Tag: Featured

April 25, 2024

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have finalized updated regulations for renewable energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). […]

April 24, 2024

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has voted to codify proposed changes to streamline a key environmental review process for advanced nuclear reactors. Nuclear advocates lauded the measure as one of the regulator’s most important actions in 2024. The NRC on […]

April 24, 2024

Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20% of costs for green steel and up to 40% for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their energy-intensive production and would import from countries where renewable energy […]

April 23, 2024

On Earth Day 2024, today, President Joe Biden announced $7 billion in grants through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Solar for All grant competition, a key component of the Inflation Reduction Act’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Selectees under the […]

April 22, 2024

The United Nations has gone on record to spotlight the negative effects of climate change that have affected the world in recent years. The group stated, “destructive storms have become more intense and more frequent in many regions … while […]

April 18, 2024

European Energy has started construction of a solar farm project in Sweden, which will form part of a hybrid renewable energy park. The hybrid park is in Skaramala in the municipality of Tingsryd, where the existing wind farm will be […]

April 17, 2024

BGEN, one of the UK’s largest engineering firms, has been awarded an £84 million project by GE Steam Power Systems to provide electrical and instrumentation solutions to Hinkley Point C (HPC), which is a two-unit EPR nuclear power station under […]

April 15, 2024

US utility Dominion Energy is seeking proposals for solar, wind and energy storage projects in the state of Virginia. Dominion Energy will accept five types of proposals, including new solar PV projects and new PV solar generation co-located with energy […]

April 11, 2024

Repsol is entering the biomethane market with an agreement to take a 40% shareholding in Genia Bioenergy. This alliance allows Repsol to add significant technical capabilities to position itself early in this growing sector. Biomethane is considered strategic by the […]

April 10, 2024

The Energy Ministers of 8 Baltic Sea countries – Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Poland and Sweden – have pledged closer collaboration to secure critical offshore energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea region. The Vilnius Declaration comes after the […]

April 9, 2024

Molten salt reactors (MSRs) represent a fascinating intersection of nuclear history and modern innovation. The concept of using molten salts as both a coolant and fuel carrier dates back to the 1950s, with the pioneering work of Alvin Weinberg and […]

April 9, 2024

On 24 February 2022, the Russian army entered Ukraine, escalating a conflict that had begun almost a decade earlier. On the same day, the European Council held an urgent meeting to respond to the aggression and to study emergency measures […]

April 8, 2024

America’s largest-ever clean energy investment in low-income and disadvantaged communities will soon be deployed. Leveraged effectively, this investment — $20 billion from the EPA-administered Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) — will deliver not just clean energy, but a transformation of […]

April 4, 2024

Lukoil Group has expanded its presence in Uzbekistan with the opening of two multifunctional service stations along the M39 motorway. Situated along the Tashkent – Samarkand segment of the road, approximately 12 kilometers from Tashkent, these stations were inaugurated in […]

April 3, 2024

A Sweden-based renewable energy developer, in partnership with the investment arm of Ingka Group–the biggest IKEA retailer–has been issued a permit for construction of a 5.5-GW offshore wind project that would be built in the Baltic Sea. OX2 AB and […]

April 3, 2024

Arizona-based solar power deployment platform Erthos Inc said on Tuesday that its technology has been selected by developer Sky Community Solar for the realisation of a 180-MW portfolio of community solar projects in Texas. Erthos has signed a master agreement […]

April 2, 2024

Fuel loading at the domestically developed PFBR site (Figure 1) adjacent to the Madras Atomic Power Station was witnessed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 4. “Upon completion of the core loading, the first approach to criticality will be […]

April 1, 2024

Chinese wind turbine makers continue to pace the global market, taking four of the top five spots in a ranking of the world’s top manufacturers of both onshore and offshore wind power equipment. Research from BloombergNEF (BNEF) published March 27 […]

March 28, 2024

Ford and Allego announced a strategic partnership to bring ultra-fast charging infrastructure to hundreds of the manufacturer’s dealerships across Europe. The new collaboration will further expand convenient and reliable charging solutions for customers of Ford electric vehicles (EVs), as the […]

March 27, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment of up to $1.52 billion for a loan guarantee to Holtec Palisades LLC to finance the restoration and resumption of service of the Palisades Power Plant, an […]