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Geothermal Drilling

Drilling Underway for University of Warwick Ground Source Heat Project

SSE Energy Solutions and contractor Igne are drilling test boreholes exploring the feasibility of supplying the University of Warwick with heat from a shallow g…

Nuclear Fuel

Tepco to Start Loading Nuclear Fuel Into Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant on Monday

Tokyo Electric Power Co will start loading nuclear fuel into reactor No. 7 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power station on Monday, it said in a statement, as it prep…

Renewable Energy

Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Discuss Immediate Launch of Energy and Transport Projects

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have discussed the immediate launch of practical implementation of major infrastructure projects in the energy and transport sectors, …

Oil & Gas Trade

Japanese Investors Partner With I Squared Capital on Us$370 Million Strategic Investment in Natural Gas Infrastructure to Accelerate the Energy Transition in India

Japanese investors to take a minority stake in a Singapore-based holding company with investments in companies developing city gas distribution networks in Indi…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla (Tsla) Is Rumored to Be Preparing a Massive Round of Layoffs

Tesla announced to Gigafactory Texas employees that it will shorten Cybertruck production shift amid rumors that it is preparing a round of layoffs.We received …

Carbon Capture

Volvo Cars Uses Biogas to Achieve Its First Climate-Neutral Plant in China

Volvo Cars’ Taizhou manufacturing plant has switched to biogas, making it the company’s first plant in China to achieve climate-neutral status. The …

Wind Turbine

Made-In-Vietnam Wind Turbine Towers Bound for Rok

Ten domestically-manufactured offshore wind turbine towers are set to depart from Phu My Industrial Zone in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau by the end …

Nuclear Reactor

IAEA Chief Welcomes Cold Shutdown of All Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Reactor Units

A view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol in Ukraine. Photo taken on June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Al…

Nuclear waste

Waste Transfer Milestone at Scottish Plant

The retrieval has been completed of more than 2100 tonnes of solid intermediate-level radioactive waste from five above-ground concrete bunkers at the Huntersto…

Nuclear Fuel

Licence Issued to Test Brest-Od-300 Nuclear Fuel Module

Russian nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a licence which will allow the production of mock-ups of fuel assemblies with depleted uranium for the BREST-…

Uranium Project

Further Japanese Research Reactor Free of HEU

All remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's (JAEA's) Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly has now bee…

Germany

German Steel Manufacturers Sign PPA With EnBW for He Dreiht Offshore Wind Farm

EnBW and SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar have signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 50 MW of generation capacity from the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore…

Electric Vehicles

China's Chery to Set up Shop in Europe

Chinese automaker Chery is planning to make cars in Spain, where the EV market is at just 12%, half that of Portugal and France. This would be Chery’s fir…

SMR

Digital Control System Installation Begins at Chinese SMR

Installation of the digital control system has begun at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China's island prov…

Nuclear Reactor

New Chinese Reactor Begins Supplying Power

Fangchenggang unit 4 - the second demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactor at the site in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region - has been connected to the g…