Over the past few months, both the popular press and specialty publications in the renewable energy field have been abuzz with excitement about the commercialization of a new-ish geothermal energy technology by a Houston-based startup company, Fervo Energy. The approach, called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), uses hydraulic fracturing (fracking) techniques … [continued]
Featured image: A view of the Burning Man event from the International Space Station. Image by NASA ISS (Public Domain).
On Sunday, videos of a climate protest that literally got smashed by the police started floating around on social media. Like many protests, this one involved the blocking of a road, and it ended when a police officer rammed his way through the barricade and started arresting the protesters, one … [continued]
Battery recycling company and Tesla partner Redwood Materials is currently in discussion to raise as much as $700 million in funding. If all goes according to plan, the funding would put the company’s valuation at nearly $5 billion ahead of the company’s plans to construct a new factory in Nevada — though … [continued]
Enhanced geothermal technology makes it possible to tap heat reservoirs beneath the Earth’s surface to generate zero emission electricity.
Greenlink transmission lines would bring 8 GW of clean energy to Nevada communities
Lithium, lithium, lithium — as much as we cover the lithium market, there’s much more to cover. The lithium market is jumping. Below are 7 notable lithium stories we haven’t written about before today. Lithium Americas has started construction on its Thacker Pass lithium project located in Nevada. The Bureau … [continued]
A new wave of pumped hydro energy storage projects is hitting the US west, regardless of the "ant-woke" mudslinging among elected officials (image courtesy of rPlus Energies).
A new wave of pumped hydro energy storage projects is hitting the US west, regardless of the “ant-woke” mudslinging among elected officials.
Redwood Materials is in line to receive up to $2 billion from the DOE to build its battery recycling facility in Nevada.
Operations at Tesla’s Sparks, Nevada, plant — its first gigafactory — are set to grow substantially in the coming years, with the company recently sharing plans to add two new factories. The Tesla factory has been a key producer of Tesla’s automotive batteries throughout the last several years, and soon … [continued]
Tesla plans to invest another $3.6 billion to expand the Nevada Gigafactory to make the Semi and 4680 battery cells.
