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Nuclear waste

Although the Water Will Be Treated to Remove Most Radioactive Materials, It Will Still Contain Tritium, a Radioactive Form of Hydrogen That Is Technically Difficult to Separate From Water.

According to a study published in 2003, a substantial part of the world's radioactive contamination is in the marine environment. This picture shows storage…

Wave Energy

Eni Installs Wave Energy Converter off Italian Coast

Eni has completed the installation of an inertial sea wave energy converter (ISWEC) device connected to the electricity grid off the Italian island of Panteller…

Carbon Neutral

UK to Spend £20 Billion on Carbon Capture in Clean Energy Push

Dungeness B nuclear power station, Kent, England. Credit: Adobe StockChancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce £20 billion ($24 billion) for d…

Geothermal Power Plant

State Funding Approved for Lower Saxony Geothermal Projects, Germany

Lüneburger Straße in Bad Bevensen, Lower Saxony, Germany (source: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)The Ministry of Environment, En…

Solar Power Plant

Colombia Allocates 7.5 GW of Renewable Projects, Including 5.8 GW of Solar

Colombia's Mining and Energy Planning Unit, Unidad de Planificación Minera y Energética de Colombia (UPME), has announced power allocations fo…

Gas power plant

Germany Plans to Build 25 GW of New Gas-Fired Capacity by 2030

The German government intends to put up for auction gas power plants in 2023 as part of a strategy to add between 17 GW and 25 GW of gas-fired power capacity as…

Energy Security

Japan Mourns 2011 Disaster as Nuclear Support Grows

Japanese offered tearful prayers Saturday on the anniversary of the deadly tsunami that triggered the Fukushima disaster, but public support for nuclear power i…

Carbon Emissions

CCC: Decarbonised Power System by 2035 Is Possible but Not at This Pace of Delivery

A new report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) demonstrates the scale of the task in delivering the UK Government’s 2035 goal of achieving a decarbonised p…

Thermal Coal

Power Units May Miss Closing Coal Stock Target as Heat Soars

The railway ministry will provide 418 rakes to different subsidiaries of Coal India and captive mines and will also increase the number of rakes. Hydro power pl…

Hydrogen Production

New Study Finds Salt Deposits Could Serve as a Hydrogen Storage Tank

Large underground salt deposits could also be beneficial for CO2 storage and geothermal.Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Econo…

LNG

MARKET INSIGHT - INTERMODAL

Uncertainty over the recovery of Chinese demand, demand destruction in Europe, as well as weather conditions will pivot the LNG market this summer. Global LNG s…

Oil & Gas Supply

Global Liquid Fuel Production to Outpace Demand

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects global liquid fuel production to outpace demand in 2023 and 2024.The U.S. Energy Information Administration (…

Hydropower Plant

Minesto and TCCGE to Pursue Tidal Opportunities in Taiwan

Minesto and Taiwan Cement Green Energy (TCCGE) have agreed to collaborate in the development of tidal and ocean current energy power in Taiwan. The firms signed…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Honda Fuel Cells Find New Application as Backup Data Center Power

The company announced it is using the equipment for backup power systems for its data center.Honda recently revealed that it was putting the Clarity fuel cells …

Pumped Storage

Studio Pietrangeli to Enhance Cruachan Expansion Design for Drax

Drax has named Studio Pietrangeli as Owner’s Engineer on its project to build a new 600MW underground plant adjacent to its existing underground Cruachan …