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IEA: 25% Fall in Weekly Energy Demand During Covid-19 Pandemic

​The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a report into the impacts of Covid-19 on global energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions, revealing that …

Energy Storage Material

China's Export of Rare Earth up 19.2 Pct in March

China's export of rare earth increased by 19.2 percent year on year to reach 5,551 tonnes in March, according to data from the General Administration of Customs…

Crude Oil

U.S. Oil Companies Begin Sending Crude To Strategic Petroleum Reserve

U.S. oil companies have started sending oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Bloomberg reports, citing a Department of Energy official.

Oil Price

Canada’s Oil Firms Set To Curtail Output By At Least 1 Million Bpd

Companies in Canada have already reacted to the oil price plunge, but analysts and investors will be looking for further clues in the earnings reports about how…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

China Develops its First Hydrogen Powered Tram for Passenger Transport

In a move to shrink greenhouse gas emissions, the country has developed and built the H2 vehicles.

Pumped Storage

New DOE Report on Environmental Effects of Pumped Storage Hydropower

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report as part of its HydroWIRES initiative: A Comparison of the Environmental Effects of Open-Loop and Closed-…

Oil & Gas Trade

China Set to Issue First-Ever Export QQuotas for VLSFO of 10 mln T for 2020

China is set to release its first-ever quotas to export very low sulphur fuel oil with total volumes of 10 million tonnes for this year.

Energy Storage Battery

KIST Develops High-Performance Ceramic Fuel Cell that Operates

Thin-film catalyst incorporation enables high-performance over butane fuel at 600°C or below. The technology considerably widens the application range of ceram…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Why Hydrogen Fuel Cells are the Future of Sustainable Transport

Fuel cell technology has been in development since the late 1800s and hydrogen fuel cells have been around since the early 1930s. However, they have never been …

Researchers Make Key Advance Toward Production of Important Biofuel

An international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable manufacture of biobutanol, an alcohol whose strong potential …

Ireland’s Iirst Renewables Auction

Clean energy developers have three days left to pre-qualify for the first procurement exercise staged by the Irish Renewable Electricity Support Scheme. Solar w…

LNG

US $2.8bn Export LNG Carriers to be Constructed in China

CSSC Chairman Lei Fanpei, Saad Sherida AI-Kaabi, president and CEO of Qatar Petroleum and the Minister of State for Energy Affairs signed the contract online on…

Oil Price

OPEC Sees Oil Rising To $40 In Second Half Of 2020

In China, which was hit first by the coronavirus, and which exited the lockdown first, the return to normalization in the transportation sector “is driving up …

Nuclear Fuel

Next-Generation Technologies Boosted by US NFWG

A report released last week by the U.S. nuclear fuel working group Outlines support for the development of next-generation technologies and advanced fuels.

Solar Power Plant

Coronavirus Putting 150 GW of Asia Pacific Renewables Projects at Risk Says Report

Up to 150 gigawatts of wind and solar projects in the asia-pacific region could be delayed or cancelled.