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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

How the World's First Fourth-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Works

The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, Huaneng Shandong Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in eastern China's Shandong Province, went into…

Electric Vehicles

BYD Breaks Ground on Its First Sodium-Ion EV Battery Plant

The world’s largest EV maker, BYD, broke ground on its first sodium-ion battery plant this week. BYD is investing $1.4 billion (RMB 10 billion) with 30 GW…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Cybertruck Drives 254 Miles in Highway Range Test

One of the very first Tesla Cybertruck independent range tests shows the electric pickup truck covering only 254 miles on the highway.That’s significantly…

SAF

Wizz Air Invests £5M in Firefly

Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest growing and most environmentally sustainable airline globally, on Dec. 8 announced a £5 million investment in a biofuel c…

Renewable Energy

Port of Virginia Becomes First East Coast Port Entirely Powered by Clean Energy

Norfolk International Terminal (Credit: Missy Schmidt, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/hamptonroadspartnership/4556209571/)The Port of Virginia rang in th…

Solar project

First Solar to Sell Up to $700M in 45X Tax Credits

First Solar's module manufacturing facility in Ohio (Courtesy: First Solar)In what both sides are calling the first significant credit transfer of its kind …

Nuclear Reactor

Idaho Researchers Develop Reactor Digital Twin

A virtual replica of Idaho State University's (ISU's) AGN-201 research reactor, developed in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), is clai…

Offshore Wind Power

Iberdrola Starts Commissioning Vineyard Wind I, the Largest Offshore Wind Farm in theU.S.

The utility completes initial commissioning works to supply Massachusetts with offshore wind power for the first timeThe project will be capable of supplying en…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Repsol Begins to Produce Renewable Photovoltaic Electricity in Andalusia

Repsol has started producing electricity at Sigma, its first renewable project in Andalusia. Located in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), it is made up of fi…

Hydropower Plant

Iberdrola Spain Obtains Environmental Permit for First Hybrid Hydroelectric and Solar Installation

Iberdrola Spain has obtained environmental approval for the first hybrid plant in the country that combines a photovoltaic with a hydroelectric installation, wi…

Wind Turbine

Kentucky's Largest Utility Testing Wind's Energy Potential With State's First Utility-Scale Turbine

LG&E and KU’s research wind turbine rises to 165 feet. (Photo courtesy of LG&E and KU)Kentucky’s largest utility has built what it says is the state…

Power Construction

Copenhagen Infra, Avangrid JV Vineyard Wind Supplies First Power to Grid

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid (AGR.N) said on Wednesday their joint venture Vineyard Wind began generating power for the first time, supplying…

Solar Power Plant

Neoen Turns Sod on 24.7-MW Solar Project Trio in Italy

Neoen SA (EPA:NEOEN) has initiated construction of three solar projects in Italy that will add 24.7 MWp of total power generation capacity.The French renewables…

Oil Field

CNOOC Brings South China Sea Fields on Stream

Chinese offshore operator CNOOC Ltd has achieved first oil at the Lufeng Oilfields Phase II Development Project located in the Pearl River Mouth basin of the So…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Grid Connection for Second Shin Hanul Unit

Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant in South Korea has began supplying its first electricity to the grid, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced.…