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Carbon Neutral

Helsinki Carbon Neutral Building Pledge to Improve Energy Efficiency

Helsinki has become a signatory to the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment developed by the World Green Building Council, an international network of 70 sustai…

EU and Africa Signed A $120m Deal to Fund Sustainable Energy Projects

The European Investment Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) have signed a deal to fund sustainable energy projects over t…

EV Market

China's BYD Lands Large Electric Bus Order in the Netherlands

China's leading new energy vehicle manufacturer BYD cut a deal on Friday to provide 259 electric buses for the Netherlands, the largest single order the Chinese…

EU Opens Subsidies for Electric Battery Push

The EU's powerful anti-trust authority on Monday approved billions of euros in subsidies from seven member states as Europe seeks to make up lost ground in batt…

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 …

Industry, Climate Groups Issue EU Green Deal Plea

Major European lobby groups are calling on the EU Commission to show more ambition on climate and energy policies.

Hydrogen + Fuel Cells Europe

Europe’s largest hydrogen and fuel cells exhibition 2020Hydrogen + Fuel Cells EUROPE is part of HANNOVER MESSE· World’s leading trade fair for industrial tec…

EU Commits 20 Million Euros for HPP Construction in Tajikistan

EU Ambassador Marilyn Josefson and KfW office Dushanbe Director Dr. Andreas Schneider signed a Contribution Agreement for financing construction of a small hydr…

Solar Power Plant

South Korea Plans World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant in Yellow Sea

The Saemangeum Investment Agency of Koreatogether with Amsterdam Capital Partners, G8 Subsea , and Saemangeum Offshore Wind Powerhave agreed to cooperate toward…

Energy storage technology

Mix Mountains and Gravity for Long-Term Energy Storage

A team of European scientists proposes using mountains to build a new type of battery for long-term energy storage.

Large Lithium Resource Reported at German Geothermal Site

With an estimated resource site of 13.2 MT of LCE, the Vulcan Lithium Project has the potential to be the biggest zero-carbon lithium resource in Europe.

Nuclear Fuel

Russia Awards Contract to Build BREST Reactor

Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) has awarded a RUB26.3 billion (USD412 million) contract to Titan-2 for the construction and installation works for the BREST-OD-…

Coal Power

Big European Banks Face Call to End Funding for Firms Building Coal-fired Plants

Some of Europe’s biggest banks are being challenged by environmental groups to sever all lending to utilities which they say are still developing new coal-fire…

Gas power plant

Vietnam Trade Ministry : $4-billion Power Plant Can't Commit to Its Proposed Electricity Price

The trade ministry supports inclusion of a 3,200 MW liquefied natural gas-fired power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu as part of the national pow…

Energy Investment

BlackRock Achieved $1bn Record for the Global Renewable Power III (GRP III) Fund

American investment company BlackRock has announced that is has achieved $1bn for the first close of its Global Renewable Power III (GRP III) fund. The company …