where buoys columns and floating arms will harvest the ocean s relentless motion for the continental grid

Off Oregon, America’s first major wave energy testing site just opened where buoys, columns, and floating arms will harvest the ocean’s relentless motion for the continental grid

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 3

DOE

DOE awards $5.5 million to 11 national lab projects to cut U.S. hydropower permitting time and costs

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 3

compressed hydrogen trailer cylinders in a nighttime Colton storage yard

A single compressed hydrogen trailer in Colton exploded, and 35 of California’s roughly 50 retail hydrogen stations were dark within a matter of days

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 3

Massachusetts spent a decade building a hydropower lifeline from Canada until it went dark for two weeks and left the region burning natural gas through its hottest summer days

Massachusetts spent a decade building a hydropower lifeline from Canada until it went dark for two weeks and left the region burning natural gas through its hottest summer days

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 2

Xcel Energy work at Wisconsin’s Cedar Falls

Xcel Energy restarts major rehabilitation work at Wisconsin’s Cedar Falls hydropower project, bringing the century-old asset back into focus

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 2

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

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

Researchers built a hydrogen turbine that makes electricity from controlled explosions and just shattered a world record

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Aug 22

Power to Hydrogen 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer

Power to Hydrogen delivers its first commercial 0.5 MW AEM electrolyzer from Ohio to a customer in Antwerp

By Prince Sibanda · Aug 19

Plug Power U.S. hydrogen operations

Plug Power scales U.S. hydrogen operations with 1,666 fuel cell deployments and 40 tons of daily production capacity

By Prince Sibanda · Aug 19

Hydrogen

Highland Council approves Protium’s 15 MW Cromarty Green Hydrogen Production Facility in Alness, Scotland’s only HAR1-backed hydrogen project

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 16

Sasol

Sasol commissions Envision Energy to conduct green hydrogen design study at Sasolburg facility in South Africa

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 11

An old North Sea gas platform began producing hydrogen using wind power and sent it ashore through the same pipeline it was already using

An old North Sea gas platform began producing hydrogen using wind power and sent it ashore through the same pipeline it was already using

By Anke Maree · Aug 11

Hydrogen

A tiny iron piece smaller than a virus just outperformed the precious metal that has powered hydrogen fuel cells for decades

By Kelly Lippke · Aug 8

Latest News

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Piedmont Natural Gas reaches rate agreement in South Carolina to lower customer costs and fund infrastructure upgrades

Sep 3

2

GE Vernova launches 170 kV SF₆-free switchgear at CIGRE Paris 2026, completing its full transmission-grid GIS range

Sep 3

3

U.S. uranium concentrate production reached 2.1 million pounds in 2025, the highest output since 2017

Sep 3

4

Data centers are betting billions on small nuclear reactors, but experts say the technology may not arrive in time and costs remain far above wind and solar

Sep 3

5

Monarch has finished a 311 MW solar portfolio in Texas, and 250 MWh of battery storage now sits alongside it to hold power for later

Sep 3

6

Oklahoma lawmakers voted 85 to 6 to let companies convert orphaned oil wells into geothermal heat sources, and the bill then stalled one chamber later with more than 19,000 wells still unplugged

Sep 3

7

A “living solar panel” the size of a grain of rice just won a global wildlife vote that scientists hope will change how we see the ocean’s smallest creatures, and it does so by stealing chloroplasts from algae to photosynthesize like a plant

Sep 3

8

LLNL and Ampera launch THUNDER project to develop thorium-based TRISO nuclear fuel

Sep 3

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