Power

Offshore Wind Power

Newly Discovered Chemical Process Renders All Existing Wind Turbine Blades Recyclable

A new chemical process discovered as part of a Vestas-led project removes the need for changing the design or composition of the material used for wind turbine …

Nuclear Power Plant

Shine Receives Final EIS to Operate Its Mo-99 Production Facility

SHINE’s Chrysalis production building, under construction in October 2022. (Photo: SHINE)The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the final supplement…

Nuclear Reactor

Belgium Mulls Life Extension for More Reactors

Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant. (Photo: N. Hippert/IAEA)The Belgian government is exploring the idea of extending the operational life of its three olde…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Potential Under Study in Nahanni Butte, NWT, Canada

Sambaa Deh Territorial Park, Northwestern Territories, Canada (source: Fort Simpson Chamber of Commerce / flickr, Creative Commons)Gonezu Energy, with the suppo…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Royalties to Help Cut Power Costs in Radicondoli, Italy

View at Randicondoli, Tuscany, Italy (source: flickr/ Benjamin Rabe, creative commons)The Municipality of Radicondoli in Tuscany, Italy is offering tenders for …

Geothermal Power Plant

Kyotherm Invests on Geothermal Lagoon in Quebec, Canada

Depiction of the planned geoLagon tourism project in Quebec, Canada (source: geoLagon)French investment company Kyotherm has announced a preliminary agreement f…

Thermal Plant

Coal and Gas-Fired Power Plants Make Up Nearly All Planned 2023 Retirements

Data source: EIA, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2022Operators plan to retire 15.6 GW of electric-generating capacity in the United …

Hydropower Plant

Statkraft Reports Dams in Turkey Safe After Earthquake, Donates to Relief Work

In the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, Statkraft reported its two hydropower plants in the cou…

Hydropower Plant

Gilkes Energy Proposes to Develop 900 MW Earba Storage Project

Gilkes Energy has begun work on its first pumped storage hydro project, the 900 MW Earba Storage Project in the UK.The proposal is to use Loch a’ Bhealaic…

Energy Technology

Argonne National Lab Supports Advanced Nuclear Concepts

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is supporting three companies developing a range of new advanced reactor and…

Offshore Wind Power

MPS, JGC to Jointly Deliver Floating Wind Projects Offshore Japan

Marine Power Systems (MPS) and JGC Japan have signed a non-exclusive collaborative agreement to deliver floating offshore wind platforms at a commercial scale i…

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarus NPP Unit 2 Preparing for Trial Grid Connection

The first trial connection to the grid of unit 2 at the Belarusian NPP is planned for March-April, according to Deputy Minister of Energy Mikhail Mikhadyuk. The…

United States

CNL and Jubilant Radiopharma Collaborate on Actinium-225

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is to collaborate with US-based Jubilant Radiopharma to develop alpha radiopharmaceuticals. The joint project comes under CN…

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Reports Enhanced Safety at Czech Research Reactor

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Safety Assessment of Research Reactor (INSARR) team says the Czech Republic has enhanced safety at its m…

Floating Offshore Wind

France’s Only Floating Wind Turbine Hits Near 60 per Cent Continuous Capacity Factor

The 2 MW Floatgen demonstrator floating wind turbine has shown a capacity factor of nearly 60 per cent over the last three months and a production of 25 GWh sin…