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Oil Refinery

Petron to Restart Philippine Refinery by 2H 2021

Philippine private-sector firm Petron plans to resume refining activity at its 180,000 b/d Bataan refinery by the second half this year on expectations of a sig…

Coal Trade

Vietnam's Coal Imports Fall Further in February

Vietnamese coal imports slipped for a third straight month in February from a year earlier as industrial activity slowed amid the lunar new year holiday and a r…

Wind Turbine Blade

GE to Build UK Haliade-X Blade Factory

GE Renewable Energy has confirmed it will build a new offshore blade manufacturing plant on Teesside in north-east England.

Nuclear Reactor

Rosatom Targets 24 New Reactor Units in Russia by 2045

Rosatom has announced that implementation of Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to increase the share of nuclear power in the country's energy mix to 2…

Nuclear Power Plant

First Concrete Poured for Akkuyu Unit 3

Rosatom announced today that first concrete has been poured for the third unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction in the Mersin province of Tu…

Energy Storage System

Therma Marine Contracts Wärtsilä for Floating Energy Storage System

Power generation holding company Therma Marine has ordered a flexible floating barge-mounted energy storage system from Finnish power and marine industry compan…

Nuclear Reactor

GE Hitachi and Estonia Energy Firm Expand Small Modular Reactor Project

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Estonia-based Fermi Energia OÜ are teaming up to complete due diligence before installing a BWRX-300 small modular reactor in tha…

Solar Power Plant

Advancing Standards for PV Mounting Systems| Thorsten Kray is the New Head of Research and Standardization at AEROCOMPACT

Satteins, Austria, March 8, 2021. The Austrian manufacturer of PV mounting systems AEROCOMPACT strengthens its team with the internationally known wind engineer…

Wind Power Project

Siemens Gamesa Signs a 150 MW Contract in Spain with Elawan Energy for One of the Largest Wind Farm Clusters in the Country

The contract with Elawan also includes a long-term service agreement for a period of 20 years.

Canada

SNC-Lavalin Joins Canada’s Nuclear Innovation Institute

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin Group has become a Founding Member of the Nuclear Innovation Institute, joining other industry leaders to accelerate the pace of clean ene…

Nuclear Fuel

Russia Completes Tests of Accident Tolerant Fuel

Rosatom’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors and the AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM), part of TVEL fuel company, have complete…

Nuclear Reactor

Czech Regulator Awards Site Licence for Dukovany Units

The Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Safety yesterday issued a site licence for two new reactor units at the existing Dukovany nuclear power plant site…

Solar Cell

JA Solar Planning New 20GW Cell and Module Manufacturing Hub

Solar Module Super League member JA Solar is planning a new manufacturing hub in Qidong Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, China.

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE Licenses Second Unit of Barakah Nuclear Power Plant

Barakah's Unit 1 was connected to the national power grid in August and in December reached 100% of reactor power capacity during testing

United Arab Emirates

UAE, IRENA Launch The National Integrated Energy Model

The importance of the model stems from the fact that it provides a common framework that brings together the stakeholders in the energy sector