Kelly is an experienced writer with 15 years of experience exploring the big stories that shape our world, from tech breakthroughs and space exploration to climate, energy, and the fascinating quirks of science. She has a talent for turning complex ideas into sharp, memorable insights that stay with readers long after they’ve finished reading.
Numerical models for wind farm control are only as reliable as the experimental data used to test them. That has long been the quiet problem: data…
Jadestone Energy has brought the first well of its 2026 Malaysia infill drilling campaign online at approximately 3,000 barrels of oil per day, the AIM-listed, Asia-Pacific-focused…
MODEC has announced it will supply a SOFEC® Internal Turret Mooring System for the Coral Norte FLNG project offshore Mozambique, developed by Eni alongside partners CNPC,…
Keeping grid voltage stable has always required careful coordination—but as data centers multiply and electricity demand grows faster and less predictably, that task is getting harder.…
The drought-browned plains of southeastern Colorado don’t look like the center of a geopolitical supply crisis. But thousands of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, a…
Buccaneer Energy has completed a reserve valuation update tied to its credit facility with WAFD Bank, confirming an 18% increase in total net proved reserves and…
Molten salt reactor developer Natura Resources has signed a formal HALEU offtake agreement with New York-based startup Quadrant Nuclear Industries, securing a supply of high-assay low-enriched…
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy spent three hours on June 9 examining six proposals to reform how the United States permits…
Researchers in northern Germany have deployed three synchronized short-range scanning lidars alongside conventional mast anemometers to measure wind turbulence at a near-coastal site—and the results, published…
Sandia National Laboratories’ HMTech program is heading into its 40th year—and this June, it’s bringing 120 middle and high school students back into the hands-on STEM…
In the quiet Swiss village of Buttes, 48 solar panels now sit between the rails of an active train line, low enough for rolling stock to…
When the 19th SNEC International PV Power Generation and Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition wrapped up in Shanghai on June 5, 2026, the most telling detail…
On June 18, 2026, Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 reactor completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County—marking the…
As Europe’s offshore wind buildout accelerates, its crowded seas are quietly generating a new kind of conflict. When a wind farm is built upwind of an…
Between March and June 2026, clean energy rewrote the record books across the United States. Solar, wind, and batteries posted milestone after milestone during the spring…
BP has formally launched a sale process for minority stakes in Kaskida and Tiber, its two largest Gulf of Mexico development projects, according to four people…
Venezuelan crude is already flowing into U.S. ports at close to 600,000 barrels per day — roughly half of the country’s total exports — and American…
Equinor and its Johan Sverdrup partners have announced plans for a fourth phase of development at Norway’s largest oil-producing field. The decision follows recently completed appraisal…
Ice covers glaciers, polar caps, and the frozen hearts of storm clouds. It is, by almost any measure, one of the most familiar substances on Earth.…
In the first five months of 2026, utility-scale solar generation in California’s grid surpassed natural gas output on 82% of days—up sharply from just 21% in…
Offshore wind market conditions have remained subdued through the second quarter of 2026, even as energy security concerns pushed renewables higher on political agendas in the…
Cushing crude inventories have dropped to less than 25 million barrels as of early June—sitting less than 2 million barrels above the hub’s operational floor, according…
At a shipyard on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, something larger than usual is taking shape. The Neptun wharf in Rostock—better known for building ferries and research…
BP has formally launched a sale process for minority stakes in two of its largest deepwater Gulf of Mexico projects, Kaskida and Tiber, according to four…
AltaGas Ltd. is in active negotiations with customers in India, Vietnam, Taiwan, and other Asian markets to supply Canadian propane and butane from its export terminal…
Flyscan Systems Inc. has published results from blind, independent testing of its aerial hyperspectral methane detection system, conducted May 7–8, 2026, at the Methane Emissions Technology…
Faith Technologies Incorporated has announced an $80.5 million investment to build its first Louisiana manufacturing facility in Ouachita Parish, Monroe. The 500,000-square-foot plant, located at 535…
California sits at the center of two urgent pressures: feed a growing population, or power a cleaner grid. For years, farmers across the state have faced…
Securing long-term LNG supply contracts from US exporters has become significantly harder, according to the CEO of Atlantic SEE LNG Trade, a Greek importer positioning itself…
Beetaloo Energy has completed all civil works at its Carpentaria Pilot Project site in Australia’s Beetaloo Basin, with installation of the Carpentaria Gas Plant now underway…
Phillips 66 is adding significant capacity to its Permian Basin midstream footprint with the Iron Mesa cryogenic gas processing plant, now under construction in Ector County,…
Nearly a dozen whales washed ashore along the New Jersey coast in the winter of 2022–23, just as offshore wind developers were ramping up survey work…
OPEC on Thursday lowered its 2026 global oil demand growth forecast to 970,000 barrels per day, marking the second consecutive monthly downward revision, according to the…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office has marked its calendar. On June 17, 2026, AFFO announced it will host its 2027 Peer…
A wind turbine controller that simultaneously chases higher revenue and lower wear sounds like an engineering tradeoff with no clean answer. Researchers at the Technical University…
At a facility in Harwell, UK, scientists have been pointing a beam of X-ray light—10 billion times brighter than the Sun—at fragments of ancient rock collected…
A blockchain-based cybersecurity framework developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed by GridForge Energy Solutions, marking the technology’s transition from federal research to commercial…
On June 11–12, New York State took its most concrete step yet toward a major nuclear expansion: regulators simultaneously launched the Nuclear Reliability Backbone initiative and…
Sorghum has fed people and livestock for millennia. It grows on six continents, tolerates drought, and asks for little. But a new study is looking at…
Federal energy regulators took sweeping action on June 18, 2026, issuing parallel show cause orders to all six regional grid operators under their jurisdiction—with FERC directing…
Sandia National Laboratories has completed field demonstrations of an AI-driven distributed energy resource management system designed to regulate grid voltage in real time—a capability the lab…
Researchers from Boston University, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Delaware have published what may be the most comprehensive catalog of its kind:…
DNV, one of the world’s leading independent assurance providers, has verified that Fluence’s global battery energy storage fleet achieved 98.7% MW-weighted availability — a figure the…
Natural gas output from the Permian region jumped 60% between 2021 and 2025, rising from 17.2 billion cubic feet per day to 27.6 Bcf/d, according to…
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a lawsuit on June 2 to halt construction of a $4 billion aluminum smelter planned in Inola, a rural northeastern…
On June 1, with no ceremony and no visible trace above ground, electricity began flowing through a 339-mile cable buried beneath fields, lakes, and city streets—from…
A new preprint study submitted to Nature Communications suggests that pollution and wildfire aerosols don’t cool the atmosphere right away — they may actually warm it…
The U.S. Department of Energy has reinstated a $57 million grant to American Battery Technology Co., the company announced Monday — reversing a cancellation that had…
For decades, “expensive and unreliable” has been the default verdict on wind power—a judgment that has quietly steered governments toward nuclear and fossil fuels when building…
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have unveiled a battery-free artificial photosynthesis system that produces formic acid from water and CO₂—and keeps running steadily as sunlight shifts…
