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EU

Europe Urged to Clamp Down on Growing Greenhouse Gases Black Market

Illegal hydrofluorocarbons smuggled into the EU amount to nearly 30% of the legal trade, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency

Microgrid

ABB Releases Blueprint for Carbon Negative Microgrids

ABB has announced delivery of electrical distribution and control systems for a 300kW future microgrid that engineering and management consultancy Tetra Tech is…

Paris Climate Agreement

Why Oil Investors Should Keep an Eye on ESG Scores

Legal and regulatory initiatives promulgated as a result of the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, have been the driver of these changes.

Nuclear waste

UK's Gemini Waste Packages Re-Enter Service

The first active shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell in Oxfordshire, England, to Sellafield in Cumbria has been completed using the Nuclear Decom…

Solar Power Plant

Totalenergies and Veolia to Build Solar Plant to Power Desalination Project in Oman

The new plant will produce more than 30,000 megawatt-hours of green electricity annually

Gas Turbine

Siemens Energy Says It Has No Damage Reports From Gazprom on Nord Stream 1 Turbines

Siemens Energy on Wednesday said it had not received any damage reports regarding the turbines of Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline from Russia's Gazprom so far.

Net Zero Emission

Greenpeace to Fight UK Approval of Shell Gas Field in Court

Climate activists at Greenpeace plan to mount a legal challenge against the British authorities allowing Shell to develop the Jackdaw North Sea gas field, after…

Hydropower Plant

Portugal, Switzerland Launch Pumped Storage Hydropower Plants of Over 2 GW in Total

Iberdrola inaugurated its pumped storage hydropower plant Tâmega Gigabattery in Portugal and a similar facility was set into motion in Switzerland.

Germany

German Government ‘Likely to Face Legal Challenges to Gas Rationing’

Law experts suggest some German businesses see gas rationing as a “nightmare scenario”

Pumped Storage

Iberdrola Opens One of Europe’s Largest Pumped Storage Facilities

The Spanish utility has officially opened the 1,158MW Tâmega Giga Battery – a pumped storage hydroelectric facility – in Portugal.

Pumped Storage

Iberdrola Opens the 1,158MW Tâmega Giga Battery in Portugal

Spanish utility Iberdrola has officially opened Tâmega Giga Battery in Portugal, touted as one of Europe’s largest pumped storage hydroelectric facilities. …

Petronas Says Taking Steps to Protect Global Assets After Seizure of Luxembourg Units

Malaysia's state energy firm Petronas said it was taking steps to protect the legal position of all its global assets after two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries we…

Natural Gas

Germany’s Top Buyer Of Russian Gas On The Brink Of Insolvency

Germany’s Uniper SE is just “days” away from insolvency, deputy chairman of Uniper’s supervisory board, Harold Seegatz, told Bloomberg on Friday.

India’s Largest Floating Solar Project in Telangana Starts Operations

NTPC has commissioned the largest floating solar photovoltaic (PV) project in India with a 100-megawatt (MW) capacity in Ramagundam in Peddapalli District in Te…

Energy Storage Project

Australia Shortlists 12 Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects for $100M Funding

The projects, which include both new builds and retrofits for existing batteries, have an aggregate capacity of 3.05GW and will be equipped with advanced invert…