Experts Explore Potential of Google AI Tools To Mitigate Potential Energy Limits for Quick Growth of US Data Centers By Kerrin Jeromin NREL and Google teamed up to host a hackathon, bringing together leading researchers from nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories to explore and leverage Google’s generative … [continued]
The Alliance for Sustainable Energy (Alliance) today announced the appointment of Jud Virden, Ph.D., as director of NREL and president of the Alliance, which manages the laboratory for the Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Virden will officially join NREL in this role on Oct. 1, 2025. Virden was selected following … [continued]
Europe can’t decarbonise the world on its own. But it must develop policies that work so that other nations can copy and adapt them. The European Green Deal is alive and kicking. With the US abandoning the Paris Agreement, the centre-right led EU Commission’s proposal of a 90% emissions reduction … [continued]
In 2024, France increased its cross-border electricity deliveries by 48%, from 70 terawatthours (TWh) in 2023 to 103 TWh in 2024. France’s electricity exports to Belgium and Germany increased the most, but France also exported more electricity to Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Italy, according to data from the European … [continued]
“Solving the climate crisis is within our grasp, but we need people like you to stand up and act.” —Al Gore, 2007. “If God had intended to give us unlimited free energy, he would have put a giant furnace in the sky.” —Al Gore, 2025. By Luke Singer and Gautam … [continued]
The recent announcement that the UK’s Sizewell C nuclear generation construction’s projected cost has doubled from £20 billion in 2020 to nearly £38 billion today is shocking but predictable. For anyone following Europe’s nuclear power saga, such an escalation is not an anomaly but rather a continuation of a deeply … [continued]
In the runup to President Trump’s signing of his “Big Beautiful” spending bill on July 4, some climate activists wondered if Republicans would eliminate all federal subsidies for carbon capture projects, because Trump thinks climate change is a hoax. But the opposite happened. The $4 trillion spending package increases federal subsidies for carbon capture – … [continued]
The US Department of the Interior has issued a directive requiring personal approval from Secretary Doug Burgum for all wind and solar energy projects on federal lands and waters. The order introduces heightened scrutiny to dozens of actions involved in developing renewable energy infrastructure, including leases, rights-of-way, and construction authorizations. The … [continued]
The massive, 2-gigawatt Maryland Offshore Wind project is still alive and kicking, though new pitfalls have arisen.
A radically different type of wind turbine deploys small, mass-produced components to pare capital costs to the bone while squeezing more clean kilowatts out of less space.
