It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new plants...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, addressing the need to streamline federal permitting processes during a ribbon-cutting event for a major expansion of Venture Global’s South Louisiana LNG export facility on March 6, told workers and executives assembled for the ceremonies that, “One of our pathways to energy dominance is just unleashing the incredible resources that we have in...
One of the biggest roadblocks to clean energy in the U.S. isn’t a lack of wind or solar power — it’s an outdated grid that can’t keep up. Gridraven, an Estonian startup, is tackling that problem with AI-powered weather modeling, and it just secured €4 million to bring its tech to the U.S., reported CleanTechnica. The U.S. grid...
The Guam Power Authority said it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to participate in the inaugural Utility and Grid Operator Technical Assistance program. As one of only seven applicants chosen nationwide, GPA said it will gain access to expertise and resources necessary to develop reliable, resilient, and secure grids to meet...
Bipartisan legislation introduced by first-term Sens. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) would establish a nationwide response time standard for wildfires affecting public lands. Under the bill, the Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act, all wildfires on Interior Department- or Agriculture Department-administered lands would be subject to a half-hour response standard. In a statement, Sheehy and Kim...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has taken a significant step toward integrating geothermal energy solutions across military installations, designating eleven American companies as “Awardable” under the U.S. Air Force’s geothermal initiative. This recognition, facilitated through the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, streamlines procurement for the rapid deployment of cutting-edge geothermal technologies to enhance national security...
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday that it has extended a permit for exports of liquefied natural gas from a Golden Pass LNG LLC project jointly owned by QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil being built in Texas. The approval will grant additional time to begin LNG exports to large markets in Asia and Europe from the...
During his first visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Energy Secretary Chris Wright compared the urgency of the lab’s World War II beginnings to today’s global race to lead in artificial intelligence, calling for a “Manhattan Project 2.” “We’ve seen continued technology innovation advancement in the United States of America, but we’re at a critical time...
The recent change in administration in Washington has sparked a renewed sense of optimism here in Louisiana. This transition presents an opportunity to realign priorities that have, in some cases, promoted false narratives of clean air and water above the fundamental needs of human communities. We’ve seen the consequences of such misguided policies in California,...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wades into the decadeslong debate about where to put nuclear waste by hearing a dispute over the federal government’s decision to approve a storage facility in Texas. The nine justices will weigh whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission correctly allowed a company called Interim Storage Partners to store spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County, Texas, for...
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