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United States

Tesla to Build Data Centre in China After Backlash, Spying Fears

Chinese authorities in March restricted the use of Tesla cars by the military and employees of state-owned companies over concerns that images from cameras on t…

Market Analysis

Electrical Generation by Wind and Solar Grew by 34% in March 2021 and Accounted for 16.8% of Total U.S. Production

Electrical generation by wind and solar set a new record in March 2021 and accounted for 16.8% of total U.S. production.

New Zealand

New Zealand Sees Wholesale Power Price Spike in March Quarter

Wholesale power prices paid by electricity and gas suppliers rose 28.7 percent in the January-March quarter of this year, New Zealand's official data agency Sta…

Wave Energy

Video: Wave Power Could Be Energy's Next Big Leap

Searching for ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, engineers and entrepreneurs are looking to a largely untapped potential source of renewable energy: w…

Energy Storage Battery

Harvard team develops long-life Li-metal solid-state battery

A team at Harvard has a developed a design for a solid-state battery that uses a hierarchy of interface stabilities, to achieve an ultrahigh current density wit…

LNG Carrier

Essberger Orders 4+4 LNG-Powered Chemical Tankers in China

German shipowner John T. Essberger Group has signed final agreements with China Merchants Jinling Shipyard Dingheng Co. Ltd to build four 6,600 dwt stainless st…

Nuclear Power Plant

Pakistan: Role Of Nuclear Power In Economic And Sustainable Development

On March 18th, 2021 ‘Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission’ announced that the 1,100 MW reactor of, the second unit of the ‘Karachi Nuclear Power Plant’ was …

HTGR

Poland Plans Next Stage of HTR Development

Poland's Ministry of Education and Science and the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) have signed an agreement for the next round of high temperature g…

Solar Power Plant

Qatar Launches First Solar Atlas To Tap Its Renewable Energy Potential

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Solar Cell

Novel ‘Molecular Glue’ Boosts Reliability of Perovskite Cells

A research team from Brown University in the US has found a way to strengthen a key weak point in perovskite solar cells, dramatically increasing their function…

Hydrogen Production

Scientists Develop New Eco-Technologies for Hydrogen Production

The latest research results are published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

French-Made Hydrogen-Powered Trains Set to Enter Regular Service in Germany in 2022

The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger trains, produced by France’s Alstom, are slated to enter regular commercial service in the German state of Lower …

Wind Farm

RWE to Co-Ordinate Offshore Wind Farm Research Project

‘VISSKA’ is the German acronym for a research project aimed at exploring the use of vibratory pile driving at the Kaskasi II offshore wind farm, in terms of i…

Solar Cell

DTE Energy Partners with Ford Motor Company on New Rooftop Solar Installation and Battery Storage Technology

DTE Energy today announced that it has commissioned a new solar array at the Ford Research & Engineering Center in Dearborn, Michigan.

Electric Car

CATL Continuing to Excel in Global EV Battery Market

Market research firm SNE Research reported on May 3 that the global EV battery energy consumption volume was 47.8 GWh in the first quarter of this year, up 127 …