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Geothermal Power Plant

Underground Geothermal Research Facility to Be Put Up in Germany

A partnership led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will be putting up the GeoLaB, an underground research facility that seeks to understand fundamental …

Portugal

RWE Begins Construction of Solar Farm in Portugal

RWE is making progress in expanding its solar business in Europe.

Nuclear Reactor

First Plasma Propels Zap Energy’s Plans for Garage-Sized Fusion Reactors

Nuclear fusion is an incredibly complex scientific problem that researchers are coming at from all sorts of angles, and Zap Energy is starting to make waves thr…

Energy Storage Project

Recurrent Energy Acquires 400MWH Storage, Expands Ercot’s Storage Pipeline

Recurrent Energy, LLC, has acquired two standalone energy storage projects from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES).

Biofuel

Cargill Completes Biodiesel Plant in Belgium

In a move aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and promoting circular fuel possibilities, Cargill has completed its first advanced biodiesel plant i…

Hydrogen Storage

Chevron Pulls Out of Utah Green Hydrogen Energy Storage Project

Oil and gas major Chevron has pulled out of plans to acquire an equity interest in Advanced Clean Energy Storage Delta (ACES Delta), the 300GWh green hydrogen e…

India

New Report Shows That India Will Require $223 Billion to Meet RE Goals

​India will require $223 billion of investment in order to meet its goal of wind and solar capacity installations by 2030, according to a new report by researc…

Sandia Researchers Test Explosives for the Expansion of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to …

CCS

Will Capturing Carbon Emissions Save Our Planet?

Carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) is widely accepted as a viable means of reducing carbon emissions and keeping global temperatures from rising more t…

Solar Power Panel

New Thermophotovoltaic Cells Turn Heat Into Electricity More Efficiently Than a Steam Turbine

Jennifer Chu at MIT describes new research, in collaboration with NREL, that has led to a prototype solid-state heat engine that can operate at up to 2,400 deg…

United Kingdom

EDF Renewables Progresses With Two UK Solar Projects

Two consented projects that EDF Renewables UK added to its solar portfolio in March 2021 have progressed to the site preparation and construction stage.

South Africa

South Africa: Opportunities to Expand the Renewable Energy Market Do Exist

While the revival of the REIPPP programme in 2021 holds great promise to expand South Africa’s large-scale renewable energy market, grid constraints in the cou…

Coal Price

Australian State’s Coal Royalty Hike Could Nudge Others to Follow Suit - Analysts

Queensland's bigger-than-expected hike in coal royalties could embolden other Australian states and resources-heavy countries around the world to make similar m…

Energy Transition

EU Agrees Deal on Company Disclosures to Combat Greenwashing

The European Union has reached a deal on corporate sustainability reporting requirements for large companies from 2024, a European Parliament committee said on …

Latest Ofgem Measures Protect Consumer Credit Balances

Energy regulator Ofgem has announced new measures to improve the financial health of energy suppliers and enable resilience in the face of future energy market …