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Microgrid

Husk Power Systems Proves Rural Minigrids Can Be Profitable

There is a common belief that profit-building minigrids are impossible in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Husk Power released financial data today that illus…

Geothermal Power Plant

Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France to Be Supplied With Geothermal Heating by 2025

Mignot Hospital, Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France (source: Département des Yvelines / flilckr, Creative Commons)A geothermal heating project in …

Nuclear Reactor

GE Hitachi Signs Contract for the First North American Small Modular Reactor

GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor.GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), SNC-Lavalin and Aecon have signed a contract for the …

Nuclear Reactor

Kazakhstan Continues Discussions With EDF

Kazakhstan is continuing discussions with French company EDF including proposals for an EPR-1200 reactor, the Kazakh Ministry of Energy has confirmed. EDF is on…

Solar Power Plant

Duke Energy Begins Operations of Idaho’s Largest Solar Plant

Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions, a non-regulated commercial brand of Duke Energy, has announced it has placed into commercial operation the 120 MW Jackpot Sol…

Wind Power Project

GE Proposes Building Two New Offshore Wind Facilities in New York

GE has submitted a plan to construct two new manufacturing facilities in New York if it wins a sufficient volume of orders from customers in the State’s o…

Solar Technology

The EU Commission Sues Bulgaria, Slovakia Over the Renewable Energy Directive

The European Commission has decided to sue Bulgaria and Slovakia over their failure to transpose the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive into their national l…

Solar Power Panel

Germany Launches Tender for 1.95 GW of Solar PV Capacity

The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has launched a new tender, which seeks to add 1.95 GW of solar PV capacity across Germany. The deadline fo…

Energy Technology

NREL Publishes New Analysis Quantifying EGS Potential

EGS diagram (source: DOE, Geothermal Technologies Program)The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a new analysis that quantifies the poten…

Geothermal Power Plant

Eramet Signs Mou for Geothermal Lithium Extraction in Alsace, France

Well at Rittershoffen geothermal site in Alsace, France (source: ThinkGeoEnergy)The French mining company Eramet has signed an exclusive Memorandum of Understan…

Denmark

Locations Identified for Geothermal Heating Plants in Aarhus, Denmark

City view over Aarhus, Denmark (source: flickr/ User:Colin, creative commons)Danish geothermal heating company Innargi has announced the location of the first t…

Indonesia

Indonesia Will Issue Emission Quotas for 33.6 GW of Coal-Fired Plants in 2023

Indonesia will issue emission quotas for several coal-fired power plants before the end of January 2023, as a first step towards creating a mechanism for domest…

Wind Farm

Enel Green Power Concludes Ppa to Supply Wind Energy to Air Liquide and Sasol at Its Secunda Site in South Africa

Enel Green Power has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Air Liquide Large Industries South Africa and Sasol South Africa respectively for the long-…

Energy Technology

NASA and DARPA Target 2027 Nuclear Rocket Engine Test in Space

The USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are to collaborate on developing an…

Hydropower Plant

Estonia Will Build Its First Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plant (550 MW)

The Estonian developer Energiasalv has received the necessary permits to build a 550 MW pumped-storage hydropower plant, which will be located in Paldiski, nort…