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Offshore Wind Power

Fugro to Survey Nederwiek Wind Farm Sites Offshore Netherlands

Fugro has been awarded two geotechnical investigation contracts for the development of the Dutch Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord).The contracts, award…

Offshore Wind Power

RWE Secures Wind Area Lease Offshore Louisiana, Texas Sites Attract Zero Bids

RWE Offshore US Gulf, LLC has won the rights to develop offshore wind capacity at the Lake Charles Lease Area in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, USA.The area …

Offshore Wind Power

RWE Grows U.S. Offshore Wind Development Portfolio by 2-Gigawatt in Boem's First-Ever Offshore Wind Lease Auction in the Gulf of Mexico

RWE has secured a lease area in the Gulf of Mexico with a capacity to develop up to 2 gigawatts of fixed-bottom offshore wind and power over 350,000 U.S homes w…

Battery

Battery Storage Could Lower the Cost of Grid Infrastructure, Says Developers

A Harmony Energy BESS project. Image: Harmony Energy.Last week, Solar Power Portal’s sister publication Current± released a blog discussing how bat…

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…

Solid-State Batteries

How Cracked Cathodes Help Reduce Li-Ion Batteries' Charging Time

Location of the battery pack shown in a cutaway of the 2013 Nissan Leaf. (Reference image by Norsk Elbilforening, Wikimedia Commons.)New research out of the Uni…

Energy Storage Project

Texas Battery Boom: Securing Grid, Reducing Emissions,

The growth in battery storage has demonstrated its importance in assisting Texas to withstand the increasingly common heatwaves without depending on extra fossi…

SMR

Studsvik Considers SMR Deployment at Nyköping Site

Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik has signed a memorandum of understanding with small modular reactor (SMR) project development company K&aum…

Wind Farm

US Approves Major Rhode Island Offshore Wind Farm

The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday approved the construction of a 704 megawatt (MW) wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island, the fourth offshore wind proje…

Solar Panel

A New Dept of Commerce Ruling Could Slow Us Solar Growth

The US Department of Commerce determined that five Chinese solar companies have been dodging US duties. Here’s why that could impede the growth of US sola…

Hydrogen Project

Orsted and Phillips 66 Withdraw Funding From Uk's Green Hydrogen Project

Renewable energy giant Orsted and energy company Phillips 66 have jointly announced their decision to withdraw funding from the UK Government’s Hydrogen B…

Solar Power Plant

Huge solar tower and hydro storage project takes shape in South Australia

The first commercial scale project of a landmark Australia solar storage technology is getting ready for its formal opening later this month, and the technology…

Energy Storage Project

Researchers Investigate Effect of Impact on Structurally-Embedded Li-Ion Batteries

Researchers in China are investigating the effect of low-velocity impact loads on structurally embedded Li-ion batteries in vehicles. A paper on their study is …

Hydrogen Production

Germany's Pioneering Push to Elevate Hydrogen Market Growth

Germany is poised to turbocharge its hydrogen market expansion. With an ambitious update to its National Hydrogen Strategy, the country is setting its sights on…

Hydrogen Production

Two Offshore Wind-To-Hydrogen Projects Withdraw From Uk's First Electrolytic Allocation Round

An Ørsted-Phillips 66 partnership and ERM have withdrawn their Gigastack and Dolphyn projects, respectively, from the UK’s first electrolytic alloc…