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Energy Security

Texas House Targets Power Grid Flaw that Cut Electricity to Natural Gas Facilities and Worsened February Blackouts

The lower chamber gave initial approval Monday to a series of bill responding to this year’s catastrophic power outages during a deadly winter storm.

Pumped Storage

Australian Coal Mine to Transform into Pumped Hydro Facility

Australian utility AGL is transforming its operations in a number of ways, from restructuring the company itself, to building energy storage facilities for flex…

Energy Storage Project

Canada's Biggest-Ever Clean-Energy Storage Plant Plans Charged up with Launch Funding

Up-to-500MW advanced compressed air energy storage facility to be built in Ontario by start-up Hydrostor with $3.2m government seed finance

Belarus

Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant's Second Unit's Nuclear Fuel Delivered

Nuclear fuel for the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has been delivered, the press service of the Belarusian Energy Ministry said.

Hydrogen Project

Denmark Marine Group Explores Methanol Fuel Cell Scalability

Funded by the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program, testing will be held at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Aalborg.

Hydropower Plant

Energy Ministry to Start Building Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project from Next FY

The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation has planned to start the construction of Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project from the next fiscal year, desp…

Nuclear Technology

China: Radioactive Waste Disposal Lab Under Construction

China is building a massive underground laboratory to research disposal technologies for high-level radioactive waste, the most dangerous byproduct of nuclear t…

Carbon Emissions

GlobalData: Petrobras must Invest in Renewables to Meet Emission Targets

Despite a global effort in energy transition, Petrobras has expressed no interest to pivot into renewable energy due to lack of expertise.

Oil&Gas Drilling

Aramco Resumes Work on Offshore Oil Capacity Expansion

State-controlled Saudi Aramco has resumed development work on three offshore crude expansion projects that will provide an additional 1.15mn b/d of capacity by …

Coal Price

South Korean Coal Prices Ease

Thermal coal prices for South Korea softened this week, as Australian fob prices came under pressure from a weaker demand outlook in India and Japan.

Coal Mine

Trafo Power Solutions Supplies Transformers to South African Coal Mine

Trafo Power Solutions has customised two dry-type transformers for a coal mine in South Africa’s Limpopo province, allowing the units to be fitted into existin…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

China Huaneng Group and Glencore Sign MoU on CCUS Project

Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies and China Huaneng is one of the world’s largest energy and technology companies.…

Coal Production

Global Coal Production to Rise by 3.5% in 2021

Global coal output is estimated to have declined by 2% in 2020 due to COVID-19-related lockdowns and restrictions, with significant reductions observed in the U…

Hydrogen Technology

Elogen to Supply Hydrogen Technology to Major German Initiative

Elogen, formerly AveraH2Gen, will provide a major government-backed initiative in Germany aiming to make fossil fuels redundant in three districts with a 1MW el…

Oil & Gas Supply

Guyana Estimates Future Oil Production At 1 Million Bpd

Guyana has estimated its future oil production at 1 million barrels per day by 2027, from seven floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSOs) vessels in …