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Electric Vehicle Charging

Hitachi and Gridserve Partner on Multi-Million-Pound Renewable Deal

Hitachi Capital UK and UK renewable energy company Gridserve Sustainable Energy have signed a partnership agreement to develop solar farms and solar-powered ele…

Oil Price

OPEC Daily Basket Price Stands at $14.36 a Barrel Wednesday

The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes stood at $14.36 a barrel on Wednesday, 29th April, 2020, compared with $12.41 the previous day, according to OPEC Se…

Wind Farm

Vattenfall Green Lights Its Largest Onshore Wind Farm in the UK

Vattenfall enters a partnership with Greencoat UK Wind and gives the green light to the construction of South Kyle.

SMR

Holtec SMR to Use Commercially-Available Framatome Fuel

The selection of Framatome's widely consumed fuel has substantially reduced the majority of the first-of-a-kind-engineering for the fuel system, Holtec said.

Nuclear Power Plant

Finland Performs Remote Inspection of New Nuclear Plant Project

Finnish nuclear regulator STUK has carried out a scheduled inspection of RAOS Project Oy - a subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom - via Skype, in line with social dis…

Crude Oil

Russia Calls For Market Share Target For OPEC+

It would make sense for the OPEC+ coalition of oil producers to begin monitoring the group’s market share to measure how effective the OPEC+ actions are.

Historic Shift: U.S. Energy Production Outpaced Consumption in 2019, EIA Says

Energy hasn’t felt this groundbreakingly productive since Elvis Presley was electrifying audiences with “All Shook Up.”

Government Reveals Plans to Accelerate Low Carbon Heating Rollout

Proposals to replace RHI include Clean Heat Grants of up to £4,000 for homes and business for heat pumps and other technologies

Solar Company

KKR to Buy 317MWp of Solar Energy Assets from India’s SP Infra

Global investment firm KKR has signed a definitive agreement with Indian infrastructure developer Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital (SP Infra) to acquir…

Construction Begins on World’s Largest Solar Powered Hydrogen Plant in China

China’s Baofeng Energy Group said it started construction on the largest solar-powered hydrogen pilot plant in the world.

Power Construction

India Bags ADB $346m Loan to Electrify Rural Maharashtra

In India, the government of Maharashtra has secured a $346 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to electrify rural agriculture customers.

Solar Technology

BNEF Says Solar and Wind are now Cheapest Sources of New Energy Generation

Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population. Those two-thirds live in locati…

Energy Technology

Work Begins on World's Largest Solar-Powered Hydrogen Plant

China's Baofeng Energy Group said it started construction on the largest solar-powered hydrogen pilot plant in the world.

Nuclear Technology

Japan's Tepco, Chubu, Hitachi, Toshiba to Collaborate on Nuclear Plants

Tokyo Electric Power, (9501.T) Chubu Electric Power, (9502.T) Hitachi (6501.T) and Toshiba (6502.T) have agreed to consider cooperating on their nuclear plant b…

Nuclear Power Plant

Czech Republic Aims for Dukovany Progress This Summer

Czech utility ČEZ applied to the State Office for Nuclear Safety on 25 March to construct two new reactors at its Dukovany nuclear power plant.