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China

Chinese Company Contracted to Work on Tianwan 7&8

The two units, with VVER-1200 reactors, are being built by Rosatom, which said work on unit 7 should begin in May 2021, and on unit 8 in March 2022.

Nuclear Power Plant

Cofrentes Licence Extension Gets Regulatory Approval

The Spanish nuclear regulator has approved the renewal of the operating licence for Iberdrola's Cofrentes nuclear power plant near Valencia until the end of Nov…

Nuclear Reactor

Chinese Fast Reactor Begins High-Power Operation

The China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) has been restarted and reconnected to the grid, marking its entry into its high-power operation phase.

Joe Biden

How to Calculate the Social Cost of Carbon? Researchers Offer Roadmap in New Analysis

The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used to inform climate policy by placing a monetary value…

Wind Farm

Siemens Gamesa Extends Gemini Contract

It will service the 600MW Dutch North Sea site for a further five years.

Substation

DEME Secures Contract for Two Offshore Substations in Dutch North Sea

DEME Offshore has secured a contract to transport and install the jackets and topsides for two Hollandse Kust offshore substations which will be located in the …

Oil Price

Goldman Sachs Sees Minimal Oil Price Impact from Texas Freeze

Oil prices slid by up to 2 per cent on Friday, on worries that refineries will take time to resume operations after the big freeze in the U.S. South, creating a…

Crude Oil

Oil Drops as Investors Gauge Big Chill Impact on US Refineries

US West Texas Intermediate crude fell 2% to $59.3 a barrel on Friday.

Paris Climate Agreement

US Returns to Paris Climate Agreement

The US officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement today, with the country's top climate diplomat calling for more action by the world's major emitters.

Energy Security

Extreme Weather Conditions Harm RWE’s Renewables Electricity Generation in the US State of Texas

Operations teams focus on resuming production at RWE’s affected onshore wind turbinesRWE expects significant negative earnings impact in Onshore Wind/Solar seg…

Energy Storage Project

Startup Verkor Teams up with Consultancy Capgemini for 16GWh Lithium-Ion ‘Smart Factory’ in France

Digital software company Capgemini is partnering with battery energy storage startup Verkor to help bring to life a 16GWh-capacity lithium-ion cell factory in F…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Indian Oil Signs Pact with Greenstat Norway for Hydrogen Fuel

In the Union Budget for 2021-22, the government pledged to focus on generating hydrogen from green power sources as well as build more diverse and efficient ene…

Electricity Transmission

Hitachi ABB Power Grids Wins Power Link Contract for Dogger Bank

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has secured a contract to lay the third transmission link from the 3.6GW offshore Dogger Bank Wind Farm.

Nuclear Equipment

Rosatom will Manufacture Unique Equipment for the BREST-OD-300 Power Unit

In particular, SCC and CKBM signed a contract for manufacturing and supply of equipment for the refueling complex.

Nuclear Reactor

Estonia’s Fermi Energia Seeks $1m to Launch SMR Planning Procedure

The new call for funding aims to complete a series of investments of €2.5 million ($3m) required to formally launch the planning project for deployment of a sm…