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Nuclear waste

Hot Testing Continues at Chernobyl Used Fuel Storage

As of 1 December, 186 used fuel assemblies have been transported from the old used nuclear fuel storage facility to the Interim Storage Facility 2 at the Cherno…

Nuclear Power Plant

EnergySolutions Takes Over TMI-2 Licence

The TMI-2 reactor, located about 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, operated for around six months before suffering reactor core damage on 28 March…

Oil Price

OPEC+ Working on Compromise for 2021 Oil Policy

The OPEC, Russia and their allies, a group known as OPEC+, had been widely expected to extend existing oil cuts of 7.7 million barrels per day (bpd).

Solar Power Plant

Solar’s Role in Achieving Japan’s 2050 Carbon Neutrality Goals

Solar will likely play a major role in achieving Japan’s policy goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 and could reach 130GW to 160GW in cum…

Energy Storage Project

Video: AMADEUS Energy Storage

​Starting in January 2017, AMADEUS is the first project funded by the European Commission to research on a new generation of materials and solid state devices …

Hydropower Plant

India Plans Dam on Brahmaputra to Offset Chinese Construction Upstream

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that Chi…

Energy-Eficient Building

Slowdown in Energy Efficiency Progress Jeopardising Climate Goals, IEA Warns

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused energy efficiency investments to tumble while increasing the energy intensity of the global economy.

China

OIL & GAS 50 2020 RANKING

Shell retains title of world’s most valuable oil & gas brand, brand value up 12% to US$47.5 billion.Saudi Aramco is new entrant in ranking taking second positi…

Energy Storage Project

China’s Energy Storage Deployments for First Nine Months of 2020 up 157% Year-on-Year

China deployed 533.3MW of new electrochemical energy storage projects in the first three quarters of 2020, an increase of 157% on the same period in 2019.

United States

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor Achieves US Licensing Milestone

The LTR, which was submitted to the NRC in December 2019, forms the basis for the dramatic simplification of the BWRX-300.

Wind Turbine

EDP Renováveis Commissions Spain’s Largest Wind Turbines in Burgos

EDPR is developing the Quintanilla II wind farm, which will feature three wind turbines spanning a height of 199.9 metres.

Wind Farm

Nordex Receives Certification for N149/5.X Model

Turbine can be operated both with standard and anti-icing rotor blades.

Wind Farm

Southern Power's 136MW Washington Wind Site Goes Live

Southern Power has announced the 136MW Skookumchuck Wind Facility in Washington state, USA, is now operational.

Oil Field

BP Starts Drilling Platina Field Offshore Angola

Oil major BP has begun drilling on the Platina field in Block 18 offshore Angola using Valaris’ DS-12 drillship.

Combined Heat and Power

World’s First 1MW Large-Scale Gas Engine Begins Hydrogen Field Test

The recent initiation of field testing on the converted CHP plant in the Othmarschen area of Hamburg, Germany, marks a step forward in a joint flagship project …