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Coal Trade

Seaborne Coal Trade Around The World Rose 0.7 Per Cent in 2019

Imports and exports, counted together, rose to 1.218 billion tonnes from 1.210 billion tonnes in 2018, VDKI Managing Director Franz-Josef Wodopia said in an spe…

Bloomberg NEF Report：China’s Renewable Investments Fall As US’s Rise in 2019

According to a report published by BloombergNEF, China, with $83.4bn of investments in the renewable sector, was still the biggest player in the industry but in…

Wind Farm

Siemens Gamesa Closes 2019 with a New Wind Energy Record in Spain

The Spanish business closed a successful year in 2019 with the installation of a new record of 1.2 GW, or 375 wind turbines, the highest amount of any year in t…

Solar Technology

An Invention could Soon Cut Five Percent of the World’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In the 1980s, a global race was underway to find a more efficient way of converting energy from the sun into electricity.

Offshore Wind Power

Global Renewable Energy Capacity Investment of $282.2 Billion in 2019

Global investment in renewable energy capacity was $282.2 billion in 2019, up 1 per cent from $280.2 billion in 2018, according to the data. China, the world's …

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, …