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Power Construction

Enel-Codensa Inaugurates First 100% Digital Electrical Substation in Colombia

The Portugal substation in the Engativá locality in the west of the capital Bogotá marks a milestone in the modernisation of Colombia’s electricity sector.

Solar Power Plant

EDF Renewables Switches on 214 MW of Solar + Storage in Southern California

EDF Renewables North America completed and reached commercial operation of the Desert Harvest 1 and Desert Harvest 2 Solar Projects.

Solar Power Plant

Major Milestone for World’s Biggest Solar Project

The world’s biggest solar+storage project is a step closer to realization, as the government of Australia’s Northern Territory and Singapore-based Sun Cable h…

Solar Cell

Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell with Transition Metal Carbides Achieves 19.2% Efficiency

A Russian-Italian research group has developed a two-dimensional transition metal carbide, known as MXenes, to collect photocurrent in perovskite cells.

Crude Oil

Occidental Delivers World First Carbon-Neutral Oil

A unit of U.S. Occidental said this week it had delivered the world’s first shipment of carbon-neutral oil, or oil where emissions associated with the entire c…

Hydrogen Project

Centrica Joins the UK’s Hydrogen Taskforce

The Hydrogen Taskforce is delighted to welcome another member to its growing coalition of the UK’s largest organisations that operate and innovate in and acros…

Hydrogen Project

Coal to Green Hydrogen: Germany’s Energy Transition Summed Up in One Project

The Moorburg coal power station boasts an eventful inception, a landmark closure, and now, a bright future.

Hydrogen Technology

Lithium Batteries have Edge over Hydrogen for Transport, Says Australian Professor

University of Western Australia Professor Ray Wills says it’s “unlikely” that hydrogen will overtake batteries as the world’s preferred transport fuel.

Nuclear Technology

Foratom and Canadian Nuclear Association Strengthen Collaboration

The Canadian Nuclear Association and the European Atomic Forum have signed a Memorandum of Understanding om 27 January to collaborate in nuclear energy and to p…

Nuclear Power Plant

Major Overhaul of Russia’s Balakovo 4 Completed

Storage pool racks have been replaced at unit 4 of Russia’s Balakovo NPP, after many years of work, the plant announced on 27 January.

Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr Nuclear Plant Expansion Continues

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference on 26 January that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif the constru…

Carbon Neutral

Uzbekistan Joins Global Carbon Neutrality Race to 2050

European reconstruction bank signs on to assist Central Asian nation

PowerGrid Technology

Video: How The U.S. Can Build A 100% Clean Grid

The U.S. electric grid is outdated. Designed for a world that runs on fossil fuels, our grid needs some major tech upgrades in order to transition to a more dis…

Energy Storage Battery

Video: Toyota Plans Revolutionary Solid State Battery for 2021

Toyota Plans Revolutionary Solid State Battery for 2021

Wind Energy Technology

SABIC Introduces Technology for Wind Energy

This new compound improves control over nucleation and cell growth, resulting in decreased cell size and uniform, narrower cell size distribution.