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Wind Turbine

20 MW Wind Turbine Prototype in China Suffers Blade Failure

Mingyang Smart Energy issued a statement on 13 December, following reports that two blades broke off of the company’s 20 MW offshore wind turbine prototyp…

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Starts Decommissioning Plutonium-Producing Reactor

Decommissioning of the ADE-2 water-cooled uranium-graphite thermal neutron reactor has begun at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, in the Krasnoy…

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 …

Nuclear Reactor

NANO Signs Deal to Site Microreactors at INL

US-based NANO Nuclear Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho Operations Office to evaluate the feasi…

Nuclear Reactor

Historic ADE-2 Reactor Transformation Underway

Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK – Gorno Khimiheskovo Kombinata) in Zheleznogorsk has begun to decommission the ADE-2 industrial uranium-gr…

Uranium Project

UK to develop transport capability for HALEU

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority subsidiary Nuclear Transport Solutions has been awarded funding by the UK government to spearhead the development of transport…

Crude Oil

Oil Production Hits 1.7mbpd – FG

The Federal Government has declared that Nigeria’s oil production, including condensates, increased by 9.9 per cent to 1.69 million barrels per day in Nov…

Oil Field

Equinor Exits Nigeria, Completes $1.2bn Asset Sale to Chappal Energies

Equinor (EQNR.OL) has officially announced its exit from Nigeria after three decades of operations, concluding the sale of its assets to Chappal Energies for $1…

Tender/bid

All Applicants Pre-qualified for Colombia’s First Offshore Wind Tender

All companies that submitted applications to participate in Colombia’s first offshore wind tender have been pre-qualified, meeting legal, financial, and t…

Offshore Wind Power

Australia Declares Wind Zone for 20 GW off Bass Strait

The Australian government has declared an area off northern Tasmania’s Bass Strait as suitable for offshore wind development, with the potential to genera…

Hydrogen Storage

Bonfire Test Confirms Safety of the SAG LH2 Tank System Even in Extreme Conditions

The liquid hydrogen tank system for trucks developed by SAG has reached a decisive milestone on the way to approval for road traffic: the successful completion …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Norwegian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Firm Teco 2030 Goes Bankrupt

Norwegian hydrogen fuel cell firm TECO 2030 has filed for bankruptcy, just days after its subsidiary fell into insolvency.In a short press release on December 1…

Geothermal Drilling

Start of Drilling Imminent at Velika Gorica Geothermal Site in Croatia

An information board has been installed at the site of the Velika Gorica geothermal site in Croatia, marking the start of the drilling work for the VGGT-1 geoth…

Oil Price

US Agency Expects Oil Production to Grow in 2025 Despite Opec+ Decision

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects global oil production to increase next year, with the bulk coming from countries outside the Opec+ group.…

Natural Gas

US Natgas Output to Decline as Demand Hits Record High in 2024, EIA Says

U.S. natural gas production will decline in 2024 while demand will rise to a record high, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its Short Ter…