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Battery

Rio Tinto to Invest $2.5b to Expand Rincon Lithium Project Capacity to 60,000 Tonnes Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate per Year

Rio Tinto has approved $2.5 billion to expand the Rincon project in Argentina, the company’s first commercial-scale lithium operation, demonstrating its c…

Net Zero

Emissions Fall In Hard-To-Abate Sectors but Still off Track to Reach 2050 Net-Zero Targets

The World Economic Forum’s latest Net Zero Industry Tracker shows progress in reducing emissions across eight hard-to-abate sectors—steel, aluminium, cem…

Solar Inverter

PowerChina Wraps up Record 102 GW Solar Equipment Procurement Tender

China Power Construction Corp. (PowerChina) says it has concluded the largest procurement tender in solar industry history, involving 51 GW of PV modules and 51…

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Starts Decommissioning Plutonium-Producing Reactor

Decommissioning of the ADE-2 water-cooled uranium-graphite thermal neutron reactor has begun at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, in the Krasnoy…

Microgrid

Hithium Unveiles 6.25 MWh BESS, Sodium-Ion Battery Cell, Installation-Free Home Microgrid

A trifecta of cutting-edge products debuted at Hithium’s second Eco Day event held in Beijing on Thursday.Chinese energy storage specialist Hithium has us…

Nuclear Reactor

Westinghouse and BWXT Canada Sign MoU for Projects

Under a memorandum of understanding with Westinghouse, BWXT Canada has the potential to manufacture key AP1000 and AP300 reactor components, including steam gen…

Solar project

BYD Delivers 600 MWh of Batteries for Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Chile

Grenergy has announced the arrival of 600 MWh of BYD batteries at the Chilean port of Iquique, marking a key milestone in the first phase of the Oasis de Atacam…

PowerGrid Technology

Patents to Add AI to Power Grids Are Surging, Says IEA

New patents to integrate artificial intelligence into global grids have grown sixfold over the past few years, with China driving overall innovation momentum. T…

Nuclear Reactor

Last Energy’s South Wales Nuclear Project Gets US Export Bank Boost

Microreactor developer Last Energy says it has received a letter of intent from the Export-Import Bank of the United States for USD103.7 million debt financing …

Solar project

UK Targets 45 GW Solar, 22 GW BESS in Clean Power 2030 Plan

Policies and targets confirmed in 138-page government plan to decarbonize Great Britain’s electricity generation by 2030. Solar and storage to play a key …

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Completes Preliminary Design for Fusion Reactor

(Image credit: Rosatom)The DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA Nauchno Issledovatelskii Institut Elektrofizicheskoi Apparaturi), part of R…

Nuclear Fusion

Assystem Partners on TARANIS Fusion Project

Assystem has announced a partnership with GenF, a subsidiary of the Thales group established in 2023, for the development of the TARANIS project, in collaborati…

SMR

Amentum Evaluates SMR Potential in Norway

US-based Amentum and Norwegian engineering and architecture company Multiconsult Norge have been selected by Halden Kjernekraft to evaluate deployment of a smal…

Offshore Wind Power

RWE Announces Winners of Global Offshore Wind Co-use Competition

SeaGrown (UK) and Cosma (France) have been selected as winners for their innovative solutions in the domains of improving ecological impacts and promoting co-ex…

Oil Price

Oil Prices up With China Demand Hopes

Oil prices increased on Wednesday supported by economic stimulus measures in China, the world’s biggest crude importer, aimed at boosting domestic growth.…