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Clariant Catalysts and Lummus Technology just landed a catalyst supply contract for the world’s largest propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit — a project commissioned by Zhejiang Petrochemical…
U.S. crude oil production is on track to set a new annual record. The Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook projects output will average 13.8…
Deep in Appalachian southeast Ohio, Vinton County bears the physical scars of a long industrial past. For generations, coal mines, iron furnaces, and clay pits powered…
On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $300,000 prize competition aimed at one of geothermal energy’s oldest headaches: finding underground resources that…
West Virginia wasn’t among the five states the Department of Energy selected as Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses finalists in July. Then Gov. Patrick Morrissey started making…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity named nine winning teams in the Feeder of the Future Prize, a $50,000 American-Made competition that challenged participants…
Most Americans still picture the national power grid through a retro lens: towering coal stacks, humming natural gas turbines, and massive nuclear cooling towers doing all…
Lithuanian state energy company Ignitis has agreed to sign a 10-year LNG supply deal with a subsidiary of EQT Corp., one of the largest natural gas…
On Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced it had brokered a temporary local ceasefire around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — opening a window for…
On September 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation picked four projects for $73 million in funding through its…
Between May and August 2025, the ITER Organization declared a “summer of substantial progress” on its international fusion project, pointing to a string of milestones. Six…
Cornell is sending more than 30 faculty and staff delegates to Climate Week NYC, September 20–27, with over 25 events lined up alongside the United Nations…
Geothermal energy has long promised an infinite source of clean, dispatchable electricity generated directly beneath our feet. Yet unlocking this immense underground heat across the American…
Natural gas prices at Algonquin Citygate, a major New England pricing hub, averaged 43 cents per million British thermal units below the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub…
The Fusion Industry Association dropped a white paper this week, and it’s aimed at a pretty specific audience: the Agreement States that’ll soon be responsible for…
Grand Canyon National Park is navigating an unprecedented infrastructure crisis deep within its inner gorges. As millions of annual visitors arrive at the South Rim, an…
GridLiance West, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Transmission, broke ground this week in Jean, Nevada, on one of the state’s most significant transmission infrastructure projects in…
After six years of decontamination work, the Department of Energy (DOE) has begun tearing down Isotope Row — a cluster of 5 facilities at Oak Ridge…
NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) announced on September 8 that members of its senior management team will participate in investor meetings throughout September and into early October…
NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) and Enveniam signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on September 4, 2026, pairing a microreactor and nuclear fuel developer with a…
Site Selection magazine named PPL Electric Utilities one of the nation’s Top Utilities in Economic Development on September 3, 2026 — a recognition the Allentown-based company…
Rhode Island Energy announced on September 8 that it conditionally selected 150 MW of renewable energy from Clearway Energy Group’s proposed onshore wind development in Aroostook…
Inside a tokamak, fusion plasma superheated to over 100 million degrees Celsius (approximately 180 million degrees Fahrenheit) —far hotter than the core of the sun—can lose…
The U.S. Department of Energy has finalized a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to fund the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy…
For generations of fishing families along the Gulf of Maine, the Pacific Northwest, and Florida’s coastlines, the Atlantic and Pacific have served as a trusted calendar.…
The U.S. clean power industry closed the first half of 2026 with a record-breaking quarter, bringing 17.1 GW of new capacity online between April and June…
Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. (TSX: SOIL) just got the green light from the Toronto Stock Exchange to run another round of share buybacks. The Calgary-based…
Indian and Chinese refiners — the world’s two largest oil importers — have sharply stepped up spot purchases of Middle Eastern crude in early September, competing…
Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC) have secured Approval in Principle for a 114,000 DWT product and crude oil…
Oklo filed an emergency complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday, alleging that PJM Interconnection unjustifiably removed one of its generation projects from the…
In 2021, a hurricane-hunting research aircraft plummeted more than 1,600 feet without warning. Caught in a violent atmospheric downdraft, heavy gear slammed against the cabin ceiling…
In August 2025, France, the Netherlands, and Egypt each logged concrete milestones on separate nuclear power projects. EDF received environmental authorization to begin site preparation for…
Cornell University just landed a four-year, $7.5 million grant from the USDA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative to build a Center of Excellence for Orchard Robotics inside…
Marie stumbles slightly as she records video on her smartphone, catching her footing on loose stone before redirecting the lens toward a lush canopy. Around her,…
On September 3, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office officially stood up a Geothermal Center of Excellence at the National Laboratory…
OQ Gas Networks, Oman’s sole operator of the national natural gas transmission network, is simultaneously building three gas pipeline projects — all scheduled for completion by…
Arabian Drilling signed an $800 million land rig contract with SLB Middle East on August 30, 2026 — one of the largest drilling agreements the Saudi…
SLB announced Monday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kelvion — a global provider of thermal management and heat exchange technologies — for approximately…
On August 26–27, the International Atomic Energy Agency gathered energy ministers, industry leaders, and government officials in Washington, D.C., to formally launch ATLAS—the Atomic Technologies Licensed…
A study published in Health Physics by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory finds that widely used emergency response models have significantly underestimated how much hazardous dust…
Somewhere in West Texas, 3,000 sheep are grazing beneath rows of solar panels across 8,000 acres—and their keeper, Chad Raines, calls it the thing that finally…
Only 3 percent of U.S. dams currently generate electricity. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory think that number could go much higher.…
The American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute came together in Dallas last week for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo—and with it,…
A wandering chunk of earth was recently spotted drifting across Williston Lake, a massive reservoir tucked in northern British Columbia. A local angler came across photographs…
The International Energy Agency warned on August 12 that ongoing disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz will cut global oil supply by 4.3 million barrels per…
RH Petrogas has confirmed oil, gas, and condensate resources at its Northwest Klagagi-1 well in the Kepala Burung Production Sharing Contract area of Southwest Papua, Indonesia.…
Wison New Energies and Shell have signed a collaboration agreement to integrate Shell’s dual mixed refrigerant (DMR) liquefaction technology into Wison’s floating LNG portfolio — a…
Subsea7 has landed a contract worth between $50 million and $150 million from LLOG Exploration Company LLC, a subsidiary of Harbour Energy, to develop the Who…
Dozens of 15-megawatt wind turbines now stand in the North Sea, their 379-foot blades turning—all but one. The offshore wind farm has crossed its construction finish…
The Bureau of Land Management’s Vernal Field Office has approved two drill permits authorizing Koda Uinta, LLC, to directionally drill gas wells from the Tungsten 42-26-723…
