Technology

Energy Storage Battery

Northvolt Raises $2.75bn to Increase Battery Production Capacity

Northvolt plans to increase the annual production capacity of its gigafactory from 40GWh to 60GWh.

Nuclear Power Plant

Samsung Heavy Industries to Develop Offshore Nuclear Plant Technology

Samsung Heavy Industries will start to develop offshore floating nuclear power plant technology, which is emerging as a zero carbon energy source.

Wind Turbine Blade

GE Partners with LafargeHolcim on Blade Recycling

GE Renewable Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with LafargeHolcim to explore ways of using materials from decommissioned wind turbines.

Power Construction

Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Electric Partner on New High-Voltage Switching Solutions

Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Electric have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct a feasibility study on the joint development of high-voltage switchi…

Hydrogen Project

BayWa Project’s Hydrogen to be Distributed to Filling Stations in the Netherlands

BayWa, with its subsidiary GroenLeven has partnered with network company Alliander for a pilot project where a 50MWp solar farm is converted into green hydrogen…

Gas Turbine

South Korea Eyes First Hydrogen Gas Turbine Demonstration in 2027

Stepping up efforts to develop a hydrogen gas turbine, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and a consortium of partners will begin South Korea’s first large…

Electric Car

Apple in Talks with CATL and BYD over Batteries for Apple Car

Apple is in talks with China’s CATL and BYD about the supply of batteries for its self-driving electric vehicle scheduled to come out around 2024, Reuters repo…

Smart Grid

Canada Invests in Smart Grid Modernisation and Renewables

Canada’s Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways programme is to award Ca$960 million over next four years.

Solar Power Panel

Perovskite Solar Panel with 16.1% Efficiency Via Ambient Air Blade-Coating

The panel, fabricated by scientists in Italy, is composed of five series-connected cells, each with an area of 2.01 cm² and has an aperture area of 11 cm².

Nuclear Technology

ROSATOM to Supply Brazil with Promising Isotopes Needed in Nuclear Medicine

Isotope JSC has signed a five-year contract with Brazil’s Nuclear and Energy Research Institute to supply lutetium-177 and actinium-225, the most promising med…

Nuclear Reactor

Rosatom Starts Construction of Unique Power Unit with BREST-OD-300 fast Neutron Reactor

The construction of a 300 MW nuclear power unit enabled with the innovative BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor has begun at the site of the Siberian Chemical…

Solar Company

Huawei and Yingli Announce Smart Collaboration

The two brands announced a strategic project at the SNEC solar conference and trade show which will see the establishment of trading and big data centers to hel…

Nuclear Technology

Curtiss-Wright Provides Tech Upgrade for Columbia Nuclear Plant

Curtiss-Wright’s Nuclear Division has been selected to replace the existing plant process computer system at the Columbia Generating Station in Washington stat…

Solar Technology

World-First ‘Solar Hydro’ Power Plant Addresses Need for Longer Duration Energy Storage

World-first ‘solar hydro’ power plant addresses need for longer duration energy storage

Hydrogen Storage

SBU Prof Explores Method to Store Hydrogen for Energy

A St. Bonaventure University professor has published a research article that looks at ways to store and release hydrogen, a clean and renewable energy resource …