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Energy Storage Project

Wärtsilä Signs Contract for Solar-Plus-Storage Projects

The technology group Wärtsilä is delivering a 500-MWac/2-GWh portfolio of energy storage systems to clean energy developer and operator Clearway Energy Group.…

Offshore Wind Power

UK’s Offshore Wind Target ‘Requires £54Bn Investment’

Britain’s electricity system operator, the ESO has published its flagship report Pathway to 2030 including the Holistic Network Design about what is needed to …

Shell Forecasts Trebling of Refining Profits

Energy major Shell announces indicative refining margin for Q2 of $28.04/bbl which is a sharp increase on $10.23/bbl in Q1.

Carbon Emissions

Vattenfall’s Wind Power Reduces Carbon Footprint

The carbon footprint of Vattenfall’s wind power has now been reduced to 13 grammes per kilowatt hour generated, compared to 15 grammes in 2016, and the reducti…

United Kingdom

WindEurope: UK Announces Results of National Renewables Auction

The UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has announced the results of the UK’s fourth contract for difference (CfD) auction round (AR4) …

Hydropower Plant

UAE Looks to Add Pumped Hydro to Power Mix: Report

This is in pursuit of its 30% clean energy target by 2030.

Global Hydrogen Trade Needed to Achieve Climate Goal: IRENA

Around 25% of global hydrogen is set for trading by 2050.

Canadian Solar Closes Sale of 345MWp Solar Farm in Australia to CalEnergy

The Suntop and Gunnedah solar farms are located in New South Wales.

Energy Storage Project

Australia Shortlists 12 Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects for $100M Funding

The projects, which include both new builds and retrofits for existing batteries, have an aggregate capacity of 3.05GW and will be equipped with advanced invert…

LNG

Shell Joins Massive Qatari LNG Project

North Field East expansion is branded the world’s largest LNG project

Is Hydrogen the Future of Clean Aviation?

The aviation industry accounts for as much as 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions globally.

Norway

Norway’s Hydropower Reserves Hit Hard by Drought

While Europe scrambles to procure natural gas for winter power generation and heating, Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer, Norway, has a whole diffe…

Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Energy

The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement is an international legally binding treaty aimed at limiting global warming to below 2 °C, preferably 1.5 °C, compared to pre…

Eavor to Partner With Turboden on Closed-Loop Geothermal System

Canadian Geothermal developer Eavor has selected Turboden’s Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system for the development of their project in Geretsried, South of Ger…

Rooftop PV System

Emerge, Miral to Install Rooftop Solar PV on Seaworld Abu Dhabi

The project will have an 8.2MW capacity.