Articles by Debra K. Rubin

Also— read why Texas LNG terminal wants U.S. to okay more time to finish the $11B three-train megaproject. 

Also—China propelled global tension over growing size of its offshore wind turbines with the late August launch of a 20-MW capacity model in Hainan near Vietnam announced by domestic producer Mingyang Wind Power Group Ltd. and the firm's plan to build a factory in Italy.

Province push to build up to 5 GW of new power in next decade includes controversial mix of natural gas, along with renewables and nuclear, in an “all-of-the above” approach to fill a projected 60% energy gap by 2050, said Energy Minister Stephen Lecce. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged likely state power shortfall with clean energy project delays and growing needs, but officials unveiled plan for smaller reactors at Sept. 5 energy summit—three years after close of controversial Indian Point facility.

Massachusetts will take all but 200 MW of the 2.87-GW procurement, with the rest to Rhode Island, but bidders were wary, submitting for well under the 6.8-GW offered by the two states—and Connecticut failed to seek any capacity.

Black & Veatch completed early stage design this year on one developer's project to build a first phase 240,000-ton-per-year green hydrogen plant in Nova Scotia, and is set for more work on a larger facility planned in Newfoundland.

Cleaner hydrogen production hubs in California, the Pacific NW and the Appalachian region—of seven DOE picked last year to negotiate hundreds of millions of dollars in federal project support—are the first to receive initial funding awards.

Addressing delegates at the party nominating convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris touched on energy and immigration issues but did not air specific policy changes to the existing platform outlined by President Joe Biden. 

Second state marshaling port would propel growth of the market as it recovers from financial woes and the July accident that suspended work at the $3-billion Vineyard Wind site.

Planned 1.2-million-sq-ft plant in Edgecombe County, N.C., which would have 24-GW capacity to produce batteries favored for microgrids and data centers, would be the first large domestic producer of the alternative technology to lithium-ion.