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Solar Power Plant

Will Ukraine War Derail the Middle East's Solar Power Boom?

Renewables are looking more attractive as fossil fuels from Russia are banned. Middle Eastern countries have huge potential in solar power but will lack of crit…

LNG

Japan's JERA Weighs Expanding LNG Business to China

Japanese energy group JERA, one of the world's biggest importers of liquefied natural gas, has taken a step toward a possible expansion of its LNG business to C…

Nuclear Power Plant

Iran Says IAEA Continues to Monitor Nuke Activities Without Access to Camera Records

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said Saturday that IAEA continues to monitor activities in Iran's nuclear sites, but it has no access to the recor…

Energy Transition

IEA: Africa Faces Major Challenges and Huge Opportunities in Transition to Clean Energy

The clean energy transition is an opportunity for many African countries, but they will need the support of the international community, especially to attract t…

Carbon Neutral

How Google Plans to Use 100% Carbon-Free Energy in Its Data Centers by 2030

Google has set out a notably aggressive goal to operate on 24-7 carbon-free energy by 2030.

Nuclear Power Plant

Successful Interconnection of Unit 4 of Hualong One, a Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Project

On March 25, Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 6, which Shanghai Electric helped to build, completed 168 hours of trial operation making it ready for commercial operati…

Microgrid

Sumitomo and NEDO Complete Microgrid Project

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. have successfully completed a first of its kind microgr…

Rooftop PV System

Centrica and Push Energy Advance UK’s Grid-Scale Solar Pipeline

Energy solutions firm Centrica Business Solutions has signed an agreement with renewable energy developer Push Energy, to build a pipeline of solar farm project…

Microgrid

First Time in the U.S. and Japan to Successfully Build and Operate Microgrid with Battery Storage on Actual Power Distribution Network

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. have completed a demonstration project in California to…

Electric Car

Vattenfall Starts Wireless EV Charging Trials in Sweden

Vattenfall's three-year induction charging point project with partners involves charging pads embedded in Gothenburg streets.

CCS

World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project: Shute Creek’s “Sell or Vent” Business Model Isn’t Working

Delving into the world’s largest carbon capture project, ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek CCUS facility, reveals a highly questionable technology.

Solar Power Panel

World’s First Ocean Crossing by a Solar-Electric Vessel

Mahi Two, a Torqeedo-powered uncrewed surface vessel (USV), has become what is believed to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean using only solar power.

Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen Market Needs $600bn Investment by 2050

For green hydrogen to be a success, $600 billion (£458.9bn) of investment in the market by 2050 will be necessary.

Natural Gas

Oil and Gas to Catapult Global Energy Spending to Record Highs in 2022, Rystad Says

Surging oil, gas and power prices together with EU’s goals of becoming less dependent on Russian supplies and post-Covid-19 pandemic inflation will catapult gl…

United Kingdom

Ithaca Energy Gains Access to Two of the Largest Undeveloped Discoveries in UK North Sea

North Sea-focused Ithaca Energy has reached an agreement to acquire Siccar Point Energy for a price tag of nearly $1.5 billion. This is Ithaca’s second expansi…