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Holtec International and EDF Energy have jointly submitted a proposal to the UK government to deploy Holtec’s SMR-300 small modular reactors at Cottam, Nottinghamshire. The two…
In China’s arid northwest, a solar thermal plant faces a unique problem. It has nothing to do with sunlight. The desert delivers heat in abundance. But…
Canton, Georgia’s Water Pollution Control Plant, is in the middle of the largest capital improvement project in the city’s history—a $70 million expansion designed to boost…
Steam Solutions, an industrial energy and steam systems company with roots stretching back to 1928, is moving to embed AI and digital twin technology into its…
Offshore wind turbines endure brutal conditions. Salt air corrodes metal fast. Waves shake heavy structures relentlessly. Storms can strand repair crews for weeks. Deep inside each turbine sits…
Vestas just picked up 451 MW in new wind turbine contracts—ten separate orders across markets as different as Poland, Romania, Latvia, Japan, and Germany. The deals…
Sunrun, Renew Home, and Tesla just announced a three-way deal to deliver more than 16 gigawatts of flexible residential virtual power capacity to hyperscalers and utilities…
Federal nuclear regulators just moved closer to approving the first small modular reactor construction in the U.S. In June, NRC staff published a safety evaluation report…
Uniper and Respect Energy have signed six-year Power Purchase Agreements covering 219 MWp of solar capacity across four photovoltaic projects in Poland. The deal, announced this…
SeaBird Exploration just locked in a new 2D seismic survey contract for offshore India. Its vessel Eagle Explorer is set to mobilize in mid-July 2026. SED…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission dropped two proposed rules on July 1, 2026, that would reshape some of the most fundamental pieces of nuclear regulation in…
Colorado’s semi-arid grasslands are built for hardship. They face sparse rain and relentless summer heat. Plants are perpetually scraping for moisture. Solar panels planted across that…
Four companies have met the July 4, 2026, deadline that President Trump set for advanced nuclear development. Antares Nuclear, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics…
Severe weekend storms swept through eastern and central Pennsylvania, with wind gusts reaching up to 60 mph, leaving more than 115,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers without…
Duke Energy spent nearly $1 billion with North Carolina-based suppliers in 2025—and the company projects that figure could reach close to $5 billion over the next…
Beneath the freezing Antarctic seas lies a hidden world. It remains completely missing from everyday maps. This vast terrain features deep valleys and branching underwater channels.…
ARRAY Technologies (NASDAQ: ARRY) launched the DuraTrack D2S™ on June 16—a new dual-row solar tracker built for international markets. The Albuquerque-based company describes it as a…
GE Vernova announced on June 30, 2026, the completion of a modernization project at its high-voltage R&D laboratory in Noventa di Piave, near Venice, Italy. The…
As summer heat pushes electricity demand higher, PPL Electric Utilities is rolling out a broad outreach effort aimed at its roughly 1.5 million Pennsylvania customers. The…
GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Canadian valve manufacturer Velan signed a collaboration agreement in Paris on June 17, 2026, to explore supplying critical reactor valves…
Wind energy is expanding faster than anyone can keep up with. Turbines are popping up across six continents at a staggering pace. They are taking over…
On June 30, 2026, Rhode Island Energy published a set of safety and energy-management recommendations for its customers as near-triple-digit temperatures bore down on the state.…
NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) and Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) announced on May 18, 2026, that they’ve agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that would create…
Workers building a German power grid unearthed 5,000-year-old remains from an ancient civilization archaeologists still can’t fully explain. A hilltop near Gerstewitz, Germany, held a secret…
Portland General Electric announced on February 17, 2026, that it will acquire PacifiCorp’s Washington state electric utility operations for $1.9 billion, partnering with Manulife Investment Management…
SGE, a European small modular reactor development platform, has submitted an application under the UK’s Advanced Nuclear Framework to build fourteen GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300…
Brazil’s Petrobras and Mexico’s Pemex have signed a two-year, renewable memorandum of understanding to cooperate across hydrocarbon exploration, production, refining, petrochemicals, and carbon emissions reduction. The…
Swiss measurement and automation company Endress+Hauser has just opened two new facilities in the US—an expanded headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana, and a new office in Edgmont,…
The Nordex Group has secured orders from ENOVA and BMR Energy Solutions to supply and install 30 wind turbines across Germany, with a combined capacity exceeding…
Buchan Offshore Wind has appointed engineering firm Kent—backed by specialist partners Vekta Group and New Power Partners—as owner’s engineer for its nearly 1 GW floating offshore…
China has spent ten years building a massive offshore wind program. The nation added over 34 gigawatts of capacity. It keeps pushing turbines into deeper waters.…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild have filed a formal Notice of Intent to Sue against the U.S. Department of…
In Ohio, a major political fight is happening over solar farms. County officials have passed several bans. They want to protect local farmland. State lawmakers have…
TotalEnergies has agreed to sell its 85% interest in Block 2E offshore Malaysia to Japanese energy company INPEX for $350 million. The stake represents an 8.5%…
Italian energy major Eni and commodity trading house Mercuria have signed an agreement to form an equally owned joint venture for global energy commodities trading. The…
Iraq’s Ministry of Oil announced on June 30, 2026, that the Artawi gas processing project in Basra has entered a critical implementation phase. The declaration followed…
MacGregor booked a significant volume of offshore load handling modernization and upgrade contracts across the first and second quarters of 2026—a concentrated order intake spanning multiple…
Shell Offshore Inc. has agreed to sell its 50% non-operated working interest in the Na Kika deepwater platform and associated fields in the Gulf of Mexico,…
Think about the rules of biology. Some lines are never meant to be crossed. Plants make energy from sunlight. Animals eat plants or other animals. That…
ADNOC’s international investment arm XRG and Italy’s Eni have each signed agreements to grab a 32% stake in three Vaca Muerta shale gas blocks in Argentina.…
Europe has a massive space problem. The continent wants to clean up its power grid. It needs millions of new solar panels to do that. But…
Harbour Energy just kicked off gas production from its Dvalin North project in the Norwegian Sea—ahead of schedule and under its NOK 8 billion budget. The company…
EnergyPathways has landed a gas storage license for its MESH project in the East Irish Sea. The North Sea Transition Authority formally granted the license, and…
Sherwin-Williams has launched Heat-Flex AEB (Advanced Energy Barrier), a single-component thermal insulative coating designed to replace conventional mineral-based insulation on storage tanks, process vessels, and piping.…
AIM-listed UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) just dropped its unaudited interim results for the six months ended March 31, 2026 — and they confirm what’s been…
The European Commission has signed a tripartite public-private cooperation agreement on energy storage, bringing together 22 member states, storage developers and manufacturers, renewable energy producers, industrial…
Solar energy is expanding fast—but not always without a fight. As panels spread beyond rooftops onto open fields and meadows, public pushback has become a real…
Forests absorb roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide humans produce each year — a natural buffer that climate projections depend on. But a study published…
Yunnan Province generates more renewable electricity than it can use. The fix may lie underground — in vast salt caverns that could store surplus energy as…
On June 23, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a 253-page proposed rulemaking to modernize its security regulations — one of the most expansive updates the…
