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Biomass-derived hard carbon
Biomass-derived hard carbon is a non-graphitizable carbon anode material for sodium-ion batteries, made by pyrolyzing renewable waste precursors such as lignin, cellulose, nutshells, and fruit peels.
Biomethane grid injection
Biomethane grid injection is the upgrading of biogas to pipeline-quality methane and feeding it into natural gas grids, usable without equipment changes, first done commercially near Munich in 2006.
Bionic leaf
The bionic leaf is an artificial photosynthesis system in which water splitting supplies hydrogen to bacteria that turn air CO2 into fuel, created by Daniel Nocera and Pamela Silver in 2015.
Biophotolysis
Biophotolysis is the production of hydrogen gas by splitting water with sunlight using photoautotrophic microorganisms such as green microalgae and cyanobacteria, in direct and indirect variants.
Bir El Msana Oil Field
Bir El Msana (BMS) is an onshore oil field in the Berkine basin of eastern Algeria, operated by Cepsa with Sonatrach and producing about 12,500 barrels of oil per day since 2015.
Bisat Oil Field
Bisat Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Oman's Block 60, discovered in 2017 and operated by OQEP, producing crude from the Shuaiba limestone formation.
Bitumen
Bitumen, or asphaltic bitumen, is a highly viscous hydrocarbon mixture found chiefly in Alberta's oil sands, also the refinery binder, mostly used in road paving, that holds asphalt pavement together.
Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal is a middle rank of coal between subbituminous coal and anthracite, and the most abundant rank in the United States, used chiefly for electricity and coke.
BKV Corporation
BKV Corporation is a Denver-headquartered, NYSE-listed natural gas producer focused on the Barnett Shale of Texas, founded in 2015 as a subsidiary of Thailand's Banpu.
Black Point power station
Black Point power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station at Black Point, Tuen Mun, in Hong Kong's New Territories, operating since 1996 and expanded to 3,850MW.
Black start
Black start is the procedure for restoring a power grid after a total or partial blackout, using generators that start without external power, energize transmission lines, and restart larger plants.
Black Stone Minerals
Black Stone Minerals is a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership, headquartered in Houston, that owns oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests across 41 states.
Black Thunder Coal Mine
Black Thunder Coal Mine is a large surface coal mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, opened in 1977 and among the largest coal producers in the United States.
Blackcomb Pipeline
The Blackcomb Pipeline is a 42-inch natural gas pipeline under construction from the Permian Basin of West Texas to the Agua Dulce hub in South Texas.
Blackdamp
Blackdamp, also known as stythe or chokedamp, is a mine atmosphere whose oxygen has been replaced mainly by carbon dioxide, so it cannot sustain life and gives no warning.
Blackhillock (energy storage)
Blackhillock Battery Energy Storage System is a grid-scale battery site near Keith in Moray, Scotland, developed and operated by Zenobē, with its first 200 MW phase live since March 2025.
Blackstone wind farm
Blackstone wind farm, operating as Top Crop Wind Farm I, is a 102 MW onshore wind farm near Blackstone, Illinois, with 68 GE turbines online since 2009.
Blacktip Station Loop Pipeline
The Blacktip Station Loop Pipeline is a 20-mile crude oil pipeline loop in Texas, completed by Plains All American in 2015, adding 200,000 barrels per day of capacity.
Blackwater Coal Mine
Blackwater Coal Mine is a large open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, Australia, operating since 1967 and owned by Whitehaven Coal with Nippon Steel and JFE Steel.
Blade battery
The Blade Battery is a lithium iron phosphate traction battery developed by Chinese automaker BYD and launched in March 2020, with long blade-shaped cells packed directly into the battery pack.
Blade pitch control
Blade pitch control is the mechanism a wind turbine uses to rotate its rotor blades about their long axes, regulating aerodynamic power, rotor speed, and structural loads.
Blade-coated perovskite solar cells
Blade-coated perovskite solar cells are perovskite solar cells whose light-absorbing perovskite layer is deposited by blade coating, a scalable method that can coat the large areas commercial modules need.
Blaenavon
Blaenavon is a town at the head of the Afon Llwyd valley in South Wales, whose industrial landscape was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Blake Oil and Gas Field
Blake is an oil and gas field in the UK North Sea, about 120 km northeast of Aberdeen, discovered in 1997 and onstream since 2001.
Blattner Company
Blattner Company is an American utility-scale engineering, procurement, and construction contractor based in Avon, Minnesota, founded in 1907 and acquired by Quanta Services in 2021.
Blayais nuclear power plant
The Blayais nuclear power plant is an EDF-run plant of four 910 MWe pressurized water reactors on the Gironde estuary, with its first unit in service in 1981.
Blending (refinery)
Blending in a petroleum refinery mixes semi-finished blendstocks like reformate, alkylate, and butane into finished gasoline and diesel meeting commercial specifications, capturing a large share of refining margin.
Blind River refinery
The Blind River refinery is a Cameco-owned uranium refinery in Blind River, Ontario, opened in 1983, that refines uranium ore concentrates from mines worldwide into purified uranium trioxide.
Blink Charging
Blink Charging Co. is an American owner and operator of electric vehicle charging equipment and services, listed on NASDAQ and headquartered in the United States.
Block 6 (Oman)
Block 6 is Petroleum Development Oman's main onshore oil and gas concession in Oman, covering roughly a third of the country and most of its oil output.