AI summaryMachias Power and Plumbing is urging homeowners in Snohomish, King and Skagit Counties to plan and install permanent standby generators now because sizing, permitting and inspection take time and cannot be done during outages.
AI summaryAalo Atomics’ factory‑assembled Critical Test Reactor reached sustained chain reaction (went critical) at Idaho National Laboratory, achieving the Reactor Pilot Program milestone without on‑site poured foundations.
AI summaryTrail Bridge Dam in Oregon ceased electricity generation and operated in full-spill mode for four months to improve downstream passage for migrating juvenile salmon and trout.
AI summaryA Pepco substation failure in Washington’s Foggy Bottom knocked out power for about 1,176 customers near 23rd Street NW and I Street NW; crews were on site investigating and working to restore service, with restoration initially estimated by 11 a.m.
AI summaryA plant in Moses Lake operated by Twelve began commercial production of E-Jet, making jet fuel from captured CO2, water and renewable electricity at about 100 barrels per day with no crude oil in the process.
AI summaryBoise will extend its city geothermal heating network to serve a planned affordable multifamily development of more than 300 units, funded in part by a $2.5 million gift from Micron and a $1 million award from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
AI summaryConnectDER’s UL-listed meter socket adapters, which enable solar, storage and EV charging hookups at the meter without panel upgrades, have been approved for installation by Pepco in the Washington, DC service area.
AI summaryIce Harbor Dam on the Snake River tested a new fixed-blade, forward‑slanted turbine that raised juvenile salmon passage survival from about 90% to 98.25% while improving turbine efficiency by 4%. After successful trials, the dam is replacing its remaining units with the advanced design, with DOE and the U.S.
AI summaryTerraVolt Holdings executed option agreements to purchase 1,077 acres in Cassia County, Idaho, to develop a master-planned, behind-the-meter data center campus supporting an initial 240 MW of on-site power.
AI summaryEugene adopted a Residential Energy Performance Disclosure (Home Energy Score) ordinance in a 6–1 city council vote, requiring scores and assessments be posted when homes are listed for sale.
AI summaryEngineered bypass upgrades at Washington’s multi-dam Lewis River hydropower system now use a floating surface collector and truck transport to move juvenile and adult salmon around Swift, Merwin and Yale dams. The interventions are operational and have reopened 117 miles of upstream spawning habitat.
AI summaryDEP found a conventional well was abandoned, unplugged and leaking gas about 10 feet from an apartment building, with distressed vegetation along a gas line from the well.
AI summaryKendall Sustainable Infrastructure has started operating three community solar projects totaling 15.8 MW across New York and Oregon. The portfolio includes two New York projects and one in Oregon, with individual sizes from 4.1 MWdc to 7.0 MWdc; KSI financed and now operates them.
AI summaryA hose holding fracking fluid ruptured during operations at a Range Resources Appalachia shale gas well pad, releasing fluid that contaminated about 250 x 150 ft on the pad outside secondary containment and about 250 x 100 ft down the southern cutslope.
AI summaryA Wyoming pipeline company, Bridger Pipeline LLC, plans a 650-mile tar sands oil pipeline through eastern Montana and into Wyoming, with a presidential permit and company plans to begin within a year.
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