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Solar Power Plant

Iberdrola Starts up ‘Francisco Pizarro’, the Largest Photovoltaic Plant in Europe

The plant will produce enough clean energy to power more than 334,000 homes and prevent the emission of 150,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.

Smart Meter

Atlantic City Electric Set to Upgrade 565,000 Smart Meters

Atlantic City Electric will start the broad installation of new smart meters for its nearly 565,000 customers beginning in September 2022, and continuing throug…

Smart Meter

Serbia Smart Metering Project Supported

Phase one of Serbia’s smart metering implementation has been awarded €7.8 million ($8 million) from the EU through the Western Balkans Investment Framework. …

Electric Car

Berkeley Lab Offers a Brief on EV Retail Rate Design Basics

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption has increased significantly over the past several years, with 640,000 EVs sold in the US in 2021, more than double the number sol…

OPEC

Iraq’s July Oil Output Rises by Around 70,000 Bpd, Somo Data Show

Iraq pumped 4.584 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in July, up by 69,000 bpd from June, data from state-owned marketer SOMO seen by Reuters showed on Wednes…

Hydrogen Production

UK’s Biggest Container Port to Shore £150M Green Hydrogen Plant

The project built by ScottishPower will power ships, trucks and trains

LNG

Centrica Strikes £7BN LNG Deal

The agreement will allow the company to purchase one million tonnes of LNG every year

Australia

Western Australia Utility Replicating Success of 100% Renewable Energy Town

The small town of Onslow, Western Australia, is now powered almost entirely by renewable energy, and the utility behind that project wants to roll out the same …

Offshore Wind Power

Siemens Gamesa Installs World’s First Offshore Wind Turbine With Recyclable Blades

German energy giant RWE started to test a wind turbine with fully recyclable blades at its offshore project Kaskasi. It is the first deployment of the technolog…

Electricity Transmission

Norway to Impose Power Export Controls

Photo: Ásgeir Eggertsson / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeNorway is preparing a framework for limiting electricity exports at ti…

Oil Refinery

U.S. Oil Refiners, Pipeline Companies Expect Strong Demand for Rest of 2022

U.S. oil refiners and pipeline operators expect energy consumption to be strong for the second half of 2022, even though analysts and industry watchers have wor…

Wind Turbine

Wind Turbine Maker Vestas Q2 Hit by Higher Costs

Wind turbine maker Vestas on Wednesday reported a bigger-than-expected second-quarter operating loss hit by higher costs.

Offshore Wind Power

Vietnam Needs $8 Bln-$14 Bln Power Investment a Year Through 2030 - Minister

Vietnam will need investment of between $8 billion and $14 billion a year through to 2030 to develop new power plants and expand its grid, its deputy industry m…

Wind Power Project

Colombia Announces the First Offshore Wind Energy Tender

The Colombian Ministry of Mining and Energy has launched the country’s first offshore wind lease round and expects to grant permits for the use of marine areas…

Natural Gas

Italy Better Prepared Than Most to Face Winter With Low Russian Gas -Minister

Italy is in a better position than other countries as winter approaches, after it clinched deals with gas producer countries in Africa and ramped up the filling…