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China

China Smelter Group Agrees to Lower Q1 Copper Charges

China’s top copper smelters agreed to price guidance for processing charges in the first quarter of 2025 that was lower than this quarter’s guidance…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

AI Replaces Humans in Identifying Causes of Fuel Cell Malfunctions

Dr. Chi-Young Jung's research team from the Hydrogen Research & Demonstration Center at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully devel…

Energy Investment

Toyo Invests In Japan’s Offshore Renewable Sector

Toyo Construction has invested in Japan’s emerging offshore wind sector by purchasing a market-leading trenching ROV from underwater technology and servic…

Energy Storage System

BESS Successful as Negative Price Periods Increase

Power demand has fallen in Britain by over 20% since 2010, with improved energy efficiency and reduced output in the commercial and industrial sectors being the…

France

European Electricity Market Prices Rose Over Christmas Week as Wind Power Fell and Gas Rose

In the fourth week of December, prices in most major European electricity markets rose, exceeding €100/MWh on a weekly average. These rises were driven by …

Solar Panel

Aluminum Frames Lead Solar Panel Costs Amid Shifting Industry Prices

SinoLink Securities says aluminum frames now dominate solar panel costs, as material price shifts reshape the cost structure of the PV industry and drive the ne…

Solar Technology

New Tech to Reduce Oxygen Defects in Czochralski Wafers

Research from the Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan revealed a novel heater design in the Czochralski silicon crystal growth process that can control a…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Solar Dominates Poland’s Latest Renewables Auctions

Figures from Poland’s Energy Regulatory Authority (URE) show that solar accounted for 198 of the 200 successful bids awarded under the country’s lat…

Battery

BatX Energies Opens Lithium Battery Recycling Plant in India

BatX Energies says it has opened a lithium battery recycling facility in India to extract critical materials using a hydrometallurgical process.BatX Energies ha…

Solar project

PowerChina to Build 530 MW of Solar in Panama

China Power Construction Corp. (PowerChina) is set to develop 530 MW of solar in Panama after securing an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contra…

Solar Materials

Chinese Silicon Giants Cut Production, Driving Price Concerns

Major Chinese companies such as Tongwei, Daqo, and GCL-Poly have cut silicon production, driving concerns over rising polysilicon prices.Several leading Chinese…

Wind Power Project

Vestas Announces Three New Orders Totalling 198 MW

Vestas has announced three new orders as part of the Q4 order intake. In Germany, the orders include an 86 MW project from Oberhessische Versorgungsbetriebe, Ma…

Wind Turbine

Rosatom Opens Wind Blade Manufacturing Facility in Ulyanovsk

The first Russian plant for manufacturing composite wind turbine blades has begun operations at Rusatom Vetrolopasti JSC in Ulyanovsk, part of Rosatom’s C…

China

Iron Ore Price Reverses to Losses as Weakening China Steel Consumption Drags

Iron ore futures prices fell on Thursday, reversing from earlier gains, with weakening downstream steel consumption dampening sentiment and investors hungry for…

Natural Gas

Oil Prices Rise on Crude Drawdown; Natural Gas Falls on Profit-Taking

It was a mixed bag for commodity prices during the final week of 2024. An unexpectedly large drawdown of 4.2 million barrels — according to the Energy Informat…