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Offshore Wind Power

RWE Expands Germany Offshore Wind Capacity

In the recent auction for onshore wind turbines by the Federal Network Agency, RWE was awarded the tender for two projects. The company will build one of the fa…

Green Hydrogen

California’s Lancaster and City of Industry Launch Green Hydrogen Utility

California’s City of Lancaster has launched a public utility focused on linking green hydrogen production and use.First Public Hydrogen (FPH2) is a joint power…

Battery

Rio Tinto to Invest $2.5b to Expand Rincon Lithium Project Capacity to 60,000 Tonnes Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate per Year

Rio Tinto has approved $2.5 billion to expand the Rincon project in Argentina, the company’s first commercial-scale lithium operation, demonstrating its c…

Solar project

UK Targets 45 GW Solar, 22 GW BESS in Clean Power 2030 Plan

Policies and targets confirmed in 138-page government plan to decarbonize Great Britain’s electricity generation by 2030. Solar and storage to play a key …

Crude Oil

OPEC Says Russia Made Small Cut to Oil Output in November

Russia's crude oil output in November edged down by 7,000 barrels per day (bpd) to about 8.99 million bpd, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Count…

Energy Storage Project

Ember Analysis Shows EU Nations Target to Increase Energy Storage and Grids Can Be Exceeded

A total of 58 countries, including 17 EU nations including Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland, signed a pledge at COP29 to increase global energy…

Energy Storage Project

Changes to Balancing and Settlement Code Support Large Energy Storage Facilities

Storage units with a capacity of greater than 50MW are normally licensed, meaning that until now they have not been permitted to set their Production or Consump…

Wind Turbine

Mingyang’s 16.6 MW Floating Wind Turbine Begins Operation in China

Mingyang’s 16.6 MW floating wind turbine begins operation in China. Chinese company Mingyang Smart Energy has put into operation what is said to be the wo…

Hydropower Plant

San Roque Project Earns Silver Certification Under Hydropower Sustainability Standard

The San Roque Multipurpose Project in the Philippines has been awarded Silver certification under the Hydropower Sustainability Standard following an independen…

Floating Offshore Wind

Mingyang’s 16.6 MW Dual-Turbine Floating Wind Platform Enters Operation in China

Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, which the company says is the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind power platform, has started operating at…

Offshore Wind Power

US Plans Next Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Auction for 2026 as Two Companies Express Interest in Same Areas

Invenergy has responded to the Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) launched this summer for two wind energ…

Photovoltaic （PV）

France Deployed 3.5 GW of New Solar in January-September Period

France added an additional 3.5 GW of solar during the first three quarters of this year, compared to 2.3 GW during the same period of 2023. The country’s …

Photovoltaic （PV）

Spain’s Acciona Energía to Develop Agrivoltaics Over Canal

The agrivoltaic project, with a production capacity of up to 5,011 MW, will cover 2 km of the Orellana Canal in Cáceres, western Spain.Spanish energy com…

Battery

Australia’s Batteries Surf Revenue Wave on Back of Volatile Power Prices

Investments in battery storage within Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) are increasingly profitable due to higher power price volatility and c…

Natural Gas

Oil Ministry to Sign Gas Output Expansion Contracts by Year-End

Speaking on the sidelines of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) Ministerial Meeting, Paknejad told reporters that the agreements will significantly boost …