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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

Garage walls across California hold small metal boxes most people forget are even there. On the evening of October 6, those boxes woke up together. No homeowner touched…

By Hugo Rojas · October 20, 2026

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

Aramco

Saudi Aramco’s HAPCO refinery in China receives first Arabian crude cargo ahead of planned commercial startup

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Excavated section of the Keystone pipeline after the rupture near Kathryn, kathryn north dakota

Near Kathryn, North Dakota, a weld built with a 15 degree misalignment cracked for a decade before the Keystone line gave way, and investigators traced 3,500 barrels to a flaw baked in at the mill

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 20

Houthi

Houthi missile and drone strikes hit Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran, sparking fire and pushing oil prices higher

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

LNG

Guyana may cut LNG export capacity in half as Exxon reserves more gas for oilfield reinjection

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

Energy

Gibson Energy schedules Q3 2026 earnings release for November 2, with investor conference call set for November 3

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

Brent crude

Brent crude settles below $106 as profit-taking offsets Middle East and Russia supply fears

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

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

hybrid wind and solar project in Oregon

Near Moro, Oregon, developers propose 1,400 MW of solar, 400 MW of wind and up to 5,600 MWh of storage

By Anke Maree · Oct 19

Oregon

Oregon weighs plans for a 488-MW wind farm and matching battery system across 11,500 acres of farmland

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Cargill 87 MW South Dakota wind deal

Cargill adds an 87 MW South Dakota wind deal and an 85 MW Oklahoma solar project, stretching its U.S. renewable portfolio across two more states

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 20

GE Vernova

GE Vernova releases analysis of four net zero pathways for Spain’s power grid by 2050

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Rows of 18 megawatt offshore wind turbines standing in open sea, turbines off guangdong

Turbines off Guangdong spinning at eighty one kilometers from shore and 18 megawatts each pushed a Chinese wind farm to full power, and each blade sweep alone can run a home for nine days

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 20

KK Group U.S. repowering job

KK Group lands its first U.S. repowering job, giving 33 GE wind turbines a second life instead of sending the fleet toward retirement

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 20

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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

Rooppur reactor dome beside the Padma River after first chain reaction

Beside the Padma River in Pabna, a 1,080 megawatt reactor built over eight years reached its first chain reaction, and the milestone makes Bangladesh the world’s newest nuclear power producer

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 18

Myriad Uranium 24 breccia-pipe prospects

Myriad Uranium takes back full control of 24 breccia-pipe prospects in Arizona, consolidating a sizable piece of its U.S. uranium exploration portfolio

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 18

Nuclear

NANO Nuclear Energy signs $13.5 million deal to acquire NRC-licensed nuclear fuel processing assets in New Mexico

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 17

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

Texas

Blue Origin to invest $554 million in Hutto, Texas manufacturing campus, creating over 2,000 jobs

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

Duke Energy

Duke Energy proposes a second underground Bad Creek powerhouse with four reversible turbines, using reservoirs already in place

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 19

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

Oregon weighs plans for a 488-MW wind farm and matching battery system across 11,500 acres of farmland

Oct 20

2

Saudi Aramco’s HAPCO refinery in China receives first Arabian crude cargo ahead of planned commercial startup

Oct 20

3

Near Kathryn, North Dakota, a weld built with a 15 degree misalignment cracked for a decade before the Keystone line gave way, and investigators traced 3,500 barrels to a flaw baked in at the mill

Oct 20

4

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

Oct 20

5

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

Oct 20

6

Cargill adds an 87 MW South Dakota wind deal and an 85 MW Oklahoma solar project, stretching its U.S. renewable portfolio across two more states

Oct 20

7

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

Oct 20

8

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

Oct 20

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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