Electricity

Electricity Transmission

China-Laos Electricity Supply Achieves Two-Way Transmission for the First Time

The Nam Tha River Hydropower Station in Laos delivered electricity to Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday.

Electric Car

ReBeam – Harnessing Blockchain to Improve the E-mobility Experience

ReBeam is designed to improve e-mobility for drivers, charge point operators and the electricity providers.

Natural Gas

Austria Revives Coal-Fired Power Option as Russia Cuts Gas Supply

Austria's government agreed with utility Verbund on Sunday to convert a reserve, gas-fired power plant so that it can produce electricity with coal should restr…

Energy Storage Battery

Increase in Battery Storage Use Could Push Australian Electricity Prices Even Higher

Data collated by Cornwall Insight Australia, looking at battery storage operations from June 2021 to May 2022, has shown a link between the increase in the amou…

Electricity Transmission

Uk’s First Flexibility Demand Shift Trial

The UK’s first trial to shift electricity demand and augment local network capabilities has been completed, allowing customers to capitalise on the opportuniti…

Energy Transition

Renewable Electricity Storage May Be the Key in Australia’s Energy Crisis

This more beneficial than the proposed capacity mechanism.

Electricity Transmission

Australian State to Invest $850 Mln in Power Grid

Australia's New South Wales state on Friday said it would invest A$1.2 billion in new transmission lines over 10 years.

Distributed Grid

Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Us Utilities

Four emerging technologies and issues are occupying regulators as utilities seek to modernise the electricity distribution system in the US.

Hydrogen Project

One of Europe’s Largest | Plug Power to Build 100MW Green Hydrogen Plant at Belgian Port

Port of Antwerp-Bruges makes a play to be Europe’s green H2 hotspot, but plans to source grid electricity for the project risk falling foul of the EU’s renewa…

United Kingdom

UK ‘Urgently Considering’ to Extend Windfall Tax to Electricity Generators

Rishi Sunak has said there are “extraordinary profits” made in the electricity generation sector

Energy Saving

Japan Asks People and Firms to Save Electricity to Avoid Blackouts

Japan on Tuesday called on households and companies to conserve as much electricity as possible this summer, seeking to prevent blackouts as spare reserve capac…

Net Zero Emission

Glasgow Supercharges Net Zero With Electricity Network Upgrade

SP Energy Networks has completed the first phase of a £30m electricity network project

Nuclear Power Plant

Americans Split on Nuclear Energy as Safety Worries Linger

Just under half of Americans support nuclear power to generate electricity, a waning industry the Biden administration has been trying to revitalize with billio…

Natural Gas

Hydrogen Test Begins at Power Plant With Reciprocating Engines

Electricity provider WEC Energy Group, technology company Wärtsilä, the Electric Power Research Institute and EPC solutions firm Burns & McDonnell, will partn…

New York Announces 2GW of New Solar and Energy Storage Projects

The projects – the state’s largest land-based renewable energy procurement to date – will deliver green electricity to power more than 620,000 homes for at l…