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Nuclear Power Plant

Uzbekistan Adds Second Plant to Nuclear Power Goal

Uzbekistan has decided it now wants to build four nuclear power units and not just two as previously stated, Alisher Sultanov, the country's energy minister, sa…

Microgrid

Japanese Giant Sumitomo Enters US Microgrid Market with Investment in LO3

Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo has entered the US microgrid market with an investment in New York-based blockchain innovator LO3 Energy, a company perhaps best …

EU Carbon Prices Hit an 11-year High

After a decade of single-digit prices, the cost of carbon has been rising for the last 19 months following moves by EU lawmakers to reduce the number of free pe…

Colombia Sets Sights on October for Delayed Renewable Auction

Colombia’s first ever renewable auction is to be held eight months after anti-trust concerns forced its postponement, the government has decided.

Smart Grid

Canada Launches First Utility-Scale Microgrid System

Ontario-based municipal utility North Bay Hydro Services has partnered with smart grid solutions firm S&C Electric Company to launch Canada’s first utility-sca…

India Plans $330 Billion Renewables Push by 2030 Without Hurting Coal

India said on Thursday it needs $330 billion in investments over the next decade to power its renewable energy dream, but coal would remain central to its elect…

Octopus Energy Investments Changes Name

UK onshore renewables investor Octopus Energy Investments has decided to change its name to Octopus Renewables, it was announced on Monday.

Offshore Wind Power

How to Reduce the Costs of Offshore Energy

Higher capacity wind turbines, advanced drone technology, big data and machine learning - the costs of developing, deploying, and maintaining ever more efficien…

Nuclear Policy

Iran: The US always Pursues a Policy of Deception to Distort the Realities

"The (IAEA) board of governors should hold a meeting on Donald Trump's violation of the nuclear deal and not on Iran's move in line with exercising its inaliena…

Coal Power

Future Tense: Fastest-Growing Market Asia Rethinks Coal's Prospects

After riding China’s demand train for nearly two decades, Asia’s coal industry is looking to a future of smaller markets and slimmer pickings, as buying decli…

Geothermal Heat Exposes Glacial Cliffs

Grímsvötn is located on the west side of Vatnajökull glacier and is the most active volcano in Iceland. Over the last few decades, its activity has increased…

Coal Company

Second Major U.S. Coal Company in Two Weeks Declares Bankruptcy

Two major U.S. coal companies have declared bankruptcy in the last two weeks, in a dramatic demonstration of the industry’s recent decline.

Solar Inverter

The Growing Potential for MLPE in Utility-Scale Solar

In the last decade, the PV market has gone through some incredible transformations. The market has accelerated and expanded, prices have declined, subsidy evolu…

Microgrid

How A Perfect Storm is Driving Microgrids into the Mainstream

Given the diverse benefits that microgrids provide – reductions in energy costs, business risk, and carbon emissions, and increases in resiliency and power rel…

Microgrid

A Tool to Help Home Microgrids Stay Off Grid as Long as Possible

Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) have developed an optimization tool for microgrids that allows homes to stay off grid as long as possi…