Energy

Russian

Rosatom state nuclear energy corp. plans to launch No. 1 unit at Bangladesh NPP in coming days

Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation expects to launch the physical startup of the No. 1 unit at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh in the coming…

Canada

Oil giant Shell to buy Canada’s ARC Resources for $16.4 billion in push to boost output

Shell has agreed to buy Canadian energy company ARC Resources in a $16.4 billion deal, paid for mostly with shares, the British firm said on April 27.ARC will b…

United States

Overview Energy, Meta announce space solar partnership for data centers

Overview Energy and tech giant Meta have inked a first of its kind partnership to power Meta data centers with U.S.-built space solar energy through satellites.…

India

Adani Green to invest ₹15,000 crore to add 10 gigawatt battery storage in FY27

Adani Green Energy Ltd. plans to invest about ₹15,000 crore to add more than 10 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery energy storage capacity in the current financia…

South Korea

South Korea, Vietnam agree to boost nuclear energy, high-tech cooperation

Vietnam and South ‌Korea's leaders agreed to boost cooperation in nuclear energy and high-tech at a meeting in Hanoi on April 22, as the two countries …

United States

Texan start-up targets disused oil wells for low-cost hydrogen extraction

Engineering firm Wood will work with start-up Eclipse Energy on producing hydrogen from disused oil wells using microbes at a target price of $0.5 per kilogramm…

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan launches industrial production of gasoline with bioethanol made from grain processing waste

Kazakhstan has begun industrial production of Bi-95 automotive fuel with the addition of bioethanol made from grain processing waste, the Kazakh Agriculture Min…

China

CATL’s Shenxing 3rd Gen Battery Hits Full Charge in Under Seven Minutes

At its CATL Tech Day, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited rolled out the third generation of its Shenxing LFP battery, and the headline number is the ki…

United States

World's first 50 MW superhot geothermal power plant targets Oregon by 2030

Quaise Energy said it is moving ahead with plans to build what it describes as the world’s first power plant using superhot geothermal energy, with an ini…

Serbia

Serbia, Azerbaijan expect to agree on gas power plant project in May

Serbia and Azerbaijan expect to agree upon contract terms for the joint construction of a gas-fired power plant in Serbia's southern city of Nis in early Ma…

Italy

Italy's Ferrari sets price of first electric car at over $640,000

Italian luxury sportscar ​maker Ferrari has ‌settled on a preliminary ​price of ​about 550,000 euros ($647,130.00) for ⁠its first ​fully electric ​superc…

United States

US judge blocks Trump administration actions stymieing wind, solar projects

A federal ​judge on April 21 blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar ‌energ…

Spain

Spain and Ireland are set to assess viability of undersea power link

Spain and Ireland's energy ministers will sign a preliminary agreement on April 21 on ​assessing the viability of an undersea power link ‌between the …

Congo

Rosatom, Congo working on project to build 2 small HHPs with total capacity of 2.6 MW

Russia's Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Congolese government are working on a pilot project to build two small modular hydroelectric power…

Design efficiency up 70%: Digital platform transforms lighting project delivery, says industry innovator Chen Donghong

Lighting design has long been slowed by disjointed software, repeated modeling, and inconsistent on-site results. Now a fully integrated digital platform develo…