In the early 2000s, the owners of the Mammoth Pacific geothermal station proposed expanding the plant into an area just east of California’s Yosemite National Park. The project boasted on its website in 2004 that the potential new wells, which would be located in one of the state’s richest heat resources, had been “carefully chosen to reduce or avoid potential environmental...
Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has strengthened its presence in the Asia-Pacific region by winning a major battery energy storage system (BESS) project with Foxwell Power Co in Taichung. The contract, Saft’s eleventh in Taiwan, will see the company deliver a 356MWh lithium-ion battery system to Foxwell, which is part of Shinfox Energy. The Taichung BESS...
Janta Power—a Dallas-based developer of innovative three-dimensional solar tower systems—has closed a $5.5 million seed round led by Los Angeles-based MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Atlanta’s Collab Capital. The funding will be used accelerate the commercialization of Janta’s patented, high-density 3D photovoltaic tower technology, the startup said. Janta said the seed funding will support product...
This is Ampd Energy’s Enertainer — a modular battery system that’s transforming how cities are powered.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap, a national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy on the most rapid, responsible timeline in history. The Roadmap defines DOE’s Build–Innovate–Grow strategy to align public investment and private innovation to deliver commercial fusion power to the grid...
President Trump signed an agreement Monday to heighten cooperation with Australia on rare earth materials and critical minerals. Trump signed the agreement alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who visited the White House. Read more in The Hill here.
From biodegradable diapers to bio-based nylon for clothes, San Leandro, CA-based biotechnology company ZymoChem is harnessing the power of carbon-conserving microbes to create sustainable alternatives for everyday products.
Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren’t waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up. In West Texas, natural-gas-fired power generation is under construction as part of the $500 billion Stargate project from OpenAI and Oracle. Gas turbines are in use at Colossus 1 and 2,...
As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they fed the line from the rocky shore down to the seafloor — home to the region’s orcas. The...
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) researchers have secured shale-backed funding to investigate the state’s natural hydrogen reserves. The project was one of eight to receive US$25,000 in a recent round of funding from the Hamm Institute for American Energy – the research grant provider funded by Harold Hamm, founder and CEO of major US shale producer...
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