The technology reshaping how energy is produced, stored, moved and measured.
PPL Electric Utilities put out a statement Thursday welcoming Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s petition to join a state Public Utility Commission proceeding on rates and protections…
On New Zealand’s North Island, rows of white steel containers now sit in the shadow of cooling towers built for burning coal. They hum instead of…
Hydropower is becoming more environmentally friendly thanks to the integration of innovative passage technology. For many years, hydroelectric energy has helped shape the American economy. Today,…
South Carolina plans to expand its long-duration storage capacity that will feature reversible turbines. The state is experiencing significant population growth and rapid economic development. As…
For decades, the Boardman Canal has conveyed water through the Sierra Nevada foothills area near Colfax, flowing silently across the land for irrigation purposes. On May…
New Mexico is adding turbines to agricultural water infrastructure to increase clean power generation. Fossil fuels still play a major role in the state, accounting for…
Researchers have created an environmentally friendlier microgenerator using an innovative suspended chip design. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become more fundamental worldwide as it enables…
A field of solar panels outside Badajoz carries more wiring than its own inverters can legally swallow at once. On paper that sounds like a design…
At the edge of the Ohio River in Hancock County, West Virginia, a lock-and-dam structure built by the Army Corps of Engineers has regulated the river’s…
A proposed project is targeting two reservoirs in Nevada to strengthen grid reliability. The state is experiencing a rapid rise in electricity consumption and facing immense…
A single turbine the height of a skyscraper now rides the swells of the South China Sea. It is tethered by cables instead of bolted to…
Tucked into the high desert ridgelines above the Columbia River basin, East Wenatchee sits at the edge of Washington’s apple country — an unlikely setting for…
The Hoover Dam is crucial for clean, reliable power, but now it requires vital upgrades. Across the United States, hydropower has played a significant role in…
The Bureau of Land Management’s Vernal Field Office has approved a powerline upgrade for American Gilsonite Company on BLM-administered lands in Uintah County, Utah. The agency…
A rusting cargo hull sits tied to a New England pier, its hold gutted and packed with turbines instead of coal or timber. No engineer on…
Just three miles from Martinsdale, Montana, which has a population of about 60, Gordon Butte stands flat-topped across the prairie as if begging for a use.…
Garage walls across California hold small metal boxes most people forget are even there. On the evening of October 6, those boxes woke up together. No…
Developers plan to create a massive water battery by adding turbines to old iron-mine pits in California. Capturing and storing excess clean power is key to…
In the pine-forested ridges of the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Nevada City, a San Francisco-based energy firm has filed federal paperwork for something California has…
A proposed project aims to transform an existing dam in West Virginia by adding turbines to generate hydroelectric power. The unprecedented surge in electricity demand across…
Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC is dropping $554.78 million on an advanced manufacturing and operations campus in Hutto, Texas — and bringing more than 2,000 jobs with…
Beneath the Blue Ridge foothills of South Carolina, Lake Jocassee sits deep and still — a 7,980-acre reservoir that has quietly served as the lower half…
Colorado’s pumped-storage hydropower uses a unique turbine to bridge power supply gaps. America’s grid stability hangs in the balance as modern energy needs continue to increase…
At a fuel production site in Kern County, California, a steel container holds nothing but ordinary brick and wire. Inside, that brick glows past 1800 degrees…
A giant steel arm swings sixteen riders out over a 200 foot drop inside a windowless concrete shell on the German Dutch border. The walls around…
U.S. light-duty electric vehicles consumed nearly 14 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in the first half of 2026 — about 8% more than in the preceding…
For decades, the Colorado River has been the invisible backbone of the American West — the source of water and electricity for more than 40 million…
In the high desert of Beaver County, Utah, a wellhead the size of a delivery truck sits bolted over a hole drilled two miles into granite.…
Missouri exemplifies innovation in maintaining electrical grid stability using two connected reservoirs and two reversible pump-turbines. Across the United States, regional grids struggle to balance supply…
Lake Frederic is about to get a lot shallower. York Haven Power Company announced Monday that it’ll lower the reservoir upstream of the York Haven dam…
A legacy hydropower plant’s turbine is now playing a more crucial role than ever. Across the United States, grid stability has become significantly more difficult to…
The plasma inside the chamber lasted only milliseconds. A metal wall closed around it, squeezing it tighter and tighter. It moved the way a fist closes…
Yellowstone National Park pulls in four million visitors a year. People come for the geysers, the hot springs, the bison wandering across open meadows. From the…
Valley Farms Energy Center, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, announced on October 8, 2026, that it’s donating more than $114,000 to the City of Coolidge,…
Hydropower plants are implementing innovative turbine setups vital to balancing electric grids. In the United States, using water to generate clean power has been foundational for…
One outage, one extension cord run through a cracked window, and a generator humming on the patio. It sounds like exactly what the machine was built…
Every gas well in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale brings something up that nobody ordered. Millions of gallons of water, salty and laced with minerals, that the driller…
The Grand Coulee Dam has no water flowing downwards. It has been constructed to do the opposite: lift water upwards. In the John W. Keys III…
The boiler room at a Fort Collins, Colorado brewery is not where anyone pictured the future of industrial heat arriving. A machine the size of a…
Garlic peel — the papery skin most cooks brush straight into the trash — is generating up to 400 volts of electricity inside a laboratory in…
The slab on the bench looks like scrap from a stairwell pour. Flip it over and a tight grid of black interlocking fingers runs across one…
A day is not exactly 24 hours. Earth’s rotation drifts slightly — speeding up, slowing down — by a few milliseconds over decades. The difference is…
The reactor core sat in its pool in West Lafayette, Indiana, emitting the faint blue glow it has cast for six decades. Nobody in the building…
In a flat corner of eastern Wisconsin, a steel container the length of a semi trailer was switched on and began pushing electricity onto a live…
The reactor was built to solve one problem: make hydrogen without flooding the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. It did that, ten times more efficiently than anything…
In remote coastal communities, the rhythm of daily life often runs on diesel — generators humming through the night, solar panels idled by overcast skies. Energy…
The desert outside Milford, Utah looks like the last place to find a power plant with no fuel supply. No gas lines run in. No coal…
NDT Global commercially launched its QUADRA™ Ultra-High Resolution Inline Inspection system at IPCE 2026 in Calgary, marking a notable new entry in pipeline integrity technology. The…
Legacy hydropower plants across the United States are facing stricter federal relicensing. Water’s major power potential has shaped North America’s economic growth for decades. In recent…
Swallowing a battery is a medical emergency. Unless, apparently, that’s exactly what the doctor ordered. MIT scientists have developed a pill-sized battery made from paper that…
