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Energy Technology

USAID Delivers GE Mobile Gas Power Plant to Ukraine

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered a GE mobile gas turbine power plant to Ukraine to ease power supply challenges in the country.…

Thermal Plant

US to Retire 15GW of Coal and Gas-Fired Power Plants in 2023

Gas power plant. Image by nachai on 123rfAccording to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), US operators plan to retire 15.6…

Hydropower Plant

ENHY Launched to Develop Hydroelectricity in Madagascar

ENHY has been launched through a partnership between Hyvity and the Filatex Group to develop, build and operate hydroelectric plants in Madagascar.At the heart …

Pumped Storage

£1 Million Grant to Test Materials for New Energy Storage System

In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of Exeter, UK firm RheEnergise has secured a grant of £1 million from the UK government…

Electric Car

‘UK’s Largest Virtual Power Plant’: Octopus Energy Claims EV Tariff Users Provide 100MW of Flexible Power

Intelligent Octopus tariff launched last year offers electric vehicle drivers cheaper rates to charge their car up overnight at off-peak timesOctopus Energy cla…

Nuclear Reactor

X-Energy, Alberta Explore Opportunities to Support SMR Projects

X-energy Canada, a subsidiary of U.S. mall modular reactor and fuel technology company X-energy, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Invest Alberta Co…

Nuclear Technology

Modern Surface Assessment Technologies Address Today’s Inspection Challenges in Nuclear Power Plants

While nuclear power plants are some of the most highly regulated and safe worksites in the world, inspection challenges remain. According to estimates by indust…

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…