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Colorless and odorless, methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps 83 times more heat in the atmosphere over a 20-year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.

Two proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana coasts would join offshore oil drilling rigs in the gulf as the Biden administration tries to boost the country’s clean energy supply.

A Morgan Stanley report updated Monday states that retail energy generation company Vistra could see huge windfalls from ERCOT's new 'reliability-based' business model.  

Researchers are increasingly linking oilfield activity and seismic activity, with a new report from the University of Texas at Austin connecting the two in the Delaware Basin.

The cost of electricity in Texas is tightly tied to the price of natural gas.

The U.S. will exit the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and several other global bodies focused on climate, energy and sustainable development.

Data centers and their energy partners would be wise to ramp up cybersecurity efforts to match the pace of development, writes Leo Simonovich of Siemens Energy.

The bill affecting data centers and other energy intensive sectors may face opposition from utilities as a threat to their revenue, according to one industry expert who called it “good for the public” and “extremely confident developers.”

As load growth accelerates, distributed flexibility can protect reliability and affordability.

Mark it. Map it. Dig with confidence. One marker now can prevent disaster later.

The size and pace of data center creation is a major shift for utilities and builders on many levels.

Billions of sea stars, victims of a deadly wasting illness, have perished over the last decade, imperiling marine ecosystems and spurring a global hunt for a biological or environmental culprit. Recently, researchers identified a likely suspect, but the case is far from closed.

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An innovative recycling project is leading the way in repurposing decommissioned wind turbine blades to avoid putting them in a landfill.

FairWind has been awarded a contract by Vestas to deliver the full installation scope for 44 turbines at Sanquhar II Wind Farm in Scotland. Sanquhar II, located in Dumfries & Galloway and East Ayrshire, is a major extension of the existing Sanquhar onshore wind farm.

Anesco has acquired a 36 MWp solar farm project developed by One Planet Developments in partnership with Viridi Re Development, Solar Ambition Europe and the landowner Kingwell .

An announcement Jan. 8 on the website of the US Treasury said, "In alignment with the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has notified the Green Climate Fund that the United States is withdrawing from the Fund and stepping down from its seat on the GCF Board, effective immediately."

Duke Energy Florida has unveiled its DeBary Hydrogen Production Storage System in Volusia County, the first demonstration project in the United States capable of using an end-to-end system to produce, store and combust up to 100% green hydrogen. 

The Idaho National Laboratory is collaborating with Terragia Biofuel Inc. to use preprocessing technologies at the Biomass Feedstock National User Facility as the company evaluates its new biomass conversion technology. This partnership is funded by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Office of Science.

Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines announced they have joined Par Hawaii to invest in pioneering the development of sustainable aviation fuel in Hawaiʻi using locally grown agriculture feedstock to reduce aviation carbon emissions.

The University of Manchester is to lead a major new research collaboration to develop GPStore, a pioneering long-duration energy storage technology that could play a vital role in supporting the UK’s transition to net zero.