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Flywheel Energy Storage

China Connects Its First Large-Scale Flywheel Storage Project to Grid

China has connected to the grid its first large-scale standalone flywheel energy storage project in Shanxi Province’s city of Changzhi.The Dinglun Flywhee…

Offshore Wind Power

The Biggest Problem Facing Offshore Wind Energy Isn’t Broken Blades. It’s Public Opinion.

One of the installed turbines at the Vineyard Wind farm. (Photo courtesy of Avangrid)by Nancy Lavin, Rhode Island CurrentJim Boyd’s heart sank the first t…

Offshore Wind Power

Aquila European Renewables to Offload Tesla Wind Farm Stake in Norway

Tesla is a 150MW operating onshore wind farm located in southern Norway. Credit: Leonid Sorokin / Shutterstock.Aquila European Renewables has signed an agreemen…

Nuclear waste

More Delays for Japanese Reprocessing Plant

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Image: JNFL)Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL), the operator of Japan’s first commercial nuclear fuel plant, currently und…

Thermal Plant

Indonesia’s 780MW Tambak Lorok Power Plant Starts Operations

PLN Indonesia Power’s Tambak Lorok power plant. Image credit: PLNIPGE Vernova has announced the start of commercial operation of PLN Indonesia Power (PLNI…

Nuclear Fuel

Further Delay to Japanese Reprocessing and Mox Plants

Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) now expects the reprocessing plant and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel plant under construction at Rokkasho in Japan's Aomori Prefe…

HVDC

Sumitomo Completes Greenlink Interconnector Between Ireland and Wales

Greenlink will provide a new grid connection between Great Island in County Wexford, Ireland, and Pembrokeshire in Wales. Credit: Sumitomo Electric Industries, …

Wind Farm

ACWA Begins Work on 200MW Wind Farm and 100MW BESS in Karakalpakstan

The project is set to achieve commercial operation by the fourth quarter of 2026. Credit: hrui / Shutterstock.Acwa Power has broken ground for the 200MW Beruniy…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Fire at cooling tower of zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Sunday after a fire broke out at a cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP).Ukraine, Russia and the Internat…

Wind Farm

Prokon Plugs in 41 MW Wind Park in Finland

Wind turbines. Author: Vik Walker. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.German renewables cooperative Prokon has commissioned a 41.3 MW wind park …

Electric Vehicle Battery

Amplify Cell Technologies Begins Construction of Mississippi 21 GWh LFP Battery Cell Factory

Amplify Cell Technologies—a joint venture between Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business unit of Cummins; Daimler Trucks & Buses; and PACCAR (earlier…

Geothermal Power Plant

Pullach, Germany Breaks Ground on Geothermal Energy Center Expansion

The groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the IEP North Energy Center in Pullach, Germany (source: IEP)Innovative Energie Pullach (IEP) has broken ground…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Malaysia's Sabah State to Develop Oil, Gas Facilities With Gibson Shipbrokers

London-based Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd and Malaysian state-owned Sabah Oil & Gas Development Corporation (SOGDC) have signed an agreement to develop oil and gas fa…

Energy Storage Project

RWE Pushes Forward With 350MW BESS Plans

A computer generated plan of the proposed Pembroke BESS. Image: RWEPower producer RWE has moved forward with proposals for a 350MW battery energy storage system…

Nuclear Reactor

The World's Only Coal-To-Nuclear Reactor Plant Just Broke Ground in Wyoming

Bill Gates’ TerraPower broke ground yesterday on its Natrium nuclear reactor plant, making it the first advanced reactor project ever to start constructio…