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2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia (ISGT Asia)

Programs Overview

Russian

Rosatom state nuclear energy corp. plans to launch No. 1 unit at Bangladesh NPP in coming days

Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation expects to launch the physical startup of the No. 1 unit at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh in the coming…

Czech Republic

Czech Republic plans to buy up to 2 bcm of gas a year from Azerbaijan

The Czech Republic plans to buy up to 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Azerbaijan annually, Supplies could begin in 2028-2029. Czech Industry and Trad…

United States

US to end more offshore wind leases in exchange for fossil fuel investments

President Donald Trump's administration said on April 27 that it had reached a deal to end two more ‌U.S. offshore wind leases in exchange for $885 mil…

Canada

Oil giant Shell to buy Canada’s ARC Resources for $16.4 billion in push to boost output

Shell has agreed to buy Canadian energy company ARC Resources in a $16.4 billion deal, paid for mostly with shares, the British firm said on April 27.ARC will b…

United States

Overview Energy, Meta announce space solar partnership for data centers

Overview Energy and tech giant Meta have inked a first of its kind partnership to power Meta data centers with U.S.-built space solar energy through satellites.…

Germany

GE Vernova announces new wind turbine orders from BBWind and Greenvolt Power in Germany

GE Vernova’s Wind segment announced on April 23 that it has secured agreements to supply 71.5 MWs of onshore wind turbines to BBWind and Greenvolt Power f…

India

Adani Green to invest ₹15,000 crore to add 10 gigawatt battery storage in FY27

Adani Green Energy Ltd. plans to invest about ₹15,000 crore to add more than 10 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery energy storage capacity in the current financia…

India

Coal India plans 10-year roadmap to slash 243 MT coal imports

State-owned Coal India Ltd is planning a comprehensive 10-year roadmap to slash the current 243 MT coal import volume through ramped-up domestic production, coa…

Canada

Canada greenlights Enbridge gas pipeline expansion

April 24- Canada has approved a ‌C$4 billion ($2.93 billion) expansion of Enbridge's Westcoast natural gas pipeline system in British Columbia, the fir…

China

Rosatom Ensures Readiness of Control Systems for Start-Up Operations at Tianwan NPP Unit 7 in China

Specialized Scientific Research Institute for Instrumentation Engineering JSC (SNIIP JSC, a company of the Instrumentation & Control and Electrical Engineering …

South Korea

South Korea, Vietnam agree to boost nuclear energy, high-tech cooperation

Vietnam and South ‌Korea's leaders agreed to boost cooperation in nuclear energy and high-tech at a meeting in Hanoi on April 22, as the two countries …

United States

Texan start-up targets disused oil wells for low-cost hydrogen extraction

Engineering firm Wood will work with start-up Eclipse Energy on producing hydrogen from disused oil wells using microbes at a target price of $0.5 per kilogramm…

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan launches industrial production of gasoline with bioethanol made from grain processing waste

Kazakhstan has begun industrial production of Bi-95 automotive fuel with the addition of bioethanol made from grain processing waste, the Kazakh Agriculture Min…

Russian

Druzhba pipeline restarts Russian oil flows to Europe

Russian oil flowed through the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline on April 22 after a halt lasting months, officials ​said.Hungarian oil group said that…