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Oil Refinery

Fire Breaks Out at Pdv’s Cardon Refinery

A fire broke out today in the fluid catalytic cracking unit at Venezuela's Cardon refinery, the second major blaze at the site since late December.Operator …

Nuclear waste

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed Again

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Image: JNFL)JNFL said it decided to revise the completion date of plant due to the ongoing conformity review for Design and Con…

Nuclear Fuel

Poland / Annual Survey Shows Big Increase In Support For Nuclear Energy

Warsaw has already signed deal for first commercial reactorsCourtesy Lukas Plewnia/Creative Commons.Seventy five percent of residents of the municipalities of C…

Geothermal Power Plant

Hs Orka Breaks Ground on Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant Expansion

Blue Lagoon with Svartsengi plant, Iceland (Picture: Vestman, (c) CC BY 2.0)The Icelandic power company HS Orka has broken ground on the 22-MW expansion of the …

Solar Power Plant

Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture Curtails Solar Generation for First Time

Japan’s Okinawa Electric Power Co. has introduced PV curtailment measures in response to high solar radiation levels and low energy demand.Image: AV Solar…

Solar Power Plant

Massive 16-GW Solar, Wind, Coal Project

A massive, multibillion-dollar renewable and fossil-fuel energy project is underway in China. The installation, being built by China Three Gorges (CTG), include…

Solar Power Plant

China Starts Work On Huge $11 Billion Desert Renewables Project

China broke ground on an 80 billion yuan ($11 billion) renewables project in Inner Mongolia, part of a massive clean-power rollout to achieve the nation’s…

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant Faces New 2-Year Delay

Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s nuclear fuel reprocessing plant under construction in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in 2018 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)The complet…

Hydrogen Production

High Gas Prices Spur Green Hydrogen Investment -Report

Soaring natural gas prices have made hydrogen produced from fossil fuels increasingly uneconomic and spurred more than $70 billion of new investment in hydrogen…

Floating Offshore Wind

New Study to Maximise Celtic Sea Floating Wind Supply Chain

German energy company RWE has commissioned UK-based Marine Power Systems (MPS) to develop a project plan for delivering up to 1GW of floating wind using the por…

Tesla Gigafactory Catches Fire in Germany

A major fire appears to have broken out at Tesla's Berlin recycling plant, prompting a local group of environmentalists who have been fighting the company to ca…

Hydrogen Project

Broker Marsh Launches World First Insurance for Hydrogen Projects

Broker Marsh, a unit of Marsh & McLennan, said on Monday it was launching the world's first dedicated insurance for hydrogen energy projects, as the nascent ind…

Finland

Neoen and Prokon Sign Second PPA With Equinix

Neoen and Prokon have announced the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA) with Equinix to provide at least 42 MW of green energy in Finland.

Photon Energy Breaks Ground on Romanian Solar Projects

Photon Energy N.V. has announced that it has broken ground on the construction of its second Romanian photovoltaic (PV) power plant, which will have a generatio…

Nuclear Fusion

MHI Delivers Equipment for Iter Nuclear Fusion Tests

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed delivery of testing equipment to the Rokkasho Fusion Institute in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture, to demonstrate the safet…