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Electricity Transmission

Nigeria: NDPHC Commences Work on 33kV Power Line to Electrify Community

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) has commenced work on a new 15-kilometre 33kV line to restore power supply to a community in Nigeria that has been…

Microgrid

Quebec’s Lac-Mégantic Microgrid Inaugurated

Quebec state utility Hydro-Québec and Lac-Mégantic have formally launched the energy microgrid in the Canadian city’s new downtown.

Rooftop PV System

Consumers Transforming Australia’s Electricity Market with Rooftop PV

Australian consumers are increasingly adopting more dispersed renewable generation from rooftop solar and are causing a transformation of Australia’s electrici…

Solar Power Plant

AFRICA: Rolls-Royce Invests in Kowry Energy’s Off-Grid Solar Systems

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has invested in Kowry Energy. The German start-up finances and builds decentralised solar systems with storage for commercial customer…

Energy Investment

Saudi Arabian Solar: How the State has Invested in Overseas Solar Projects

ACWA Power has invested in some of the world’s largest solar projects, including the Redstone facility and the Kom Ombo plant.

Solar Company

Heliogen to Become Publicly Traded in Athena Technology Merger

Once the merger deal with Heliogen is completed, Athena is expected to be renamed Heliogen.

Tidal Energy

Sustainable Marine’s Tidal Turbine Rotors Pass Rigorous Testing

Sustainable Marine’s new turbine rotors have proven they can survive for two decades in the field, following rigorous tests at a leading European marine energy…

Wind Power Project

Vattenfall, NS and ProRail Announce Opening of Nieuwe Hemweg Wind Farm

Vattenfall, NS and ProRail have joined forces to open the Nieuwe Hemweg wind farm. Vattenfall has built six wind power turbines on the NS site in the Port of Am…

Thermal Plant

Wärtsilä to Develop 156MW Multi-Fuel Power Plant in Nebraska

US utility Omaha Public Power District is partnering with technology company Wärtsilä for the development of a 156MW multi-fuel engine power plant in the stat…

Floating Solar Project

Sunseap Delivers Offshore Floating Solar Project in Singapore

Singapore, a small and resource-scarce city-state, is now home to one of the world’s largest offshore floating solar PV farms, a 5 MW-peak project that’s been…

Coal Trade

Robust China Coal Demand Amid Australia Import Ban Fuels Price Rally

Both thermal coal, used in power plants, and coking coal, used to make steel, have rallied strongly in recent months. And in both cases the driver has largely b…

Market Analysis

India Wind Market to Billow by 50% in the Next Five Years

The country will see 20.2 GW of new wind power capacity between 2021 to 2025.

Oil Refinery

Shell Announces Sale of Schwedt Refinery Stake

Shell has agreed to sell its 37.5pc stake in the 208,000 b/d Schwedt refinery in northeast Germany to Austria-based firm Alcmene for an undisclosed sum as part …

Oil&Gas Drilling

McDermott Secures Subsea Job on Bayu-Undan Field

McDermott International has secured a subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract with Santos for the Bayu-Undan infill well Phase 3…

Solar Power Plant

Senegal: Food Company Contracts GreenYellow for Solar Plant

French renewable energy group GreenYellow announced the signing of a new contract to build the largest self-consumption solar power plant in Senegal.