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Electric Vehicle Charging

President Biden, DOE and DOT Announce $5 Billion over Five Years for National EV Charging Network

Joint Energy and Transportation Office and DriveElectric.gov Available to Assist States with Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans.

Energy Transition

RWE to Spend €15bn on German Decarbonisation Portfolio

German utility RWE has announced a plan to invest €15 billion ($17.1 billion) to expand its portfolio of green energy in a move to accelerate the energy transi…

Hydropower Plant

Investments in Hydro Set to Increase in 2022 Says New Research

Hydropower capacity in 2022 is set to exceed 1200GW and investments will climb to $36.3 billion, new research from Rystad Energy has suggested, with hydro set t…

Hydropower Plant

Rystad Energy: Hydropower Growth Set to Continue

The hydropower market will continue its upward trajectory in 2022 as global capacity exceeds 1200 GW for the first time and investments climb to US$36.3 billion…

Energy Investment

Hyundai Engineering to Expand Business in Energy Sector

According to the company, its investments in plastic recycling and carbon dioxide recycling will be 530 billion won and 350 billion won, respectively.

Natural Gas

Saudi Arabia’s Gas Production Hits Record-High

Saudi Arabia has grown its natural gas production by 30 percent in a decade to a record 11 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2020

Montenegro

Montenegro Declares Nine Energy Projects as Infrastructure Priorities

The list of priority infrastructure projects of the Government of Montenegro includes nine energy projects, estimated at EUR 1.2 billion in total

Offshore Wind Power

China Three Gorges Power to Invest $6.5bn in Offshore Wind Power

Chinese state-owned power firm China Three Gorges Corporation is to spend $6.5 billion on three off-shore wind farms in Guangdong province amid schemes to diver…

Electricity Reform

AMLO to Discuss Power Reform with US Energy Secretary

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm in Mexico City this week to discuss his controversial electri…

South Korea

South Korean President Visits UAE, Showcasing Deep Ties

The president of South Korea has reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal to sell Seoul’s surface-to-air missiles to Abu Dhabi and pledged deeper coopera…

Electricity Transmission

Details Emerge About DOE, FERC Grid Plans for Clean Energy

The Biden administration’s plan announced yesterday to pump $20 billion into expansion of the nation’s transmission networks will target “shovel ready” proj…

Energy Investment

Invenergy Secures $3bn from Blackstone to Drive Clean Energy Platform

Chicago-based multinational utility Invenergy is set to expand its renewable energy business after securing approximately $3 billion in investment from global a…

Electricity Transmission

Xinjiang's Power Transmission Volume Hits New High in 2021

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region transmitted a record 122 billion kilowatt-hours of locally generated electricity to other parts of the countr…

Nuclear Power Plant

France Expects New Nuclear Reactors to Begin Operation in 2035-37

She said the new reactors would be EPR2 models, improved versions of EDF's EPR, which has suffered years of delays and billions of euros of cost overruns on uni…

Hydropower Plant

Three Gorges Hydropower Station Generates Over 100 bln kWh of Electricity in 2021

The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Station on China's Yangtze River has generated 103.6 billion kWh of electricity in 2021.