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Joe Biden

How to Calculate the Social Cost of Carbon? Researchers Offer Roadmap in New Analysis

The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used to inform climate policy by placing a monetary value…

Wind Farm

Siemens Gamesa Extends Gemini Contract

It will service the 600MW Dutch North Sea site for a further five years.

Hydrogen Project

EDP Launches Green Hydrogen Research Unit

The EDP Group has launched two units that will study the potential of green hydrogen and energy storage systems.

Electric Car

Electric Vehicle Prices to be Halved by 2025

The South Korean government has decided to lower the price of an electric vehicle by at least 10 million won by 2025.

Solar Power Plant

Shoprite Expands Its Rooftop and Refrigeration Solar PV Project

The Shoprite Group now generates enough electricity to power over 1,100 households a year from solar energy, following the installation of rooftop PV panels at …

Personnel Appointment

Global Wind Energy Council Appoints New COO to Lead Global Operations

The Global Wind Energy Council has appointed a new chief operating officer, Stewart Mullin, who previously worked as the global director of public affairs and i…

Oil Exploration

Woodside to go Ahead with Myanmar Exploration Plans Regardless of Coup

Australian energy giant Woodside Petroleum believes that the military coup in Myanmar is just “a transitionary issue” and will not affect its offshore drillin…

Substation

DEME Secures Contract for Two Offshore Substations in Dutch North Sea

DEME Offshore has secured a contract to transport and install the jackets and topsides for two Hollandse Kust offshore substations which will be located in the …

Combined Heat and Power

Wärtsilä Completes 100MW Combined Heat and Power Plant for German Utility

Technology firm Wärtsilä has announced that it has completed and handed over a 100MW combined heat and power plant to German utility Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbade…

Oil Price

Goldman Sachs Sees Minimal Oil Price Impact from Texas Freeze

Oil prices slid by up to 2 per cent on Friday, on worries that refineries will take time to resume operations after the big freeze in the U.S. South, creating a…

LNG

Woodside Signs new LNG Supply Deal with Germany’s RWE

Australian independent Woodside Petroleum has signed a seven-year, 840,000 t/yr sales and purchase agreement to sell LNG to the energy trading unit of German ut…

United States

American Clean Power Association Statement on Power Outages in Texas

The American Clean Power Association today issued the following statement on the ongoing power outages in Texas

Energy Security

Extreme Weather Conditions Harm RWE’s Renewables Electricity Generation in the US State of Texas

Operations teams focus on resuming production at RWE’s affected onshore wind turbinesRWE expects significant negative earnings impact in Onshore Wind/Solar seg…

Energy Storage Project

Startup Verkor Teams up with Consultancy Capgemini for 16GWh Lithium-Ion ‘Smart Factory’ in France

Digital software company Capgemini is partnering with battery energy storage startup Verkor to help bring to life a 16GWh-capacity lithium-ion cell factory in F…

Solar Power Plant

Enel Starts Up 133-MW Part of Soon-to-be Gigantic Solar Complex in Brazil

Italian utility group Enel SpA said that the 133-MW expansion of its Sao Goncalo solar farm in Brazil has reached commercial operation.