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Carbon capture

Compact CO2 Capture System Receives “Awards for Excellence” at the 2022 Nikkei Excellent Products and Services Awards

-- Aim for Expanded Use Globally under the Trade Name "CO2MPACT" --- Compact and highly versatile module configuration significantly shortens time required for …

Coal Production

Ramaphosa: South Africa Will Not Ditch Coal ‘Just Like That'

Coal-rich but energy-starved South Africa will not immediately abandon its fossil-fuelled electricity generating plants as it transitions to cleaner forms of po…

Biofuel

Biorefinery Uses Microbial Fuel Cell to Upcycle Resistant Plant Waste

Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03667When nature designed lignin—the fibrous, woody ma…

Solar Cell

New Type of Solar Cell Is Being Tested in Space

Nanowires in three materials imaged by a scanning electron microscope. A thread is a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair. The red and blue colour shows…

Energy Technology

UIUC Research Confirms Viability of Geothermal Energy Storage Using Old Gas Well

Conceptual schematic diagram of the Advanced Geothermal Energy Storage system proposed by the UIUC study (source: University of Illinois)Researchers from the Un…

Geothermal Power Plant

Kengen Secures First-Refusal Rights on Gdc Geothermal Wells

Geothermal well at Menengai, Kenya (source: flickr/ ScientificDrilling)KenGen has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Geothermal Development Com…

Geothermal Power Plant

Pertamina Geothermal Energy Announces IPO Dates and Prices

Sudirman CBD in Jakarta, Indonesia (source: AndrewPrawiro / flickr, Creative Commons)Indonesia’s state-owned geothermal developer Pertamina Geothermal Ind…

Gas power plant

Vietnam’s Energy Transition Faces Hurdles Due to Gas-Fired Power Growth

Whilst coal’s expansion was limited, natural gas production will be bullish.Like many other countries, Vietnam is challenged to balance economic growth wi…

Pumped Storage

GE Connects All Units at Jinzhai Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant in China

In line with the planned schedule, all units of the Jinzhai pumped storage power plant have now been successfully connected to grid and completed 15 days of tri…

Net Zero Emission

World Utilities Congress

WORLD UTILITIES CONGRESSTaking place in Abu Dhabi from the 8th-10th May, the second edition of the World Utilities Congress, hosted by TAQA will be uniquely sit…

PowerGrid Technology

Power to the People

Sulzer delivers bespoke motor redesigns for National GridWith global energy markets under pressure, utility companies are working hard to ensure that millions h…

Energy Storage Battery

Scientists Illuminate Barrier to Next-Generation Battery That Charges Very Quickly

This artist’s rendition shows one probe bending from applied pressure, causing a fracture in the solid electrolyte, which is filling with lithium. On the …

Wind Power Project

Naturgy Obtains Environmental Green Light for More Than 1,300 MW

Among the projects that have received a favorable DIA, eight wind farms in Galicia stand out, as well as the largest installation that the company will build in…

LNG

Wärtsilä Supplying LNG Container Ships

Kota Capar, one of Pacific International Lines's container vessels. (Image: Pacific International Line)Wärtsilä will supply systems for four new 8…

Ammonia

EU Ammonia Production Still Limited as Gas Prices Fall

European ammonia producers have so far had little response to falling European gas prices, but that dynamic could change if gas prices decline further and the n…