Innovation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory closed out fiscal year 2025 with its annual Small Business of the Year Awards ceremony, held...

Minnesotans can remain much warmer during the harsh winters thanks to a new thermal battery. Globally, many buildings still rely...

Tucked into the Finnish city of Vaasa, Wärtsilä's Sustainable Technology Hub spans 90,000 square meters, employs more than 3,800 engineers,...

When sweeping import tariffs began reshaping the economics of global trade, few industries felt the pressure more acutely than consumer...

South Carolina's utility regulator has approved a new Duke Energy program that pays businesses to put their batteries to work...

The world is installing solar panels faster than it can secure the materials to make them. At the center of...

Billions of refrigerators and air conditioners keep the world cool — and quietly pump potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere...

Chile was one step closer to a decarbonized grid when its hydroelectric expansion effort was halted. The nation is actively...

More than 200 carbon blocks — each glowing at temperatures that dwarf a blast furnace — are now sitting on...

At the Ameren Illinois training center in Decatur, lineworkers in hard hats raced up utility poles and hauled dummies to...

For a salmon pushing upstream, a hydropower dam is simply the end of the road. Concrete and turbines replace the...

A vital resource discovered in ancient rock formations beneath the Appalachians could secure America's electric future. The global energy transition...

Billions of people depend on brackish groundwater as their primary drinking source — yet turning that water clean with solar...

Duke University spent 18 years working toward carbon neutrality — and celebrated hitting that milestone in 2024 and 2025. Now...

A four-company consortium has been selected by MISO to build 237 miles of new 765-kilovolt transmission lines across Illinois —...

Perched a mile above sea level and ringed by mountains, Prescott Regional Airport has become one of Arizona's busiest aviation...

At the Twilight Christmas Parade and Kiwanis Club meetings, something a little unusual has been happening in Taylorville, Illinois: utility...

Southeast Asia is in the middle of one of history's great economic sprints. Refineries, cement plants, steel mills, and chemical...

Onshore infrastructure is struggling to keep the internet alive, but giant spheres in the ocean could provide the necessary power....

At Prescott Regional Airport, an aircraft takes off or lands every 68 seconds. Perched a mile above sea level and...

Surrounded by mountains and sitting a mile above sea level, Prescott Regional Airport is one of Arizona's busiest aviation centers...

An innovative hydroelectric generator called Hydrobee provides power to your home's devices when most needed. Remote areas worldwide often lack...

Beneath the hiking trails and autumn ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains, something of enormous industrial consequence may have been sitting...

Millions of solar panels installed during the early boom years of renewable energy are now approaching the end of their...

In sustainable aviation fuel production, one cost dominates all others: electrolysis alone accounts for more than half of total e-SAF...

Every day, industrial inspectors squeeze cameras into jet engines, power turbines, and aging pipelines — making do with tools that...

For decades, rare earth elements did their work in silence — tucked inside electric motors, defense guidance systems, and the...

A conventional steam methanol reformer stands roughly six stories tall and stretches 30 meters end to end. Topsoe thinks it...

At the Stornorrfors hydropower plant in northern Sweden, thousands of salmon and trout squeeze through a fish ladder each season...

In December, a chemical plant in Russia's Tula region quietly completed a test run that no facility in the world...

Making synthetic aviation fuel requires two things at once: a steady carbon feedstock and cheap renewable electricity. In practice, neither...

Reliability was what made hydropower so attractive in the past; however, today, reliability will be insufficient. With changing dynamics in...

Removing a Christmas tree from a live CO2 injection well is not a routine job. The moment that pressure-control equipment...

Every autumn, salmon push hard against the current of Sweden's northern rivers, following a biological script written over thousands of...

Wind turbines are generating more operational data than ever before — from blade performance to grid output — yet much...

NuScale Power has done something no other small modular reactor developer had managed before — earned full design approval from...

Floating offshore wind has moved past the proof-of-concept stage. Turbines mounted on floating platforms are no longer an experimental curiosity...

In the dry farming country around Griffith, New South Wales, rows of almond trees now share the land with more...

Off the Gippsland coastline, survey vessels are quietly moving across open water — scanning not the horizon, but what lies...

2.5 kilometers off the Aberdeen coast, eleven turbines rise from the North Sea, turning steadily against the wind. But something...

Somewhere in the grey North Sea, a heavy-lift vessel lowered the last piece of steel onto the seabed in late...

For decades, Brayton Point in Somerset, Massachusetts, ran on coal. Now the same shoreline is being redrawn as the landfall...

The warning light appears. A maintenance crew responds, repairs the flagged component, and the asset returns to service. Three days...

Aviation accounts for 2–3% of global CO2 emissions today. Left unchecked, that share could climb to 20% by 2050 —...

For years, many of the country’s low-head river systems have gone undeveloped due to several reasons, including economic viability, utility...

Innovation in the energy space is difficult for any business, large or small. Ideas that show promise in the lab...

A hydroelectric dam was meant to ensure energy resilience, but that goal quickly dried up with the environment. This marvel...

While there is an obvious race going on among developers to train their artificial intelligence models and build more computing...

Modular nuclear power plants are a new paradigm for nuclear energy. In terms of cost, size, and time (it takes...

A giant hydroelectric dam in Africa has changed the natural systems after decades of operation, affecting the food chain. This...