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Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Reportedly Ready to Pull Out of Sizewell C Nuclear Project

Unions have warned that the UK’s nuclear future will be at risk if the government investment decision for the project is delayed

United States

The Rise of Robots in the Oil and Gas Industry

The U.S. of robotics in the oil and gas industry is expected to pick up significantly over the next decade after the Covid pandemic accelerated the digitalizati…

LNG

Can Europe Actually Afford to Kick Fossil Fuels?

The European Union has made big pledges to go green, but the energy crisis is making its plans exceedingly difficult to achieve.

Energy Investment

Renewables to Drive 8% Rise in Global Energy Investment in 2022

Green energy, grids and storage now account for more than 80% of total investment in power sector.

India

New Report Shows That India Will Require $223 Billion to Meet RE Goals

​India will require $223 billion of investment in order to meet its goal of wind and solar capacity installations by 2030, according to a new report by researc…

Sandia Researchers Test Explosives for the Expansion of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to …

CCS

Will Capturing Carbon Emissions Save Our Planet?

Carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) is widely accepted as a viable means of reducing carbon emissions and keeping global temperatures from rising more t…

Solar Power Panel

New Thermophotovoltaic Cells Turn Heat Into Electricity More Efficiently Than a Steam Turbine

Jennifer Chu at MIT describes new research, in collaboration with NREL, that has led to a prototype solid-state heat engine that can operate at up to 2,400 deg…

Hydrogen Production

Green Hydrogen: Scaling the Decarbonization Heavyweight

From a somewhat niche technology only a few years ago, green hydrogen has rocketed into the global decarbonization mainstream as a "new solution" to displace ca…

Wind Power Project

ACWA Power-Led Consortium Signs Agreement for Wind Project in Egypt

ACWA Power has inked a project agreement to develop a 1.1 GW wind project in Egypt at an investment value of US$1.5 billion.

United States

Solar Consortium Pledges $6BN for American-Made Modules

Leading solar developers have committed to spending $6 billion on American-made modules to support the expansion of the domestic solar supply chain.

United Kingdom

EDF Renewables Progresses With Two UK Solar Projects

Two consented projects that EDF Renewables UK added to its solar portfolio in March 2021 have progressed to the site preparation and construction stage.

South Africa

South Africa: Opportunities to Expand the Renewable Energy Market Do Exist

While the revival of the REIPPP programme in 2021 holds great promise to expand South Africa’s large-scale renewable energy market, grid constraints in the cou…

Energy Transition

$300M Pan-African Renewable Energy Fund (Paref) Established

The Pan-African Renewable Energy Fund (PAREF) to accelerate renewable energy adoption in Africa has been established.

United States

US University Decarbonises With Siemens Smart Tech

Morgan State University (MSU) has partnered with Siemens to improve infrastructure toward becoming a smart and connected campus.