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Commonwealth Fusion will locate 400-MW facility near Richmond. aiming to secure permits next year and operate by the early 2030s—backed by more than $2B in private investment and government funding.

US Agriculture Dept. expects to announce more awards "in the coming weeks" and has picked six other cooperatives in Colorado, Louisiana, Oregon and Washington-Idaho.

Enel Group seeks immediate court halt to US judge's decision to remove the operating 150-MW project, an estimated $259M effort it contends, which is linked to claim of flawed permits on tribal land.

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont ask grid operator to seek bids for new power transmission projects to relieve critical capacity gaps in the region—and connect up to 1,200 MW of onshore wind production..  

Record agency loan guarantee would fund upgrade of 61 hydroelectric plants that generate 3.8 GW of energy.

The 742-MW Net Zero Teesside Power project in northeast England could become one of the world’s first commercial-scale gas-fired power plants with carbon capture and storage.

The estimated $70M long-duration battery system, largest at a US Defense Dept. site, will provide backup power at the energy-intensive U.S. Marine Corps base, with 70,000 military and civilian personnel on a 125,000-acre site.

US contractor McDermott International Ltd. has been awarded a front-end engineering contract by a unit of Spain-based energy company Repsol to develop the Polok and Chinwol oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bechtel-Westinghouse plant now is set for delayed commercial operation in 2036, with the first concrete to be poured in 2028.

Revenue for the Top 250 International Contractors is the highest since 2015, rising to $499.7 billion last year.