Water

United Kingdom

UK Grants Cornish Lithium £7.2 Million for Cross Lanes Geothermal Lithium Project

Cornish Lithium has secured a £7.2 million grant from the UK Government’s DRIVE35 programme to support drilling, testing and demonstration work at its Cross L…

United States

Texas Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Statewide Audit

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a temporary halt to data center connections to the state’s power grid as officials review the sector’s growing im…

Serbia

Low Danube Levels Cut Output at Serbia’s Largest Hydropower Plant

Serbia’s largest hydropower plant, Djerdap 1, is producing only about one-third of its average daily output as extremely low water levels on the Danube River d…

China

Exclusive Interview: Liu Liqin – Pioneering Solutions to Extreme Climate Water System Bottlenecks, Cutting System Failure Rate Below 0.5%

Northern Chinese wind farms face temperatures as low as -30°C, coastal power plants suffer high salinity and humidity, and western photovoltaic bases operat…

China

Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 Connected to Grid for First Time

Unit 2 of the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong province has supplied electricity to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear announced.(Im…

Norway

Statkraft Seeks Licence for New Mår Hydropower Plant in Norway

Statkraft has submitted a licence application to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate for a new Mår power plant in Rjukan, Tinn municipali…

Austria

Vienna Geothermal Test Exceeds Expectations, Could Heat 25,000 Homes

Wien Energie and OMV have reached a major milestone in their deep geothermal project in Aspern, bringing Vienna closer to year-round, climate-neutral heat gener…

United States

Georgia nuclear power plant cleared for 80-year operating life

The two boiling water reactor units at Georgia Power's Edwin I Hatch plant have been cleared by the regulator to operate until the mid-2050s.(Image: Southern Nu…

Portugal

Portugal Approves GreenH2Atlantic Hydrogen Project

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) has issued a conditional favourable opinion on the GreenH2Atlantic hydrogen project in Sines, in the region of Set&uacut…

Australia

Blackwater mine extension proposal advances

Whitehaven Coal is progressing the paperwork for an extension project at its Blackwater operation that would give it access to another 200Mt of coal and take mi…

Oil Exploration

Chevron shakes hands with NOC for oil study at block offshore Libya

U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron has teamed up with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) for an oil study at an offshore block in Libyan waters.N…

Brazil

Petrobras augments oil arsenal as it strikes black gold in Brazilian waters

Petrobras has announced the presence of excellent-quality oil in the pre-salt Campos Basin through an exploration well drilled in the Marlim Sul field, which wa…

Hydropower Plant

Kazakhstan set to build small hydropower plants in three regions

The Kazakh Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry prepares design and cost documentation for the construction of small hydropower plants at the Samarkand reser…

Tajikistan

Tajikistan intends to adopt experience of India's NTPC to improve energy efficiency

March 23- Tajik Energy and Water Resources Minister Daler Juma has held a meeting with the managing director of India's energy company NTPC Limited, Gurdeep…

Natural Gas

Petrobras finds more gas on deepwater block offshore Colombia

Petrobras and Ecopetrol have discovered natural gas in the Copoazu exploration area of the deepwater block GUA-OFF-O in the Caribbean Sea, located 36 kilometers…