The International Hydropower Association (IHA) said global installed hydropower capacity reached 1,469 GW in 2025 after the addition of 28 GW of new capacity during the year, including a record 11.6 GW […]
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Texas, facing 438 GW queue, approves initial large-load interconnection process
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday approved rules for the state’s grid operator to process large […]
Sunrun, Renew Home, Tesla unite to sell 16 GW of capacity to data centers
Three of the largest residential VPP players in the U.S. are teaming up to deliver capacity for data centers. Sunrun, Renew Home, and Tesla announced today an agreement to deliver a combined […]
NRC Proposes Licensing Rewrite for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Infrastructure
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a materials-licensing rule that would revise several regulatory handoffs outside the reactor license, including pilot fuel lines, spent fuel reprocessing, dry storage cask approvals, advanced-fuel […]
U.S. Crude Inventories Post Another Major Draw
Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 6.1 million barrels during the week ending June 19, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. […]
China’s Crude Imports Plunge To Lowest Level Since 2018
Oil prices remain headline-driven, taking direction from escalation and de-escalation in the U.S-Iran conflict in the near term. The first round of talks between the United States and Iran in Switzerland has […]
Running on Reserve: Crude Oil in the SPR Plummets to a Four-Decade Low
According to the EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR) released this morning, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) recorded its 13th consecutive weekly draw for the week ended June 19, reducing stocks to […]
3 home energy providers offer 16.8 GW of distributed capacity to utilities, hyperscalers
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Sunrun, Tesla and Renew Home could deliver nearly 17 GW of distributed energy capacity to unlock headroom in […]
BESS as a ‘Swiss Army knife’ for data centers
Artificial intelligence is changing how data centers consume electricity. New workloads are introducing levels of variability that conventional power systems were not designed to handle, creating operational challenges both inside the facility […]
Utility-scale solar uses only 0.07% of U.S. prime farmland, says SEIA
Studies of American opinions on clean energy development show that, in general, people have a slightly negative view of large-scale solar installations that replace farmland (although adding agrivoltaics uses to sites turns […]
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