This week, as part of our summer travels around New England, hubby and I have reserved a Vermont farmhouse. The rolling hills are lush and verdant. Generations of farmers have planted creamy hydrangea and purple phlox. Native columbine, wild grapes, and milkweed feed pollinators are among the thousands of plants … [continued]
A forthcoming 3 gigawatt-hour factory in North Carolina will help nail down an ample supply of Made-in-the-USA lithium-ion batteries, supported by a $100 million grant from the US Department of Energy.
If you feel a sense of déjà vu with the state of the US–Iran war, you’re not alone. In recent days, Iran has again demanded the Trump administration lift sanctions on the country, unfreeze Iranian assets and remove its military blockade, in return for Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz. This basically … [continued]
In November, California will vote on a proposal to levy a one-off 5% tax on the wealth of all billionaires in the state. Google co-founder and billionaire Sergey Brin has already spent US$100 million on political donations to a group opposing the tax. Brin is hoping to avoid a potential tax bill … [continued]
On September 5, 2024, after giving a speech about his economic plans for the United States, Donald Trump was asked what he would do, if re-elected president, to make childcare more affordable. Trump then offered a nonsensical, 374-word response: well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down — you know, … [continued]
HVDC hardware is converging around repeatable 2 GW building blocks, while the surrounding grid still has to solve controls, interoperability and planning.
High-voltage direct current transmission used to look like a specialist technology reserved for unusually long lines, subsea links or awkward grid problems. That is changing. In a recent Redefining Energy conversation, Cornelis Plet, CTO of Grid Systems Integration at GE Vernova, described HVDC as something that is moving into the … [continued]
Novel lithium pre-doping technology to raise energy density and lower cost Enables the use of low-cost lithium carbonate with existing production lines Global PoC evaluations and licensing to accelerate commercialization TOKYO — Asahi Kasei (TOKYO:3407), a diversified global company, has developed a novel pre-doping technology for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) … [continued]
SolarAnywhere® is often associated with utility-scale or distributed PV, but our solar irradiance data powers a lot more than solar plants. A great example: Piotr Lichota at the Warsaw University of Technology is using SolarAnywhere to figure out when to launch solar-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and how long they can realistically stay … [continued]
Every champion is born in private. Far away from the crowd, performance is relentlessly honed, obsessively optimized. This is not spectacle — it’s the unseen work of thousands of hours of painstaking practice. It’s the dance of brutal precision where perfection is earned, unfolding under the cover of a dark … [continued]
Visitors from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the National Laboratory of the Rockies convened in November 2025 to explore opportunities for deeper technical collaboration. Photo by Bethany Frew, National Laboratory of the Rockies.
Collaboration Will Advance Research and Technical Insights Needed To Support Reliable, Resilient Energy Future for More Than 400 Million North Americans By Madeline Geocaris, NLR The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) announced a new partnership to advance the reliability of the … [continued]
