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Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant in Liberia Nears Completion

Contractors constructing the gigantic electricity station at the regional Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant in Harrisburg, Liberia have been warned against failing …

Clean Coal

Global Natural Gas Electricity Is Gaining On Coal

Perhaps the primary question for climate and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the ability of natural gas to displace coal in the power generation sector.

Coal Technology

China's Changing Coal Landscape Crucial to Global Outlook

Most Chinese nitrogen capacity uses coal (anthracite and bituminous) as feedstock, meaning it is exposed to China's increasingly strict policies around air poll…

Electricity Trade

Europe Study: France Biggest Electricity Exporter, Italy Largest Importer

A new report reveals that France was Europe’s biggest exporter of power in the first 11 months of this year, while Italy imported the largest volume of electri…

African Union to Roll Out Continent-Wide Electricity Market Masterplan

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) have agreed to jointly develop a blueprint for a pan-continental elect…

Nova Innovation to Deploy A Tidal Array in Canada

Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation said the move would lead to 15 new turbines being installed in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, by 2023. The project will provide …

Gas turbine engine

MAN Energy Solutions Delivered Ten 20V35/44G Gas Engines to Power A Steel Mill in Bolivia

Germany’s MAN Energy Solutions has delivered ten of its 20V35/44G gas engines with a combined capacity of over 100 MW to power a steel mill in Bolivia.

Latin America, Caribbean announce 70% Renewable Energy Goal

The target involves reaching a total installed capacity of 312 GW of renewables– a significant proportion of which should come from non-conventional renewable …

Electricity Transmission

DBSA Provides $81.30m for Mozambique’s Power Network Upgrades

Mozambique’s national energy utility, Electricidade De Mocambique (EDM) has received a senior debt loan facility of $81.30 million from the Development Bank of…

Electricity Trade

Rwanda Welcomes Vital New $123m Substation

A new high voltage 188 MVA substation and its related transmission network has been inaugurated in the Rwanda capital Kigali.

Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts

If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…

Nuclear is Key to Decarbonisation, Says Head of IAEA

The use of nuclear power will need to increase to decarbonise electricity production, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today at a side event dur…

Thermal Plant

Los Angeles Wants to Replace the Natural Gas Plant by Hydrogen-fueled Power Plant

As Los Angeles weans itself off the last of its coal-generated electricity, the city needs to replace that fuel with a climate-polluting natural gas plant in Ut…

Los Angeles Wants to Build Their Fist Hydrogen-Fueled Power Plant

As Los Angeles weans itself off the last of its coal-generated electricity, the city needs to replace that fuel with a climate-polluting natural gas plant in Ut…

Researchers Developed A Fabric-based Bio-battery That Can Generate Stable Electricity

Researchers from Binghamton University have developed a fabric-based battery that works even under stretching and twisting stresses.