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Energy

Solar, wind, batteries, green hydrogen and power grids

The Energy section of ECOnews covers solar and wind power, offshore wind farms, batteries and energy storage, green hydrogen, nuclear power and power grids. Follow the projects, records and innovations changing how the world produces and uses electricity.

Petrobras FPSO vessel docked and prepared for offshore deployment, used to produce and store oil in deepwater fields.

While Brazil debated the energy transition, Petrobras greenlit 11 new pre-salt platforms through 2027, and Búzios alone will get 6 FPSOs as it targets 1 million barrels a day

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Technician installing a residential heat pump system as part of the transition to electric home heating.

Germany and the U.S. begin moving to phase out gas heaters in homes, and heat pumps are emerging as the replacement that changes bills, habits, and emissions

By ECONEWS
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May 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A view inside the Large Hadron Collider’s tunnel, showing the 17-mile ring of superconducting magnets used for particle collisions.

With a 17-mile ring buried as deep as 574 feet under the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest particle accelerator is an underground “city” built to push physics to its limit

By ECONEWS
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May 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Rendering of the SPARC fusion reactor inside a Commonwealth Fusion Systems assembly hall with workers nearby for scale.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs a 106,000-pound vessel and hits 75% completion on the SPARC reactor in Massachusetts, a milestone that speeds up America’s fusion timeline

By ECONEWS
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May 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Dragon fruit peels processed into carbon material for lithium-sulfur battery research in China

China turns dragon fruit peels into a key material for electric car and airplane batteries: the unbelievable part isn’t the fruit… it’s the chemical trick behind it

By ECONEWS
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May 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hydrogen-powered brick kiln conversion project at Wienerberger’s Denton factory in Greater Manchester

The United Kingdom fires up the first commercial hydrogen-powered brick factory: the date is set, and the industrial shift feels like the start of a “new era”

By ECONEWS
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May 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
China’s massive 20MW wind turbine installed in Hainan during offshore renewable energy testing

China installs the “largest” turbine ever, and scientists warn of something bizarre: it could be affecting the local climate… (the size figure sounds straight out of a movie)

By ECONEWS
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May 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Small solar panels installed on an apartment balcony in Poland during a legal dispute over residential clean energy use

A judge orders solar panels removed from a balcony, sparking an unexpected debate over saving electricity, neighbors, and the limits of home energy

By Adrian Villellas
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May 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of the Laufenburg construction site in Switzerland, where a massive 2.1-GWh redox-flow battery is planned.

Switzerland is digging a 27-meter-deep shaft along the Rhine to house a massive 2.1-GWh battery… and Laufenburg could become the “secret heart” of Europe’s power grid

By ECONEWS
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May 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Concept illustration of Japan’s Luna Ring project using solar panels around the Moon to beam energy to Earth

Luna Ring: the Japanese concept for a solar energy ring around the Moon that would beam power to Earth

By ECONEWS
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May 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
China’s large floating research platform under construction for deep-sea science and all-weather ocean operations.

China is building a floating marine megabunker designed to resist nuclear explosions and move at 30 knots, and the project looks more like a fortress than a ship

By Adrian Villellas
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May 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Deep geothermal drilling project in Cornwall producing renewable electricity and lithium from underground brine

The United Kingdom has drilled five kilometers underground and found a real alternative to oil, bringing an old energy dream closer to the surface

By ECONEWS
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May 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Agricultural residues such as rice husks and biomass waste prepared for energy production

Agricultural waste that used to be left behind after harvests could become a source of electricity, turning fields into an unexpected part of the future energy system

By ECONEWS
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May 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Flexible wearable patch that generates electricity from sweat using an enzymatic biofuel cell printed on a thin substrate

Japanese scientists print an enzymatic biofuel cell on paper that turns sweat into electricity for wearables

By ECONEWS
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May 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hand holding rice husks after harvest

They heated them to 900°C (1,652°F) for 8 hours, and something unexpected happened: the rice husks and palm fronds barely formed the dreaded “rocks” that clog boilers… and Colombia might have a more reliable rural fuel than we thought

By ECONEWS
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April 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Underwater view of tethered industrial devices, representing advanced engineering systems similar to experimental energy infrastructure

The United States has never built anything like this before: now a startup wants to bury a small nuclear reactor 6,000 feet underground, with a target date of July 2026

By ECONEWS
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April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Hydrokinetic turbines installed in the Rhine River generating electricity from flowing water without a dam

Germany is already testing a power plant on the Rhine equipped with 124 invisible turbines that continues to operate even after sunset and when the wind dies down

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Solar-powered artificial leaf device converts CO2 into formate fuel beside solar panels

An “artificial leaf” described in a study published on November 19, 2025, was able to convert CO2 into formate for more than 24 hours and could open up an amazing new way to produce chemicals without relying so heavily on oil

By ECONEWS
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April 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
A complex, high-tech superconducting particle accelerator used for researching the reduction of long-term nuclear waste.

ARPA-E funds particle accelerator projects to cut nuclear waste storage from 100,000 years to a few centuries

By ECONEWS
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April 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A bright plasma plume glowing from the exhaust of the Pulsar Fusion Sunbird rocket engine prototype during a test in the UK.

The UK fires up a fusion rocket for the first time and accelerates the race to conquer Mars before anyone else

By Adrian Villellas
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April 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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