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Energy-Eficient Building

Boston Zoning Change Would Require Net-Zero Emissions from New Buildings

The initiative is among the most aggressive of existing or proposed strategies to cut energy consumption in buildings, which are responsible for 70% of the city…

Submarine Cable

Submarine Cable Helps Triple CGES’ Electricity Transit Revenues

The submarine power cable between Italy and Montenegro has helped the Balkan country increase revenues from electricity transit by threefold.

Energy Security

Irish Grid Alert Over Capacity Concern

Irish system operators have issued an amber alert over tightening power capacity margins on the all-island grid.

Oil Shale

China's Sinopec Builds First Phase of New Shale Gas Field in Sichuan

Weirong, located in Neijiang and Zigong cities, is the state energy giant's second major shale gas development after Fuling, which is also located in the same S…

Installed Power Capacity Tops 103 million Kilowatts in Xinjiang

Installed Power Capacity Tops 103 million Kilowatts in Xinjiang.

Offshore Wind Power

Belgian Offshore Wind Farms Generate 6.7 TWh in 2020

Belgian offshore wind farms generated 6.7 TWh of electricity in 2020, which represented 8.4 per cent of total electricity consumption in Belgium, or the electri…

Market Analysis

Wind Power Generated 31.4% of Electricity in December in Spain

Renewables produced 44% of electricity in 2020, wind power 21.8%, concentrated solar power 1.8%, and photovoltaic 6.1%.

Wave Energy

Philippines’ ERC Denies Feed-in-Tariff for Ocean Energy

The Energy Regulatory Commission of the Philippines has denied the petition filed by the National Renewable Energy Board for Feed-in-Tariff for electricity gene…

Hydropower Plant

GE Signs Agreement with BE Power to Accelerate 400 MW Pumped Hydro Project in Australia

Nearly half of the more than 8 GW of hydropower capacity operating in Australia today is powered by our turbines, generators or both.

Hydropower Plant

Barsuchkovskaya Hydro Plant Commissioned in Russia

The 5.25MW Barsuchkovskaya small hydropower plant in the Stavropol region of Russia has been commissioned, RusHydro has announced.

Microgrid

Tata Power Arm Hits ‘100 Solar Microgrids’ Milestone

TP Renewable Microgrid has installed an aggregate 3 MW of solar microgrid capacity with its 100th project commissioned in Ratnapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Energy Storage Project

Israel could Arrive at 8GWh of Energy Storage ‘Well Before 2030 Goal’

An auction for solar-plus-storage held in Israel by the country’s Electricity Authority awarded 609MW of solar PV alongside 2.4GWh of energy storage.

Energy Subsidies

Serbia Issues Guidelines for Draft Law on Renewable Energy

The first law on renewable energy sources in Serbia will regulate premiums for new renewable energy capacities, the introduction of auctions, subsidies for smal…

Wind Farm

Enel Green Power Starts Castelmauro Wind Farm in Molise

The wind power plant will produce about 70 GWh/year from renewable sources, corresponding to the supply of electricity for about 29,000 homes, avoiding the atmo…

PowerGrid Technology

New Siemens kit Monitors High Voltage Grid

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched a condition monitoring solution for high voltage AC and DC transmission lines called PowerLink CM.