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Energy Transition

RESEARCHERS SUCCESSFULLY TURN ABANDONED OIL WELL INTO GIANT GEOTHERMAL BATTERY

Battery CageResearchers have successfully turned an abandoned oil and gas well into a geothermal energy storage system, repurposing a once-polluting resource ex…

Energy Investment

Fast Track Development on Energy Corridor With Russia Urged for Economic Stability

Islamabad : Speakers here on Saturday urged the government to fast track the process of economic and energy cooperation agreements with Russia after the recentl…

Electric Car

Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea Unless People Change Their Behaviors, We Won’t Hit 2050 Net Zero Emissions Targets

Teslas in a parking lot after arriving at a port in Yokohama, Japan. TORU HANAI/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGESElectric cars will not save the climate. It is completely …

Carbon Emissions

Saudi Arabia’s Swcc Partners With Korea’s Carbonco to Advance Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbonco and SWCC will cooperate on the adoption of CCUS technology, which captures carbon from power plants operated by SWCC and utilises it in the seawater de…

Solar Power Panel

Onshore Solar To Cut Emissions From Docked Vessels In Kenya

A new study looking at the usage of PV-powered cold ironing in the largest port in East Africa has concluded that small-scale solar plants could be crucial to r…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal ‘Battery’ Repurposes Abandoned Oil and Gas Well in Illinois, Researchers Report

A conceptual schematic of the type of advanced geothermal energy storage system demonstrated in this study. Credit: Tugce Baser and Renewable EnergyResearchers …

Energy Technology

Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Reaches Next Milestone

In the control perovskite layer (left), the microcrystals are not perfectly ordered and voids can form. In the new variant (right), the dipolar polymer cushions…

Personnel Appointment

CONSOL Energy Appoints New President

CONSOL Energy Inc. has announced the promotion of Mitesh B. Thakkar to the position of President, in addition to his current role as Chief Financial Officer (CF…

Hydropower Plant

Estonia Will Build Its First Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plant (550 MW)

The Estonian developer Energiasalv has received the necessary permits to build a 550 MW pumped-storage hydropower plant, which will be located in Paldiski, nort…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Zeroavia’s Largest Hydrogen Plane Successfully Completes Test Flight

This test flight is a significant step toward zero-emission passenger flight.ZeroAvia conducted a test flight of its Dornier 228 testbed hydrogen plane aircraft…

Uranium Project

Company Reveals Plans for New Us Uranium Plant

Western Uranium & Vanadium has already acquired a site in Utah and begun work on designing and permitting the facility to process uranium, vanadium and cobalt. …

Net Zero Emission

Long-Term Regulatory and Policy Changes Needed to Avoid Stalls to Business Decarbonisation

A new report from Cornwall Insight has set out a range of regulation and policy changes the government could examine if it wants to avoid a slowdown or stalling…

Energy Storage Project

ACEN’s 12-hour energy storage project gets government backing

The Phoenix Pumped Hydro Project received feasibility funding from New South Wales funding.ACEN’s 12-hour duration renewable energy storage project is pro…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Installed the Vessel of the Unique Russian Research Reactor – MBIR – in the Design Position

On January 18, 2023, the vessel of the world's largest multipurpose fast neutron research reactor (MBIR) was installed in its designed position at the const…

Wind Energy Technology

What’s Stopping Even Bigger Wind Turbines? Blade Speed and Flexing? More Likely Manufacturing and Installation Capacity

Bigger wind turbines make cheaper energy. The sector’s unexpectedly rapid successes in designing and building bigger and bigger turbines has been one of t…