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Nanomaterials Makes Computers And Smartphones More Energy Efficient

With enhanced properties such as greater strength, lighter weight, increased electrical conductivity and chemical reactivity, nanomaterials (NMs) are widely use…

Electric Car

Sony Surprises Everyone by Showcasing Its First Concept Electric Car

Sony seems to have taken an off-beat path and surprised everyone by showcasing its first concept electric car. The announcement was made at the ongoing Consumer…

Maximize Energy Efficiency in Class A Office Buildings With Modern Building Systems

Advancements in HVAC systems, elevators, escalators and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems have resulted in modern building systems that improve perform…

LNG

Qatar Petroleum and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Sign Agreement to Supply 3 Million Tons of LNG

Qatar Petroleum and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) entered into a long term Sale and Purchase Agreement for the supply of up to 3 million tons per annum of …

Tokyo Olympic to Use Hydrogen Fuel to Light the Flames of Cauldrons And Torch

The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is planning to use the next-generation energy of hydrogen fuel to light the flames of th…

U.S. Energy Consumption Suffered A Noticeable Hit By Economic Slowdown

U.S. manufacturers and freight hauliers were hit last year by the sharpest slowdown since the 2008/09 recession and it filtered through into a noticeable dip in…

Gas power plant

Work Starts on €120 Million Croatian Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Power Plant

Italian contractor FATA has started construction work on a new gas-fired combined cycle power plant (CCPP) unit in the Croatian capital Zagreb.

Coal Mine

​India Coal Ministry to Issue Notice Inviting Tender for Commercial Mining Auctions

The Ministry of Coal aims to issue the Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) documents before the end of the current financial year to begin the process of commercial co…

Nuclear Power Plant

CGN Changes Hongyanhe ACPR-1000 Start-Up Schedule

China General Nuclear (CGN) has announced that units 5 and 6 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Liaoning province are now expected to start operating in th…

The Six Paradoxes Slowing Down The Energy Transition

It is not just the fact that certain economies, such as Russia or Norway, are highly dependent on oil & gas revenues, it is also the choices and approaches that…

Snowy Hydro Scheme Lost Assets Due to Australian Bushfires

Although its power stations appear to have avoided major damage, Snowy Hydro reports it has “lost a number of other assets” in its Snowy Hydro scheme due to t…

Nuclear Fuel

Iran Scraps Limit on Uranium Enrichment

Iran said yesterday it will ignore the limit on the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges agreed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), thus w…

Smart Grid

Smart Grids to Manage Two Thirds of Global Power Networks by 2050

Grid balancing becomes paramount as the share of intermittent supply from renewable power sources keeps rising fast in most developed countries around the globe…

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Buyers Fear Iraqi Supply Hit, in Spillover from Iran Crisis

Oil buyers in Asia are increasingly wary that Iraq’s entanglement in the worsening dispute between the U.S. and Iran could disrupt shipments from one of their …

Strategies on Reducing Induced Seismicity in Geothermal Energy And CO2 Storage

Swiss researchers at EPFL and the Federal Office of Energy have published a study that shares strategies that help reduce risk of induced seismicity in geotherm…