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Electrification

​ABB Electrification Launches Virtual ‘Smart City’

To celebrate UN World Cities Day today, ABB has launched an interactive landscape showing some of the safe, smart and sustainable solutions that can contribute …

Energy Storage Project

Softbank Invests $110M in New Energy Storage System

Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its …

Energy Storage Battery

The 7 Battery Technologies that can be Cost Competitive by 2030

Rapid performance improvements, falling prices and massive investment is accelerating us towards a time when batteries undercut fossil fuels for storage and des…

Evolutionary Triumph: China’s First ACPR1000

Completion of the first ACPR1000 reactor at Yangjiang 5 within a mere 58 months marks a major achievement for China’s lengthy efforts to commercialize the firs…

Crude

Russia: US Smuggling Syrian Oil Worth $30 million a Month

Russia has slammed President Donald Trump's plan to deploy troops into Syrian oil fields as “criminal activity,” accusing the US of seeking to smuggle out oil…

Oil Price

Oil Price can Never Get to above $100 per Barrel in Our Lifetime

Speaking as a guest lecturer at the first convocation ceremony of Edo University, Iyamho, Edo State, Emefiele said, “oil price can never get to above $100 per …

Oil&Gas Drilling

Russia’s Oil Output Still Exceeds OPEC+ Cap Even as Gap Narrows

Russia’s average daily oil production remained above its OPEC+ target in October, though the compliance gap is the narrowest since the Druzhba crude-contaminat…

Belarus Set to Secure World Bank Loan to Improve Energy Efficiency

The World Bank is set to support Belarus in increasing energy efficiency by financing the new Sustainable Energy Scale-Up Project in the country with a loan of …

Nuclear Fuel

US Slaps New Sanctions on Iran

Washington imposes sanctions on Iranian construction sector and trade in four materials used in its military or nuclear programs, but waives others.

Offshore Wind Power

Offshore Wind: a New Source of Clean Energy for Asia?

Offshore wind is seeing the same dramatic cost reductionsas solar and onshore wind. Though still more expensive, it’s heading towards $60/MWh parity with them …

Japan Takes a Leap into Hydrogen Fuel

A Japanese owner has developed the first hydrogen-fuelled tug in east Asia as part of a national strategy to test alternative marine fuelsTokyo Kisen collaborat…

Meridiam Wins Contract for Kinguele Hydropower Plant

Construction work is set to start in the second quarter of 2020 on the 34MW run-of-the-river Kinguele Aval hydropower plant in Gabon, as Meridiam confirms it ha…

Renewables Set New Records in Germany

Renewables contributed some 43% of electricity consumption in Germany in the first nine months of 2019 – a new record – however doubts remain over the country…

Nuclear Power Plant

Cyberattack on Indian Nuclear Power Plant “Should Come as no Surprise”

cybersecurity experts have said that the cyberattack on India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant should come as “no surprise” given the high-value of critical …

Nuclear Power Plant

North Korean Hackers Hit Critical Indian Nuclear Plant

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant was hacked using malware which is designed to extract data which has been linked to Lazarus Group, which is known to have tie…