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Coal Mine

U.S. Coal Output Capacity Has Plunged 28% Since 2009 Peak

Declining coal demand across several sectors, especially electricity generation, has led to a 28-percent slump in U.S. coal mining productive capacity since the…

Energy Storage Project

China’s Energy Storage Deployments for First Nine Months of 2020 up 157% Year-on-Year

China deployed 533.3MW of new electrochemical energy storage projects in the first three quarters of 2020, an increase of 157% on the same period in 2019.

United States

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor Achieves US Licensing Milestone

The LTR, which was submitted to the NRC in December 2019, forms the basis for the dramatic simplification of the BWRX-300.

Energy Storage Project

Enel X to Install Solar + Storage System at Eaton Manufacturing Plant in Puerto Rico

Enel X, the Enel Group’s advanced energy services business line, and power management company Eaton announced plans for microgrid development in Puerto Rico.

Oil & Gas Supply

Iraq Cuts Term Crude Supplies to Some European Cilents

Deliveries of Iraqi Basrah crude to Europe and the Mediterranean could drop next year after state-owned marketer Somo trimmed allocations for some of its term c…

Coal Trade

Colombia’s Coal Output Halves in Third Quarter

Colombia's coal production fell by 47.4pc on the year during the third quarter, hit by suspended output at mines owned by Glencore subsidiary Prodeco and Colomb…

Wind Turbine

EDP Renováveis Commissions Spain’s Largest Wind Turbines in Burgos

EDPR is developing the Quintanilla II wind farm, which will feature three wind turbines spanning a height of 199.9 metres.

Geothermal Power Plant

Mitsubishi Power to Upgrade Geothermal Plant in the Philippines

Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has received an order for the facility upgrading of the Makban Geothermal Power Plant…

Colombia

The ANH Signed 4 Contracts in the Third Cycle of the Continuous Area Nomination Process

The National Hydrocarbons Agency - ANH signed 4 new contracts today, as a conclusion of the third cycle of the Continuous Area Nomination Process, PPAA.

Offshore Wind Power

Orsted Renews US Maritime Research Partnership

Orsted has announced a new three-year partnership with the US Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Triangle Energy Restarts Production from Cliff Head Well

Australia’s Triangle Energy has resumed production from the CH-7 well at the Cliff Head oil field following a successful workover program.

Natural Gas

India to See $66 billion Investment in Gas Infrastructure

India will see a massive $66 billion investment in the building of gas infrastructure as the government pushes for greater use of the cleaner fuel with a view t…

Net Zero Emission

Biden Plan to End U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Faces Big Challenges

Doing so could be hard, even though Biden spent 36 years in the Senate where he is known as a dealmaker.

LNG

Eni Strikes Deals to Reopen Egypt's Damietta LNG Plant

Italian energy group Eni has struck deals with Spanish gas firm Naturgy and Egyptian partners to resolve disputes over a shuttered gas plant it part owns in nor…

Combined Heat and Power

World’s First 1MW Large-Scale Gas Engine Begins Hydrogen Field Test

The recent initiation of field testing on the converted CHP plant in the Othmarschen area of Hamburg, Germany, marks a step forward in a joint flagship project …