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Oman

Oman’s Duqm Refinery ' Ore than 75pc' Complete

Construction work on Oman's 230,000 b/d Duqm refinery project has crossed the 75pc mark, operator OQ8 said.

Electric Car

Molten Salt Metal-Air Battery Can Extend the Range of Electric Vehicles

A team of researchers from the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with six research institutes of China, has designed a new rechargeable battery using s…

Solar Power Plant

Southern Power Adding Energy Storage to Two California Solar Farms

The company said retrofitting its existing solar projects with energy storage will help enhance California’s grid reliability.

Blockchain

Austria’s APG Joins EQUIGY Blockchain Power Grid Consortium

Austrian Power Grid (APG) becomes the fourth member of the blockchain energy balancing platform EQUIGY.

Climate Policy

Study Calls for European Nuclear Renaissance

The European Union should embark on a "nuclear renaissance" programme if it is to achieve its climate objectives, a new study on the bloc's climate policy has c…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Karma Automotive Seeks to Make Self-Fuelling Hydrogen-Powered Cars

It aims to test vehicles it will build with a powertrain that will run on the H2 it produces itself.

Thermal Coal

Exxaro no Longer Investing in Thermal Coal as it Strives for 2050 Carbon Neutral Goal

Diversified miner Exxaro Resources will no longer invest in thermal coal assets, as this forms part of the company’s transition to becoming carbon neutral by 2…

Thermal Plant

AES Bulgarian Units Produce Over 349,000 MWh in January

AES Bulgaria, a unit of U.S.-based energy conglomerate AES Corporation, said on Wednesday that its thermal power plant AES Galabovo and the St. Nikola wind farm…

Crude Oil

UAE’s Energy Ambitions Extend Far Beyond Oil

If 2020 taught us anything it was the need for self-sustainability and the drive for cleaner energy moving into the next decade, as oil demand plummeted.

Solar Cell

Hybrid Tandem Perovskite Solar Cell with 18.04% Efficiency

South Korean researchers claim to have developed a PV cell with a higher efficiency rate than any other tandem cell based on perovskite and organic materials.

Microgrid

TOGO: 129 Localities Soon to be Electrified Via Mini-Grids

News on Togo's electrification project using photovoltaic mini-grids. According to the Togolese Agency for Electrification and Renewable Energies , the first ph…

Solar Power Plant

Slovenia’s GEN-I to Build 17 MW Solar Power Plant in North Macedonia

Slovenia’s GEN-I is launching construction on its first large-scale photovoltaic power plant, after gaining rights to develop 17 MW of capacity on state owned …

Oil and Gas Equipment

Ukraine’s Exchange Launches Gas Storage Trading

Ukraine's energy exchange UEEX plans to introduce trading products for gas held in underground storage facilities under the customs-free warehouse regime from l…

Solar Power Plant

Cleantech Solar Delivers Three New PV Projects in Malaysia and Thailand

Pan-Asian renewables company Cleantech Solar has commissioned three rooftop solar PV systems at AkzoNobel sites in Malaysia and Thailand.

Oil Field

Equinor Makes Oil Discovery Near Norway's Troll Field

Equinor said in a separate statement that the reservoir is expected to contain between 44 million and 69 million barrels of oil equivalent