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Hydropower Plant

Loch Ness Pumped Hydro Developers Win Consent for 50MW Battery Project

Planning consent has been granted for a 50MW battery energy storage project in Aberdeenshire for developer Intelligent Land Investments Group.

Market Analysis

Rejoining Paris Pact Signals U.S. Ready To Jump Aboard Hydrogen Express

The decision by the Biden administration to rejoin the Paris agreement will likely provide a boost to the creation of a robust hydrogen fuel industry in the U.S…

Nuclear Reactor

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Advances Efforts to License BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy today announced that it continues to make significant progress in its efforts to license the BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the U.S…

Energy Storage Battery

Pylontech Ready for ESS Capacity Expansion Following Shanghai Stock Exchange Listing

Pylontech has said it will have 4GWh of battery energy storage system manufacturing facilities in operation within three years, after it raised around US$300 mi…

Energy Storage Project

Trina Solar Launches Storage Arm

Chinese photovoltaic company Trina Solar has launched a new business unit focused on energy storage.

Electrification

World Bank to Finance Electrification Investments in Angola

The World Bank has approved $250 million to improve the operational performance of the electricity sector utilities and increase electricity access in selected …

Jordan

IRENA Report Identifies Policy Measures to Advance Jordan’s Transition to Renewables

Renewables readiness assessment report highlights seven key action areas to accelerate the country’s uptake of renewables

Natural Gas

Turboden and Siemens Energy Upgrade Gas Compressor Station in Egypt

Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group company, has been selected to supply a high-temperature Organic Rankine Cycle system to GASCO’s Dahshour gas comp…

Oil Pipeline

Republicans Sound Alarm Over Major U-Turn by Biden Admin on Russia-to-Europe Gas Pipeline

The report to Congress named two enterprises previously sanctioned by the Trump administration — the Russian pipe-laying ship ‘Fortuna’ and its owner KVT-RUS…

Crude Oil

Texas Refineries Restarting After Power Loss

Texas refineries reported restarting units shut last week after subfreezing temperatures and a power crisis abruptly cut 28pc of US crude processing capacity.

Energy Security

Increased Rate of Water Leakage at Fukushima Reactors

A drop in the water levels in the reactor containment vessels of units 1 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan has been detected, Tokyo Electric Power C…

Wind Power Project

GWEC India and MEC+ Team up to Catalyse Growth in India’s Wind Energy Industry

The partnership will aim to address key bottlenecks slowing down wind market growth, and illustrate the potential for new growth opportunities such as offshore …

Energy Security

These are the Key Lessons of the Texas Snowstorm

Arctic blasts may not trouble the Arabian Gulf but the Texas crisis should convince all regions to prepare for their own weather challenges

Crude Oil

Digital Technology Powers Adnoc's Plans to Reach 5m bpd Capacity by 2030

Adnoc's Thamama centre generates $1.1bn in business value by leveraging technology

Crude Oil

India's January Crude Processing Scales over 1-yr Peak

India's crude oil processing registered its second straight year-on-yea gain in January, while hitting a more than one-year high, as fuel demand improved on the…