Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing.
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Solar and wind together now represent nearly a quarter of electricity demand and nearly 10% of all energy consumption in the U.S.
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ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading.
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The layoffs slashed between 13% to 20% of the four Power Marketing Administrations’ workforces.
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A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets.
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Meeting that demand will require adding more generating capacity than all of Japan — every year.
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A new study argues that data centers could be ideal demand-response participants because they have the potential to be flexible.
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The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team is buying 5,500 metric tons worth of carbon credits from Chestnut Carbon.
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The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.
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Microsoft has added another 389 megawatts of renewable power to its portfolio as the tech giant scrambles to meet the power demands required to match its AI ambitions. The additional renewable power spans three solar projects developed by EDP Renewables North America — two in southern Illinois and one outside Austin, Texas. Microsoft is buying […]
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Mast enables reforestation without landowners needing to wait decades to harvest timber or claim carbon credits.
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X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups to have benefitted from the AI-driven data center boom.
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Presto is helping connect fleets and charging networks so drivers can find working chargers quickly.
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Modern Synthesis’s fibers can be manipulated in ways that simple plant fibers cannot.
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The size of the new fund is a vote of confidence in a range of deep tech verticals.
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Amazon’s power bill has been soaring lately as it adds data centers to deal with rising demand for AI and cloud services.
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Circularity’s process uses 40% less energy than competing CO2-to-fuel pathways.
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The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers.
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The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
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Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate adaptation startups.
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