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No Oil Discovery After Staatsolie’s Six-Well Campaign Off Suriname

Staatsolie said earlier this week that it had drilled six exploration wells as part of its nearshore drilling campaign. While no commercial oil discovery was ma…

New Initiative Positions Texas as Geothermal Energy Leader

With a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Cockrell School of Engineering is launching a unique initiative that aims to make The University…

Energy storage technology

Mix Mountains and Gravity for Long-Term Energy Storage

A team of European scientists proposes using mountains to build a new type of battery for long-term energy storage.

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Suspends Revamp Work at Iran's Fordow Nuclear Plant

Russian state nuclear company Rosatom has suspended work on revamping a factory at Iran’s Fordow nuclear complex due to an issue with uranium compatibility, Ro…

28 Years Ago, Big Oil Predicted Carbon Tax was Necessary to Stop Global Warming

As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to maintain a stable cli…

Crude

OPEC Fails to Pin Down New Output Target after Marathon Talks

OPEC failed nail down the details of an agreement to adjust its official production target, as six hours of talks in Vienna found no resolution amid objections …

Apollo Got Six-figure Contract from Wave Energy Scotland

Apollo, of Aberdeen, said last night the award of a six-figure contract from Wave Energy Scotland will make a “big difference” to the firm. But the deal to de…

Coal Power

What does a Sunset Coal Industry Tell Oil Producers About Peak Demand?

Coal has been the main fuel of industrialization over the past century and a half. To this day, it remains a key feedstock for power generation and in making st…

Electrocaloric Heat Pumps Promise Refrigerant-free Cooling

Six Fraunhofer institutes are joining forces on a newly launched project, ElKaWe (for Electrocaloric Heat Pumps) aiming to develop efficient solid-state and ref…

The Technical Path to Zero Carbon

I base that prediction on U.S. energy consumption patterns over the last 30 years as well as the prospect for achieving major gains in energy efficiency moving …

Coal Company

One of the Biggest U.S. Coal Companies Filed for Bankruptcy

A judge approved a bankruptcy reorganization for one of the biggest U.S. coal companies Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty about how its mines will be bonded in …

Offshore Wind Power

Macron：France to Add 1GW Offshore Wind Every Year Between 2020-2024

France has committed to tendering up to two offshore wind projects annually and to ease the permitting hurdles facing the industry, the president has said.

European Cities Commit Commit to Net Zero Carbon Buildings

On 4 December 2019, leading European cities and companies pledged to slash carbon emissions from their buildings to net zero. Helsinki, Finland and Valladolid, …

Solar Power Panel

Carlson Electric will Install 100-kW Solar System at Wisconsin Horseradish Farm

Huntsinger Farms, the world’s largest grower and processor of horseradish and the parent company of Silver Spring Foods, has won a $28,902.60 Focus on Energy g…

Solar Technology

Saving the Mekong With Floating Solar Power

For two decades or more, alarms have been sounding for the Mekong Delta. It is being hammered by climate change, by a proliferation of upstream dams, by unsusta…