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Energy Investment

Hanwha Q CELLS to Invest KRW1.5tr in Korea by 2025

Hanwha Q CELLS announced on Sept. 9 that it will invest 1.5 trillion won in domestic production and research facilities by 2025.

CCS

Wärtsilä to Lead Norwegian Carbon Capture Research Initiative

Wärtsilä will lead a consortium of technology and energy companies conducting research and development of carbon capture and storage solutions to decarbonise …

Hydrogen Production

APA Gets Govt Funds for Research into Using Gas Pipeline for Hydrogen

Australian energy infrastructure company APA Group has received AUD 300,000 from the Western Australia government to help test the ability of 43 km of the Parme…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Biden Administration Mulls Reversal of Trump Arctic Drilling Plan

The Biden administration may reverse a Trump-era policy that opened vast swaths of federal land in Arctic Alaska to oil development

Hydrogen Technology

Japanese Researchers Use New Catalyst to Sustainably Produce Hydrogen Fuel from Ammonia

This new technique used a highly efficient calcium imide -supported NI catalyst.

Nuclear Power Plant

UK Researchers Invited to Partner with US on NuclearEnergy

A share of £2.5m of funding is available for topics including molten salts, light-water reactor fuels and advanced small modular reactors

Hydrogen Production

New Efficiency Record Set for Solar Hydrogen Production

Researchers achieved a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of over 20 percent.

Oil & Gas Trade

India’s ONGC May Buy Stake In Rosneft’s Massive Arctic Oil Project

A consortium of Indian energy companies—including state major ONGC—is in early talks with Rosneft for the acquisition of a stake in the Russian state company…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Democrats Close in on Drilling, Mining Bans for Biden’s $3.5T Infrastructure Scheme

Legislation to block oil drilling in most U.S. waters and Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge edged closer to passage Thursday

Rosatom

Rosatom and Russia’s Far East and Arctic Development Ministry Sign Cooperation Agreement

Rosatom signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic in the framework of the VI Eastern Economic Foru…

Market Analysis

Global Offshore Wind Market to Hit $56.8bn by 2026

A new report conducted by Research and Market states that the global market for offshore wind energy will record a 12.3% growth between 2021 and 2026.

Energy Storage Battery

Janus Graphene Opens Doors to Sustainable Sodium-ion Batteries

In the search for sustainable energy storage, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a new concept to fabricate high-performance elec…

United States

Alaska Judge Dismisses Trump-era Approvals for Arctic Oil Project

A US federal judge invalidated permits approved during the Trump administration for a large oil development project on Alaska’s North Slope on Wednesday.

Tidal Energy

NREL Tests Thermoplastic Blades on Large-Scale Tidal Turbine

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have partnered with Verdant Power to test the use of thermoplastic blades on …

Nuclear Fuel

Operation Approaches for Ukraine's Used Fuel Store

The first stage of Ukraine's Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility is ready for operation, Energoatom has announced, citing an approval from the Architectural and…