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China Wins Bid to Host World Geothermal Congress 2023

The International Geothermal Association (IGA) reports that China has won its bid for hosting the World Geothermal Congress 2023.

Energy Developers on the Hunt for New Fuels

Energy firm Scottish Power is to construct solar projects for the first time to maximise onshore renewable energy potential in the UK and Ireland, it announced …

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Suspends Revamp Work at Iran's Fordow Nuclear Plant

Russian state nuclear company Rosatom has suspended work on revamping a factory at Iran’s Fordow nuclear complex due to an issue with uranium compatibility, Ro…

Nuclear Fuel

Russia Awards Contract to Build BREST Reactor

Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) has awarded a RUB26.3 billion (USD412 million) contract to Titan-2 for the construction and installation works for the BREST-OD-…

28 Years Ago, Big Oil Predicted Carbon Tax was Necessary to Stop Global Warming

As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to maintain a stable cli…

Crude

OPEC Fails to Pin Down New Output Target after Marathon Talks

OPEC failed nail down the details of an agreement to adjust its official production target, as six hours of talks in Vienna found no resolution amid objections …

Solar Company

NV Energy Gets Green Light for Massive Solar-Battery Projects

Nevada regulators have given a green light to utility NV Energy’s plan to add nearly 1.2 gigawatts of solar and 590 megawatts of batteries, underscoring a broa…

Welsh Port And Marine Energy Company Sign Memorandum of Understanding

The company is developing a 1.5 MW mWave™ wave energy converter demonstration device which will harness the potential of marine energy.

Apollo Got Six-figure Contract from Wave Energy Scotland

Apollo, of Aberdeen, said last night the award of a six-figure contract from Wave Energy Scotland will make a “big difference” to the firm. But the deal to de…

Coal Power

What does a Sunset Coal Industry Tell Oil Producers About Peak Demand?

Coal has been the main fuel of industrialization over the past century and a half. To this day, it remains a key feedstock for power generation and in making st…

Electricity Transmission

Nexans to Begin Laying Cable to Syros Under Aegean Sea

Top officials from the Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO or ADMIE) of Greece and contractor Nexans SA, based in France, announced yesterday in La…

Electrocaloric Heat Pumps Promise Refrigerant-free Cooling

Six Fraunhofer institutes are joining forces on a newly launched project, ElKaWe (for Electrocaloric Heat Pumps) aiming to develop efficient solid-state and ref…

Microgrid

A Plug-and-Play Microgrid for Rooftop Solar

The future of solar energy depends on making residential power good enough for the grid.

Energy Conservation And The Climate Crisis

In a recent “Deep State” article, Free Press reporter Lance Tapley argued that energy conservation could help us get off “the road to world ruin” from globa…

Coal Power

Big European Banks Face Call to End Funding for Firms Building Coal-fired Plants

Some of Europe’s biggest banks are being challenged by environmental groups to sever all lending to utilities which they say are still developing new coal-fire…