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Coal Mine

India’s Coal Ministry Simplifies Mining Plan Approval Process for New Projects

India’s Coal Ministry has slashed is mining plan preparation and approval process as part of series of measures to ‘improve the ease of doing business’ and t…

The 28th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

The European Biomass Conferences and Exhibition has grown from a small research community biomass conference more than 30 years ago to a well-established intern…

Crude

NNPC's Refineries Record Losses for Nine Consecutive Months

The three refineries belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recorded losses for nine consecutive months, the corporation said in its Se…

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Poised Near Three-Month Highs on U.S.-China Trade Hopes

Oil prices trickled a fraction lower on Tuesday but remained near a three-month high as investors kept the faith with hopes that a fully fledged U.S.-China trad…

Important Clean Energy Role of Los Azufres Geothermal Plant in Mexico

With an installed power generation capacity of 242 MW, the Los Azufres geothermal power plant complex in Mexico plays an important role in renewable power gener…

Indonesia Preparing Change to More Favourable Geothermal Feed-in-Tariffs

With current pricing scheme not interesting to investors, Indonesia now preparing improved geothermal feed-in-tariff structure based on the investment value or …

New Institute for Energy Infrastructures & Geothermal Founded in Germany

German Fraunhofer Gesellschaft founds new Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Infrastructure and Geothermal, integrating the International Geothermal Centre in Boch…

Electricity Trade

China's State Grid Acquires Stake in Oman Electricity

Beijing-based company will acquire the stake in a deal that values Oman Electricity Transmission Co at about $2 billion

Carbon Neutral

The EU Green Deal Turning Challenge Into Opportunity, Particularly for geothermal?

The ambitious EU Green Deal announced past week sets in motion a search for energy technologies that can help Europe reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Geothermal…

Climate Change Policy Must Include Indigenous Ecological Knowledge

About 25,000 government, private sector, scientific community, and civil society representatives from over 200 countries recently attended the UN Climate Change…

EV Technology

Deakin University Begins Testing of Hydrogen Truck Concept

Deakin University announced this week that the new Hydrogen Transition Centre will be created at its Warrnambool campus, a first step on the road to establishin…

How Sensus Use Smart Water Solutions to Reduce Energy Consumption

In the face of revenue pressures, increasing operational costs, and manpower shortages, utilities and industrial consumers can no longer afford to ignore water …

New Technology

Estonian Scientists Use Silver for Next Generation of Solar Cells

Materials researchers at Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology partially substituted copper with silver in solar cells’ absorber material to improve the …

Exxon and Chevron Targeted by Climate-Activist Shareholder Group

The Dutch activist fund that has filed shareholder resolutions pressuring major oil companies in Europe to take action on climate change has set its sights on t…

Nuclear Technology

Australia Taking First Steps towards Nuclear Energy

Australia’s Parliament presented this week a report that outlines a series of measures to take into consideration if the country wants to move forward with the…