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DNO Makes Minor Oil and Gas Discovery off Norway

Oil and gas company DNO is in the process of concluding the drilling of a wildcat well near the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea after finding a minor oil and…

Successful Tender for Geothermal Exploration, Production & Prospection in Hungary

As part of a hydrocarbon and geothermal tender, one geothermal permit area was successfully tendered. The company Aspect-TDE Geotherm Kft. successfully bid for …

Nuclear Power Plant

Old Scottish Power Station Caught Leaking Specs of Nuclear Dust

A nice little British nuclear catastrophe has been uncovered in Scotland, where the complex and millennia-long process of decommissioning the Dounreay facility …

100% Renewables Means 95% Less Water Consumption for Conventional Power Generation

According to a new study by Finland’s LUT University, solar PV consumes between 2% and 15% of the water that coal and nuclear power plants use to produce just …

Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts

If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…

Gas power plant

Uniper SE Will Turn 3.5 GW of Gas-Fired Power Plants Back in Germany

Gas plants also are benefiting both from a slump in the price of the fuel. Uniper, one of Europe’s largest utilities, will bring back on line as much as 3.5 gi…

CCS

Scientist Discovered A New Bio-based Hybrid Foam for Carbon Capture Process

A new material for capturing carbon dioxide has been discovered as a result from a joint research study by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology and S…

Researchers Developed A Fabric-based Bio-battery That Can Generate Stable Electricity

Researchers from Binghamton University have developed a fabric-based battery that works even under stretching and twisting stresses.

Coal Pollution in the Western Balkans is a European Problem

Sixteen coal plants in the Western Balkans pollute as much as the entire EU fleet of 250 units, causing sickness and deaths across the continent. It’s high tim…

5G And IoT Comes to Enterprises in Japan

Nokia today announced that it is building out its strategic partnership ecosystem to bring local 5G/private wireless LTE to industrial and government customers …

Combined cycle power plant

1050 MW Natural Gas-fueled Combined-cycle Power Plant Are Running in Pennsylvania

The plant is now supplying natural gas and ethane-fueled combined-cycle electric power to more than one million Pennsylvania homes and businesses.

Gas power plant

India Hopes to Revive 24GW of Gas-fired Power Plants

The Indian government is working on a new proposal to help 24 GW of stressed gas-fired power plants to operate at 90% at their capacity by importing gas and sel…

Flora to Fuel: Could Wind-Powered Algae Make Bioreactors Competitive?

The ENBIO project uses excess energy from wind turbines to power 16 1,000-litre photo-bioreactors which grow algae that can then be used for biofuels. The proje…

Electricity Transmission

SSEN Submits Scots Grid Masterplan

SSEN Transmission has today submitted a business plan to the UK energy regulator Ofgem for the future of the north of Scotland electricity network that aims to …

Janssen Pharmaceutica First Business to Use Heat from Geothermal Drilling

Pharmaceutical company Janssen has inaugurated the first deep geothermal drilling site in Belgium that’s on the premises of a business. It will use water from …