Electricity

Smart Grid

Schneider Electric and Cisco Link up to Build Egypt’s Smart Grid

Schneider Electric signed the contract, with the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, to build and transform four control centres for Egypt’s national…

LNG

Germany Plans to Become Independent from Russian Oil

Spurred by its growing domestic demand for electricity parallel to its increasing population and rapid urbanization, imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by C…

Electricity Transmission

Xinjiang's Electricity Transmission Volume Tops 500B kWh

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has transmitted a total of 503.7 billion kWh of locally-generated electricity to other parts of the country …

Wind Turbine

Siemens Gamesa to Deliver Wind Turbines for Poland’s Baltyk II and III

Norwegian energy company Equinor, together with their partner, the Polish electricity company Polenergia, have selected Siemens Gamesa to supply wind turbine ge…

Energy Transition

Australia's APA Confident of Gas in Energy Transition

Australian energy infrastructure firm APA remains confident in the role gas plays in the energy transition as a number of the country's coal-fired power plants …

Solar Power Plant

Turkey Provides 97% of Energy Capacity Rise from Clean Sources

Some 97% of Turkey's electricity generation capacity that came into operation last year was from renewable energy plants.

Nuclear Power Plant

Research to Upgrade Dtress Measurement Techniques for Nuclear Fusion Power Plants

Materials engineers at the University of Surrey and the UK Atomic Energy Authority are supporting an international effort to develop a new, economically viable …

Net Zero Emission

Chinese-Danish Study Takes CO2 One Step Closer to Raw Material for Carbon Neutral Push

Researchers from China and Denmark have worked out an important step in how to turn CO2 into a raw material using electricity, a process that could dramatically…

Energy Storage Technology

Research: 24GW of Long Duration Energy Storage Needed for Net Zero UK Grid

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research.

Carbon Neutral

Chinese-Danish Study Takes CO2 a Step Closer to Raw Material for Carbon Neutral Push

Researchers from China and Denmark say they have worked out an important step in how to turn carbon dioxide into a raw material using electricity – a process t…

United States

Duke Energy Targets Expansion, Plans 1.1-GW Renewables RfP

US electric utility Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) will seek to acquire or contract up to 1.1 GW of intermittent power capacity, specifically renewables, in a bid …

Hydropower Plant

Ethiopia Turns on the Turbines at Giant Nile Hydropower Plant

Ethiopia began producing electricity on Sunday from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multi-billion-dollar hydropower plant on the River Nile that n…

Natural Gas

Power Shortage Looming for Germany?

Experts have predicted right from the start of the COVID pandemic that the pandemic-related drop in electricity demand in 2020 would not be long-lasting.

Electricity Transmission

Electricity Transmission Key for Reliability in Extreme Weathers

Insufficient interregional electricity transmission is attributed at the core of extended power outages in Texas due to Storm Uri in February 2021.

Carbon Neutral

China Holds First-Ever Carbon-Neutral Olympics

This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game venues, introducing new low-carbon…