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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…

Solar Cell

Encapsulated Perovskite Solar Cells Show Resilience A year-long outdoor field trial demonstrates this new photovoltaic can go the distance

The first outdoor test of perovskite-and-silicon solar cells lasting more than a year shows that the cells retained over 80 percent of their initial 21.6 percen…

Solar Power Plant

TVA Will Explore Building Utility-Scale Solar on Closed Coal Ash Sites

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will pursue a first-of-its-kind pilot program at the Shawnee Fossil Plant in West Paducah, Kentucky, to determine if closed…

Nuclear Power Plant

Poland Moves Forward With Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Westinghouse and Poland’s Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) have finalized a contract for pre-design work on what would be that country’s first nucl…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Indonesia Begins Carbon Trading Program for Coal-Fired Power Plants

Indonesia’s efforts to decarbonize the country’s power generation sector took a major step on Feb. 22 as the government launched the first phase of …