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Electricity Trade

Belarus to Negotiate Direct Electricity Supplies with Latvia

Belarus will discuss the possibility of directly supplying Belarusian electricity to Latvia, BelTA learned from Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas after he …

Cadiz 1085 MW Gas Power Plant will be a $1 Billion Investment

A 1,085-megawatt power plant will be constructed this year in Cadiz.

Electric Car

Fuel cell EVs Expected to Be The Cheapest Commercial Vehicles within 10 Years

At the CES 2020 trade show, Ballard Power Systems and Deloitte China announced the release of a joint White Paper that projects fuel cell EVs to be less expensi…

Oil&Gas Drilling

First Shafag-Asiman Exploration Well Spudded Offshore Azerbaijan

SOCAR and BP announced today that the first exploration well was spudded on the Shafag-Asiman offshore block in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea on 13 J…

Electric Car

UK Electric Vehicle Startup Receives €100M Investment from Hyundai and Kia

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation today made a strategic investment of €100 million (US $110 million) in a new partnership with Arrival, a UK-ba…

Energy storage technology

Energy Storage: A Necessary Part of Decarbonising, Smart Electricity Systems

2019 illustrated electricity systems’ requirement for greater flexibility, which energy storage technologies are ideally suited to provide. Two events in Great…

Solar Power Plant

US Government Expects Domestic Solar Market to Install 24 GW in 2020

An agency under the Department of Energy expects 17.4 GW (DC) of utility-scale solar power and 6.6 GW of small-scale solar to be installed in 2020. The 24 GW to…

EU Wants to Spend 1 Trillion Euros for “Sustainable Investments” Across The Coming Decade

Financing for this will come from the EU budget, co-financing from EU member states, and contributions from the European Investment Bank and InvestEU, a major f…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russian Repair Improvements Led to 3 TWh more Power in 2019

Greater efficiency in Russian nuclear power plant maintenance outages saved nearly 180 days last year and enabled 2.9 terawatt hours more electricity to be prod…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Sunflower Electric Abandons Proposed Kansas 895MW Coal Power Plant

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. on Wednesday abandoned its proposed coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas after nearly 15 years of pushing for the project, …

Offshore Wind Power

Visa Taps Solar and Wind to Reach 100% Renewable-Electricity Goal

By purchasing 100% renewable electricity, Visa mitigates the greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity the company consumes, it says.

Why Solar Energy’s Prospects Look Bright for 2020

The global energy transition is the transformation of the world’s energy supply, away from polluting sources such as coal, oil and gas, and towards renewables.…

Thermal Coal

17 Per Cent Drop in India’s Thermal Coal Imports This Fiscal

The ports which have registered the biggest fall in the overall imports of coal, oil, gas and other mineral ores are Mormugo (-14.59%), New Mangalore (-13.51%),…

Wartsila to Switch Brazilian Power Plant to Gas

Finnish firm Wärtsilä signed a contract with Rio Amazonas Energia to convert Cristiano Rocha power plant in Manaus, Brazil, to a 100% natural gas operation.

World’s First Hydrogen-powered Domestic Boiler

In order to test the use for building heating, a pilot project started on June 25, 2019 in Rozenburg near Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in which the world’s fi…