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Electric Vehicle Battery

Panasonic and Toyota Team up to Build Prismatic Batteries for EVs

Industry watchers may well have been expecting this news. Back at the beginning of 2019, we discovered that a joint venture between Panasonic and Toyota on batt…

First Gen Gets Approval to Develop 120-MW Pumped Hydro Facility in Philippines

First Gen Corp. has secured authority from the government to develop a 120-MW pumped storage hydropower facility in the northern Philippine province of Nueva Ec…

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE Nuclear Power Plant’s First Reactor Ready for Operation

The first reactor at the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant passed a milestone assessment needed to begin operations, UAE state news agency WAM…

GOLDI to Develop Hydrogen-powered Buses And Drones for Europe

By Molly Burgess on Jan 16, 2020 Translate NEWSA new partnership has been formed to develop hydrogen-powered buses and drones for the European market.

Market Analysis

OPEC+ Committed to Balanced Oil Market: UAE Minister

Energy Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Suhail Al Mazrouei has said the alliance of the oil producing nations known as OPEC+ remains committed to a ba…

EV Market

Shift to Electric Vehicles Could Cost 410,000 Jobs in Germany by 2030

In engines and transmissions' production alone, around 88,000 jobs will be at risk, the newspaper said, citing a report by the National Platform for the Future …

Pumped Hydro Becomes Support Project in South Australia

The news agency reports that three South Australian pumped hydro proposals were included on the shortlist of 12 projects hoping to get financial support under t…

Offshore Wind Power

The World's Largest Floating Wind Turbine Just Came Online

In these troubling times we need all the good news we can get, and this week we finally got some: the largest floating wind turbine to date just went online off…

Power Construction

$31.74 Million!Egypt and Sudan to Operate Joint Electricity Grid

Egypt and Sudan will begin operating a joint electricity grid from Jan. 12 with a capacity of 50 megawatts, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said on Sunday.

UN Green Climate Fund Approves North Korea's First Project $ 752,000

The fund will help North Korea improve its "readiness" to tackle climate change, Yonhap News Agency said in the report on Friday citing the GCF as saying.

European Green Deal must Look to Heat Sector and Geothermal Energy

In a statement to Italian news, EGEC's Philippe Dumas says that "the European Green Deal must look to the heat sector to face the climate crisis", and that geot…

Power Construction

World's Highest County in China Connected to Power Grid

In the county seat with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters above sea level, power workers braved a coldness of minus 20 degrees Celsius to start the equipmen…

U.S. Renews Waiver on COSCO's Dalian Tanker Unit Hit by Iran Sanctions

The Trump administration on Thursday renewed a waiver for companies to wind down transactions with the Dalian unit of a Chinese tanker company on which it had i…

Thermal coal

Upbeat News for Climate Change: India gets Out of Coal

In the often grim world of climate reporting, there is at least one upbeat story: India has been aggressively pivoting away from coal-fired power plants and tow…

Ballard and HDF Energy Sign Agreement For the Development of Hydrogen

Ballard Power Systems has signed a product development agreement with Hydrogene de France (HDF Energy) for the development and integration of a multi-megawatt s…