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​Food (waste) for Thought: Consider Waste-to-Energy this Holiday Season

Most Americans will sit down to a feast with friends and family on Thursday, November 28 and immediately following that celebration, Christmas and Hanukah light…

​Irish Electricity Company Electricity Supply Board to Buy 50% Stake in EDF Scottish Windfarm

Irish electricity company Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in the Neart na Gaoithe offshore windfarm from EDF Renewables, which…

Orbital Awards Contract for O2 Composite Blades to ACMA

Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power Ltd (Orbital) has awarded the composite blades contract for the company’s first commercial O2 tidal turbine to A C Marine & Co…

Virtual power plant

Virtual Power Plant Debuts in Italy's Balancing Market

German virtual power plant operator Next Kraftwerke has provided balancing energy in Italy for the first time this month.

Solar Power Plant

China Helps Kazakhstan Build Solar and Wind Power Plants

China has help implement two renewable energy projects in the Almaty region, southern Kazakhstan – the construction of a 5 MW wind farm and a 1 MW solar power …

EU Sees Important Role for Clean Hydrogen in Europe’s Energy Transition

Clean hydrogen can play a pivotal role for in EU energy transition, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans has said.

Nuclear Technology

Framatome Honours Oxford Professor for Nuclear Research Work

Nuclear equipment company Framatome yesterday presented its first Excellence in Nuclear Reactor Science in the UK Award to Professor Sergio Lozano-Perez of the …

Offshore Wind Power

ESB and Equinor to Focus on Offshore Wind Projects Development

Ireland-based energy company Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has entered a partnership with Norwegian energy company Equinor for the development of offshore wind…

India Moving Towards Hybridised Power Utilities to Achieve Rural Growth

India's state-run power utilities or DISCOMs are badly in debt despite repeated bail-outs, and are failing in their mandate to deliver reliable, quality power t…

Distributed Generation

Better Grid Integration Beats Coal Plant Ramping to Reduce Wind, Solar Curtailment

Wind and solar curtailment is worst where these renewables are poorly integrated into the grid. The further their energy can reach the more regions they can ser…

Grid-Interactive Buildings Solutions

According to U.S. figures, up to 80% of peak electricity demand comes from buildings. So designing them to be energy efficient, with their own generation (e.g. …

Solar Power Panel

Using Thin Films for Solar Panels

To keep up with energy demands, scientists are striving to make solar cells more efficient so that more electricity can be generated from the same amount of sun…

Energy storage technology

Are Nanomaterials Key to Energy Storage?

When it comes to making the switch from using fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy, one of the difficulties encountered is the storage and distribution of e…

European Parliament Declares Climate Emergency

The European Parliament has today declared an environment and climate emergency, ahead of next week's UN climate talks in Madrid, COP25.

Oil & Gas Trade

The Parties Discussed Russian-Ukrainian Cooperation in the Gas Sector, Russian Energy Ministry Said

"The parties discussed Russian-Ukrainian cooperation in the gas sector — settlement of mutual claims for the implementation of contracts, the terms for the tra…