by Emily | Dec 9, 2025 | Clean Energy News
Caterpillar (CAT®) generators, Idaho Falls Power photo Last week, Idaho Falls Power celebrated the formal launch of its new natural gas peaking generation plant. This represents a major milestone in the community-owned utility’s 125-year legacy of reliable,...
by Emily | Dec 4, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
A mockup of a fuel bundle for TerraPower’s Natrium reactor. (TerraPower Photo) Nuclear power company TerraPower has passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff’s final safety evaluation for a permit to build a reactor in Wyoming. The Washington-based company backed...
by Emily | Dec 2, 2025 | Clean Energy News
Photo by Werner Slocum, NREL 80159 According to the news release from the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been renamed the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), with the new name reflects the laboratory’s...
by Emily | Nov 25, 2025 | Clean Energy News
A team searches for seaweed samples on the shore of Moira Bay, Alaska. Photo by Stefanie Van Wychen, NREL In the spring, NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, Alaska, and flew to Ketchikan, a city known for its “feisty salmon,”...
by Emily | Nov 20, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Fusion
Zap Energy’s FuZE-Q fusion device. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy recently announced that its next generation device named the Fusion Z-pinch Experiment 3, or FuZE-3, has now achieved plasmas with electron pressures as high as 830 megapascals (MPa), or 1.6 gigapascals (GPa)...
by Emily | Nov 18, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Education
The Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD), in partnership with Scholarship America, recently announced the creation of the Get Into Energy Scholarship Fund, a national initiative designed to expand access to energy careers. The fund aims to grow paths to...
