Energy & Climate

Terabase Energy's next-generation automated solar construction platform completes field testing and enters commercial deployment, targeting 10 GW annual capacity by 2027.

Berkeley-based Deep Isolation has confirmed that high-level waste from spent fuel electrorefining is compatible with deep borehole disposal, completing a multi-year ARPA-E ONWARDS project led by Oklo that could reshape the back end of the advanced reactor fuel cycle.

The North Carolina startup says its electro-thermal sorbent system operates at more than double the efficiency of thermal competitors, with 3-5x lower capital costs, after years of DOE-backed development.

Plug Power will supply a 275 MW PEM electrolyzer system for Hy2gen's Courant project in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, a facility that aims to produce 230,000 tonnes of renewable ammonia per year to decarbonize the Canadian mining industry.

Norwegian startup Flocean is set to begin commercial operations at its Mongstad subsea desalination facility in 2026, using natural deep-sea pressure to cut energy consumption by up to 50 percent compared to conventional land-based plants.

A KIST-IAE team engineered a tungsten diselenide catalyst that achieved over 550 stable cycles in lithium-air batteries, outperforming conventional catalysts and advancing a technology with ten times the energy density of lithium-ion.

Federal regulators approved a 20-year license extension for California's last nuclear plant, but state law limits operations to 2030 without legislative action.

Brent crude has surged more than 50 percent since the Strait of Hormuz closure, and European consumers are responding by dramatically accelerating purchases of solar panels, heat pumps, and electric vehicles.

Austin-based Aalo Atomics unveiled its completed Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on March 20, built in just 36 days, as the startup races to achieve criticality ahead of the DOE's July 4 deadline.

Cox Automotive data shows new EV sales dropped to 212,600 units in Q1 2026, while used EV sales climbed 12 percent to 93,500 units with prices approaching parity with gas vehicles.

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest annual maximum extent on record in March 2026, with satellite data showing a continued erosion of the winter ice cap that scientists attribute to accelerating polar warming.

The 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, America's largest offshore wind farm, delivered first power on March 23 after overcoming a federal stop-work order that added $230 million in costs to the $11.5 billion project.