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The U.S. Dept. of Energy will invest more than $231 million to accelerate carbon management at large-scale U.S. geologic storage areas and support new grid resilience and energy storage projects and research for nine states and three Tribes.

Energy contractor Petrofac, with new CEO Tareq Kawash, will execute contract to expand the large Habshan gas processing complex in Abu Dhabi, one year after its suspension ended in UAE, Iraq and Saudi Arabia related to bribery incidents by former executives.

Japan's plan to discharge treated wastewater from the stricken plant into the sea would have "negligible" health and environmental impacts, says International Atomic Energy Agency.

Coolidge gas power plant project, delayed one year by community legal action over air pollution impacts, now is set to double in capacity after a new settlement—but that is a decrease from the originally proposed 820-MW expansion that a Kiewit Corp. unit was hired to build.

PJM Interconnection system could spur $33B in capital investment with simple transmission link process changes, says a new report.

Officials attribute the rise in manufacturing construction spending to the CHIPS and Science Act and other legislation that has incentivized private investment.

Texas receives largest allocation among the states at $3.3 billion.

Solar development is only latest move in the West African country's broad strategy to improve access to electricity in rural areas.

Grants awarded in 35 states and Puerto Rico, will go to states, tribes, utility companies, telecommunications firms and nonprofit organizations.

Bid protest by Atkins-Jacobs-Westinghouse competing team is key factor in megacontract dispute, but neither the judge, companies nor U.S. Energy Dept. will comment on the invalidated contract or on what will happen next.