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Carbon Emissions

EU Bans Goods Linked to Deforestation

New checks will now be in place before items are imported onto the continent – to understand their impact on forestry.

Energy Storage Battery

EDF Renewables UK Signs Contract With Wärtsilä for Energy Superhub

EDF Renewables UK has signed a contract with global technology company Wärtsilä for a new transmission-connected battery storage facility in Sundon, Bedfordsh…

Energy Storage Project

Balance Power Secures Planning Approval on St Austell Battery Storage Project

Balance Power has announced the approval of a 49.5 MW battery storage project in St Austell, Cornwall, the UK.

Denmark

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy to Develop Large Scale Power-To-X Facility

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy, a Danish renewable energy developer, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a power-to-X facility in Denmark with one o…

Carbon Emissions

The UK Company Unlocking the Immense Power of Carbon Waste

As COP27 closed there was a clear understanding that there is no silver bullet to tackle climate change and a wide range of solutions are required to help manag…

Natural Gas

U.S. Pledges to Ramp up Supplies of Natural Gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak Seek to Cut off Russia

U.K. government says the new partnership will “drive work to reduce global dependence on Russian energy exports.”

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Co-firing With Ammonia Project Set for Chilean Coal Plant

Power generators are exploring how they can retrofit coal-fired power plants to enable co-firing with ammonia, part of their strategy to reduce emissions of car…

SMR

Small Modular Reactors Aren’t Difficult Nuclear Waste Generators

Many experts believe small modular reactors (SMRs), which are generally classified as nuclear power reactors with an electrical output of 300 MW or less, offer …

United Kingdom

Octopus Energy Takeover of Collapsed UK Rival Bulb Faces Legal Challenge

The British government’s decision to approve collapsed energy supplier Bulb’s acquisition by Octopus Energy faces a legal challenge from rival suppliers in ea…

Natural Gas

ICE Warns EU Gas Price Cap Could See Prices Rise

An exchanges operator has warned the European Union that its proposal to cap gas prices would make it more likely that prices rise to hit the cap.

Energy Investment

Losses May Force Japanese, S. Korean Utilities to Delay Green Investment

South Korean and Japanese power utilities are sustaining heavy losses, kept from passing rising generation costs on to customers and, according to analysts, for…

CCS

Denmark Awards First CO2 Storage Permit

The Danish Energy Agency has granted the first-ever permit for a CO2 storage project in Denmark. The project includes the injection and storage of up to 15,000 …

Pumped Storage

‘Geomechanical Pumped Storage’ Startup Quidnet Gets Us$10 Million ARPA-E Funding

Quidnet, a company developing a proprietary mechanical energy storage technology, has been selected to receive funding from the US Advanced Research Projects Ag…

Net Zero Emission

Adnoc to Set up New Vertical in Decarbonisation Push

Musabbeh Al Kaabi, chief executive of Mubadala's UAE investments platform, has been named executive director.

Gas Turbine

GE Releases New Option to Cut Emissions on Its Mobile Gas Turbines

GE Gas Power announced on Dec. 6 that it has deployed an “innovative technical solution” on four TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines at the California Departme…