A team of researchers has developed deep-learning surrogate models that can replicate the outputs of mesoscale wind farm simulations at a fraction of their usual computational…
For the first time, solar power is on track to outproduce coal across Texas’s main electricity grid — not by a narrow margin, but by a…
MIT engineers have built a solar-powered desalination system that runs without batteries — and without any connection to the grid. Developed by the GEAR Center team…
Lithium sits at the heart of the global push toward electric vehicles and grid-scale batteries — and much of it is locked inside hard rock deposits…
A team of researchers has published a new open-access experimental dataset designed to support wind farm control research and numerical model validation. Built from wind tunnel…
Sweden’s nuclear ambitions took two concrete steps forward this week. Studsvik, the Swedish engineering firm, filed its second nuclear application of the spring — this time…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have cleared a significant hurdle in the pursuit of commercial fusion energy. In a paper…
The Bureau of Land Management opened a 45-day public comment period on June 1, 2026, on a proposed sale of roughly three acres of federal land…
Coal-fired power generation held a consistent profitability advantage over natural gas generation across the MISO region in the first four months of 2026, according to new…
The American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference opened this week in Denver, Colorado, under the theme “Net Out and Power Up” — and the room it drew…
In June 2026, nuclear project management firm MATRIX published guidance on what it calls the “execution gap” — the persistent disconnect between how nuclear construction projects…
U.S. industrial natural gas consumption already set a record in 2025, averaging 23.6 billion cubic feet per day — and the Energy Information Administration expects that…
Doug Manning spent years building solar projects across Vermont. He has enough panels on his own roof to zero out his electric bill. But standing at…
A nuclear project nearly two decades in the making is getting a second life in the Utah desert. Blue Castle Holdings and Fulcrum Point Holdings announced…
Kazakhstan announced last week that it has officially partnered with Russia to develop a new nuclear power plant — formalizing agreements on a project Russia had…
Cornell University engineers have built a computing device that stores information electrically but reads it through a tiny vibrating beam — an approach that sidesteps some…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory recognized five small business subcontractors and one internal staff member at its annual Small Business of the Year Awards ceremony, held Tuesday,…
The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public scoping process for the proposed DeLamar gold and silver mine, covering 6,708 public acres near Silver City…
Cottonwood Campground near Lander, Wyoming, will be closed to visitors for the entire month of June. The BLM Lander Field Office announced the shutdown as crews…
Scattered across the United States are hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells that exist in no official record — drilled as far back as…
U.S. total energy exports hit a record 31 quadrillion British thermal units in 2025, up 2% from the previous record set just a year earlier, according…
U.S. natural gas consumption for power generation is on track to hold flat this summer — then break records. In its May 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook,…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory closed out fiscal year 2025 with its annual Small Business of the Year Awards ceremony, held Tuesday, May 19, at the ORNL…
Starting May 30, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management is placing restrictions on specific activities and equipment across BLM-administered lands in Oregon’s Roseburg District. The fire…
The Bureau of Land Management is asking the public to weigh in on a proposed land exchange that would swap up to 76,000 acres of federal…
Evaluating dozens of wind farm layouts across a region can take weeks of supercomputer time — a bottleneck that slows down clean energy planning before a…
A 51-second Facebook video posted by a Michigan state lawmaker has been viewed more than a million times — carrying a claim that could reshape how…
America’s hydropower fleet is easy to overlook — a quiet, largely invisible backbone of the national grid, its turbines spinning in dams built generations ago. Yet…
Tucked into the Finnish city of Vaasa, Wärtsilä’s Sustainable Technology Hub spans 90,000 square meters, employs more than 3,800 engineers, and draws roughly 1,000 visitors every…
When sweeping import tariffs began reshaping the economics of global trade, few industries felt the pressure more acutely than consumer appliances. For a company moving millions…
Arizona’s grid is under pressure. A booming population, a wave of new data centers, and relentless summer heat are pushing electricity demand to levels the state’s…
In a small manufacturing town in northeast Ohio, a rubber products facility has quietly crossed a threshold no other commercial building in Seville had reached before.…
The head of the International Energy Agency has a stark assessment of where the world stands: this is the largest energy security crisis humanity has ever…
Greece’s mainland grid now exports surplus solar electricity to neighboring countries — a milestone few would have predicted a decade ago. Yet dozens of Aegean islands…
Global renewable energy investment is being redrawn — not by crisis, but by calculation. In a transaction that closed in late 2025, Spanish independent power producer…
The solar industry entered 2026 carrying two compounding problems: a glut of manufacturing capacity that had hammered margins across the sector, and an efficiency ceiling that…
At Intersolar Europe 2026, solar manufacturers are once again competing to extract more power from the same cell platforms — squeezing gains not through new chemistry,…
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, tunnels blasted from solid rock six to eight decades ago still channel water to turbines that have quietly powered a country for…
In 2016, the world added 75 gigawatts of solar power in a single year. By 2025, that figure had reached 655 gigawatts — nearly nine times…
The U.S. produces far more natural gas than it consumes — enough to keep prices low at home and supply a growing share of global LNG…
Deep inside Norwegian mountains, turbines have been spinning quietly for nearly a century — carved into rock, fed by glacial rivers, largely invisible to the millions…
South Carolina’s utility regulator has approved a new Duke Energy program that pays businesses to put their batteries to work for the grid. The Public Service…
The PG&E Corporation Foundation is now accepting applications for its Better Together Nature Positive Innovation Grant program, which will award $500,000 in environmental stewardship grants across…
Ameren Missouri energized a new substation in Cape Girardeau County on May 27, 2026, marking a notable upgrade to the local power grid. Located near the…
U.S. natural gas supply is not the problem. That, at least, is the argument Williams Companies executives made at the 2026 Offshore Technology Conference — and…
Ameresco announced on May 28 the completion of the first phase of a multi-year manhole rehabilitation initiative with the City of Mesquite, Texas — a system…
Solar panels have looked more or less the same for decades — dark, flat rectangles that generate clean energy but rarely win design awards. For historic…
A solar cell that exceeds 100% efficiency sounds like a violation of physics — and if taken at face value, it would be. Energy can’t be…
The world is installing solar panels faster than it can secure the materials to make them. At the center of that tension is polysilicon — the…
Billions of refrigerators and air conditioners keep the world cool — and quietly pump potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every time they leak. The refrigerants…
