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Volvo Construction Equipment’s Oldest and Newest Articulated Dump Trucks
Volvo's Newest Articulated Hauler, Volvo Construction Equipment photo. Volvo's First Articulated Hauler, Gravel Charlie, Equipment World photo. On display at the 2022 Volvo Days event in Sweden was the first articulated dump truck ever created (pictured right). Dubbed...
Department of Energy to Resume Negotiations for $430 Million in Hydropower Funding
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington. Courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation. The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (H2O) announced earlier this week that it will soon resume negotiations to issue nearly $430 million in payments to American...
Kairos Power Breaks Ground on New Demonstration Reactor
Kairos Power photo Earlier this month, Kairos Power broke ground on the company's second demonstration plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This will be the company's first commercial-scale reactor and the first-ever power-producing Gen IV reactor to receive a construction...
Clean Energy Clips, Spring 2026
Check out our Spring 2026 edition of Clean Energy Clips!This edition features the Directors Update, an event for the CoE Advisory Board and Educators: Energizing Pathways Between Industry & Education Partners, and highlights from the blog and website. There is...
A Second Life for Plastics
“There are tremendous societal benefits to plastic, but thinking about what happens to those plastics once they get to the end of their life is a huge problem,” says Professor Matthew Golder. (Photo: Juan Rodriguez) April 1, 2026 | By Nancy Joseph, UW...
Avalanche Energy Awarded Contract with DARPA to Develop New Radiovoltaics
Avalanche Energy employee prepares fusion plasma test on one of the company’s compact devices. (Avalanche Photo) Earlier this week, Avalanche Energy was awarded a $5.2 million contract from DARPA's Rads to Watts program to develop new radiovoltaics. The Pentagon...
Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Iran-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are conducting exploitation activity targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley. This...
Chernobyl at 40: Where it Stands Now
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the new threats that have complicated it. At 1:23 a.m. local time on April...
APPA Recognizes Public Power Utilities with RP3 Designation
High-voltage wire tower at dusk One hundred eighteen of the nation’s more than 2,000 public power utilities earned the Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3®) designation from the American Public Power Association (APPA) for providing reliable and safe electric service,...
Puget Sound Energy and ChargeScape Launch New Demonstration Using EVs
Photo Credit: Kurt Schlosser, GeekWire Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and ChargeScape have announced testing of new vehicle-to-home (V2H) technology enabling electric vehicles to power homes during power outages, together with partners Ford, Kia and Wallbox. The innovative...