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America’s new nuclear era starts in Idaho
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America’s new nuclear era starts in Idaho

America has finally decided to get serious about nuclear energy again. President Donald Trump’s executive orders launching a nuclear energy emergency and directing federal agencies to dramatically accelerate advanced reactor deployment signal a turning point. After decades of hesitation, America is once again treating nuclear power as the strategic asset it has always been —  essential to...

Interior Department Announces More Than $67 Million for Wetland Conservation Projects and National Wildlife Refuges
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Interior Department Announces More Than $67 Million for Wetland Conservation Projects and National Wildlife Refuges

The Department of the Interior today announced $44.79 million in North American Wetlands Conservation Act funding has been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, providing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners the ability to conserve, restore or enhance 185,203 acres of critical wetland and associated upland habitat for migratory birds across the United...

Star Catcher raises $65m to build first power grid in orbit
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Star Catcher raises $65m to build first power grid in orbit

Star Catcher Industries, the company building the first power grid in space, has raised $65m in an oversubscribed Series A round.  The new investment – led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management – brings Star Catcher’s total capital raised to $88m Read more...

Foreword for Speed to Power: How Electricity Ratepayers Can Win the AI Race
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Foreword for Speed to Power: How Electricity Ratepayers Can Win the AI Race

Should taxpayers love or loathe data centers? This question seems a loaded one in the first place. To ask it is to present a binary choice when, in reality, public opinion on the matter is more complex. Initially, a handful of fiscal conservatives branded the facilities that provide the infrastructure of the next Information Age as little better than taxpayer-funded sports stadiums or convention centers, which are proven economic and fiscal losers for the communities in which they abide compared to the various government subsidies they receive. Yet, aside from the fact that data centers, sports stadiums, and convention centers are physical structures, they have little to nothing in common.

UK Fusion Consortium Turns Focus to Commercial Delivery Path
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UK Fusion Consortium Turns Focus to Commercial Delivery Path

Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy and AECOM have launched the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium, a private-sector-led initiative focused on developing a commercial fusion power plant in the United Kingdom. The consortium brings together three areas of capability that will be central to any future fusion project: plant design, magnet technology and major infrastructure delivery. Type One Energy is contributing...

Defense Department delays 54 wind projects in Texas, citing national security concerns
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Defense Department delays 54 wind projects in Texas, citing national security concerns

Dozens of wind projects in Texas are in limbo after the U.S. Department of Defense paused issuing routine federal permits citing national security concerns, a move that experts say expands the Trump administration’s crusade against wind energy. According to data collected by the American Clean Power Association, 54 Texas wind projects are waiting for the...

Energy secretary: Strait of Hormuz will reopen ‘sometime this summer at latest’
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Energy secretary: Strait of Hormuz will reopen ‘sometime this summer at latest’

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday suggested that the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has kept closed amid its ceasefire with the U.S., will reopen “sometime this summer at the latest.” CNBC’s Brian Sullivan spoke with Wright at a new liquefied natural gas facility in Cameron, La., on “Squawk Box.” Wright said that the U.S. is “continuing...

Energy Innovation Is Worth Funding, If It’s Well Targeted
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Energy Innovation Is Worth Funding, If It’s Well Targeted

This month, C3 Solutions Action signed on to a bipartisan coalition letter calling for steady, robust federal funding for energy research, development, and demonstration. Addressed to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the letter highlights the United States’ long history of energy innovation and the importance of maintaining that leadership.

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