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Carbon Emissions

Vattenfall’s Wind Power Reduces Carbon Footprint

The carbon footprint of Vattenfall’s wind power has now been reduced to 13 grammes per kilowatt hour generated, compared to 15 grammes in 2016, and the reducti…

United Kingdom

WindEurope: UK Announces Results of National Renewables Auction

The UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has announced the results of the UK’s fourth contract for difference (CfD) auction round (AR4) …

Hydropower Plant

UAE Looks to Add Pumped Hydro to Power Mix: Report

This is in pursuit of its 30% clean energy target by 2030.

Global Hydrogen Trade Needed to Achieve Climate Goal: IRENA

Around 25% of global hydrogen is set for trading by 2050.

Canadian Solar Closes Sale of 345MWp Solar Farm in Australia to CalEnergy

The Suntop and Gunnedah solar farms are located in New South Wales.

Energy Storage Project

Australia Shortlists 12 Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects for $100M Funding

The projects, which include both new builds and retrofits for existing batteries, have an aggregate capacity of 3.05GW and will be equipped with advanced invert…

LNG

Shell Joins Massive Qatari LNG Project

North Field East expansion is branded the world’s largest LNG project

Is Hydrogen the Future of Clean Aviation?

The aviation industry accounts for as much as 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions globally.

Norway

Norway’s Hydropower Reserves Hit Hard by Drought

While Europe scrambles to procure natural gas for winter power generation and heating, Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer, Norway, has a whole diffe…

Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Energy

The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement is an international legally binding treaty aimed at limiting global warming to below 2 °C, preferably 1.5 °C, compared to pre…

Eavor to Partner With Turboden on Closed-Loop Geothermal System

Canadian Geothermal developer Eavor has selected Turboden’s Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system for the development of their project in Geretsried, South of Ger…

Rooftop PV System

Emerge, Miral to Install Rooftop Solar PV on Seaworld Abu Dhabi

The project will have an 8.2MW capacity.

Electric Vehicle Battery

Green Energy Transition: Upcycling EV Batteries Into Graphene Oxide

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are soaring, and this means that in the coming decades, there will be a sudden influx of spent batteries which will overwhelm c…

Solar-Powered Chemistry Could Recycle Carbon Dioxide Into Fuels and Chemicals

An international research team has demonstrated that solar-powered synthesis gas could recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and beneficial chemicals.

Offshore Wind Power

Vattenfall Wins Contracts for Difference for Norfolk Boreas Offshore Windfarm

Vattenfall has today been awarded contracts for the Norfolk Boreas Offshore Windfarm, the first phase of Vattenfall’s Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone and one of the…