Electricity

Electricity Transmission

Transgrid Begins Constructing Workers’ Camps in Lockhart for Australia’s Energyconnect Project

Transgrid plans to establish six workforce camps along the EnergyConnect alignment, with a total of 1,387 beds.Transgrid has begun construction of a 20-hectare …

Solid-State Batteries

New Zinc Metal Batteries Can Be Cheap, Efficient, Durable, Safe and Environmentally Friendly

The world needs cheap and powerful batteries that can store sustainably produced electricity from wind or sunlight so that we can use it whenever we need it, ev…

Offshore Wind Power

UK and Netherlands Unveil Multi-Purpose Interconnector Plans

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have unveiled their plan to build what they say would be a first-of-its-kind electricity link to connect offshore wind be…

Wind Farm

125 Years Full of Energy – Rwe Celebrates Its Anniversary

RWE is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk AG was founded as a local municipal utility in Essen on 25 April 18…

Biofuel

Braya Lands $300 Million Investment for Refinery-Conversion Project in Atlantic Canada

Photo: Braya Renewable FuelsBraya Renewable Fuels announced April 20 a USD$300 million preferred-equity investment from Energy Capital Partners, a leading energ…

Biofuel

West Biofuels Breaks Ground on California Bioenergy Plant

This week, West Biofuels LLC, broke ground on a critically needed 3-megawatt (MW) bioenergy plant in Burney, California, that will convert forest waste and sust…

Nuclear Fuel

Urenco, Cameco Sign Supply Deals for Bulgaria’s Kozloduy

Urenco and Cameco are joining Westinghouse in the supply chain for one of the Kozloduy units in Bulgaria as the country diversifies its nuclear fuel supplies.Ko…

Wind Farm

New Effort to Power Colorado’s Federal Facilities With 100% Clean Energy by 2030

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Xcel Energy announced today they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Federal facilities in Colorado wi…

Hydrogen Production

Green Hydrogen From Nature: Photocatalysis Imitates Plants

Green hydrogen could play a key role in the energy transition. Electrocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen requires huge amounts of electricity…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

TVO Accepts Olkiluoto EPR Ahead of Commercial Operation

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has issued an acceptance certificate to the Areva-Siemens consortium for the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR, which began reg…

Offshore Wind Power

Salzgitter and Iberdrola Sign Offshore Wind Power Purchase Agreement

Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH and Iberdrola Deutschland have signed a long-term power supply contract, with electricity to be sourced from the Baltic Eagle offshor…

Hydropower Plant

900 MW HVDC Newfoundland Transmission Line (Finally) Successfully Commissioned

Map of the the Labrador-Island Link, in yellow. Credit: EmeraAfter nine years of planning, delays and billions in cost overruns, a massive new transmission line…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Israel Introduces Storage-Linked Tariff for Distributed PV

The Electricity Authority of Israel has decided to regulate the connection of energy storage systems to low-voltage PV plants with capacities of up to 630 kW. I…

Solar Cell

New Findings Pave the Way for Stable Organic Solar Cells That May Enable Cheap and Renewable Electricity Generation

Due to the recent improvements in the efficiency with which solar cells made from organic (carbon-based) semiconductors can convert sunlight into electricity, i…

Solar project

British Consultancy Further Highlights Solar in Energy Transition

UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember recently released a report, revealing that wind and solar energy account for 12% of global electricity in 2022, up …