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Coal-Fired Power Plants

China Has 243 GW of New Coal Power Approved or Under Construction: Research

China currently has 243 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power either approved or under construction, enough to power the whole of Germany, with local governments s…

Geothermal Drilling

Production Test Completed at Hamburg Geothermal Project, Germany

Top view of the well site during production testing at the Wilhelmsburg geothermal project in Hamburg, Germany (source: Hamburg Energie Geothermie)A positive ou…

Hydrogen Production

Thyssenkrupp's Nucera Targets Growth to Meet Green Hydrogen Demand

A banner of Thyssenkrupp Nucera is displayed outside the Frankfurt stock exchange prior to Thyssenkrupp Nucera's IPO in Frankfurt, Germany, July 7, 2023. RE…

Energy Storage Project

BMW Group to Build Logistics Center for High-Voltage Batteries in North of Leipzig

Rendering of the BMW Group's new high-voltage battery logistics center at the Northern Industrial Estate in LeipzigThe BMW Group continues to invest in e-co…

Offshore Substation

Hellenic Cables Wins Gennaker Export Cable Contract

Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has been awarded a contract by 50Hertz Offshore GmBH for the turnkey delivery of two export cable systems for the inter…

Geothermal Power Project

German Chancellor Visits Eavor's Geretsried Geothermal Site

Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits the Eavor Geretsried geothermal project, Germany (source: Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz via Twitter)In a tremendous show of political …

Solar Battery (Storage)

RWE Builds Solar-Storage Plant in Opencast Mine

RWE is continuing to progress full speed ahead on green electricity production in the Rhenish mining district. Construction of a photovoltaics (PV) plant with i…

SMR

Grafenrheinfeld Reaches New Decommissioning Milestone

The process of treating, cleaning and emptying the 14-metre-deep fuel element storage pool at the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in Germany has been comple…

Geothermal Drilling

Graben-Neudorf Project, Germany Produces 200C Thermal Water

Drilling rig on site at Graben-Neudorf, Germany (source: video screenshot/ SWR)The first testing phase at the at the Graben-Neudorf geothermal project of Deutsc…

Geothermal Heating Project

Geothermal Exploration License Granted for Norderstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany

Norderstedt Mitte, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (source: Christian Alexander Tietgen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)The State Office for Mining, Energy and Ge…

Geothermal Power Project

Scholz Pushes Expansion of Geothermal Energy in Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse Acquire Licensing…

Solid-State Batteries

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Launching Customized 3D Safety Components for Batteries

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has developed thermal barriers that help to slow down thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries by increasing resistance to propagati…

Hydrogen Production

Hyiron Opens Direct Reduction Plant for Green Iron

　HyIron, with the support of the state of Lower Saxony, has commissioned what it says is the world’s largest direct reduction plant for green iron on the…

Offshore Wind Power

Rönesans Enerji Places Orders for 189 MW of Wind Power From Nordex

Nordex has won contracts for three projects from Heitkamp Industrial Solutions GmbH, a Germany-based construction subsidiary of Rönesans Holding. Heitkamp …

LNG

BASF to Buy LNG From Cheniere's Sabine Pass Expansion Project

Cheniere Energy, through its subsidiary Cheniere Marketing, has signed a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with German-based chemical producer BAS…