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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…

Energy Investment

US Battery Supply Chain Investments Reach Us$92 Billion Since Biden Took Office

A total of US$92 billion has been invested in the US battery supply chain since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, including recent projects annou…

EU

Industry Group Hails Inclusion of Flow Batteries in Eu’s ‘Battery Passport’

The European Union has resolved a glaring omission in the design of its Battery Passport, the forthcoming directive on sustainability, labelling and performance…

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…

Electric Vehicle Battery

EVs to Grow to 45% of the Car Market by 2035, Driving Demand for Cobalt, Graphite, Lithium

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is rising at an unprecedented pace. It is estimated that EVs will take a massive 32% share of the car market by 2030 and grow to …

EV Technology

“World First” Trial With Ccs Could Open Up Vehicle-To-Everything Technology to All EVs

Energy software platform Kaluza has announced the launch of Inflexion, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) bidirectional charging program that it hopes it will open u…

Hydrogen Production

Yosemite Clean Energy wins $1M for biomass-to-hydrogen projects

Yosemite Clean Energy was selected to receive two $500,000 Forest Biomass to Carbon-Negative Biofuels grants from the California Department of Conservation. The…

Energy Storage Project

ACEN’s 12-hour energy storage project gets government backing

The Phoenix Pumped Hydro Project received feasibility funding from New South Wales funding.ACEN’s 12-hour duration renewable energy storage project is pro…

Electricity Transmission

Winter 2023-24 price cap forecasts fall further below EPG, but long-term prospects remain uncertain

The latest forecasts for the Default Tariff Cap (price cap) released by Cornwall Insight, have shown energy bill predictions for a typical household1 have falle…

Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Wind Turbine

Dellner Expands Czech Manufacturing Hub

Dellner Bubenzer Group recently expanded its Czech facility, which is specifically used to manufacture products for onshore and offshore wind turbine applicatio…

Oil Exploration

All-Systems-Go for Equinor to Deploy Shelf Drilling Rig at North Sea Oil & Gas Field

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use one of Shelf Drilling’s jack-up …

Oil & Gas Trade

Global Oil Demand Will Surge to Record This Year as China Reopens, Iea Says

A drilling platform at Norway's giant offshore Johan Sverdrup field.Global oil demand will surge to a record this year following the end of coronavirus rest…

Ammonia

Ammonia Co-firing Study Planned for Thai Thermal Power Plant

Hiromi Ishii (Director, Power Systems Project Engineering Department, Steam Power Maintenance Innovation (SPMI) Business Division/MHI) (1st from bottom right) a…

Nuclear Equipment

French Nuclear Fleet Failure, Drought and War to Blame for Record Power Prices in 2022

Last year Europe saw very high levels of wholesale power prices, driven by gas prices that repeatedly broke all-time high records since the start of the Ukraine…