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Solar Power Plant

Dutch Start Trials of Flexible Floating Solar Panels which Move with the Waves

A consortium led by Dutch research institute TNO has launched a new project to study floating flexible solar energy systems as part a project to create economic…

Energy Storage Project

Long Duration Energy Storage Needs to be Scaled up Drastically

The Long Duration Energy Storage Council has released a report which found that this type of storage needs to be scaled up 1.5 – 2.5TW by 2040, approximately 4…

CNOOC

CNOOC Fires up Buzzard Expansion Project in North Sea

Chinese oil and gas giant CNOOC Limited has started production from the Buzzard Phase II development located offshore in the UK sector of the North Sea.

Electric Car

German Car Exports Fall in 3Q, EVs Buck Trend

German car exports fell in the third quarter because of semiconductor shortages and supply chain bottlenecks, but electric vehicle exports grew.

Electric Car

China’s Xiaomi to Build EV Plant in Beijing

Chinese technology firm Xiaomi plans to build an electric vehicle production plant in the Daxing district of the country's capital Beijing.

Crude Oil

Iran Plans To Boost Oil Production To 5 Million Bpd

Iran is determined to return to its pre-sanction oil production level of 5 million barrels per day, regardless of how the nuclear deal develops

Solar Power Plant

LIBYA: France’s TotalEnergies Commits to Producing 500 MW of Solar Energy

Through its dedicated subsidiary, the multinational will build 500 MW of solar power plants in Libya.

Solar Company

JinkoSolar’s Tiger Neo: The Highest Efficiency Bifacial Module in the “True” Sense

Despite the popularity of bifacial modules in utility-scale solar projects, developers are still not satisfied with the promise of PERC bifacial’s higher energ…

Microgrid

Renewable Energy Microgrid to Power Japan’s Okinoerabu Island

The microgrid will use Kyocera’s energy management system, storage batteries, solar, and wind to maintain power even during emergencies or natural disasters, a…

Oil Price

Biden’s Blunder Could Send Oil Prices To $100

Oil prices may have crashed below $70 on Friday due to renewed Covid fears, but if those fears prove to be unfounded then oil prices could soar

Hydrogen Production

Strohm, Seanovent Partner on Offshore Wind-Hydrogen

The companies have signed an MoU to develop transfer solutions to enable developments of the new tchnology

Nuclear waste

Construction of Nuclear Waste Repository to Start in 2022

Construction of a special storage facility for low- and medium-level waste at the Krško-Krsko Nuclear Power Plant (NEK) will begin in early 2022 as the project…

Wind Power Project

Wind Power Becoming too Cheap to Support Itself

Major efforts to bring down the cost of generating wind energy should be restrained, the head of a wind turbine making major has warned, citing the industry’s …

Hydrogen Production

NNL and DNV Partner to Explore Large-Scale Nuclear Production of Hydrogen for UK Gas Network

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks t…

Combined Heat and Power

Using CHP to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Emissions

How this not-so-new power generation technology is gaining ground