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Climate Policy

China State Planner Vows Crackdown on Projects with High Energy Use

Nine provinces and regions in China, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Jiangsu, increased their energy consumption on an annual basis in the first half o…

Nuclear Power Plant

Cinema Opens at Dukovany

The Dukovany nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic has opened its annual drive-in cinema in the shadow of the plant's cooling towers.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Serbian President: Serbia will Shut Down Its Coal Power Plants When Poland does

Serbia has lignite and it will not give it up, while coal power plants will be shut down when Poland does the same, Vučić claimed.

Rooftop PV System

Australia’s Rooftop PV Capacity Reaches 14.7 GW

Australia’s rooftop solar PV market has emerged as the second largest generator by capacity in the nation with new data published by the Australian Energy Coun…

Crude Oil

China’s Crackdown on Excess Capacity to Impact Crude Oil Imports

China’s drive to lower emissions, is expected to have a negative impact on crude oil imports from private refineries.

Video: What is Nuclear Energy? Shrink Down to an Atom and Find out

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Nuclear Power Plant

Exelon Files Decommissioning Plans for Lllinois Plants

Exelon Generation yesterday announced the filing of Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activity Reports (PSDARs) for its Byron and Dresden plants, due to shut later …

Vietnam

Renewed Lockdown to Limit Vietnam's Gasoline Demand

Net importer Vietnam's gasoline demand is expected to take another hit as part of the country returns to a lockdown with rising Covid-19 cases.

Hydropower Plant

Video: Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California

Officials are preparing for the likelihood that California’s record breaking drought will come for its renewable energy stores.

Crude Oil

Sapref to Restart Durban Refinery

BP and Shell's South African joint venture Sapref will restart its 180,000 b/d Durban refinery tomorrow after a temporary shutdown last week in response to civi…

Nuclear Power Plant

Doel 2 Shut Down After Hydrogen Leak

Unit 2 at Belgium’s Doel NPP was shut down manually during the night of 14-15 July, after Engie Electrabel employees noticed a rapid increase in hydrogen consu…

OPEC

OPEC+ Deadlock is Bad News for Oil Producers and Consumers, IEA Warns

The International Energy Agency on Tuesday warned that world oil markets are likely to remain volatile following a breakdown in talks between OPEC members and t…

Microgrid

Quebec’s Lac-Mégantic Microgrid Inaugurated

Quebec state utility Hydro-Québec and Lac-Mégantic have formally launched the energy microgrid in the Canadian city’s new downtown.

Coal Mine

Video: The Reinvention of the Last Coal Mine in Beijing

Datai, in southwest Beijing's Mentougou District, was the last coal mine to be shut down in the capital.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

AES Speeds up Chile Coal Power Retirements

US utility AES is accelerating the shutdown of 1,097MW of coal-fired power generating units in Chile, in line with the greening of its corporate strategy and th…