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EU Sees Important Role for Clean Hydrogen in Europe’s Energy Transition

Clean hydrogen can play a pivotal role for in EU energy transition, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans has said.

Nuclear Forms Part of Climate Change Solution, Says European Parliament

The European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on COP25 - the 25th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention o…

Nuclear Technology

Framatome Honours Oxford Professor for Nuclear Research Work

Nuclear equipment company Framatome yesterday presented its first Excellence in Nuclear Reactor Science in the UK Award to Professor Sergio Lozano-Perez of the …

European Union to Consider Law on Climate Neutrality by March 2020

The European Union executive will propose by March 2020 a new climate law to turn the bloc neutral in terms of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and help lead th…

Solar Company

Stockland to Offer Discounted Solar and Batteries for up to 25,000 Customers

Australian property developer Stockland will offer discounted solar and battery installations for up to 25,000 residents in homes developed by the company acros…

Nuclear Technology

Improving Nuclear Unit Outage Scheduling with Artificial Intelligence

AI has tremendous potential to reduce the substantial repetitive tasks, enabling engineers to concentrate more on engineering, write Maciej Hryniewicki and Jame…

India Moving Towards Hybridised Power Utilities to Achieve Rural Growth

India's state-run power utilities or DISCOMs are badly in debt despite repeated bail-outs, and are failing in their mandate to deliver reliable, quality power t…

Distributed Generation

Better Grid Integration Beats Coal Plant Ramping to Reduce Wind, Solar Curtailment

Wind and solar curtailment is worst where these renewables are poorly integrated into the grid. The further their energy can reach the more regions they can ser…

Grid-Interactive Buildings Solutions

According to U.S. figures, up to 80% of peak electricity demand comes from buildings. So designing them to be energy efficient, with their own generation (e.g. …

IPPR: UK should pay £20bn into UN Climate Fund

The UK's contribution to global decarbonisation should be more in line with its 'fair share' of responsibility for climate breakdown, think tank says.

Coal Trade

India Steel Minister Expects to Increase Coking Coal Imports from Russia

India’s Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said he was confident India’s imports of coking coal from Russia would increase significantly in coming months, addi…

Japan's Promotion of Coal-Fired Power Plants Leads to U.N. Rejecting Abe's Request

The United Nations rejected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s request to speak at its climate summit last September, government sources said Thursday, apparently due…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India Pollution Regulator Threatens to Shut Coal-Fired Utilities Around New Delhi

India’s federal pollution regulator has warned coal-fired power plants around New Delhi that they could be shut down for failing to comply with deadlines to me…

Energy storage technology

Are Nanomaterials Key to Energy Storage?

When it comes to making the switch from using fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy, one of the difficulties encountered is the storage and distribution of e…

European Parliament Declares Climate Emergency

The European Parliament has today declared an environment and climate emergency, ahead of next week's UN climate talks in Madrid, COP25.