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Coal Power

Replacing Coal with Gas will Open New ‘Window of Opportunity’

Canada still has only one liquefied natural gas export project under construction, despite more than two dozen separate developments being pitched over the past…

Japan's Promotion of Coal-Fired Power Plants Leads to U.N. Rejecting Abe's Request

The United Nations rejected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s request to speak at its climate summit last September, government sources said Thursday, apparently due…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India Pollution Regulator Threatens to Shut Coal-Fired Utilities Around New Delhi

India’s federal pollution regulator has warned coal-fired power plants around New Delhi that they could be shut down for failing to comply with deadlines to me…

Solar Power Panel

Using Thin Films for Solar Panels

To keep up with energy demands, scientists are striving to make solar cells more efficient so that more electricity can be generated from the same amount of sun…

Energy storage technology

Are Nanomaterials Key to Energy Storage?

When it comes to making the switch from using fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy, one of the difficulties encountered is the storage and distribution of e…

Sokoria Geothermal Plant in East Nusa Teggara Targets Start of Operation for February 2020

With construction under way, the intial 5 MW Sokoria geothermal project by KS Orka in East Nusa Tenggara is targeting a start of operation in February 2020.

The EU can Use Hydrogen to Stop Climate Change and Create Jobs

Climate change is already with us. And that’s particularly clear to people like me who happen to come from Venice, which has just suffered the worst floods in …

IRENA Continues to Drive Forward Green Hydrogen Cause

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) continues to explore the potential of green hydrogen in the future renewable energy mix and its scale up, with…

INNIO and HanseWerk Announce Hydrogen Pilot Project

INNO and HanseWerk AG have announced a pilot project for a hydrogen-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the one-megawatt range in the centre of Hambu…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Russia’s Oil Companies Propose Postponing Extension of OPEC+ Deal Until March

At a meeting at the Ministry of Energy on Thursday, representatives of the Russian oil industry proposed that the current quotas for reducing production within …

Navajo Nation to Convert Methane into Hydrogen for Power

The Navajo Nation announced this week it has signed a contract with renewable energy companies to convert methane vented from its oil producing operations in so…

Brazil Unveils World’s Fourth Biggest Hydropower Plant

After its 18th and last turbine was switched on, the world’s fourth largest hydropower plant and Brazil’s biggest—the Belo Monte Dam—is now fully operationa…

Solar Technology

Vattenfall Set to Start Building First Floating Solar Farm

Swedish utility Vattenfall is set to start building its first floating PV farm, in a water-filled quarry in the Netherlands.

Power Construction

Germany: TenneT Completes Substation Reboot

State secretary Jens Deutschendorf, from the Hessen Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy joined TenneT Managing Director Tim Meyerjurgens to visit the upgrad…

EU Urged to Raise 2030 Climate Target

Orsted and six other European energy companies have stated their support for a carbon-neutral bloc by 2050 in an open letter to European environment and climate…