Electric

Thermal Plant

U.S. Making Water Efficiency Gains in Power Sector

As the U.S. moves away from the most water-intensive electric power generating sources, the country’s water withdrawals for power plant cooling remained relati…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuclearelectrica to Develop Cernavoda 3&4

A Support Agreement has been signed between the Romanian State and nuclear utility Societatea Na?ionala Nuclearelectrica (SNN), for the development of the Natio…

SMR

Nuclearelectrica and Partners Sign Mou for Nuscale Plants

Nuclearelectrica, E-INFRA, Nova Power & Gas, Fluor Enterprises, Samsung C&T Corporation and NuScale Power have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to col…

Solid-State Batteries

Scientists Create Long-Lasting, Cobalt-Free, Lithium-Ion Batteries

In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt—which is often mined using child labor—in the batteries that power electric cars and othe…

Wind Farm

Vattenfall Inaugurates Its Largest Onshore Wind Farm in the UK

South Kyle Onshore Wind Farm has been inaugurated today in south west Scotland. Once fully commissioned the wind farm will have an installed capacity of 240MW, …

Electric Vehicles

Ford Opens Cologne EV Center; Annual Capacity of 250,000+ EVs

Ford opened the Cologne Electric Vehicle Center, a hi-tech production facility in Germany that will build Ford’s new generation of electric passenger vehi…

Electric Vehicle Battery

DOE to Award up to $60M for Advanced Battery R&D Consortium

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $60 million for the creation of an Advanced Battery R&D Consortium (DE-FOA-0002965) to convene major manufact…

Hydro Generator Unit

Rye Development Signs Deal to Power Data Centers With Hydro

Rye Development has signed an agreement with Iron Mountain that provides the company with up to 150 MW of power over the next 10 years from several of Rye Devel…

SMR

Slovakia Submits Bid for SMR Feasibility Study Funding

(Image: Slovenské elektrárne)The other signatories of the memorandum were US Steel Košice, the Slovak Electricity Transmission System, VUJE…

Wind Farm

Vattenfall Signs Wind Energy Agreement With Volvo Group

Vattenfall today signed an agreement with Volvo Group to sell 50 percent of the electricity produced at Bruzaholm wind farm over a 10-year period. The agreement…

Solar Power Plant

U.S. Wind & Solar Capacity Added in the First Third of 2023 Dwarfs That of the New Vogtle-3 Nuclear Reactor That Required 14 Years to Build.

NEW WIND & SOLARELECTRICAL GENERATING CAPACITY ADDEDDURING JUST THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 2023EXCEEDS THAT OF THE NEW VOGTLE-3 NUCLEARREACTOR THAT TOOK ALMOST 14…

Electric Vehicles

Xpeng’s G6 Arrives as Competitor to Tesla Model Y in China, Nabs Over 25K Orders in First 72 Hours

Just three days after hitting showrooms and opening pre-orders, XPeng Motors’ G6 SUV is garnering a lot of hype in China as over 25,000 customers have alr…

Electric Vehicles

BYD to Launch the Dolphin – Expected to Be Australia’s Most Affordable EV – This Month

BYD is about to launch what could be Australia’s most affordable electric vehicle, the BYD Dolphin, in 10 days’ time.The news was broken on Linkedin this morn…

Hydropower Plant

CPEC Hydropower Project Achieves Hoisting of Last Rotor

ISLAMABAD-The Suki Kinari Hydropower project in northwest Pakistan achieved the hoisting of a core component on Saturday, as a 413-ton rotor, crucial to turning…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Support Agreement for Cernavoda 3 and 4 Signed

The signing of the support agreement between the Romanian government and Nuclearelectrica allows the start of the next phase of the project to construct units 3…