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Offshore Wind Power

Vertical Axis Turbines Benefit Offshore Wind

New analysis for offshore floating wind developer SeaTwirl indicates that vertical axis turbines can be sited closer together to increase the power density.

Energy Storage Project

Equinor Confirms Construction of First Commercial Battery Storage Asset

Equinor has approved the final investment decision on the Blandford Road battery storage project in the south of the UK.

APAC to Generate Lion’s Share of World’s Energy by 2030

​The region is expected to account for 56% of the world’s energy in the next decade.

Masdar Plans Acquisitions as It Continues to Expand Its Portfolio

Exclusive: Abu Dhabi company is assessing new renewable opportunities in different countries, top executive says

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Markets to Remain Tight in 2023 as Russia Cuts Supply, IEA Says

Global gas consumption will decline by nearly 1% in 2022

Laos

Laos Poised to Be Southeast Asia’s Key Electricity Supplier

This comes amidst the development the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project.

OPEC

Opec+ to Hold In-Person Meeting Next Week in Vienna

This will be the first in-person ministerial meeting since March 2020, the group says

Natural Gas

UK Energy Bills Rise to Record High as Fuel Poverty Fears Grow

Gas prices will go from 7p to 10p per kilowatt hour under new guarantee

Nigeria

Clean Energy Jobs in Nigeria to Double by 2023

The sector could create more than 76,000 new jobs by next year in solar services, a report says

Wind Energy Industry Needs 570,000 Technicians by 2026

​This comes as the global onshore and offshore wind increase in size by 67%.

Carbon Emissions

New Technology Converts Waste Biomass into Solid, Clean-Burning Fuel

To prepare fields for planting, farmers the world over often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw, and other waste left behind from the previous harvest.

Wind Turbine

Developing the Next Generation of Direct-Drive Wind Turbines

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed …

Hydrogen Production

The Importance of Clean Hydrogen in the Decarbonization of Heavy Metals

Decarbonizing fossil energy requirements that cannot be directly powered by renewable power is one of the world’s biggest climate challenges.

Natural Gas

Europe's Crisis Measures to Tackle Energy Price Spike

European Union countries on Friday approved a package of emergency measures aimed at pulling down surging gas and power prices that are stoking inflation, hampe…

Solar Technology

Emrod Demonstrates Power-Beaming Technology to Unlock Space-Based Solar Power

Emrod has recently demonstrated its technology for space-based solar power (SBSP) applications in a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus a…