Energy

Tennessee, TVA and the UK team up on nuclear fusion

The deal speeds up fusion supply chains and jobs, not a working power plant.

EPA moves to end its power to limit plant carbon pollution

The Trump administration is repealing the finding that lets the EPA limit greenhouse gases from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act.

Thea Energy unveils steadier fusion reactor design

Thea Energy's Helios design targets 400 megawatts of continuous power, without the plasma disruptions of other fusion reactors.

Court says Trump's Michigan coal rescue order was illegal

A federal appeals court says DOE had no authority to force Consumers Energy's Campbell plant to keep running past its planned 2025 retirement.

xAI built one of the biggest batteries at any US data center

Satellite images show xAI installed hundreds of Tesla battery packs at its Memphis AI hub to handle huge power swings.

Inflated data center forecasts are raising Ohio bills

A Canary Media investigation found Ohio utilities are charging customers more based on data-center demand forecasts that may never come true.

Google signs 22-year deal for Finnish nuclear power

It's Google's first nuclear power contract outside the US, meant to keep an aging Finnish plant running through 2050.

Massachusetts orders new data centers to bring clean power

Gov. Healey's executive order also lets local communities block data centers that don't strike a deal with them first.

Drought pushes Lake Mead to a record low

The Colorado River's biggest reservoirs have hit historic lows, threatening the hydropower that lights millions of homes.

Iowa task force lays out a plan to bring back nuclear power

Iowa's only nuclear plant shut down in 2020. A new task force report lays out nine steps to bring nuclear power back to the state.

Realta Fusion signs a Wisconsin utility for a power plant

Madison Gas and Electric will study building a 200-megawatt fusion plant with startup Realta Fusion.

New Jersey becomes 9th state to legalize balcony solar

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law letting New Jersey renters and homeowners plug small solar panels straight into a wall outlet, no permit required.

US installs a record amount of battery storage in Q2

The 20.2 gigawatt-hour quarter is the biggest ever recorded, led by new projects in Arizona, Texas, and California.

Tennessee issues the US's first fusion power license

Type One Energy can now start building its fusion plant at a former coal site, under rules no US state had before.

Australia's red soil may hide a clean energy source

Scientists found iron-rich rock in Western Australia naturally makes hydrogen gas, and the reaction might be sped up to make far more.

Michigan bets $7.5M on hydrogen buried underground

Michigan is spending $7.5 million to find out whether natural hydrogen gas trapped underground could become a real clean energy source.

Trump admin moves to weaken heavy-truck fuel rules

A new Transportation Department rule argues Biden-era fuel economy standards for trucks went too far, opening the door to rolling them back as diesel prices climb.

Army picks 5 firms for $2.2B nuclear microreactor plan

The Army will pay five companies up to $2.2 billion to build small nuclear reactors at bases, aiming to keep power on if the grid fails.

Delaware makes data centers pay their own power costs

Gov. Matt Meyer signed a bill forcing data centers to cover their own grid upgrades, instead of passing the cost onto electric bills.

Pacific Fusion breaks ground and signs a deal with the DOE

The fusion startup started construction on its $1 billion New Mexico campus and signed a research partnership with the Department of Energy.

Pacific Fusion builds $1B fusion campus in Albuquerque

The New Mexico campus will host a system built to prove fusion power can generate more energy than it consumes, by 2030.

Eni targets a commercial fusion plant by the 2040s

The Italian energy giant wants fusion to become its 'next refinery,' built with US partner Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Russia plans 30 GW of new nuclear power, Putin says

President Putin says Russia will add about 30 gigawatts of nuclear capacity, including small reactors, while pushing to export more nuclear tech abroad.

Cleveland-Cliffs redirects a $500M climate grant to coal

The steelmaker will keep its coal-fired blast furnace running instead of building the hydrogen-ready plant the grant was meant to fund.

Fusion startup Inertia speeds up its fuel production

Inertia Enterprises says it cleared one of many technical hurdles standing between its laser fusion approach and a real power plant.

Pennsylvania tightens rules on AI data center power

Gov. Josh Shapiro's new executive order strips data centers of fast-track permits and requires them to bring their own power supply.

Canada unveils $70B clean energy and minerals plan

Prime Minister Mark Carney calls it North America's largest-ever clean energy investment, tying hydropower to critical minerals mining.

Three Mile Island's revival gets its big transformer

Constellation delivered a main power transformer to the former Three Mile Island Monday, a step toward restarting it for Microsoft's AI power needs.

Livermore scientists finally measure how diamond melts

The new measurement could let fusion scientists triple how much energy each laser shot produces.

$600B in Biden clean energy funds survives Trump's cuts

Eighteen months into Trump's rollback push, Politico finds roughly $600 billion in Biden-era clean energy money is still on the table, largely untouched.