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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.

Carbon accounting is rapidly becoming a mainstream business practice across Mexico’s logistics sector, with the share of companies measuring their greenhouse gas emissions rising from 22 percent in 2023 to 55 percent in 2025, according to the fourth National Study of Logistics Indicators.

Tesla and UAE based digital utility company Esyasoft have announced a collaboration to develop and deploy an initial portfolio exceeding 15 GWh of utility scale battery energy storage systems across the United Kingdom, Western Europe, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and India.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Dominance Financing finalized a $3.26 billion loan to AEP Texas on July…