Power

Offshore Wind Power

SSE Renewables to Build First Subsidy-Free Wind Farm

Energy giant SSE Renewables is to build its first wind farm without the support of UK government subsidies.

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…

Thermal Plant

Ghana to Construct 400KW Waste-to-Energy Plant

Ghana is set to construct a 400KW hybrid waste-to-energy power plant to treat urban solid waste in the country. Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of …

Mikany Dam Upgrade Begins in Tasmania, Australia

Australian utility TasWater has commenced upgrade work on the Mikany Dam, with contractor Gradco set to start site preparation in February.

Electricity Transmission

Xcel Energy, eSmart and EDM Use AI for Transmission Grid Inspection

Xcel Energy, eSmart Systems and EDM International have announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based collaborative intelligence project to transform the inspe…

Smart Grid

Öresundskraft Implement Smart Cable Technology in Swedish Grid

Swedish energy company Öresundskraft has partnered with DNV GL, a Norway-based classification and technical services provider, to monitor sections of its power…

Nuclear Technology

Engineers Publish New Research on Meltdown Materials

Engineers at the UK's University of Sheffield have developed materials that they say could be used to help decommission the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear powe…

Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Radioactive Water Should be Released Into Ocean, Say Japan Experts

Build-up of contaminated water from wrecked nuclear plant has been sticking point in clean-up likely to take decades.

Wind Power Project

EDPR Awarded Contract for 109 MW Wind Power in Italian Auction

EDPR has been awarded a 20-year CfD at the Italian wind auction to sell power generated by a portfolio of three wind farms with a total capacity of 109 MW

Market Analysis

British Government Sued for Approving Europe’s Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant

Client Earth has the green light from a British court to sue the UK government for undermining its own planning authority's concerns about the climate crisis wh…

Researchers Seek to Improve Hydropower, Lower Electricity Costs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $1 million to a research team led by Missouri University of Science and Technology to study ways to bette…

NIB Provides Loan to Finance Norwegian Hydropower Project

Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is set to provide an Nkr600m (€59.39m) loan to finance Agder Energi’s Åseral Nord hydropower project along the Mandal watercours…

Hydrogen Project

Belgium Hopes to Lead World with New Hydrogen Project

Surplus wind power could soon light and heat Belgian homes thanks to a planned hydrogen plant on the North Sea coast, set to be the world’s first commercial-sc…

Thermal Plant

Bac Lieu approves $4b LNG-fired thermal power plant

The People’s Committee of Bac Lieu Province on Tuesday granted an investment certificate to Singapore’s Delta Offshore Energy Pte Ltd Co to develop a liquefie…

MHPS Supplying Steam Turbine Power Plant

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has received an order for a steam turbine power plant for a natural gas and oil-fired power plant in Cartagena, a major …