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Energy Taxation

Tariff Hikes could be on the Cards for Major SA Cities

Tariff hikes are front and center in the proposed budgets for both the City of Cape Town and the City of Johannesburg for the 2021/2022 financial year.

Energy Taxation

Biden Tax Plan Replaces U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies with Clean Energy Incentives

Linked to the $2.3 trillion infrastructure package, it is part of wider plan that includes boosting the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%.

Gas turbine engine

Wärtsilä's New 132MW Gas Engine Power Plants Maintenance Contract in Nigeria

Wärtsilä Optimised Maintenance agreement supports growth ambitions of a privately-owned Nigerian supplier of energy to the national grid

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Haydale Awarded APC Funding to Develop Graphene-Enhanced Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tanks

Haydale has announced that it has been awarded funding of £138,549 (around USD$192,290) to develop hydrogen fuel cell tanks by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (…

Nuclear Reactor

Aecon to Support Development of Terrestrial Energy’s Molten Salt Reactor

Canada’s Terrestrial Energy on 1 April signed an engineering and construction services agreement with Aecon Group to support construction planning for its Inte…

Digitalization

Dubai's Enoc Plans to Spend Dh250m on Digital Transformation

The company has already begun training staff on the role digitalisation will play in its growth over the next 15-20 years

Oil & Gas Trade

Oman Oil Exports Stage Strong Rebound in March

Oman's oil exports rebounded from a 19-month low in February to average 776,000 b/d in March, according to energy ministry data.

Nuclear Reactor

Partnership Formed for Advanced Reactor Deployment in Washington State

The TRi Energy Partnership aims to construct a plant based on X-energy's Xe-100 reactor design at Energy Northwest's existing Columbia site in Washington.

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE's First Nuclear Unit Starts Commercial Operation

Barakah unit 1 entered commercial operation today, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation has announced.

Hybrid Power Plant

RWE Picks Wartsila Solution for 40-MW US Solar Energy Storage Project

RWE Renewables has contracted Wartsila Corp (HEL:WRT1V) to supply an engineered equipment delivery (EEQ) of a 40-MW/80-MWh DC-coupled solar-plus-storage system …

Combined cycle power plant

ACWA Power Secures Funding for $1bn CCGT Plant in Uzbekistan

Renewable energy developer ACWA Power has closed a deal with seven international lenders for the provision of funding to develop a 1,500MW Combined Cycle Gas-Tu…

Combined cycle power plant

Thailand’s First M701JAC Turbine Begins Operations at CCGT Plant

The first M701JAC series gas turbine in southeast Asia has gone into commercial operation as part of a new gas-fired power plant in Thailand.

Hydrogen Production

Ørsted’s 1GW Hydrogen Plant to Decarbonise Dutch-Flemish Industry

‘SeaH2Land’ is a project designed to link GW-scale electrolysis to the large industrial demand in the Dutch-Flemish North Sea Port cluster through an envisage…

Offshore Wind Power

Development of the Kashima Offshore Wind Project to be Accelerated

The project is located in Kashima Port in the Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, and has a maximum capacity of 159.6 MW covering an area of 680 ha.

Wind Farm

Masdar to Extend Zarafshan Wind Farm Capacity in Uzbekistan

Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company Masdar has signed an implementation agreement with the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan to further enhance the cap…