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Ameren Illinois chose Taylorville as the first community to get dedicated energy efficiency staff working directly with local residents and businesses
11+ hour, 31+ min ago (723+ words) At the Twilight Christmas Parade and Kiwanis Club meetings, something a little unusual has been happening in Taylorville, Illinois: utility company staff showing up " not to read meters, but to talk with residents about their homes and energy bills. Taylorville,…...
Cutter Aviation has served Prescott's skies since 1928 and is now building its largest facility yet as the airport approaches a takeoff every 68 seconds
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (624+ words) Perched a mile above sea level and ringed by mountains, Prescott Regional Airport has become one of Arizona's busiest aviation centers " recording a takeoff or landing every 68 seconds. At the center of it all, largely unchanged in its mission if…...
Beneath the waves, this catamaran spins a turbine with 6-meter swells while its solar panels keep generating power above the surface
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (508+ words) Credits: Federal University of Maranh'o A hybrid tidal-solar catamaran system proves that two renewable energy sources are better than one. As the world rushes toward net-zero, space to accommodate green infrastructure is running out. However, a research team may have…...
Exxon Mobil signed billion-dollar deals with Indonesia and Malaysia to bury industrial carbon emissions beneath the ocean floor
20+ hour, 34+ min ago (649+ words) Southeast Asia is in the middle of one of history's great economic sprints. Refineries, cement plants, steel mills, and chemical factories are running at full tilt across the region " powering development for hundreds of millions of people, and releasing enormous…...
Holtec set a world record emptying Pilgrim's spent fuel pool in 30 months after its engineers finally retrieved a damaged assembly that had been stuck in a reactor rack since the 1970s
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (406+ words) On December 13, 2021, workers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts sealed the last canister of spent nuclear fuel and moved it into dry storage " emptying the reactor building of all fissile material in a feat that set a new…...
Vattenfall secures the final permit for Nordlicht, Germany's largest offshore wind cluster, clearing the way for over 1. 6 GW of North Sea capacity
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (669+ words) After years of permits, approvals, and conditional decisions, one of the North Sea's most ambitious offshore wind projects has finally crossed the point of no return. Vattenfall has reached a full Final Investment Decision for the Nordlicht cluster " two wind…...
Halliburton's disconnect tool replaced five cement plugs with one in a deepwater West Africa well, cutting 132 hours of rig time and saving $2. 3 million
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (650+ words) Deepwater well abandonment rarely attracts the engineering investment that drilling does " yet it can consume just as much time and money. Off the coast of Sub-Saharan West Africa, a major operator running exploratory and development wells faced exactly that reality:…...
Engineers studying how bees move are designing stacked "honeycomb" turbines with tiny flapping wings to capture more wind
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (567+ words) Wind turbines inspired by honeycombs can increase access to wind energy in historically restricted regions. Conventional designs are facing significant regulatory hurdles, slowing capacity expansion in the U. S. This raises concerns for major metropolises that need clean power supplies to maintain…...
Engineers want to sink giant spheres nearly as tall as Big Ben into the ocean, using waves, seawater, and satellites to help power the internet
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (614+ words) Onshore infrastructure is struggling to keep the internet alive, but giant spheres in the ocean could provide the necessary power. As the world evolves during the digital era, energy demand will also continue to rise to record highs. These needs…...
Nel ASA's new electrolyser slashes green hydrogen costs in half, opening a path to large-scale industrial deployment
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (405+ words) For years, large-scale green hydrogen projects have run into the same wall: complex custom engineering, extended timelines, and total system costs that frequently approached or exceeded USD 3, 000 per k W. Those economics kept industrial deployment out of reach for most developers....