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Crude Oil

African Members’ Production Troubles Offset OPEC’s Planned Increase

OPEC boosted crude production as planned last month, but the increase was tempered by disruptions at long-troubled member nations.

Solar Company

Tesla Announces Its First Photovoltaic Inverter Based on Powerwall 2 Technology

Since acquiring SolarCity in 2016, Tesla has been providing its own solar solutions by using the inverters of Delta and SolarEdge instead of a comprehensive aut…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Hydrogen Buses Fuel Cell Modules to Power Hydrogen Buses in the Netherlands

Ballard Power Systems’ FCmove™ fuel cell modules will power 10 new Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses ordered last week for the streets of Gelderland, the Nethe…

Nuclear Power Plant

Dome in Place at Second Fangchenggang Hualong One

The dome has been installed on the containment building of unit 4 at the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in western China.

Crude Oil

OPEC+ Now Sees Weaker Oil Demand Growth For 2021

OPEC+ expects global oil demand to rise by 5.6 million barrels per day this year—lower estimated growth than OPEC’s assessment of 5.9-million-bpd demand incre…

Smart Meter

Enel Launches 300,000 Smart Meter Rollout in São Paulo

Enel Distribuição São Paulo is piloting the manufacture and installation of 300,000 smart meters in the São Paulo metropolitan region.

Solar Power Panel

Macquarie Sets up Unit to Build 8 GW Solar Project Pipeline in Europe

Green Investment Group, owned by Macquarie, has launched Cero Generation, which will operate on a European scale and carry out both ground-mounted and commercia…

Offshore Wind Power

Siemens Gamesa Named Preferred Supplier for 3.1-GW East Anglia Offshore Project

Spanish utility Iberdrola SA, through ScottishPower Renewables, has picked Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA as the preferred turbine supplier for the 3,100-MW…

Power Construction

Nexans Scoops French Grid Upgrade Gig

Nexans has been chosen by Reseau de Transport d’Electricite for a three-year frame contract to deliver underground grid connections enabling further renewables…

Hydrogen Project

Naturgy Launches Floating Wind-Hydrogen Study

Project planned in Asturias in north-west Spain would potentially use platforms supplied by Navantia-Windar

Wave Energy

Wave Energy Technology Company Wins Moroccan Port Challenge

A Swedish onshore wave energy company, Eco Wave Power, has won the Smart Port Challenge Competition, which set out to find disruptive solutions to improve perfo…

Power Construction

Two 33kV Distribution Stations Completed In Kalba

The projects have been implemented in line with the vision and directives of the Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, HH Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohamed Al…

Oil & Gas Trade

Petrobras Opens 2021 with Record Oil Exports

Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras says crude exports through its Angra dos Reis terminal reached a record 19.3mn bl in January, the extension of an upward tre…

Coal Production

Colombian Coal Production Hits 16-Year Low

Mining suspensions and a protracted strike cut Colombia's coal production to a 16-year low in 2020.

United Kingdom

BP Profit Sinks As Epidemic Pummels Demand

On annual basis, BP sunk to a loss of $5.7 billion, its first in a decade after it wrote down the value of oil and gas assets by $6.5 billion as a result of sha…