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Energy Storage Battery

UCSD Team Develops New Disordered Rock Salt Anode for Fast-Charging, Safer Lithium-ion Batteries

Researchers at UC San Diego, with their colleagues at other institutions, have developed a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely re…

Microgrid

What Schneider Electric’s Recent Move Reveals about the Microgrid Market

To understand the movement of the microgrid industry, its instructive to watch it’s large players, particularly, right now, Schneider Electric.

LNG

Global LNG Deliveries Stay Low in August

Global LNG deliveries fell on the year for the third consecutive month in August, with southern Europe and Latin America recording the sharpest drops in demand.

Crude Oil

OPEC Production Rises By 950,000 Bpd In August

OPEC produced more oil in August than it did in July as the cartel continued to relax its production cuts, a Reuters survey has revealed, with recovering demand…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Allowed Operating Scottish Nuclear Plant Despite 2022 Retirement

French multinational power generation firm EDF has received Scottish regulatory approval to temporarily start generating power at the Hunterston B nuclear stati…

Nuclear Power Plant

First Nuclear Reaction Recorded at the Innovative Power Unit 6 of Leningrad NPP

The final physical start-up stage of the innovative power unit 6 with a VVER-1200 reactor was launched at Leningrad NPP.

India

G20 Recovery Packages Back Fossil Fuels Over Cleaner Options

UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres says G20 recovery packages commit twice as much money to fossil fuels than renewable energy sources.

China

Robust Chinese Demand Fuels Oil Market Recovery

Following last week's price rally, oil prices move higher on Monday morning, on bullish demand figures coming from China.

Nuclear waste

Waste Storage Facility to be Built in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region

Russia’s national operator for waste management, NO RAO, has received a licence to build a final isolation point for radioactive waste in Ozersk.

Energy Investment

EU Bank Acquires 25% Stake in Romanian Gas Company

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is strengthening energy security in Moldova with the acquisition of a 25% stake in Vestmoldtransgaz.

Market Analysis

First half of 2020, 1.4 billion kWh of Renewable Energy Power Generation in Kazakhstan

In recent years, Kazakhstan's renewable energy has developed rapidly.

Market Analysis

South Africa Sees Worst Power Cuts on Record in 2020, Research Shows

The power cuts by ailing state utility Eskom are one of the biggest challenges facing President Cyril Ramaphosa as he tries to revive investor confidence in Afr…

China

China Sees Record-Breaking Electricity Consumption In August

China’s electricity consumption hit a record this month after rising steadily since the start of summer, noting that the trend suggested a robust recovery in e…

Market Analysis

Wind Sets New Record Supplying 60% of UK’s Power

RenewableUK is highlighting a new record set on Wednesday 26th August 2020 when wind power generated 60% of Britain’s electricity.

Geothermal Power Plant

Climeworks Goes to Iceland for Geothermal-Powered CCS Project

Zurich-based carbon capture firm Climeworks AG will partner with Carbfix and ON Power in a direct air carbon capture and storage project in Iceland.