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Net Zero

‘Carpooling Carbon’: Australia’s Net Zero Zones to Boost Investment, Climate Action and Jobs

A new report unveiled on the eve of the APPEA 2023 conference has revealed how net zero zones (NZZs) could be created across Australia to bring together energy …

Oil&Gas Drilling

Totalenergies Picks Shearwater for Surveys Offshore UK

French major TotalEnergies has awarded Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices with a contract to carry out surveys over its gas fields located west of Shetland, …

Oil&Gas Drilling

Shell and Petrobras Book Noble’s Drillships

Noble Corporation has won contracts with UK-headquartered energy giant Shell and Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras, respectively, for two of its…

Offshore Wind Power

Parkwind, Esb Plan to Progress 375 MW Offshore Wind Farm in Ireland Despite Auction Results

Parkwind and ESB, the developers of the proposed Oriel Wind Farm in Ireland, plan to continue working towards the delivery of the project despite it not being a…

Offshore Wind Power

OX2 Sells Stake in Its Finnish Offshore Wind Development Portfolio to Ingka Investments

OX2 has agreed with Ingka Investments to sell a 49 percent stake in its three offshore wind projects in Finland. The three projects will have a potential to rea…

Geothermal Power Project

Workshop on Lithium Extraction From Geothermal Brine, 15 June 2023, Munich, Germany

Registration is currently open for a workshop on lithium extraction from geothermal brines hosted by the "UnLimited" research project in Munich on 15 June 2023.…

Electric Vehicles

China: 636,000 Additional New Energy Vehicles in April

Sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China fell slightly in April. According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), 636…

Renewable Diesel

Vertex Energy Reports Delayed Startup of Renewable Diesel Unit

Vertex Energy Inc. on May 9 announced that startup of its renewable diesel production unit at its refinery in Mobile, Alabama, has been delayed following a fail…

Nuclear Reactor

Detecting Neutrinos From Nuclear Reactors With Water

The SNO+ detector 2 kilometers deep in a mine in Ontario, Canada. The image shows the ropes that hold the 12 m-diameter acrylic vessel filled with 1,000 tons of…

Nuclear Reactor

Novel Solution Developed for Removal of Unterweser Reactor Vessel

The reactor pressure vessel has been removed from the reactor pit of the shut down Unterweser nuclear power plant in Germany using a solution developed by Dutch…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Berkeley Decommissioning Work Brought Forward 50 Years

Five decades earlier than planned, Magnox is embarking on the decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish the four 'blower house' structures which …

Nuclear Equipment

Framatome Awarded Ringhals Modernisation Contracts

Framatome has been awarded contracts by Sweden's Vattenfall to update reactor control systems using its digital instrumentation and control (I&C) TELEPERM X…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

Rooftop Solar

Rooftop Solar Could Power One-Third of U.S. Manufacturing Sector

The technology currently supplies less than 0.1% of industrial electricity.Mounted on the rooftops of industrial buildings, solar panels could meet the entire e…

Solar Panel

Terabase Energy Launches Automated Solar Panel Installation Setup

Terafab climate controlled environmentDigital automation company Terabase Energy has officially launched Terafab, a digital field factory for solar panel instal…