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State Grid

China's Grid Giants up Investments in Charging Piles for NEVs

China's two grid giants have made ambitious investment plans to build charging piles for new energy vehicles (NEVs) as the country speeds up infrastructure cons…

Market Analysis

Renewables will Provide Over 25% of US Capacity within 3 yrs

FERC's latest monthly "Energy Infrastructure Update" report (with data through February 29, 2020) also reveals that wind and solar are on track to each provide …

Hydropower Plant

US, China to Cooperate on Hydropower Plant in Turkey

Turkey will collaborate with China and United States to build a pumped-storage hydropower plant in the Isparta province, in the western Anatolian region, Anadol…

Oil Price

US Oil "Technically Worthless," and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms

May contracts for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil went as low as -$37.63 on Monday.

Wärtsilä Gains $1M in Funding for Finnish Hydrogen Research

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has secured one million Euros in funding from Business Finland for a hydrogen research project.

Solar Power Plant

New UK Solar Generation Record Set Amidst Air Pollution Collapse

A new peak solar generation record has been set in the UK, with the industry citing a collapse in air pollution levels linked to the country’s lockdown as havi…

Electric Vehicle Battery

SK Innovation to Supply EV Batteries to China's BAIC Group

SK Innovation will supply electric vehicle batteries to BAIC Group in China.

Offshore Wind Power

LS Cable & System Signs Submarine Cable Supply Contract with Dutch Firm

LS Cable & System provides subsea cables to tenet, the Dutch state electricity company.

Coal Company

Coal India Arm Kick-Starts Roadmap to Achieve 75 MT Output by FY23

Coal India is contributing to an ambitious 1bn target of more than 75m tonnes of production.

Crude Oil

Trump Says "Looking to" Add 75 mln Barrels of Oil to Strategic Petroleum Reserve

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is "looking to" add 75 million barrels of oil to its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as oil …

Oil & Gas Trade

Australia Says First in Line to Buy Crude to Store in US Strategic Reserve

Australia is at the head of the queue to buy oil and store it in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Wind Turbine

Dominion Energy Nears Construction on First-Ever Offshore Wind Turbines in U.S. Federal Waters

The turbine assembly and monopiles offshore wind (CVOW) pilot project off the Virginia coast announced today has begun.

Wind Turbine

Covid-19 Could Cut Global Wind Production Capacity by 20% This Year

Research group says reopening plants could face tricky road back to earlier levels because of ongoing measures.

Nuclear Power Plant

Ansaldo Nuclear Deploys Custom Robot for Nuclear Decommissioning Project

The project aims to retrieve around 860 tonnes of radioactive waste from the Caorso Nuclear power plant.

Oil Price

How Nigeria Can Leverage on Negative Oil Prices

Governments of oil producers like Nigeria, whose economies were already reeling from the headwinds brought on by COVID-19 must have been wondering what they wou…