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Coal-Fired Power Plants

DEFF Orders Eskom to Shut Down Kendal Power Station

South Africa's environment minister, Barbara Creecy, has rejected Eskom's objection to and confirmed the compliance notice issued to Eskom in December 2019 by t…

Coal Trade

Asia Has Already Begun Coal to Gas Switch

An escalating decline in thermal coal imports among major Asian buyers can largely be attributed to a collapse in LNG prices, according to commodity tracking fi…

Electric Vehicle Sales Are Expected to Fall by 18% in 2020, the Long Term Outlook Remains Positive

With a decade-long upward trend in electric vehicles sales boosted by the popularity of Tesla's vehicles and other EVs such as Nissan Leaf and Toyota Prius, aut…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Commends French Nuclear Waste Programme

The International Atomic Energy Agency has released the final report from its January 2018 mission to France to review radioactive waste management and decommis…

Nuclear Power Plant

Norwegian Reactor Dismantling to Cost Almost USD2 Billion

The decommissioning of Norway's shut down research reactors at Halden and Kjeller will cost around NOK20 billion (USD1.96 billion) and take 20-25 years, accordi…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Mongolia Offers Rio Tinto Surprise Proposal to Build Coal-Fired Power Station

The cost of expanding Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi copper project could decline by nearly US$1B under a surprise Mongolian government plan that could increase its lon…

Gas Turbine

Siemens Powerhouse Gas Turbine Travels to the UK for Testing

The largest, most powerful, and most efficient heavy-duty gas turbine that Siemens has produced to date was loaded onto an inland cargo ship today in Berlin

Solar Technology

Perovskite Solar Cells Tweaked to Withstand Heat

This has researchers looking for new ways to raise the efficiency and decrease the costs of solar cells.

US EIA Expects Strong Renewables Generation Growth in 2020

Notwithstanding a projected decline in total US electrical generation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy sources are projected to produce signifi…

Crude Oil

Russia’s OPEC+ Challenge: Cut Output Without Maiming Industry

Russian oil producers are confronting their greatest challenge in decades as they try to fend off a historic price slump without permanently damaging their fiel…

Clean emission

India CO2 Emission Fall, First in 4 Decades

India's emissions of toxic carbon dioxide are falling for the first time in 40 years because of a slowing economy, the growth of clean energy and a continuing b…

Coal Production

Coal Power Tipped to Decline in APAC in 2020

Low electricity demand hit coal-fired generation in India and Southeast Asia.

European Electric Vehicle Batteries 2020 Summit

ACI’s European Electric Vehicle Batteries Summit in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, originally scheduled to take place on 3-4 June, has been postponed to the 9-10 …

Germany Urged to 'Avoid Delaying' Renewable Law Changes

The German Renewable Energy Association (BEE) has criticised a decision by the government to postpone an amendment to the country’s renewable energy law (EEG) …

Solar Power Plant

Neoen’s 375-MWp PV Farm hit by Mexico's Tests Suspension

On May 3, when CENACE’s decision came into effect, El Llano had to halt production.