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LNG

G-7 Leaders to Set up a ‘Climate Club’ and Take Immediate Action to Secure Energy Supply

Communique says leaders are committed to “a highly decarbonised road sector by 2030” as well as “a fully or predominantly decarbonised power sector by 2035.…

Floating Solar Project

‘Floatovoltaics’: Are They the Future of Renewable Energy?

Floatovoltaics is a relatively new, but rapidly growing industry. It stems from the desire to decarbonize global economies by 2050 as a solution to tackling cli…

SMR

Vattenfall Begins Feasibility Study on Construction of Small Modular Reactors at Ringhals

Electricity consumption in Sweden is expected to increase rapidly over the coming decades and, for this reason, Vattenfall is working actively to find out how d…

Net Zero Emission

Curb Deforestation or You Won’t Hit Net-Zero Targets, U.N. Group Tells Firms

Companies critical to reducing tropical deforestation have no chance of meeting their greenhouse gas emission targets unless they make much faster progress on e…

G7 Leaders Commit to Climate Club, Make Carbon-Cutting Pledges: Draft Communique Summary

​G7 leaders committed on Tuesday to creating an international "Climate Club" to forge cooperation on climate change and made pledges on decarbonising industria…

OPEC

OPEC Boosts Oil Income in 2021, Well Completions Drop

OPEC's oil revenue surged in 2021 as prices and demand recovered from the worst of the COVID pandemic, while the number of its members' active rigs posted a mod…

Offshore Wind Power

Vattenfall and Preem to Investigate Large Scale Decarbonization Using Offshore Wind and Hydrogen

Vattenfall and Preem will now enter into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind…

Amazon and Equinor Join Bill Gates to Back Ex-Tesla and First Solar Execs’ ‘Industrial Scale’ Green Hydrogen Tech

US start-up Electric Hydrogen draws stellar list of backers as it looks to deploy 100MW-plus electrolyser systems aimed at decarbonising heavy industry

Distributed energy

Energy as a Service Industry in South Africa Maturing

The latest Market Intelligence Report on Energy Services suggests South Africa’s Energy Services Companies and EPCs are starting to specialise, focusing on nic…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Reportedly Ready to Pull Out of Sizewell C Nuclear Project

Unions have warned that the UK’s nuclear future will be at risk if the government investment decision for the project is delayed

United States

The Rise of Robots in the Oil and Gas Industry

The U.S. of robotics in the oil and gas industry is expected to pick up significantly over the next decade after the Covid pandemic accelerated the digitalizati…

Hydrogen Production

Green Hydrogen: Scaling the Decarbonization Heavyweight

From a somewhat niche technology only a few years ago, green hydrogen has rocketed into the global decarbonization mainstream as a "new solution" to displace ca…

United States

US University Decarbonises With Siemens Smart Tech

Morgan State University (MSU) has partnered with Siemens to improve infrastructure toward becoming a smart and connected campus.

Offshore Wind Power

Offshore Wind CAPEX in China to Decline in Next Decade: Report

Capital expenditure in the market is expected to drop to $7.7b in 2030.

Nuclear waste

Sellafield Waste Removal Follows ‘Decades of Preparation'

The first batch of nuclear waste has been safely removed from one of the most hazardous buildings on the Sellafield site, the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo.