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LNG

Video: Establishing Mozambique As A Global LNG Player

Africa Oil & Power spoke to Carlos Zacarias, CEO, INP about Mozambique’s enormous resource potential, the government’s electricity expansion initiatives, and …

Energy Storage Battery

How to Prevent Short-Circuiting in Next-Gen Lithium Batteries

As researchers push the boundaries of battery design, seeking to pack ever greater amounts of power and energy into a given amount of space or weight

Solar Power Plant

African Petrol Stations Embracing Solar

Roof-mounted solar, and even storage systems, provide cheaper power than mains electricity or diesel generation, prompting companies such as Total to install mo…

Solar Power Plant

Burkina Faso to get 30MW Solar Plant for National Grid

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund will finance 80% of the construction of Urbasolar SAS’ new solar plant planned for 250km south-east of Ouagadougou, Bur…

Carbon Neutral

Xinjiang Sets Record High Wind Energy, Solar Power Generation

Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is taking the lead in China’s renewable energy push, with new energy installed capacity reaching a record h…

Nuclear Power Plant

Ohio Senate Strips Subsidies from Nuclear Power Plant Bailout Law

Ohio Senators have unanimously approved a bill that strips out a key provision of the sweeping energy law that’s at the center of a federal corruption scandal.…

Energy Storage System

Therma Marine Contracts Wärtsilä for Floating Energy Storage System

Power generation holding company Therma Marine has ordered a flexible floating barge-mounted energy storage system from Finnish power and marine industry compan…

Solar Power Plant

Advancing Standards for PV Mounting Systems| Thorsten Kray is the New Head of Research and Standardization at AEROCOMPACT

Satteins, Austria, March 8, 2021. The Austrian manufacturer of PV mounting systems AEROCOMPACT strengthens its team with the internationally known wind engineer…

Germany

Wind Energy Replaces Coal as Germany’s Biggest Energy Source in 2020

The share of renewable energy in the amount of electricity generated and fed to the grid in Germany reached a new record, rising from 42.3 percent in 2019 to 47…

China

China To Cut Energy Intensity By 3% This Year

China will reduce the amount of energy it uses to expand its economy by 3 percent this year as part of efforts to hit emission reduction targets set earlier, ci…

Thermal Coal

Indonesia's Salim Plans Australian Coal Mine Growth

The Indonesian owners of Australia's 8mn t/yr Mount Pleasant high-grade thermal coal mine in New South Wales have applied to expand the mine to 17mn t/yr and ex…

Nuclear Power Plant

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia Sign SMR MOU

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the potential for the deployment of small modular reactors in Estonia.

Electric Car

Fisker and Foxconn to Collaborate on EV Project; Start of Production of Project PEAR in Q4 2023

Fisker Inc. has entered into a MOU with Hon Hai Technology Group supporting a project to develop a breakthrough electric vehicle.

Energy Transition

GWEC Partnership to Accelerate India’s Energy Transition

The GWEC India and MEC+ announced that they have signed a MoU to work together on building out market intelligence and evidence-driven policy recommendations to…

Electricity Trade

State of Texas Should Pay for Enormous Energy Bills After Power Outages, Houston Mayor Says

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Sunday called on the state of Texas to pay for the enormous electric bills that scores of Texans reported after severe winter …