Dec

Oil & Gas Trade

U.S. will Import 62% more Crude by 2022 Due to Domestic Production Declines, Says EIA

Throughout much of its history, the United States has imported more petroleum than it has exported.

Microgrid

Sony CSL Launches Open-Source Microgrid Project to Automate P2P Power Distribution

Sony CSL to work with The Linux Foundation’s LF Energy initiative on ‘Hyphae’ microgrid project

Rosatom

Two key Russian Nuclear Institutes to Merge

Rosatom has decided to merge two of Russia’s key nuclear institutes – the AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk and Research Inst…

Carbon Neutral

Siemens Gamesa Recognized as Supplier Engagement Leader by the Carbon Disclosure Project

While Siemens Gamesa has had some decisive decarbonization successes, such as becoming carbon neutral or switching to 100% electricity from renewable sources in…

Market Analysis

Can Nuclear Power Make A Comeback This Decade?

2020 will go down in the history of energy as one of the worst examples of the global economy swiftly tanking in almost complete unison, virtually every region …

Canada

Canada’s Hydrogen Strategy: An Ambitious Framework for a Strong Hydrogen Economy

On December 16, 2020, the Government of Canada released the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada.

Crude Oil

UAE’s Energy Ambitions Extend Far Beyond Oil

If 2020 taught us anything it was the need for self-sustainability and the drive for cleaner energy moving into the next decade, as oil demand plummeted.

Microgrid

TOGO: 129 Localities Soon to be Electrified Via Mini-Grids

News on Togo's electrification project using photovoltaic mini-grids. According to the Togolese Agency for Electrification and Renewable Energies , the first ph…

Microgrid

Microgrid Partnership Sealed to Grow Sector

MPC Energy Solutions and Enernet Global to develop projects in Latin America, Africa, Australia and Asia

Offshore Wind Power

Biden Administration to Restart Permitting for Major U.S. Offshore Wind Project

The Biden administration said on Wednesday it would restart permitting for the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, reversing a Trump administration decision th…

Climate Policy

Climate Policies of G20 Countries Fail to Meet Goals Set Under Paris Agreement

It highlights examples of what works and could be replicated elsewhere, and flags where more progress is needed.

Carbon Neutral

EU Vows to Work with International Partners to be Climate Neutral by 2050

The Europe Union can be a powerful promotor of climate ambitions also because it can offer a model of a socially just Green Deal transition, which leaves no one…

Coal Production

Pakistan Coal Imports Dip from 2020 Highs

Pakistan's January coal imports declined from highs in late 2020, while South Africa's share of the import mix dropped to a 45-month low.

United Kingdom

BP Profit Sinks As Epidemic Pummels Demand

On annual basis, BP sunk to a loss of $5.7 billion, its first in a decade after it wrote down the value of oil and gas assets by $6.5 billion as a result of sha…

Crude Oil

Iraq Raises Crude Oil Exports In January

Iraq’s oil exports increased slightly in January 2021 compared to December 2020, data from the country’s oil ministry showed on Monday, suggesting that Iraq i…