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Kazakhstan

KazMunayGas launches first full-cycle green hydrogen production complex in Kazakhstan

KMG Engineering, a subsidiary of KazMunayGas (KMG), has launched a full-cycle pilot project to generate green hydrogen in Atyrau, KMG's press service report…

Laos

Laos Signs Concession for 80MW Xekaman 4 Hydropower Project to Export Power to Vietnam

Laos has formalized a build-operate-transfer (BOT) concession for the 80-megawatt Xekaman 4 Hydropower Project in Sekong province, with all electricity generate…

Italy

Italy prepares for return of nuclear power

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said her government is preparing to launch a new framework in the coming months aimed at reintroducing nuclear energy …

United States

SEG Solar Announces New US 4 GW Solar Module Factory

SEG Solar ("SEG"), a U.S. solar module manufacturer, announced that it will establish a new 4-gigawatt (GW) solar manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. Buil…

Japan

Steam leak prompts shutdown of nuclear reactor in central Japan

A nuclear power plant in Japan’s central Fukui Prefecture temporarily shut down one of its reactors on Friday morning after a steam leak was detected near…

Australia

Blackwater mine extension proposal advances

Whitehaven Coal is progressing the paperwork for an extension project at its Blackwater operation that would give it access to another 200Mt of coal and take mi…

China

Rosatom Ensures Readiness of Control Systems for Start-Up Operations at Tianwan NPP Unit 7 in China

Specialized Scientific Research Institute for Instrumentation Engineering JSC (SNIIP JSC, a company of the Instrumentation & Control and Electrical Engineering …

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…

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 …

United States

USA Rare Earth buys Brazil's Serra Verde for $2.8 billion

USA Rare Earth said on April 20 it will buy Brazilian rare earths miner Serra Verde in a ‌cash-and-stock deal worth $2.8 billion, the latest in a string of…

Australia

Amazon signs first solar-plus-storage PPAs in Australia to power AI expansion

Tech giant Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia totalling 430MW, with eight projects featuring solar gen…

Germany

Sunfire Launches New 50-Megawatt Electrolyzer System for the Next Phase of Industrial Green Hydrogen Scale‑up

April 14 ,Sunfire has launched HyLink® Alkaline 23, a new outdoor pressurized alkaline electrolyzer system. The 50-megawatt electrolyzer module is designed …

Electric Vehicles

VW to stop making its top electric vehicle in the US

Volkswagen said on April 9 it will end production of the ID.4 electric SUV out of ‌its Tennessee plant this month, citing a challenging time for the U.S. e…

Norway

Norwegian Oil and Gas Company Aker BP Achieves Oil Production from New Reservoir in North Sea Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

Aker BP announced that the Symra oil field in the Norwegian North Sea has commenced production. The project started nine months earlier than originally planned,…

Germany

One of the World's Largest Industrial Heat Pumps Arrives at BASF's Ludwigshafen Site in Germany

BASF has made significant progress on its large-scale industrial heat pump project at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany. A core component weighing 95 tons and ap…