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Clean emission

South Korea Wants to Double Renewables Target by 2034

Korea has proposed aiming for renewable sources to account for 40% of the nation's power by 2034. The current plan targets 20% by 2030.

Geothermal Power Plant

Djibouti Launches the Geothermal Exploitation Project

The board of directors of the African Development Bank approved, additional funding of $3.22 million for the geothermal exploitation project in the Lake Assal r…

Solar thermal

Solaris Says Europe will Have New Solar Records in 2020

Following solar production records set in the UK, Germany and Spain in March and April, the European solar market is set to break further records in 2020, accor…

Coal Production

The Biggest Power Plant in Drax, UK will Soon End Coal-fire Power Generation

The UK's biggest power plant, Drax in North Yorkshire, has announced it will end all coal-fired power generation by March 2021, well ahead of the UK's 2025 dead…

Solar Power Plant

US Approves Construction of $1bn Gemini Solar Project

The US Government has approved a proposal to build and operate the $1bn Gemini Solar Project.

Oil Price

Aramco Earnings Plunge By 25% As Low Oil Prices Persist

Despite the profit slump of US$6 billion in Q1, Aramco’s free cash flow was more resilient and fell to US$15 billion from US$17.4 billion in Q1 2019.

Solar Power Plant

The Largest Solar Farm in Australia will be Launched in South West Queensland

France-based renewable energy developer Neoen signed a 352 MWp power purchase agreement related to a solar farm with CleanCo of Queensland, Australia.

Coal Production

Coal Power Tipped to Decline in APAC in 2020

Low electricity demand hit coal-fired generation in India and Southeast Asia.

Hydropower Plant

Turkey to Start Power Generation in Huge Ilisu Dam Next Week

Turkey will launch the first turbine in Ilisu Dam in southeast Turkey next week, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday following a weekly cabinet meeting.

Coal Trade

BNP Paribas Accelerates Its Exit from Coal in OECD Countries

French bank BNP Paribas is expanding to all OECD countries its target to end relationships with customers that use coal to generate electricity by end 2030, it …

Prominent Russian Academic Promotes Nuclear Production of Hydrogen

Nikolay Ponomarev-Stepnoy, scientific advisor to the director general of Russian nuclear utility Rosenergoatom, said on 7 May that Russia “may take a leading p…

Nuclear Power Plant

E.ON Sold Ahead German Nuclear Power at Above Market Prices

Sixty-five per cent of nuclear capacity in 2021 and 34 per cent in 2022 will be sold at well above current wholesale market prices, boosting the sector's earnin…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Coal Power Falls to Lowest Levels in 43 Years in US, After Biggest Annual Drop in 2019

“The miners are coming back,” Trump said of the coal mining industry at an election rally in Louisville, Kentucky, more than four years ago.

Solar Power Panel

Research Team Finds Way to Make Solar Panels “Sweat” to Deliver More Power

Researchers have figured out a way to make solar panels “sweat,” allowing them to cool themselves down in the heat and thus boost their generation output by u…

Hydropower Plant

TEPCO RP Acquires Shares in 108-MW Dariali Hydropower Project in Georgia

TEPCO Renewable Power, Incorporated has acquired 31.4% of the shares in JSC Dariali Energy, a hydropower company in Georgia, from Peri LLC for the purpose of p…