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Rooftop PV System

Nigeria Announces New Energy Access Project ‘Solar Power Naija’

The Federal government of Nigeria has launched a ‘Solar Power Naija’ project, a programme focussing on 5 million solar connections for off-grid communities as…

Coal Trade

India's Coal Import Drops 19% to 117 Million Tonnes During April-October This Fiscal

India's coal import saw a drop of 18.6% to 116.81 MT during April-October this fiscal as against the same period a year ago.

Crude Oil

Global Oil Prices May Remain Range Bound Between $40-50 per Barrel in 2021

The news of a successful coronavirus has ignited the oil market again with crude price moving up mire than 20 per cent in a month to hover close to $50 a barrel…

Power Construction

ADB Approves Loan for Power Distribution System Upgrade in Karnataka, India

The ADB has agreed to provide a combined sovereign and non-sovereign loan amounting to $190m for the upgrade and modernisation of power distribution system in B…

Electric Vehicle Charging

UK's First All-Electric Car Charging Forecourt Opens in Essex

Clean energy firm Gridserve has plans for more than 100 such sites over next five years

Combined Heat and Power

GE to Supply RWE with 11 Gas Turbines for Grid Reliability in Germany

GE has secured an order from RWE Generation for 11 units of its LM2500XPRESS power plant technology.

Biomass Power Plant

Japan's Hibikinada Biomass Plant Plans January Restart

Japan's 112MW Hibikinada biomass power plant in the southern Fukuoka prefecture plans to resume partial operations on 4 January following an unplanned closure s…

Nuclear Power Plant

Turboatom Manufactures Main Part of the Turbine for Khmelnitsky 3

Kharkov-based Turboatom has already manufactured the main part of the turbine unit for the VVER-1000 at unit 3 of Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant (Kh…

Transformer

Guangzhou Siemens to Provide 18 Transformers for Wudongde Power Station

Guangzhou Siemens Transformer Co., Ltd. has manufactured 18 flexible-to-direct converter transformers for the Wudongde Power Station in China.

Crude Oil

Fitch Sees Brent At $45 Next Year

Fitch Ratings said it expected Brent crude to average $45 a barrel next year, following OPEC+’s decision to start raising production by 500,000 bpd monthly fro…

Wind Turbine

Goldwind Completes Turbine Job at 312MW Oz Wind

Goldwind Australia has completed installation of 104 turbines at the 312MW Moorabool wind farm in the state of Victoria.

OPEC

Kazakhstan Supports Consensus in OPEC+ Agreement

The OPEC + countries decided to increase the supply of oil in January 2021 following a ministerial meeting of the organisation, which was held via videoconferen…

Offshore Wind Power

France Picks Zone off Normandy Coast for New 1 Gigawatt Wind Farm

The planned windfarm will be located 32 km off the shore of Cotentin and generate the electricity needed to power 800,000 homes.

Solar Power Plant

Ukraine Moots 895 MW of New Solar to 2025

If a call by the Ministry of Energy to procure 155 MW of solar next year is adopted, a first, 50 MW auction would be held in June.

Floating Solar Project

Dutch Meld Offshore Floating Solar with Seaweed Cultivation

The combined offshore solar and seaweed farm has been installed at the North Sea Farmers test site, located 12 kilometres off the coast of Scheveningen.