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Energy Investment

Hong Kong Group Sets up Asia Clean Power Fund

Hong Kong-based investment manager ADM Capital has received a US$100m seed funding commitment from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to launch a new Asia…

Carbon Neutral

New Concept to Help Chinese Cities Achieve Carbon Peaking and Neutrality Goals

A new report released by the Rocky Mountain Institute provides recommendations on how cities in China can achieve carbon emissions reduction goals set by the go…

Nuclear Fusion

South Korea’s Artificial Sun Sets New Record

The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy announced on Nov. 24 that it succeeded in operating 100,000,000°C plasma, which is a core condition for nuclear fusion, fo…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Energy Invites Interest in DAC Project at Sizewell C

EDF Energy subsidiary Nuclear New Build Generation Company on 25 November published an Expression of Interest document for a direct air capture demonstrator pro…

Nuclear Power Plant

Rosatom Reveals Plans for Foreign Nuclear Plant Construction

Rosatom plans to begin pouring "first concrete" for unit 3 of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey next spring, the deputy director responsible for developm…

LNG

Significant Progress Made on Arctic LNG 2

PAO NOVATEK has announced that a regular working meeting was recently held regarding the status of Arctic LNG 2 project with the respective management of the pr…

Nuclear waste

Finland’s Spent Fuel Depository a

Onkalo is a game changer for the long-term sustainability of nuclear energy, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today in Olkiluoto, Finland, referring …

Energy-Eficient Building

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solar Window Technology with See-Through Panels

US team achieve record efficiency for transparent solar cells that could one day be used in buildings.

Battery Recycling

Fortum Announces “Breakthrough” in Battery Recycling

Fortum has developed a new method to recycle lithium from rechargeable batteries.

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

TÜV SÜD to Build UK’s First Mobile Facility for Testing Dispensed Quantity at Hydrogen Stations

TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory will build the UK’s first mobile primary standard facility for testing hydrogen refuelling stations to ensure they de…

Electricity Transmission

Xcel Completes Transmission Build in Mississippi Backwaters in Record Speed

Because the line is located in an environmentally sensitive area that is home to many protected species, replacing it required a unique level of effort.

Germany

Oil Dynamics GmbH: Recertified for Quality and Environmental Management

The renewed verifications referring to the factory in Hockenheim will be valid for the next three years.

Energy Subsidies

UK Urged to Redirect Biomass Subsidies to Wind and Solar

BEIS receives open letter signed by 75 organisations that include public health bodies.

Carbon Emissions

Pandemic Causes Record Decline In U.S. Carbon Emissions

Last week BloombergNEF published a new report that quantifies the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.

Nuclear Power Plant

Hungary's Paks II Project Receives Construction Approval

The Hungarian Energy and Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (MEKH) has approved Atomerőmű Zrt's plan to construct two VVER-1200 reactors at the existing Pa…