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Geothermal Power Plant

US DOE Offers Funds for Geothermal Deployment at Federal Sites

Working with a team led by ORNL, the U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding to deploy geothermal heating and cooling systems in federal facilities and b…

Floating Offshore Wind

Floating Offshore Wind Prepares to Go Commercial

The recent ScotWind offshore wind leasing round heralds a step change for floating offshore wind.

Denmark

Denmark Fully Prepared to Be Cut Off From Russian Gas

Denmark has joined the list of countries refusing to pay for Russian gas using a ruble conversion scheme, prompting the country’s state-run gas company on Mond…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geophones and Their Role in EGS Geothermal Projects

​Geophones for geothermal can help fast-track development of commercial EGS projects, thus the push to innovate this technology by the U.S. Department of Energ…

Electric Car

Tesla Is Preparing to Enter Thailand Market With Its EVs, Batteries, and Solar

Tesla has filed to enter Thailand as its latest market expansion. Interestingly, it plans to sell not only its electric vehicles but also its batteries and sola…

Energy Investment

US Government to Invest $38M in Decarbonising National Laboratories

Each of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories houses heavy industrial facilities, energy-intensive data centres, reactors and other unique infrastru…

Crude Oil

US to Sell Up to 40.1M Oil Barrels From Emergency Stockpile

The Department of Energy must receive bids for this notice of sale no later than 10.00am Central Time on 1st June 2022.

Hydrogen Project

US DOE Funding Study of Advanced Clean Hydrogen Technologies for Electricity Generation

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $24.9 million in funding for six research and development projects to support the advancement of clean hydrogen…

Norway

Norway Oil Firm Okea to Initiate Dividend, Buy North Sea Assets

Norwegian independent petroleum firm Okea announced its first dividend payment on Monday and separately said it agreed to buy a portfolio of mostly oil-producin…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Revises up Cost of Nuclear Power Plant Outages

The French nuclear power operator EDF says that the programme of inspections and repairs related to the stress corrosion issue means it has increased the hit it…

Wind Turbine

RSK Group Acquires Windtechs

RSK Group Ltd has expanded its renewable energy offering by acquiring Welsh wind turbine maintenance and repair company Windtechs.

Nuclear Power Plant

Atomenergomash Finished the First Ritm-200 Reactor for the Yakutia Icebreaker

The first RITM-200 reactor for the serial new-generation Yakutia icebreaker has been manufactured and prepared for shipment at the production site of JSC ZiO-Po…

Oil Price

Oil Prices Drop on Profit-Taking, Supply Fears Linger

Oil prices slipped on Monday, giving up earlier gains as investors took profits after a surge in the previous session, but global supply fears loomed with the E…

Electricity Transmission

US DOE Launches $2.5B Fund to Upgrade and Build New Transmission Lines

​The Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office on May 10 issued a joint notice of information (NOI) and a request for information (RFI) seeking stakeholde…

CCS

Could CCUS Play into New Emission Rules for Gas-Fired Plants?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to propose updated carbon emission regulations for gas-fired plants in 2022, per comments from EPA head Mi…