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Hydrogen Fuel Cell

China’s First Integrated Methanol-To-Hydrogen and Hydrogen Refueling Service Station Now in Operation

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) officially launched China’s first methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station in Dalian, …

EV Technology

Small-Series All-Electric Mini Cooper SE Convertible to Feature Alloy Wheels From 100% Recycled Aluminum

The new MINI Cooper SE Convertible (combined power consumption: 17.2kWh/100 km according to WLTP) (earlier post) will be the first series model to be produced w…

Energy Storage Battery

Valmet Automotive Starts Series Production at Kirchardt Battery Plant

Valmet Automotive has started the series production of battery systems in Kirchardt, the Finnish company’s first battery plant in Germany. The plant near …

Solar Power Panel

Gcl Tech Says Mass Production Has Been Attained for Its “Super-Long” Mono-Si Rod

GCL Tech announced in early February that one of its subsidiaries has achieved mass production for a super-long mono-Si (silicon monocrystalline) rod. This anno…

Carbon Emissions

Indonesia Launches Carbon Trading Mechanism for Coal Power Plants

Indonesia has, reportedly, launched the first phase of mandatory carbon trading for coal power plants.The first stage of a carbon trading mechanism will cover 9…

Carbon Emissions

Al Gore Talks Climate Progress, Setbacks and the First Rule of Holes: Stop Digging

The former vice president wants to train Americans to make the most of the Inflation Reduction Act. He also talks about what he was thinking during that rip-roa…

Offshore Wind Power

Wales’ First Floating Offshore Wind Farm Gets Marine License

Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group, has secured a marine license for the 100 MW Erebus floating offshore wind project in…

SMR

Canada Launches $30 Million Small Modular Reactor Funding Program

(A rendering of GE-Hitachi’s BWRX-300 SMR, which is proposed for the Darlington new nuclear site. The reactor would be Canada’s first SMR. Image cou…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Federal Incentives Help Drive $52B of Investments in 17 EV Battery Production Facilities: BOFA

As the United States works to onshore the production of critical electric vehicle components, Bank of America analysts expect domestic facilities to see the fir…

Finland

Posiva Crew Gets to Grips With Drilling Machine

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has completed the drilling of the first two deposition holes at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel …

Hydrogen Project

UK Government Backs £5.4M Autonomous Liquid Hydrogen Vessel and Infrastructure Project

A consortium working to build and showcase the ‘world’s first’ liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel and bunkering infrastructure has won a £…

Offshore Wind Power

Gulf of Mexico May Be Next up for Offshore Wind Leases

The Department of the Interior proposed what it said would be the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.The Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) inclu…

Microgrid

Duke Energy to Mobilize First-Of-Its-Kind Microgrid-Integrated Fleet Electrification Center

Part of a Broader Collaborative Effort to Electrify and Decarbonize Transportation FleetsDuke Energy has announced it will build a first-of-its-kind performance…

Offshore Wind Power

Biden Administration Proposes Offshore Wind in Gulf

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed the first-ever offshore wind power generation lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coasts of Texas and Loui…

Offshore Wind Power

ACP Applauds First-Ever Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sale

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) issued a statement today following the announcements by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Departme…