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Oil&Gas Drilling

Huge Drilling Rig Due to Arrive at Russia’s Sakhalin Island on Saturday

File photo: A general view of the liquefied natural gas plant operated by Sakhalin Energy at Prigorodnoye on the Pacific island of Sakhalin, Russia July 15, 202…

Nuclear Fuel

Dummy Fuel Loaded Into First New Unit at Kursk II

Preparations for testing of the reactor plant equipment at the new VVER-TOI reactor at Kursk II nuclear power plant continue with the loading of simulated fuel …

Electric Vehicles

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $2 Billion to Support American Auto Workers, Convert Facilities for Electric Vehicles

As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today (July 11) announced $1.7 billion to support the conversi…

Energy Storage Project

320MW/640MWH Battery to Complement Compressed Air Storage Project in the Netherlands

Dutch renewables developers Corre Energy and SemperPower have come together to deliver a massive battery storage facility, which will be collocated with Corre&r…

Energy Storage Project

World's First Grid-Scale, Semi-solid-State Energy Storage Project Goes Online

The world’s first large-scale semi-solid state energy storage project was successfully connected to the grid in China on June 6. The 100 MW/200 MWh instal…

Energy Storage Project

Corre Energy Signs Deal for Battery Storage Facility at Dutch Site

Corre Energy CEO Keith McGrane. Photo: Frank McGrathEnergy storage group Corre Energy has signed a deal to deliver a battery storage facility in the Netherlands…

SMR

Novel Transistor Material Shows Nuclear Potential

Gallium nitride semiconductors can successfully withstand the harsh environment near a nuclear reactor core, researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORN…

Electric Vehicle Battery

BMW Group Starts Building Construction of the New Assembly Plant for High-Voltage Batteries in Lower Bavaria

With the installation of the first approximately twelve-meter-high concrete support, the BMW Group has officially started the construction of the future product…

Nuclear Technology

Fuel Assemblies With 3D-Printed Bottom Nozzles Tested

Four lead test assemblies supplied by Westinghouse featuring 3D-printed bottom nozzles have been used at Southern Nuclear's Farley nuclear power plant in Al…

LNG

Sempra Signs Non-binding Deal to Supply LNG to Aramco From Planned Texas Project

Saudi Aramco logo is pictured at the oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia October 12, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Purchase Licensing RightsU.S. ener…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Chinese Joint Venture to Build 100 MW 'Semi-agrivoltaic' Plant in Bangladesh

A joint venture between China's CREC International Renewable Energy Co. and Bangladesh's B-R Powergen Ltd. (BRPL) has agreed to set up a 100 MW solar po…

Electric Vehicles

BMW Manufacturing Opens First Press Shop in North America

BMW Manufacturing opened its new press shop at the Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant as it prepares to assemble the new BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle (earlier…

Carbon Emissions

DNV Gives Greenlight to Methodology for Carbon Removals Delivered by BECCS

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, has validated a new methodology for the certification of net carbon dioxide removals delivered using …

Russian Federation

First Fuel Delivered for New Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

The first of the freshly delivered fuel assemblies is expected to be loaded into Kursk II's unit 1 later this year.Kursk II pictured last year (Image: Rosat…

Oil & Gas Trade

Venezuela Mulls Proposal to Extend PDVSA-Chevron Oil Joint Venture Through 2047

Boards outside PDVSA headquarters are pictured, during a news conference on the Chevron deal in Caracas, Venezuela, December 2, 2022. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez…