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Oregon cancels I-5 NEVI charger grant, opens $15.9M third round
The Oregon Department of Transportation cancelled its NEVI grant agreement for fast chargers on I-5 south of Eugene in October 2026 and on October 21 opened a third round offering $15,949,230 across 10 highways, with applications due January 22, 2027. Oregon's first NEVI-funded station, in Gladstone, is expected to open in December 2026.
Endurance says its subsea geothermal plant ran net-positive for 8.7 seconds
Endurance Energy said on October 19, 2026 that its Adélie test plant at Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon, generated more power than it used for 8.7 seconds on September 27, at a median of about 2 kW net. The run used a natural vent because the company's new 52-foot well was too restrictive.
Mazama Energy raises $135M for superhot geothermal wells at Newberry
Mazama Energy announced $135 million in new capital on September 17, 2026, including an oversubscribed Series B led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, for its Newberry, Oregon engineered geothermal system, which it calls the hottest ever built at 629°F. The money funds Project Ceres, DOE-supported horizontal wells; the BLM issued a categorical-exclusion decision record on a Project Ceres geothermal operations plan on July 24, 2026, and the company now says Ceres will demonstrate power generation in 2027, where its October 2025 release had placed a 15 MW pilot in 2026.
Hexagon leases geothermal rights on 145,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forest
Hexagon Energy announced on September 10, 2026 that it has leased the geothermal rights on approximately 145,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser timberland in Washington and Oregon and says the portfolio could bring over 3 GW of power online once operational. The release names no project site, schedule, or technology. Weyerhaeuser optioned nearly 667,000 acres of geothermal rights to AltaRock Energy in 2008, and the largest plant on the Oregon Department of Energy's geothermal list is 22 MW.
