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SMR

X-Energy Opens First Training Centre for SMR Operators

The centre includes a full-scale plant control room simulator, Reactor Protection System prototype, and virtual reality experience as well as offices and classr…

Offshore Wind Power

Watch: First Production Line at ‘World’s Largest Monopile Factory’ to Go Live In July

The first production line at the new manufacturing halls Sif is building at its Maasvlakte 2 site in Rotterdam is scheduled to go into operation in July 2024, a…

Geothermal Power Project

Colombia to Launch First Round of Geothermal Auction This Year

Paipa-Iza Volcanic Complex in Boyaca, Colombia (source: Tisquesusa, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)Orlando Velandia Sepúlveda, President of Colombia&rs…

LNG

Germany Adds Fourth FSRU Further Expanding Imports and LNG Supply Stability

Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity is set to increase by up to five billion cubic meters (bcm) following the arrival of the floating st…

Ammonia

Fortescue Conducts World’s First Ammonia Bunker Trial in Singapore

Fortescue (FMG.AX), opens new tab has conducted the world's first ammonia marine bunker operation in the port of Singapore, the city-state's Maritime an…

Pumped Storage

Hungary to Launch Test Drilling for First Pumped Storage Plant

Hungary is set to commence test drillings for the construction of the nation's inaugural domestic pumped energy storage facility.With the first phase poised…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

First Concrete Poured at Leningrad 7

The concreting of the 2100-square-metre foundation slab for the new VVER-1200 unit has begun, with those attending the occasion told the additional Leningrad nu…

Nuclear Fusion

Germany Aims to Build Fusion Power Plant

A new funding programme for nuclear fusion research has been announced by Germany's Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger aimed at paving the wa…

Uranium Project

Ur-Energy to ‘Build Out’ Second Wyoming Project

Ur-Energy has announced a decision to "build out" the fully permitted and licensed Shirley Basin Project in Carbon County, Wyoming. The company recently made it…

Offshore Wind Power

Forks Up! South Fork Wind Becomes the First Completed Utility-Scale Offshore Wind Farm in the United States

The first turbine is installed on South Fork Wind (Credit: Orsted)New York officials have announced the completion of Ørsted and Eversource’s South…

Solar Power Plant

Enviromena Brings Horsey Levels Solar Farm Online via National Grid Scheme

Blackfinch and Enviromena solar farm goes live due to National Grid scheme. Image: National GridReading-based renewables company Enviromena has brought the Hors…

Solar Power Plant

RWE Begins Construction of First Seven UK Solar and Storage Sites

The first of the seven sites is expected to begin operation by the end of this year. Image: RWE.RWE has begun constructing its first seven UK solar and storage …

Renewable Energy

Canada’s Brookfield Commissions First Phase of Renewable Energy Park in Indian State

Canada's Brookfield Asset Management (BAM.TO), opens new tab said on Thursday that it commissioned the first phase of its solar power sourced renewable ener…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

El Dabaa: Installation of First Unit's Inner Containment Starts

Work has begun on the first tier of the inner containment building for the first unit of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt.(Image: Rosatom)El Dabaa will…

Photovoltaic （PV）

RWE Starts Construction of Its First UK Photovoltaic Farms

RWE has taken a major step towards the realisation of its first solar farms in the UK, with seven projects, representing 330 megawatts (MW) of new, clean electr…