Power

Solar Power Plant

New Solar and Wind Power Facilities in Piauí This Year Will Total 601 MW Together

Piauí will have several new solar and wind power plants this year, increasing the state’s energy security, as well as generating jobs and income fo…

Biomass Power Plant

Japan’s Yufutsu Biomass Power Plant Starts Operations

Japanese paper mill Nippon Paper and trading house Sojitz started commercial operations of the 75MW Yufutsu biomass-fired power generation plant on 2 February i…

Solar Power Plant

Solar Wadi to Build 100MW Solar PV Plant in Oman

Once completed, the plant will provide the tenants of Suhar Industrial City with a cheaper source of electricity, while also allowing them to meet their decarbo…

Carbon Emissions

Saudi Arabia’s Swcc Partners With Korea’s Carbonco to Advance Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbonco and SWCC will cooperate on the adoption of CCUS technology, which captures carbon from power plants operated by SWCC and utilises it in the seawater de…

Solar Power Panel

Onshore Solar To Cut Emissions From Docked Vessels In Kenya

A new study looking at the usage of PV-powered cold ironing in the largest port in East Africa has concluded that small-scale solar plants could be crucial to r…

Energy Storage System

Milestone for Major Pumped Hydro Storage Project in Wyoming

A Utah-based company is developing a pumped hydro energy storage project in the heart of coal country, one of several renewable energy deployments being sited i…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

EPA Moves to Deny Coal Ash Disposal at Six Massive Coal Power Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed barring six coal-fired power plants in various states—a combined 11 GW—from disposing coal ash into unli…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal ‘Battery’ Repurposes Abandoned Oil and Gas Well in Illinois, Researchers Report

A conceptual schematic of the type of advanced geothermal energy storage system demonstrated in this study. Credit: Tugce Baser and Renewable EnergyResearchers …

Wind Turbine

Norway Just Greenlit This Vertical-Axis Floating Wind Turbine

Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl got the go-ahead to test its 1 megawatt (MW) S2X vertical-axis floating offshore prototype in Norway.Vertical-axis floating …

Wind Farm

Capital Energy Will Install a Wind Farm and a Photovoltaic Plant in Almería

The agreements are subject to the development of the Peregiles wind farm and the La Rambla photovoltaic plant, which will be located in the aforementioned munic…

Nuclear Fuel

Advanced Reactors / Oklo Submits Plans For Licensing Of Nuclear Fuel Recycling Plant

Oklo is evaluating 15 different sites for its Aurora nuclear power plant. Courtesy Oklo.US-based advanced nuclear technology company Oklo has submitted a licens…

Nuclear Reactor

Ukrainian Cabinet Approves Start of Work on New Khmelnitsky Reactors

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has given the green light for work to begin to develop project documentation for the construction of two Westinghouse AP100…

Nuclear Reactor

Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear to Form a Joint Venture to Manufacture TRISO and FCM Fuel

Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) intend to form a joint venture to manufacture commercial quantities of Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) part…

Nuclear Power Plant

CEZ Recruits for Its New Build Plans

New build in the Czech Republic will lead the utility ČEZ to almost double its nuclear workforce. The company said its nuclear teams will grow by 2600 over the…

Nuclear Fuel

Companies Pool Resources to Manufacture TRISO Fuel

A joint venture between Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) plans to manufacture commercial quantities of TRISO fuel particles and fuel for adva…