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Wind Energy Technology

What’s Stopping Even Bigger Wind Turbines? Blade Speed and Flexing? More Likely Manufacturing and Installation Capacity

Bigger wind turbines make cheaper energy. The sector’s unexpectedly rapid successes in designing and building bigger and bigger turbines has been one of t…

Solar Power Plant

Could Current and Planned Renewables Capacity Offset Coal

Over 3,200GW wind and solar are projected to be installed by 2030.A total of 3,242 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar is projected to be installed globally by 203…

China news

EDPR Sunseap Grows Solar Capacity to 130MWP in China

This includes 30 solar projects in various stages of development.EDPR Sunseap reported its solar capacity in China has reached a total of 130 megawatts-peak (MW…

Ammonia

Ammonia Co-firing Study Planned for Thai Thermal Power Plant

Hiromi Ishii (Director, Power Systems Project Engineering Department, Steam Power Maintenance Innovation (SPMI) Business Division/MHI) (1st from bottom right) a…

Nuclear Equipment

French Nuclear Fleet Failure, Drought and War to Blame for Record Power Prices in 2022

Last year Europe saw very high levels of wholesale power prices, driven by gas prices that repeatedly broke all-time high records since the start of the Ukraine…

Electrification

GE Bags Two Service Contracts for Six Power Plants in China

H-class gas turbine. Image credit: GEGE and Chinese state-owned power utility Guangdong Energy Group have signed a long-term service agreement for Dongguan Ning…

Tidal Energy

Projects, Pipelines and Power: Around the World’s Tidal Projects

Giles Crosse reviews the world’s tidal power projects, to ask what the future could hold for this as-yet-undeveloped energy source.Earlier this year, the …

Wind Farm

Construction of Enercity’s New Wind Farm in Germany Has Started

Enercity is keeping the pace of the strategic expansion of renewable energies high: East of Osnabrück, Germany, in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of …

Tidal Energy

Royal Visit Marks Bid to Develop World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Blades

A project aiming to maximise tidal energy generation has been launched in the presence of The Princess Royal at the University of Edinburgh’s FastBlade fa…

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Giant Aramco Says Windfall Taxes ‘Not Helpful’ and Could Stifle Decarbonization

KEY POINTSPolicymakers in a number of countries are calling for windfall taxes on major oil and gas companies, many of which saw record profits in the last year…

Solar Technology

Solar Proves Common Thread Among Zayed Sustainability Prize Winners

The opening ceremony of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023 was not short of inspirational rhetoric, but the winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize provided s…

Offshore Wind Power

Navantia-Windar Starts Building Moray West Monopiles

Spain’s Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables have started production of the first of the 14 XXL monopiles for the Moray West offshore wind project, w…

Offshore Wind Power

Statkraft and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Team Up to Develop 2.2GW of Offshore Wind in Ireland

Statkraft has announced a major deal with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV K/S (CI IV) as part of its plans to …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Philippines’ AboitizPower breaks ground for 17MW Binary Geothermal Plant

Environmental and engineering consulting Ricardo has been selected by Anglo American to deliver hydrogen and lithium-ion battery safety training.The British com…

Biobattery

USD Clean Fuels to Develop New Biofuels Terminal in California

USD Clean Fuels LLC (USDCF) announced its intention to build a new biofuels terminal in National City, California, that will have the capability to transload re…