Fuel

Biofuel Backers Pressuring EPA to Rewrite Latest RFS Rule

Biofuel producers and farmers are pressing the Trump administration to rewrite its proposed fix to the Renewable Fuel Standard — and threatening legal action i…

Energy Storage Battery

​New York Approves 316MW Battery Plant for Peak Power

New York's utility regulator approved construction for a 316-megawatt battery storage plant that would replace fossil fueled capacity in New York City.

UK Company Powerhouse Energy Uses Non-Recyclable Plastics to Fuel Hydrogen Cars

Powerhouse Energy has developed a process where it shreds the waste and then heats it to around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit to produce syngas — a mixture of hydro…

Report Says：China To Eliminate Hydrogen Fuel-cell Car Subsidies at The End of 2020

SAIC Motor chairman and National People's Congress deputy Chen Hong reportedly proposed extending support for fuel-cell vehicles. But the Ministry of Finance co…

Automation And Efficiency: Five Exciting Energy Start-Ups From the 2019 Business Booster

With the need to shift to a clean energy mix never more pressing, a number of innovators and start-ups are embracing new ideas to try to limit the environmental…

ExxonMobil Collaborated With Indian Institute of Technology on Biofuels for Low-emmissions Research

US-based energy company ExxonMobil has signed agreements with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) locations in Madras and Bombay to expand its research collabo…

Power Construction

UK Renewables Outstrip Fossil Fuels for Electricity Production for First Time

Over July, August and September of this year the UK's solar, biomass, wind and hydro installations generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first ti…

Argonne Team Recognized for New Fueling Technology That Can Lower Hydrogen Costs

Employees from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been recognized for developing and commercializing technology that lowers …

Market Analysis

UK Renewables Generated More Electricity Than Fossil Fuel Power Plants for First Time

The months of July, August and September were the first quarterly period in which renewables outpaced fossil fuels since the UK’s first public power generating…

Energy Storage Battery

Toyota is Extending Warranties on EV Batteries

Toyota has announced that, starting with its 2020 lineup of seven hybrid vehicles (and one fuel cell model), it is extending warranties on the hybrid battery.

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Assesses German Radioactive Waste Management

Germany is continuing to manage its radioactive waste and used fuel in a safe and responsible manner, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has c…

Plug Power to Bring Hydrogen Fuel Cargo Tow Tractors to Hamburg Airport

Germany’s Hamburg Airport will receive hydrogen fuel cargo tow tractors from Plug Power as part of a deal the American hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer inked wi…

Namibia: Energy Efficiency Key to Fighting Climate Change

An analysis by PSG Namibia states that the value of fuel imports increased in part due to a rise in fuel consumption stemmed from higher electricity production …

Energy Storage Battery

Pioneers Won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the Development of Lithium-ion Batteries

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for the development of lithium-ion batteri…

Nuclear Fuel

Brazil to Resume Production At The Country's Only Uranium Mine

Brazil's mines and energy minister, Bento Albuquerque, said the country expects to resume production at the country's only uranium mine before the end of the ye…