Fusion startups just had their best year since 2022, pulling in $2.64B in new funding as investor confidence rebounds and pilot plants inch closer to reality. That’s up 178% from last year. (FIA) ...

DOE’s Oak Ridge National Lab is teaming up with AI startup Atomic Canyon to streamline nuclear plant licensing with machine learning, tapping 50M+ pages of NRC documents to train the model. (Axios) ...

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Appalachian Power is asking state regulators for permission to mobilize a $135M plan to upgrade and modernize its grid. (Cardinal News) Part of Appalachian’s three-year grid improvement plan? Adding ...

Recently a Dutch “white hat” hacker demonstrated that the Chinese solar collector systems installed in the UK could be interfered with remotely, either caused to cease functioning temporarily or ...

🌤️ What Is “Hopium,” Really? In the wellness space, “hopium” is often used sarcastically—to describe blind optimism or toxic positivity. But science tells a different story. Hope, when grounded in ...

According to Global Energy Monitor, China is responsible for 74% of all utility-scale solar and wind under construction—510 GW out of 689 GW globally. (FT) The renewables push is helping meet rising ...

The demand for cleaner electric energy grows each year with electrification of transportation, space conditioning, vertical agriculture, industrial processes and hyperscalers. Some say that America ...

UtilityDive: "Virtual power plants helped save the grid during heat dome." Last month the eastern U.S. sweltered in record heat. Electricity demand reached multi-yr peaks + it seemed the grid might ...

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With the rising costs of wind and solar putting those projects at risk of cancellation, natural gas prices are expected to climb. So? In Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Missouri rates could increase as much ...

Our latest analysis on Shell (2024 NAV Model) uses a field-based Net Asset Value framework to deconstruct the company's core asset classes: Upstream, LNG, Downstream, and Emerging Power. 📉 ...