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Lehigh Engineers Designed A More Efficient Tidal Turbine with NSF Grant

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Projec…

Concentrating Solar Power

Storage for Advanced Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants

Ellen B. Stechel, a professor of practice in the School of Molecular Sciences and co director of ASU LightWorks®, received $3.3 million for a project to develo…

Angola to Buy 5000MW from Congo’s Grand Inga Hydropower Plant

Angola is set to buy 5000MW from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo’s proposed $14bn Grand Inga hydropower plant project.

Innovate for Efficiency: The Industrial Blueprint for Energy Savings

The Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme launched by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) (Govt. of India, Ministry of Power), which ran its first cycle fro…

Asian Bank Evaluating KP’s Hydropower Dam Proposal

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is evaluating a proposal of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for financing the construction of a run-of-river hydro power proj…

Combined cycle power plant

AES Corp to Build $1.7 Billion Gas-Fired Power Plant in Vietnam

The deal for building the 2.2-gigawatt Son My 2 Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant was signed in Hanoi in the presence of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur …

Gas power plant

Afghanistan's First New Gas-Based Power Production Plant Started Commercial Operations

Located in Sherberghan, Afghanistan — the epicenter of the nation’s gas region — the power plant is owned and operated by Bayat Power, Afghanistan’s largest…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Ghanaian Firm Springfield Makes Historic Oil Discovery of 1.2bn Barrels in Deepwater

The company last month commenced its drilling activity in the West Cape Three Points Block 2 and a little over a month later made a discovery that was set to be…

South Australia Grid Separates From NEM

A major network outage in Victoria on Saturday evening caused the grid in the state of South Australia to “island” or become separate from the rest of the mai…

Gas turbine engine

Ansaldo Energia Wins New Orders In Worth Half A Billion Euros

Ansaldo Energia will supply the main components of four AE94.3A gas turbines for China Datang Group and will supply two AE64.3A gas turbines for State Power Inv…

Ulstein Introducing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Off-Shore Vessel

The first complete hydrogen-fueled prospect has now been assembled by Ulstein Design & Solutions BV and Nedstack Fuel Cell Technology BV.

Germany Adopts Climate Protection Act

Renewables industry groups say the new law is not enough for Germany to achieve its GHG reduction goals.

Energy&Power

What's Next for Singapore's Mature Power Market?

Growth for power producers lies in innovations geared towards grid transition, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Solar Power Panel

Yemenis Go Solar Amid War Energy Shortage

When electricity was cut to Yemen’s capital four years ago after war broke out, Ebrahim al-Faqih saw a gap in the market and started selling solar panels.

​Study Finds Hydropower GHG Emissions Can be Higher Than Facilities Burning Fossil Fuels

Hydropower facilities have long been criticized for their negative impacts on wildlife, but a new study has found that, in some cases, hydropower GHG emissions …