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Geothermal Power Plant

KENYA: GDC Calls for Tenders for Direct Use of Geothermal Steam

The Kenyan state-owned Geothermal Development Company has launched a call for expressions of interest for the direct use of geothermal steam at the Menengai sit…

Floating Offshore Wind

South Korea Unveils 6GW Floating Ambitions

President Moon Jae-in says government will provide finance for first stage of the project off Ulsan

Wind Farm

RWE to Co-Ordinate Offshore Wind Farm Research Project

‘VISSKA’ is the German acronym for a research project aimed at exploring the use of vibratory pile driving at the Kaskasi II offshore wind farm, in terms of i…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Plans up to Five Floating Nuclear Power Stations for Northeast Wilderness

Russian president Vladimir Putin has approved a proposal by Rosatom to build floating nuclear power plants to power a gold and copper mine on the remote northea…

Carbon Emissions

Carbon Emissions from Energy Dropped 10 per cent in the EU Last Year

Eurostat said in a statement Friday that emissions fell in all of the EU's 27 member nations compared to 2019 as governments imposed lockdown measures to slow t…

Solar Cell

DTE Energy Partners with Ford Motor Company on New Rooftop Solar Installation and Battery Storage Technology

DTE Energy today announced that it has commissioned a new solar array at the Ford Research & Engineering Center in Dearborn, Michigan.

Electric Car

CATL Continuing to Excel in Global EV Battery Market

Market research firm SNE Research reported on May 3 that the global EV battery energy consumption volume was 47.8 GWh in the first quarter of this year, up 127 …

Hydrogen Transport

More Hydrogen Pipelines Needed In Europe

If Germany and the rest of Europe are to become climate-neutral by 2050 while maintaining their industrial might, they will have to import vast amounts of hydro…

Offshore Wind Power

UK Offshore Six Pass First CfD Milestone

The Low Carbon Contracts Company has revealed that six projects representing 5500MW of offshore wind capacity have now passed their first Contracts for Differen…

Personnel Appointment

A New Energy Minister for Ukraine

German Galushchenko, Vice President for development at Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom was appointed as Ukraine’s new energy minister on 29 April followin…

Crude Oil

U.S. Energy Production Saw Steepest Drop On Record In 2020

Due to economic responses to the pandemic, U.S. energy production dropped by 5 percent last year, marking the steepest annual decline on record.

Crude Oil

Energy Group Total Starts Production at Angolan Oil Project

French energy group Total has started production at its Angolan Zinia Phase 2 project, which has estimated resources of 65 million barrels of oil, it said on Th…

Global Energy Association President to Deliver GECF Lecture on 3 May

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, the global platform of the leading gas producing nations, will be hosting the next in its signature GECF Gas Lecture Series o…

Hydropower Plant

Refurbishment of Existing Hydropower a Key Topic at IRENA Meeting

Members of the IRENA and private sector representatives are set to join forces to modernise and refurbish the existing hydropower fleet around the globe followi…

Energy Infrastructure

White House Eyes Subsidies for Nuclear Plants to Help Meet Climate Targets

The new subsidies, in the form of "production tax credits," would likely be swept into President Joe Biden's multi-trillion-dollar legislative effort to invest …