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Chile

Chile’s First Electric Bus Factory Aims to Ease Fossil Fuel Dependency

Electric buses built by a Chilean company are now operating in the world's top copper-producing nation, as the country seeks ways to reduce its use of fossil fu…

Germany

EIB Backs Germany-UK Interconnector With €400M

Work to build the interconnector will start this year, connecting two of Europe’s largest energy markets for the first time

Net Zero Emission

Novel Ways to Remove Carbon From the Atmosphere

Direct air capture technology removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and compresses it for sequestration or utilization, with the goal of assisting society …

Electric Car

ePioneers Test Traffic Turnaround on German Grid

Grid operator Netze BW has announced the completion of its electromobility project in Wangen.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas and Hydrogen Highlight the Revamped German - Egyptian Relationship

On the occasion of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, launched in 2010, after the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and held annually ever since, President el …

United States

Conocophillips Considers Exiting U.S. Gulf of Mexico

ConocoPhillips is considering a potential sale of its minority stake in a Shell-operated oil and gas platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which would mark the e…

China

China Solar Installations More Than Double in First Half

China built nearly 31 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity from January to June, up 137% from a year earlier, with full-year installations on course to hi…

Hydrogen Project

UK Opens Joint Revenue and Grant Funding Round for Hydrogen

Projects will be able to apply both for grant funding through the GBP 240 million (USD 287m/EUR 282m) Net Zero Hydrogen Fund and revenue support through the Hyd…

Electric Car

Swappable Car Batteries Could Accelerate UK’s Transition to Electric Vehicles

A new paper from Cornwall Insight and law firm Shoosmiths has laid out why switching the UK electric vehicle (EV) model to Battery-as-a-Service, could cut upfro…

Nuclear Power Plant

Main Construction Phase for El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant Project Begins in Egypt

Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, and Mohamed Shaker, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy gave a green light to the pouring of the "…

All-In-One Solar Tower Produces Jet Fuel From CO2, Water and Sunlight

Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as its only inputs, this solar thermal tower in Spain produces carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and jet …

Energy Storage Project

Portuguese Utility EDP Adding Battery Storage to Floating Solar-Hydropower Hybrid Plant

Portuguese utility EDP is to add energy storage to a hybrid floating solar and hydropower project after it was energised earlier this month.

Smart Home Solutions Providing Much Needed Resilience

In the midst of wildfires, energy security concerns and grid reliability questions, two smart home solutions are providing respective approaches towards adaptab…

United Kingdom

ZeroAvia Attracts $30MN in New Funding

New investment from Barclays, NEOM, AENU and IAG will further advance ZeroAvia’s 2-5MW hydrogen-electric powertrain development program.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Toyota Plans to Roll Out Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Trucks for the Japanese Market Next Year

Toyota, along with three other partners, is to work on the development of light-duty fuel cell electric trucks.