The US state of Utah has signed an deal with clean energy company Deployable Energy Limited to explore one megawatt (1 MW) nuclear reactors small enough to fit inside a standard 20-foot (6-meter) shipping container. The Houston-based firm signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Utah Office of Energy Development (OED) on Tuesday, August...
Donald Trump’s administration is teaming up with a British company to help it build a fleet of nuclear-powered merchant vessels to challenge China’s growing dominance of commercial shipbuilding, a top US official has said. Stephen Carmel, administrator of the US Maritime Administration at the transport department, told the FT that Washington would sign a public-private...
After an earlier reform effort proved ineffective, the PJM Interconnection is taking a second swing at creating a pathway for bringing generation online by using surplus interconnection capacity at existing power facilities. Surplus interconnection service, called SIS, allows a new generator or energy storage system to connect to the grid at a power facility’s existing...
The sci-fi-worthy machine soaring 120 feet tall in the hills outside Lynchburg had been all but left for dead — a $400 million experiment that collapsed as the energy economy shifted and the financial prospects for next-generation nuclear technology soured. The faux eight-story reactor in Lynchburg, built to mimic a nuclear plant but run on...
Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But the facility’s headline output, 25 gigawatt-hours’ worth of electrolytes, is just part of the story. Anthro’s factory could give solid-state batteries a much needed boost in the U.S. Battery manufacturers...
The Port of Long Beach is moving forward with plans to explore small modular reactors (SMRs) that could eventually provide electricity for port operations and ships, potentially bringing a new nuclear power project to California for the first time in five decades. The effort involves Bluecore Energy, a startup developing small nuclear reactors designed to...
A startup that makes giant iron-air batteries that store enough power to last several days has raised a new round of funding valued at $750 million. Form Energy, which has now raised more than $2 billion in total, plans to use the money to boost manufacturing at its Weirton, WV, plant and for its first...
A Texas A&M University research team is exploring whether microscopic, fish-like robots could recover lithium from seawater, potentially creating another supply option for battery and energy-storage manufacturers. The project has received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy. It is one of 19 federally funded initiatives focused on expanding domestic access to critical minerals...
About 450,000 residents in the Corpus Christi (Texas) metropolitan area are primarily served by fresh water from two severely threatened reservoirs, but the city has become increasingly reliant on water sent via the Mary Rhodes Pipeline from Lake Texana and the Colorado River. The city remains under stage 3 water restrictions despite recent heavy rains....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking steps to speed up progress in plant science by calling on universities and stakeholders to help build new AI tools that can translate the huge amount of germplasm data the agency collects. Through the Genesis Mission and the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AgARDA), USDA is...
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