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EnerCom Opens Registration for the 31st Annual Energy Investment Conference August 17–19, 2026 in Denver, Colorado

April 14, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) – Investors are encouraged to register for EnerCom Denver – The Energy Investment Conference featuring a broad group of public and private energy companies. Sponsorship opportunities are available for companies seeking to increase their market presence DENVER – April 13, 2026 – EnerCom, Inc. (“EnerCom”) today announced that registration is now open for its 31st annual EnerCom Denver

EnerCom Opens Registration for the 31st Annual Energy Investment Conference August 17–19, 2026 in Denver, Colorado

April 13, 2026

Britain urges G7 to accelerate clean energy push amid global turmoil

April 6, 2026

(Oil Price) – Britain has urged some of the world’s biggest powers to adopt clean energy at a faster pace to boost energy security during a time of geopolitical turmoil. The United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, appealed to world leaders to accelerate the global green transition during the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting, held in France from 26th to 27th March.

US nuclear power regulator phases out agency-led commando drills at plants

April 6, 2026

(Investing) – WASHINGTON – The U.S. nuclear power regulator voted last week to phase out agency-led security inspections at operating reactors, a move a safety advocate said represents a failure in the government’s responsibility to protect Americans from attacks on the plants. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to phase out “force-on-force” inspection programs, it said on its website on Friday, a

Financing the Nuclear Renaissance, Part II : How SMRs Will Actually Be Paid For

March 25, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) by Greg Barnett, MBA – If Part I explained why the U.S. needs SMRs, Part II explains how they will actually get financed, built, and replicated. Nuclear projects do not rise from enthusiasm alone. They rise from capital — and capital only flows when risk is reduced, supply chains are credible, and customers can sign multi‑decade power

America’s SMR Moment, Part I: Oklo, Global Competition, and the Hard Math Behind the Next Nuclear Buildout

March 24, 2026

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – America’s power demands are rising at a pace the grid was never designed for, driven largely by data‑center growth, electrification, AI compute, and industrial reshoring. Supply, meanwhile, is struggling to keep up — especially in regions where energy‑hungry infrastructure is racing ahead of generation. In Texas, for example, grid operators warned in

The Equity Tax Catalyst Behind SMR Investment: Why capital is finally moving

March 19, 2026

(Oil & Gas) By Greg Barnett, MBA – Small modular reactors have spent years trapped in a paradox: strategically essential, technologically validated, yet financially frozen. That freeze is now breaking. The combination of equity tax transferability, refundability, and long‑dated offtake demand from industrial and AI‑centered loads has transformed SMRs from policy aspirations into financeable assets. For investors and bankers,

Scientists develop accelerator that could slash nuclear waste lifespan by 99%

February 24, 2026

(Oil Price) – For decades, nuclear energy has been regarded as the black sheep of the energy universe, thanks to drawbacks such as high costs, risk of thermal runaway leading to catastrophic accidents as well as the hazardous by-products of nuclear plants. Nuclear waste is notorious for the fact that it can remain dangerously radioactive for many thousands of years. Currently,

Trump could offer deals to U.S. states to store nuclear waste

January 22, 2026

(Oil Price) – The Trump Administration plans to offer U.S. states incentives for building nuclear reactors in exchange for agreeing to store nuclear waste, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. However, a spokesperson for the U.S. Energy Department told Reuters that the story was “false” and that “no decisions have been made at this time,” after POLITICO first reported on the

Japan restarts its largest nuclear plant thirteen years after Fukushima

January 21, 2026

(Oil Price) – Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co. will today restart its first nuclear reactor after the Fukushima disaster. Reactor #6 at the Kashiwasaki Kariwa power plant will be switched on after 7 pm local time, Bloomberg reported, citing a company news release. The reactor has a capacity of 1.36 GW, Reuters noted in a report on the news. Kashiwasaki Kariwa is the world’s

U.S. ready for partnership in India’s nuclear energy industry

December 24, 2025

(Oil Price)– The United States has expressed willingness to cooperate with India in the nuclear energy sector as Asia’s second-largest economy opens its civil nuclear industry to private investment and foreign participation. “We welcome India’s new #SHANTIBill, a step towards a stronger energy security partnership and peaceful civil nuclear cooperation,” according to a post on X of the official account of the U.S.

Sweden’s Vattenfall seeks state funding for new nuclear reactors

December 24, 2025

(Oil Price)– Sweden’s power giant Vattenfall announced on Tuesday it is applying for state aid for an investment in small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of a plan by industrial giants to bet on new nuclear power in the country. Last month Sweden’s biggest industrial firms signed an agreement with Vattenfall to become shareholders in the power giant’s new company, Videberg Kraft AB,

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