Browsing: Americas

General Motors is reducing its exposure to large scale EV battery manufacturing, selling its 49.99% stake in a $3.5 billion battery joint venture with Samsung SDI as slower US electric vehicle growth forces automakers to reassess capacity, chemistry and capital allocation.

Cardinal Glass Industries plans to install a carbon capture system capable of removing approximately 130,000 metric tons of CO₂ annually from its float glass manufacturing operations in Winlock, Washington, with commissioning targeted for the first quarter of 2029.

A proposed 100 MWe sodium cooled fast reactor is moving into a more detailed development phase in the United States, as ARC Clean Technology and Battelle Energy Alliance, the operator of Idaho National Laboratory, establish a framework covering the engineering, testing and potential first of a kind deployment of ARC’s ARC-100 reactor.

Brazil’s first dedicated battery energy storage auction has drawn 6,091 registered projects totaling 296,807 MW, highlighting unprecedented investor interest in grid scale storage as the country seeks to strengthen power system flexibility amid rapid renewable energy expansion.

Canada’s first commercial small modular reactor is already under construction at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site, positioning the country among the global leaders in next generation nuclear deployment.

TerraPower’s Natrium reactor received NRC construction approval in March 2026, the first commercial-scale next-generation nuclear plant to achieve that milestone…

More than half of all new battery storage capacity cleared in PJM’s 2027/28 Residual Capacity Auction belongs to a single…

A new study published in Energy & Fuels estimates that U.S. data center power capacity will increase from 40 GW in 2025 to 169 GW by 2030, more than quadrupling within five years as AI computing requirements continue to accelerate.

In May 2026, solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity while coal supplied 12.2%, the first month on record in which…

In Colombia, state owned energy company Ecopetrol and Germany’s development agency GIZ have launched a two year feasibility study for a pilot power to liquid facility that could produce electro sustainable aviation fuel at the Cartagena refinery, signaling growing international interest in Latin America as a future supplier of synthetic fuels.