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Electric Car

China and Italy to Manufacture New Energy Sports Vehicles for Global Markets

The Silk-FAW joint venture plans to launch the new full electric and hybrid luxury models under the Hongqi ‘S’ series – the first model of this series will b…

Wind Power Project

Wind Power Accounted for 29.5% in January in Spain

52.3% of the generation in January was wind energy, PV, hydro and concentrated solar power.

Hydropower Plant

Nam Theun 1 Breaks RCC Placement World Record

The project team at Nam Theun 1 hydropower project in Laos has announced that in January 2021, they broke the world record for the most amount of RCC placement …

Wind Power Project

Vestas Picks up 75MW Irish Order

Danish manufacturer will supply 21 turbines to Bord na Móna's Cloncreen project.

Coal Production

Pakistan Coal Imports Dip from 2020 Highs

Pakistan's January coal imports declined from highs in late 2020, while South Africa's share of the import mix dropped to a 45-month low.

Smart Meter

Enel Launches 300,000 Smart Meter Rollout in São Paulo

Enel Distribuição São Paulo is piloting the manufacture and installation of 300,000 smart meters in the São Paulo metropolitan region.

Oil & Gas Trade

Petrobras Opens 2021 with Record Oil Exports

Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras says crude exports through its Angra dos Reis terminal reached a record 19.3mn bl in January, the extension of an upward tre…

Coal Production

Coal India Production Drops 4.1% in Jan

The company's output in the April-January period was at 453.3 MT over 451.5MT in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, it said

Energy Storage Battery

France’s Biggest Battery Storage System at 25MW goes into Operation

The biggest battery energy storage system in mainland France went into operation in late January, and will provide grid-balancing services to national transmiss…

Crude Oil

Iraq Raises Crude Oil Exports In January

Iraq’s oil exports increased slightly in January 2021 compared to December 2020, data from the country’s oil ministry showed on Monday, suggesting that Iraq i…

Solar Power Panel

Japan's Panasonic to Scrap Solar Cell Production

Electronics giant Panasonic Corp. has decided to scrap its unprofitable solar cell manufacturing operations amid ever-increasing price competition.

Hydropower Plant

Baihetan Hydropower Station: the Rotor of Unit 16 was Successfully Hoisted

​The sixth "Big Mac" rotor of Baihetan Hydropower Station was successfully hoisted into place on January 31, marking that Unit 16 of Baihetan Hydropower Statio…

Nuclear Technology

Foratom and Canadian Nuclear Association Strengthen Collaboration

The Canadian Nuclear Association and the European Atomic Forum have signed a Memorandum of Understanding om 27 January to collaborate in nuclear energy and to p…

Nuclear Power Plant

Major Overhaul of Russia’s Balakovo 4 Completed

Storage pool racks have been replaced at unit 4 of Russia’s Balakovo NPP, after many years of work, the plant announced on 27 January.

Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr Nuclear Plant Expansion Continues

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference on 26 January that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif the constru…