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NextEra Energy has locked in an initial $3.3 billion in funding after signing definitive agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Government of Japan…
At the shifting boundary where open ocean meets frozen Arctic sea ice near Greenland, atmospheric sensors recently recorded a startling anomaly. Aboard the Royal Research Ship…
PaxOcean wrapped up two LNG carrier repair projects in a single week at its Batam yard. The back-to-back deliveries involved Golden Queena—a 5.57 million cubic foot…
RWE posted adjusted EBITDA of $3.27 billion (€3.0 billion) in the first half of 2026, up more than 40% from $2.29 billion (€2.1 billion) in the…
U.S. natural gas production is on pace to shatter its own record. The Energy Information Administration’s August 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook projects marketed output will average…
At 10:10 p.m. on August 6, Slovakia’s Mochovce Unit 4 reactor achieved criticality—the point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. Twenty-one minutes later, operator…
While severe storms recently knocked out power to 135,000 Ohio homes, one Northwest Ohio community stepped into the rain to celebrate a solar installation that thrives…
NextEra Energy announced on August 12 that it has executed definitive agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Government of Japan to fund the…
On National 811 Day, PPL Electric Utilities is asking customers and contractors across eastern and central Pennsylvania to do one simple thing before they break ground…
Arevon Energy declared its Nighthawk Energy Storage Project fully operational on August 12, 2026. Located in Poway, California, the facility carries a capacity of 300 MW…
With turbines nearly three times their size, Britain’s biggest wind farm is preparing to reinvent itself from the ground up. High on a wind-swept plateau south…
Calgary-based Bonterra Energy Corp. reported its strongest quarterly output on record on August 11, 2026, with production averaging 16,828 barrels of oil equivalent per day in…
Scatec has announced the Commercial Operations Date for the second and final phase of its Obelisk project in Egypt, bringing the installation to its full capacity…
Fiji is in talks with Malaysian energy giant PETRONAS and senior government officials in Kuala Lumpur over a plan to build strategic fuel reserves and strengthen…
Across the windswept grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a staggering industrial transformation just crossed a quiet threshold. High-tech energy corridors spanning China’s remote northern frontier endured a…
Surerus Murphy Joint Venture has been named the first terrestrial contractor on the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) natural gas pipeline project in northern British Columbia.…
Equinor has awarded Wood a three-year contract to manage lifecycle information services across nearly 100 assets in Norway—spanning offshore installations, subsea sites, and onshore plants. Announced…
Babcock & Wilcox just placed an order for 1 gigawatt of steam turbines from Siemens Energy—announced August 10 alongside its Q2 2026 results—to power an AI…
Artificial intelligence data centers are on track to consume an astounding 1,200 terawatt-hours of electricity annually by 2035. To put that in perspective, that single sector will…
Calgary-based Lycos Energy Inc. (TSXV: LCX) flipped from a C$54.6 million net loss to a C$3.5 million net income in Q2 2026. The company dropped its…
A study published in Nature Communications in August 2026 reveals that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exported thousands of metric tons of uranium—undeclared and…
Centrus Energy Corp. and X-Energy just signed an enrichment services contract. Under the deal, Centrus will supply both low-enriched uranium and high-assay low-enriched uranium to fuel…
U.S. utility-scale battery storage capacity has grown at an average annual rate of 70% over the past three years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…
Florida stands as America’s second-largest producer of electricity, yet it cannot power itself independently. The state routinely draws power from neighboring regional grids to cover the…
Highland Council has granted planning permission to Protium for the Cromarty Green Hydrogen Production Facility—a 15 MW green hydrogen electrolysis plant in Alness, near Inverness. The…
Egypt’s South Valley Egyptian Petroleum Holding Company is preparing to award seven new oil and gas exploration blocks—six in southern Egypt and one in the Red…
Copenhagen-based developer European Energy completed the sale of the Cerano Energreen solar project in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy, on August 6, 2026. The fully permitted, grid-connected 90…
Arctic cold locked down the northeastern United States last month, sending regional electricity demand surging. As temperatures plunged, heating systems strained electrical infrastructure to its absolute…
ExxonMobil Moçambique Limitada, acting on behalf of the Area 4 partners, has awarded McDermott Energy Solutions (UK) Ltd. a letter of intent for limited engineering and…
Belgian LNG specialist EXMAR has taken delivery of the SIMAISA, a 146,000 m³ (roughly 5.16 million cubic feet) LNG carrier secured under an initial seven-year charter…
Viridien has kicked off Phase I of the Guyana Shallow Water 3D seismic survey — a major multi-client acquisition and imaging program offshore Guyana. The initiative…
SSE has filed a planning application with An Coimisiún Pleanála for the proposed Crumhach Wind Farm, a 102MW onshore wind development near Dromore West in County…
Ohio farmland is quietly becoming ground zero for America’s AI power crisis, and one developer began preparing for it more than a decade ago. Northeast of…
RWE Americas just signed a deal to sell its U.S. Distributed Clean Energy business to Infrastructure at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. We’re talking about roughly 348 MWdc…
Kelt Exploration Ltd. (TSX: KEL) just broke its own record. In Q2 2026, the Calgary-based producer averaged 50,388 barrels of oil equivalent per day—a 30% jump…
Saudi Aramco produced 9.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in Q2 2026. That’s down sharply from 12.614 million in Q1 2026 and 12.780 million…
At the Lightning Dock geothermal plant in New Mexico, heat was disappearing fast. The shallow wells feeding the 15-megawatt facility had cooled at five to ten…
On August 4, 2026, Rhode Island Energy announced that recent upgrades to its electric grid kept nearly 5,000 customers from losing power across three separate outage…
Zelestra just flipped the switch on three solar plants in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain—all on schedule. The Brazatortas I, II, and IV facilities add up to 57…
Tourmaline Oil Corp. (TSX: TOU), Canada’s largest natural gas producer, just got the green light from the Toronto Stock Exchange to renew its normal course issuer…
Sterling Shipyard has delivered the Laguna Gulf to Gulf LNG Tugs of Brownsville, LLC—a joint venture of Bay-Houston Management, Moran Towing Corp., and Suderman & Young…
ConocoPhillips announced Thursday it has completed $1.7 billion in noncore Lower 48 asset sales—a transaction that pushed the U.S. oil producer past its $5 billion asset…
A solar-and-battery facility unlike anything the United States has built before is taking shape across the sprawling farmland of Mississippi County, Arkansas. Best known for heavy…
Offshore energy operators are quietly swapping out fixed platforms and manual storage methods for a new generation of intelligent vessels. Floating Storage and Offloading units—along with…
Calgary-based Lycos Energy Inc. closed three concurrent transactions on August 6, simultaneously completing a $70 million CAD ($50.9 million USD) acquisition of Sparky formation waterflood assets…
For decades, the heavy machinery of coal extraction hummed across the Stratford Mining Complex in New South Wales, Australia. Then, in 2024, the digging stopped for…
Serica Energy nearly doubled its production in the first half of 2026, averaging 44,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day—up from 24,700 boepd in the same…
Dominion Energy Virginia has asked federal regulators to extend the early site permit for its North Anna nuclear power plant in Louisa County for another 20…
BP announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire Woodside Energy Group’s 70 percent operating stake in the Calypso deepwater gas field offshore Trinidad and Tobago—a deal…
Norway’s Labour Party government dropped a new energy package on Friday aimed at speeding up onshore wind power and grid development. At a press conference in…
