A geothermal turbine resembles the oversized metallic eye of a giant. The round, smooth section of its mast is the iris, at the center of a radial pattern of steel beams. These organic rankine cycle ...

The power conversion tech company Heron Power is putting steel in the ground for its first commercial factory, just miles from its Silicon Valley engineering hub. The startup, which in February closed ...

In the near term, it may be impossible for the U.S. to match China’s capacity for building infrastructure. But what about post-boom?

Weeks ago, Microsoft reportedly began telling suppliers and partners that it is pausing future purchases of carbon dioxide removal. And just today, Bloomberg broke the news that the company may be ...

The Austin-based startup TAR aims to build off-grid power for data centers in less than six months — and rely primarily on renewables to do it. That’s according to co-founders Pat Becker and Leonhard ...

The impacts of the two scares that Trump dismissed — climate change and the AI boom — overlap routinely in the energy system.

For years, the Advanced Energy Management Alliance was all but defunct. Launched in 2014 and dedicated to pushing demand ...

Ameet Konkar thinks data centers’ opportunity to appease the local communities where they’re facing backlash is bigger than hand-outs alone.“These hyperscalers and energy buyers are trying to see what ...

After a year of canceling projects and a DOGE-led workforce dismantling that culminated in an agency restructuring, the Department of Energy is showing signs of life. So far in 2026, DOE has posted ...

When Energy Vault announced its $300 million preferred equity investment from Orion Infrastructure Capital last fall, it appeared to have pulled off what critics and short sellers deemed unlikely: ...

The startup, which uses robots to install solar, has been quietly building co-located projects for data centers across the country.