At Gastech 2026, Mitsubishi Power Asia’s Managing Director and CEO Akihiro Ondo showcased the company’s GTCC (Gas Turbine Combined Cycle) technology, emphasizing its role in delivering stable power with reduced emissions for Thailand. Ondo urged the Thai government to engage stakeholders to address energy supply gaps. The presentation highlighted GTCC’s efficiency and environmental benefits, positioning Mitsubishi as a key player in Thailand’s renewable energy transition. The event underscored the country’s growing focus on sustainable power solutions amid [...]

Taylor Searcy, a former Surface Warfare Officer on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Lassen, now serves as Clean Energy Strategy Lead at General Motors. His Navy experience, where he managed navigation and safety for a $1 billion vessel and 300 sailors, informs his current role in designing reliable, cost‑effective energy solutions for GM’s plants, design centers, and offices. Searcy’s early port visits to Timor‑Leste and Fiji highlighted the critical link between dependable power and community well‑being, shaping his [...]

The Energy Storage Summit in Berlin highlighted flexible connection agreements (FCAs) as a central theme, with most new BESS projects encountering restrictions. Inertia services were praised as a promising opportunity amid tightening business conditions. Delegates expressed disappointment over Germany’s upcoming capacity market, citing limited access for storage and stringent de‑rating rules. The EPC‑wrap model emerged as the preferred deployment approach, while EU plans to broaden bans on Chinese inverters could reshape the market for European PCS manufacturers. [...]

On Sept. 3, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office announced the creation of a Geothermal Center of Excellence on the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) campus in Golden, Colorado. The center, led by NLR and supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory, will coordinate research across ten national labs—including Argonne, Brookhaven, Idaho, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia—to tackle high‑impact technical barriers in geothermal energy. An industry advisory board [...]

On August 27, the nation’s first grid‑connected, pre‑permitted open‑ocean wave‑energy test facility, PacWave South, opened on Oregon’s coast. The ribbon‑cutting, hosted by Oregon State University, was attended by leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy, Congress, and the Oregon Legislature. PacWave South, managed by OSU and funded in part by DOE’s Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office, can host up to 20 wave‑energy converters, each linked to a 5‑MW subsea cable, and is licensed for 25 years under FERC. The [...]

Khosla‑backed Mazama Energy announced a $135 million financing round led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with participation from ConocoPhillips, Shell Ventures and several new backers. The capital will fund horizontal drilling of super‑hot‑rock geothermal wells that can reach 15,000 feet and tap 750 °F (400 °C) reservoirs, creating supercritical water that delivers up to ten times the power of conventional geothermal. Mazama expects each well to generate roughly 15 megawatts, and its first Oregon project, now projected to produce 10 gigawatts of [...]

Energy and industry leaders warned that the United States risks losing the artificial‑intelligence race if it cannot expand its power supply. At a Daily Caller Live event, Christopher Johnson of the American Energy Leadership Institute and Mark Bednar of Monument Advocacy argued that without a massive build‑out of reliable, clean electricity and domestic data‑center capacity, AI workloads will shift to China, where coal‑fired plants are proliferating. China is constructing 94.5 GW of new coal capacity in 2024, accounting for [...]