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Market Analysis

Solar PV Corporate Funding Expected to Take a Hit

Lack of venture capital investment and reduced public market financing activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic is squeezing cash flows. Between January and March …

Wind Power Project

India’s Wind Developers Face Significant Downtimes

The slowdown in commercial activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting companies across the wind value chain in India.

Energy Storage Battery

Emergence of Crucial Interphase in Lithium-Ion Batteries is Observed by Researchers

What happens in a lithium-ion battery when it first starts running? A complex series of events, it turns out – from electrolytic ion reorganization to a riot o…

Solar Power Panel

Solar Cell Technology Has Smashed Three Big Records

the world is grappling with more than just the climate crisis, and yet even now, in the face of a global pandemic.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

The Decline of Coal-Fired Power Will Not Impact Reliable Electricity Supply

If the economic viability of the coal industry was not already in question before the outbreak of COVID-19, the ensuing economic downturn has really laid bare t…

Solar Technology

HZB Scientists Announce 24.16% Efficiency for Tandem CIGS Solar Cell

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems’ (ISE) CalLab has confirmed the new efficiency rating. The researchers have combined semiconductors, perovski…

Energy Technology

Researchers Pioneer Groundbreaking Hydrogen Technology

Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have transformed optical fibres into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel u…

Thermal Coal

Thermal Coal Demand Declining Globally, Driving Fewer Imports, Production

Thermal coal demand is declining globally and forcing cutbacks of imports and production, driven by lower power-sector coal demand resulting from the coronaviru…

Nuclear Power Plant

Iran Pushes Ahead with Nuclear Development Despite Pandemic Restrictions

Iran's nuclear activities were continuing despite the novel coronavirus outbreak and continuing US sanctions.

Gas Turbine

Siemens Supplying Three Gas Turbines

Siemens Gas and Power will provide three 33 MW SGT-700B industrial gas turbines for a Long-Term Program with Ascend Performance Materials’ nylon intermediate a…

Tidal Energy

Tidal Power Operations See Minimal Disruption from Coronavirus Pandemic

Electricity is continuing to be supplied from the MeyGen project in Scotland to the grid.

Polypropylene project of petrochina liaoyang petrochemical company

Tenders are invited for Dcs for 300 kta high performance polypropylene project of petrochina liaoyang petrochemical company

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Projects in Turkey Paralyzed Over COVID-19 Shutdown

Supply chain interruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic brought seven projects of 100 MW in total to a halt.

Ultra-high voltage grid

State Grid Resumes Construction of 800 kV HVDC Line in China

Construction works had been suspended in the Hubei province, the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic.

LNG

New Arctic Projects will Proceed as Planned, Despite a Sharp Drop in LNG Exports

Amid a world economic crisis, the Russian gas company Novatek is shipping less liquefied natural gas than it was just a few months ago.