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Electric Vehicles

Hyundai Patents an All-Solid-State EV Battery System in the US

Can solid-state batteries improve EVs even more? Hyundai is betting on it. The automaker recently filed a patent for a pressurized all-solid-state EV battery sy…

SMR

Nuscale SMR Meets Polish Safety Requirements, Says Regulator

NuScale Power's NPM-20 small modular reactor (SMR) technology is compliant with Polish nuclear safety and radiological protection standards, the president o…

Renewable Energy

"Largest Clean Energy Project in U.S. History" Secures $11B in Financing, Starts Full Construction

Construction is underway on the SunZia Transmission and Wind project in New Mexico (Photo: Business Wire)SunZia to supply 3,000 MW of clean energy to Arizona an…

Crude Oil

China Issues 2024 Crude Import Quotas, 60% More Than Year Earlier

China has released 179.01 million metric tons of crude import quotas for 2024, according to Chinese industry consultancies and trade sources on Tuesday, 60% mor…

Nuclear Fusion

China Seeks Nuclear Fusion Leap Through New R&D Company

China unveiled a new national company and formed a broad coalition of industrial giants to advance research in nuclear fusion technology.The consortium led by C…

Coal Trade

China Restores Coal Tariffs in Threat to Russian Exporters

China has restored import levies on coal from the beginning of the year, a move that could threaten Russian exporters dependent on the world’s largest mar…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Duke Energy Progress to Issue Sirens Test Near Brunswick Nuclear Plant

Duke Energy Progress will be testing the outdoor warning sirens around the Brunswick Nuclear Plant from 10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 10.The 38 sirens within…

Oil Field

China's CNPC Replaces U.S. Oil Giant as Lead Contractor for Iraq's West Qurna 1 Oilfield

Representatives attend a handover ceremony in Basra, Iraq, on Jan. 1, 2024. China's leading oil and gas producer, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Is Sneakily Testing Fremont-Built Refreshed Model 3 Vehicles

The launch of the Tesla Model 3 refresh in North America might finally be close as we learn that the automaker is sneakily testing Fremont-built Model 3 HIghlan…

Crude Oil

Dangote Refinery Receives 4th Crude Oil Shipment From NNPC

Dangote Refinery has received its fourth shipment of one million barrels of bonny light crude supplied by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited.…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Chinese Carmakers Launch Sodium-Ion Battery-Powered EVs

JAC Yiwei EV features sodium-ion batteries with an energy density of 120 Wh/kg and a rapid recharge capability.Sodium-ion batteries are more cost-effective due …

Oil & Gas Technology

Nigerian Govt Proposes 1M Gas-Powered Vehicles by 2027 – PCNGI

The Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, PCNGi, says the Federal Government plans to put one million gas-powered vehicles on the road by 2027.PCNGi&r…

Wind Turbine

Vestas Secures Offshore Wind Turbine Order in South Korea

Vestas has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Hanwha Corporation E&C Division for the 390 MW Shinan Ui offshore wind project in Shinan County, South Jeo…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Biden Administration Awards $9M Grant to Research Carbon Capture for Proposed Southcentral Alaska Coal Power Plant

The UAF coal plant in Feb. 2022 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)The University of Alaska Fairbanks is set to receive a $9 million dollar grant from the Biden a…

Offshore Wind Power

Vestas Secures an Order for 242 Wind Turbines and 1,089 MW of Wind Power With Pattern Energy in the US.

Vestas has secured a firm order from Pattern Energy to power a significant portion of its SunZia Wind project in New Mexico, USA, as revealed in Company Announc…