Energy

Energy Storage Battery

AGL, ARENA to Study Thermal Battery Development in Australia

AGL energy and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have partnered to conduct a feasibility study on the viability of thermal energy storage to power …

Paris Climate Agreement

‘Oil and Gas Investments Could Finance Renewables Needed for 1.5°C’

The Paris Agreement could be achieved if money intended for new oil and gas fields was redirected into wind and solar, a study claims.

Electric Car

GM Looks To Take On Tesla In New EV Energy Venture

GM Executive Travis Hester: “We’re getting into the entire ecosystem of energy management.”

Electric Car

Smart Thermostats and EVs Connected in US Demand Response Partnership

A new partnership in the US has concocted a DERMS-powered programme to coordinate demand response via smart thermostats and electric vehicles (EVs).

Hydrogen Project

Asia’s Richest Person Adani Aims for Europe With Huge Morocco Clean Energy Project

Billionaire's conglomerate is considering building wind and solar generation plants in the North African nation and units to produce green hydrogen for export. …

Dewa Appoints Companies to Consult on Hassyan Desalination Plant

Consulting companies on the 120m gallons per day plant include Deloitte, WSP and Addleshaw Goddard.

Energy Transition

S.Africa's Energy Transition Plan Needs $46.5 Bln, Five Times Pledges - Sources

South Africa's plan to kick-start its transition from coal to renewable energy will need $46.5 billion, more than five times the $8.5 billion Western nations ha…

Net Zero Emission

U.S. EPA Begins Work to Set up $27 Bln Green Bank

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday began the process of designing a $27 billion green bank that will offer grants to disadvantaged communities …

Electric Car

Vehicle Manufacturers to Double Spending on EVs, Batteries to $1.2 Trillion by 2030

Car makers have forecast plans to build 54 million battery electric vehicles in 2030, representing more than 50% of total vehicle production.

Brazil

Wind Power Will Quadruple in Brazil by the End of the Decade

The 13th edition of Brazil Windpower, the main congress and fair in Latin America on wind energy, promoted this morning the panel “Production chain and its inp…

Wind Farm

Ørsted Partners with ECP in the Company’s First-Ever Farm-down of Onshore Assets

Ørsted closed a transaction with Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a leading energy transition-focused investor, to divest a 50 % ownership stake in a portfolio c…

Offshore Wind Power

Vena Energy to Develop 2,000MW Offshore Wind Project in Australia

The project will be located off the Victorian Coast in the Gippsland Basin.

LNG

World’s First Emissions-Reducing Integrated Hybrid Drive System for an LNG Plant

​Northeast Energy Center (NEC) and Chart Energy & Chemicals selected Siemens Energy to supply a gas/electric hybrid drive system for NEC’s LNG plant being bui…

Oil Field

UK’s Lloyds Ditches Project Finance for New Oil and Gas Fields

Britain's biggest domestic bank Lloyds said on Thursday it would not support direct financing to develop new oil and gas fields, joining a small number of lende…

Electric Vehicle Battery

VW Steps up EV Battery Development and Production

Volkswagen has established partnerships to investigate new battery materials and to establish a large scale battery supply chain.