Climate & Energy
Among forty-three applications from a lithium-ion manufacturer published August 6, one describes a device that generates current from radioactive decay. The interesting part is the fabrication method.
Climate & Energy
A published application puts a second case around a pouch cell and fills the gap between them with an extinguishing agent — concentrated at the seam and the terrace, which is where pouch cells actually open.
Climate & Energy
A published application describes a two-ingredient electrode coating: a polythiophene polymer that turns into a nonconductor in a defined temperature window, plus porous carbon that keeps normal-operation conductivity intact.
Climate & Energy
General Fusion Group Ltd. filed a Form 20-F on July 16 with the Shell Company Report box checked: the closing report for its July 10 merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III. Inside the listing document are $169.6M of pro forma cash, a $444.7M accumulated deficit, negative $86.0M shareholders' equity — and going-concern paragraphs from two different auditors.
Climate & Energy
A published application from Contemporary Amperex describes charging a sodium cell in a voltage window above hydrogen's reduction potential but below sodium's, so residual water comes off as hydrogen gas before any sodium metal can deposit. The record's stated prior-art baseline is high-temperature baking.
Climate & Energy
A cluster of newly published Fluence applications splits a utility-scale battery into a prewired “smart skid” and detachable battery “pods” that self-locate onto it. Here is how the disclosed architecture works.
Climate & Energy
An Item 2.06 filing from Air Products discloses a pre-tax charge of up to $2.9 billion tied to exiting the Louisiana Clean Energy Complex, the Casa Grande green-hydrogen facility, and smaller clean-energy distribution projects. Here is what the document states.
Climate & Energy
A cylindrical-cell grant issued June 30 turns the end cap into the current-collector plate and the pressure vent at once. Here is the mechanism, and where it sits in the tabless-cell state of the art.
Climate & Energy
An 8-K filed June 26 details an agreement and plan of merger for the Ara VAC magnet-materials entities, a $718 million cash component, a senior secured term loan commitment, an unregistered share issuance, and annual-meeting vote results. Here is what the document states.
Climate & Energy
In its first earnings cycle since its May Nasdaq debut, the enhanced-geothermal developer reported a $31.8 million net loss, $280.8 million in cash, and $172.8 million of quarterly capex as it builds toward first power at Cape Station.
Energy
An 8-K filed June 22 reports that NextEra Energy Capital Holdings sold three series of long-dated junior subordinated debentures, with initial fixed coupons that later reset against the Five-Year Treasury Rate.
Energy
A photovoltaic application published this week describes an inverter that auto-registers module-level power electronics using timed grant windows and random back-off timers. Here is the mechanism the document actually describes.
Climate & Energy
A Schedule 425 for the Newcleo–NewHold SPAC merger discloses a pivot of first-of-a-kind deployment from France to the US, contingent on a DOE program offering up to 20 tons of surplus plutonium for Mox fuel.
Energy
Solar, wind, and battery storage connect to the grid through inverters rather than spinning machines. FERC has directed new reliability standards to close gaps related to these inverter-based resources, including newer grid-forming designs.
Energy
UL 9540 is the product-safety standard for energy storage systems and equipment. Federal records show how it is enforced — through certification by OSHA-recognized testing laboratories.
Energy
Section 6418 lets a project owner sell eligible clean-energy tax credits to an unrelated buyer for cash. Treasury's final rule sets out the election, a required IRS pre-filing registration, and the consequences of an excessive transfer.
Energy
A capacity market pays power resources to be available in the future, separate from paying them for the energy they actually produce. FERC describes it as one of the constructs grid operators use to ensure resource adequacy.
Energy
Order No. 2222 directs the operators of the nation's wholesale power markets to let aggregations of small distributed resources — rooftop solar, home batteries, EV chargers — bid as a single resource alongside power plants.
Energy
Before a power plant can connect to the grid it must clear the interconnection queue. FERC's Order No. 2023 replaced the old first-come study process with a first-ready, first-served cluster study to address queue backlogs.
Energy
The 48E investment credit pays a percentage of what a clean-power facility costs to build; the 45Y production credit pays a per-kilowatt-hour amount on what it generates. The Treasury rule defines both around a single emissions test.
Energy
The Section 45X credit pays U.S. producers a per-unit amount for each eligible solar, wind, inverter, battery, and critical-mineral component they make and sell. Here is what the Treasury rule actually says.
Energy
An 8-K filed June 18 discloses that the gas utility completed a public offering of $700 million in 4.750% senior notes due January 2032, raising about $693.9 million in net proceeds under its existing March 2009 indenture.
Energy
A FERC notice accepts PacifiCorp's exemption-from-licensing application for the 6.7-MW Ashton project on the Henry's Fork of the Snake River and opens a comment window closing August 14, 2026.
Energy
A new FERC notice opens the docket on a $86.2 million natural gas lateral that would deliver 265,000 dekatherms per day to a Vistra-owned generating station in Ohio.
