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Mikany Dam Upgrade Begins in Tasmania, Australia

Australian utility TasWater has commenced upgrade work on the Mikany Dam, with contractor Gradco set to start site preparation in February.

LNG

Nigeria Inks Major LNG Deals with Global Oil Giants

Nigeria has signed a major gas expansion deal, a much-needed collaboration with oil majors that Nigeria LNG said would boost its liquefied natural gas output by…

Electricity Transmission

Xcel Energy, eSmart and EDM Use AI for Transmission Grid Inspection

Xcel Energy, eSmart Systems and EDM International have announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based collaborative intelligence project to transform the inspe…

Smart Grid

Öresundskraft Implement Smart Cable Technology in Swedish Grid

Swedish energy company Öresundskraft has partnered with DNV GL, a Norway-based classification and technical services provider, to monitor sections of its power…

Researchers Turbocharge Hydrogen Fuel Cells with Novel Ion-Conducting Copolymer

Renewed investments in hydrogen fuel cell technologies and infrastructure by companies like Amazon; nations like China; and automakers like Toyota, Honda, and H…

Solar Company

Schneider Electric Solar Inks big Africa Project Deal

Schneider Electric Solar Spain, the Spanish entity of the Schneider Electric solar business division, has entered into a strategic alliance with Qbera Capital, …

Nuclear Technology

Engineers Publish New Research on Meltdown Materials

Engineers at the UK's University of Sheffield have developed materials that they say could be used to help decommission the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear powe…

Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Radioactive Water Should be Released Into Ocean, Say Japan Experts

Build-up of contaminated water from wrecked nuclear plant has been sticking point in clean-up likely to take decades.

Oil & Gas Trade

U.S. Lifts Iran Sanctions on One Unit of Chinese Shipping Giant COSCO

The U.S. Treasury said, partially reversing its punishment on the company for transporting Iranian oil after China complained about the measure in trade talks w…

Wind Power Project

EDPR Awarded Contract for 109 MW Wind Power in Italian Auction

EDPR has been awarded a 20-year CfD at the Italian wind auction to sell power generated by a portfolio of three wind farms with a total capacity of 109 MW

Market Analysis

British Government Sued for Approving Europe’s Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant

Client Earth has the green light from a British court to sue the UK government for undermining its own planning authority's concerns about the climate crisis wh…

Oil Price

U.S. To Become Net Oil Exporter This Year: EIA

The United States will become a net oil and oil product exporter this year thanks to continued growth in production combined with slacker domestic demand, the E…

Researchers Seek to Improve Hydropower, Lower Electricity Costs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $1 million to a research team led by Missouri University of Science and Technology to study ways to bette…

NIB Provides Loan to Finance Norwegian Hydropower Project

Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is set to provide an Nkr600m (€59.39m) loan to finance Agder Energi’s Åseral Nord hydropower project along the Mandal watercours…

Hydrogen Project

Belgium Hopes to Lead World with New Hydrogen Project

Surplus wind power could soon light and heat Belgian homes thanks to a planned hydrogen plant on the North Sea coast, set to be the world’s first commercial-sc…