Electric power

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Fukushima nuclear plant detects 25 tonnes of radioactive water leak

Storage tanks for nuclear-contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma of Fukushima Pref…

Hydropower Plant

Brazil cuts hydro use as droughts continue impacting global hydro generation

According to Brazil’s National Water Agency, the current conditions are set to last until 30 November. Credit: Bloomberg/Contributor via Getty Images.Braz…

Hydropower Plant

Firstlight and burlington electric department sign agreement for hydroelectric power supply

FirstLight’s Shepaug Generating Station, located on the Housatonic River in both Newtown and Southbury, CTFirstLight, a company specializing in clean ener…

Carbon Capture

Japan’s J-Power Partners With Australia’s Carbon Capture Developers

Japanese utility Electric Power Development (J-Power) (9513.T), opens new tab has signed a joint study agreement with two Australian carbon capture and storage …

Thermal Coal

US Stockpiles of Coal at Power Plants Reach Post-2020 High

According to the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), coal stockpiles at US electric power plants totalled 138 million short t at the end of May, the most since …

Energy Storage Project

New York Gets Federal Funding to Demonstrate Fire-Safe Long-Duration Energy Storage

A long duration energy storage sikution by Urban Electric Power (courtesy: Urban Electric Power)Fire-safe long-duration energy storage? Sounds like a perfect fi…

Hydropower Plant

IREDA to Invest in 900MW Hydropower Project in Nepal

The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) has announced an investment of Rs. 290 crore in a 900MW hydroelectric power project in Nepal. Thi…

Hydropower Plant

Hydro Power and De-risking Climate Change

(Panelists at a HYDROVISION mega session panel. Photo by Clarion Events.)At HYDROVISION International this week, there was the acute awareness that hydroelectri…

Electricity Trade

J-Power’s $258 Mln Bid for Genex Power Passes on Proxy Votes, Genex Says

Japan's Electric Power Development's (J-Power) (9513.T), opens new tab A$381 million ($257.56 million) buyout of Australia's Genex Power (GNX.AX), o…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Kansai Gets More Approvals Relating to Takahama Units

Kansai Electric Power Company has been given prior consent by Fukui Prefecture and Takahama Town for the steam generator replacement plan for Takahama nuclear p…

Solar Power Plant

J-POWER and Photon Sign Deal for Seven Solar Plants in Japan

Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER) and Photon Capital LLC have signed an agreement for the development and management of seven new high-voltage phot…

Hydropower Plant

N. Korea to Import Equipment for Hydropower Plants

Part of an import contract acquired by Daily NK for power generating equipment between the China-North Korea Hydroelectric Power Company and a Chinese exporter.…

Hydropower Plant

US DOE Launches $5M Water Power Fund to Help Develop New Technologies

A hydroelectric power plant in the US. Credit: RytisG/Shutterstock.com.The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has opened a $…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Ohi Units Cleared for Another 10 Years' Operation

Japan's nuclear regulator has approved Kansai Electric Power Company's long-term reactor management plan for units 3 and 4 of its Ohi nuclear power plan…

Hydrogen Technology

Sirius Aviation to Unveil Hydrogen-Electric Evtol

Swiss company Sirius Aviation will officially unveil their hydrogen-electric SiriusJet luxury business aircraft at an expo in London on Thursday.The SiriusJet i…