** The Transportation Security Administration announced the implementation of the One Stop Security Congressionally authorized pilot, which will drastically simplify international travel for passengers flying to the United States. One Stop Security enables passengers arriving in the U.S. from certain foreign airports with connecting flights to be exempt from rescreening by TSA.
** Wyoming has passed Texas to become the nation’s No. 2 producing state for uranium. It’s poised to challenge Utah for No. 1 as nuclear energy demand booms and prices soar.
** Xcel Energy has received approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to extend operations of the Prairie Island nuclear plant into the early 2050s.
** International Electric Power is planning to develop a 944-MW behind-the-meter, gas-fired plant to power a data center being developed in Greene County, Pennsylvania, according to a project partner’s Wednesday announcement.
** A new IBM study found that AI-driven attacks account for 1 in 6 data breaches, with AI making it easier than ever for attackers.
** The U.S. is on track to produce more batteries than it needs by 2030 given Trump administration policies that will likely slow demand for battery storage installations and EVs, BloombergNEF finds.
** Nuclear safety experts raise alarm bells about a Trump administration proposal to repurpose plutonium from dismantled warheads for reactor fuel.
** A new Data for Progress survey finds 64% of likely voters say they’re unfamiliar with geothermal energy, but nearly three-quarters say they’d support the technology after reading a description of how it works.
World
** Russian oil exports to India are set to rise in September, traders said, as producers cut prices to sell more crude because they cannot process as much in refineries that were damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks on energy infrastructure.
** America’s most senior envoy in Pakistan has told the South Asian nation that US companies are showing “strong interest” in its oil and gas sector, after President Donald Trump late last month surprised the industry by vaunting “massive” reserves.
** Japan remains optimistic about the adoption of renewable energy despite Mitsubishi pulling out of three big offshore wind projects, the government said Thursday. Blaming high costs, Mitsubishi said Wednesday it was exiting the projects, which planned 134 turbines to generate power for more than a million homes.
** The cost of switching off England’s wind farms has been blamed for pushing up household energy bills by as much as £15 a year, in a blow to Ed Miliband’s promise to cut them by £300.
** Russia has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger – a vast, arid state on the edge of the Sahara desert that has to import most of its electricity.
** U.S. asset manager Blackstone is looking to expand its planned project to build data centres in Spain’s Aragon, with an additional investment of 4.3 billion euros ($5.03 billion) in the region striving to become a major cloud computing hub.
