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Iran escalates Strait of Hormuz shipping attacks with new tactics aimed at keeping global oil prices high before US midterm elections

Attacks on commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have hit their highest level since the war started, according to US and allied officials — the result of…

By Kelly Lippke · October 23, 2026

Iran

Iran

Iran escalates Strait of Hormuz shipping attacks with new tactics aimed at keeping global oil prices high before US midterm elections

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

PPL

PPL Electric Utilities responds to Pennsylvania governor’s petition on large-load customer cost protections

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Iran oil

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards report two oil tankers struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Oil

Venezuela announces $76 billion in expected oil investment over five years under new foreign partnership agreements

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Trump

Trump waives Russian oil and gas sanctions under Graham Act days before provisions were set to take effect

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Hydrocarbon

Equatorial Guinea to pass new hydrocarbon law aimed at reversing 85% crude production decline

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Solar

SolarEdge displays MVAC-to-800 VDC solid-state transformer technology for AI data centers at OCP Global Summit

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

A simple chemical shield lets solar cells be built in open air and still break efficiency records

A simple chemical “shield” lets solar cells be built in open air and still break efficiency records

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 23

Energy

Tigo Energy releases repowering playbook and surpasses 11 MW of legacy solar system upgrades

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

Solar panels on a former coal mine near oil wells in Colorado, keenesburg colorado 16

Near Keenesburg, Colorado, 16,000 solar panels went up on a dead coal mine ringed by active oil wells, and the array now feeds a Golden brewery

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 23

Solar

A century after coal mining in Minonk, Illinois, 16,950 solar panels now generate 9.8 MW above the site

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

Collapsed turbine tower in field after fourth Missouri wind farm failure, state s biggest

Near Lancaster, Missouri, a turbine folded into a field on August 26, the fourth collapse in two years at the state’s biggest wind farm, and only 15 of 175 machines were still spinning

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 23

Wind turbines were built to survive a monster gust that decades of real world data suggest almost never comes

Wind turbines were built to survive a “monster gust” that decades of real-world data suggest almost never comes

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 22

Worlds tallest wind turbine rising 1197 feet over former coal mine, 1 197 feet

At 1,197 feet above a shuttered coal pit in eastern Germany, one turbine spins blades where the wind behaves like an entirely different climate, and engineers say the extra height could double its output

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 22

Wind turbines have been blamed for rain damage they never actually suffered and a new study finally shows why

Wind turbines have been “blamed” for rain damage they never actually suffered, and a new study finally shows why

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 22

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Researchers flipped a 1.5 MW turbine backwards to measure something no one had captured at full scale before

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 21

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Westinghouse

Westinghouse signs conditional purchase orders with four Polish suppliers for safety-related modules at Lubiatowo-Kopalino AP1000 nuclear plant

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

Cobalt rods lowered into reactor bay for medical equipment sterilization, two working reactors

Harvested twice a year from the core of two working reactors on a Canadian lake, rods supplying roughly half the world’s medical cobalt now sterilize surgical gloves and syringes worldwide

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 23

Tilted fuel assembly inside the Palisades reactor vessel during recovery, inside michigan s

Inside Michigan’s Palisades reactor vessel, fuel assembly DD41 tipped to a 30 degree lean on August 30, and regulators approved a custom tool built to lift it out

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 22

Deep Isolation nuclear waste

Deep Isolation takes its nuclear waste work overseas with a Slovenian study focused on long-term disposal options for spent fuel

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 22

Scorched substation transformer after Seabrook transformer fire during heat wave, seabrook parking lot

Near a Seabrook parking lot, two transformers failed four minutes apart as heat climbed past 95 degrees, and one burst into flame while the reactor stayed online

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 21

Oklo Texas isotope facility

Oklo moves a second Texas isotope facility forward under DOE’s nuclear launch initiative, doubling down on the state as a base for advanced nuclear production

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 21

suspended tiny chip with ceramic

Barcelona researchers suspended a tiny chip like a bridge and used ceramic to increase its temperature difference roughly 100-fold

By Anke Maree · Oct 23

Solar panels and inverter cabinet showing deliberate inverter mismatch output design, outside badajoz spain

Outside Badajoz, Spain, a 50 MW solar plant wired over 50,000 kilowatts of panels to just 39,000 kilowatts of inverters, and that mismatch was built to raise overall output

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 23

Hydro

West Virginia’s New Cumberland Locks could gain a new hydropower plant, sending electricity beneath a railway to the grid

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 23

proposed reservoirs for pumped storage facility

Two proposed desert reservoirs would feed a buried 1,000-MW Nevada power station, but federal review now extends into 2028

By Anke Maree · Oct 22

Floating turbine towering over waves near Lufeng oil field platform, off china s

Off China’s Lufeng oil field, a 16 megawatt floating turbine began sending power in August, and the rig it feeds now burns far less fuel oil each day

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 22

Water battery

Near East Wenatchee, a proposed 500-MW water battery would use treated wastewater and two underground reversible turbines

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 22

Nel Hydrogen US $12 million PEM electrolyzer

Nel Hydrogen US lands a $12 million PEM electrolyzer order from a U.S. technology company, adding another large commercial win to its hydrogen pipeline

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 22

Energy

Bloom Energy says solid oxide fuel cells can close the gap between surging U.S. data center power demand and slow grid expansion timelines

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 20

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight

Oregon State scientists found a way to pull clean hydrogen from sunlight using a crystal that acts as its own “spark plug”

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 15

Oregon State researchers found a shortcut to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry

Oregon State researchers found a “shortcut” to clean hydrogen that skips the expensive ingredient the whole industry thought was unavoidable

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 12

SunHydrogen and Honda renewable hydrogen panel

SunHydrogen and Honda are keeping their renewable hydrogen panel partnership alive through 2028, giving the technology more runway to move from prototype toward deployment

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

- Plug 280 MW electrolyzer e-SAF

Plug lands a 280 MW electrolyzer order for a Danish e-SAF project, while the broader partnership now stretches beyond the 1 GW mark

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 11

WATTMORE GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen

WATTMORE joins GTI Energy’s Illinois hydrogen microgrid research effort, putting its technology into a project testing how hydrogen can fit into resilient local power systems

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 10

Nel $7 million submarine electrolyzer

Nel adds another $7 million in submarine electrolyzer orders spanning U.S., U.K. and French programs, widening its footprint across allied naval fleets

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Latest News

1

SolarEdge displays MVAC-to-800 VDC solid-state transformer technology for AI data centers at OCP Global Summit

Oct 23

2

Westinghouse signs conditional purchase orders with four Polish suppliers for safety-related modules at Lubiatowo-Kopalino AP1000 nuclear plant

Oct 23

3

A simple chemical “shield” lets solar cells be built in open air and still break efficiency records

Oct 23

4

Tigo Energy releases repowering playbook and surpasses 11 MW of legacy solar system upgrades

Oct 23

5

Near Keenesburg, Colorado, 16,000 solar panels went up on a dead coal mine ringed by active oil wells, and the array now feeds a Golden brewery

Oct 23

6

A century after coal mining in Minonk, Illinois, 16,950 solar panels now generate 9.8 MW above the site

Oct 23

7

Near Lancaster, Missouri, a turbine folded into a field on August 26, the fourth collapse in two years at the state’s biggest wind farm, and only 15 of 175 machines were still spinning

Oct 23

8

Barcelona researchers suspended a tiny chip like a bridge and used ceramic to increase its temperature difference roughly 100-fold

Oct 23

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Kelly LippkeStaff Writer

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