Fervo Energy has construction underway on 631-acre project, including on 148 acres of public land, and announced two purchase agreements with Southern California Edison for 320 MW of eventual output.
Funds are earmarked for 42 projects in as many states and
D.C., with an added $28 million set for award to 15 states to expand and train the U.S. green building workforce.
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.
Energy sector construction added nearly 90,000 U.S. jobs last year, a 4.5% increase and more than double the overall job growth rate—but will changing EV trends now put growth at risk?
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.
Labor PM Keir Starmer's government formed Great British Energy to undertake early project work to reduce private
sector developer risk and boost technologies such as carbon capture and
storage, hydrogen and wave and tidal energy.
The $2.4B RioSol clean-energy transmission project between New Mexico and Arizona and NV Energy's $4.2B Green Link Nevada are set to carry more wind, solar and geothermal energy to western states.