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Thermal Plant

Doosan Completes Construction of Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant in Vietnam

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHIC) announced on 22 September that it had held the construction completion ceremony for the Vinh Tan 4 thermal power p…

New Technology

Out of the Blue: Making Fuel From Air and Sunlight

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a technology capable of producing liquid hydrocarbon fuels from just sunlight and air. At their solar mini-refinery, th…

LNG

​World's Leading Nat Gas Producer Is About To Get Even Bigger

On September 9 Saad Sherida Al Kaabi, minister of energy as well as president and CEO of state-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP), announced that the country had shortl…

OPEC, GECF Sign Research Agreement to Strengthen Cooperation

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to stre…

Energy Storage Battery

Batteries Need to Be‘Renewable’ Too: Why Recycling Matters Now

In 30 years since commercialisation, lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries have been used in an increasingly diverse range of products, starting from early generation …

Hydrogen Technology

Unique Bio Hydrogen Production Processes Creates Fast On-Demand Energy

With their innovative bio hydrogen technology, the Macquarie synthetic biologists have created genetically-engineered sugar-loving bacteria that can generate on…

Construction to Begin on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Push Boat

The zero-emission boat will feature hydrogen fuel cells supplied by Ballard Power Systems.The hydrogen fuel push boat, which will be named Elektra, will feature…

​Tractebel Unveil New Offshore Hydrogen Platform

Tractebel sees potential for carbon-neutral production of green hydrogen in large-scale offshore wind farms and its team is currently working on a detailed solu…

Linde Establishes Hydrogen Joint Venture with ITM Power

German engineering company Linde has established a joint venture (JV) with Sheffield-based company ITM Power for the development of hydrogen power for major ind…

Solar Power Panel

U.S. Eliminating Tariff Exemption for Imports of New Solar Panel Technology

U.S. trade officials said on Friday they were eliminating the exemption for bifacial solar panels from the Trump administration's tariffs on overseas-made solar…

Russia Can Help India to Be Less Dependent on Oil, Says Indian Energy Minister

India, the world's third-largest oil consumer and importer, wants to reduce its reliance on oil — and working with Russia could help it achieve that, said Indi…

Evolution Or Revolution? BP's Incoming CEO Tasked With Navigating Energy Transition

BP upstream chief executive Bernard Looney will take the reins from CEO Bob Dudley early next year, with investors eager to understand what this means for the F…

Hydrogen Fuel is Getting Buzz, but Here's Why it hasn't Gone Mainstream

The hydrogen fuel that launches NASA rockets into space and provides electrical power via fuel cells produces only one waste product: water so pure the astronau…

Crude

Iran on Full alert to protect oil facilities from possible attacks

Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, has ordered his country’s energy sector to raise its alert levels against cyber and military attacks that could ta…

Nuclear Power Plant

Romania and USA Agree to Nuclear Cooperation

The USA and Romania have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on civil nuclear energy.