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Wind Energy Technology

What’s Stopping Even Bigger Wind Turbines? Blade Speed and Flexing? More Likely Manufacturing and Installation Capacity

Bigger wind turbines make cheaper energy. The sector’s unexpectedly rapid successes in designing and building bigger and bigger turbines has been one of t…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Proposes Power Plant for Lunar Base

Scientists at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM, part of the Kurchatov Inst…

SMR

French Bill on Accelerating Nuclear New Build Progresses to Senate

The French Senate has begun discussing a bill aimed at accelerating procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites…

Geothermal Power Plant

New Geophysical Imaging Technique Being Tested in Bouillante, Guadeloupe

Bouillante geothermal power plant, Guadeloupe (source: OECS)An innovative geophysical imaging technique that uses both active and passive sources and can be use…

United States

Gamechange Releases New Solar Tracker

US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar’s latest product launch follows its recently announced decision to increase its annual domestic manufacturing cap…

Mexico

Countries That Produce the Most Wind Energy

Thanks to increases in economies of scale and advances in technology, wind energy costs have become substantially more competitive.According to market research …

Oil Price

Release of Us Oil Reserves Addresses ‘Underlying Crisis’ and Not Higher Prices, Envoy Says

US energy envoy Amos Hochstein says the country will continue to use its strategic reserves to help resolve crises. Antonie Robertson / The NationalThe US relea…

Wave Energy

Us National Lab Goes Nanoscale for Ocean Monitoring Using Wave Energy

Animation of a new wave energy nanogenerator for observation platforms (Animation by Sara Levine/PNNL)PNNL’s nanogenerator harnesses the energy of the oce…

Electric Car

Mazda Introduces Series-hybrid Plug-in Version of MX-30 EV, With Rotary Engine Genset

The Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV, a plug-in series hybrid model that uses a rotary engine as a generator, made its world premiere at the Brussels Motor Show. (Ea…

Hydro Generator Unit

Large Dams Face Around 26% Loss of Storage by 2050 Says New Research

Large dams worldwide have lost an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage capacity as a result of trapped sediment, with that number set to rise…

Nuclear Power Plant

South Korea Increases Expected Contribution of Nuclear Power

Nuclear energy will account for 34.6% of South Korea's electricity generation by 2036, compared with 27.4% in 2021, according to the latest plan finalised b…

Smart Meter

How Smart Meters Create Resilient Utilities and Empower Consumers

Recorded live from the ESI Africa studio, Amit Kumar Gupta of Secure Meters Limited, India, discusses the current state and challenges of smart meter rollout in…

United States

Oil Prices Rise After Surging 3% On China Recovery Optimism

Pump jacks at an oilfield in Texas. Oil futures gained despite a surprise rise in US crude stocks.Oil prices rose on Thursday after surging by about 3 per cent …

Clean Coal

Canyon Coal Joins Bettercoal Assessment Process

Canyon coal has announced that it has joined the Bettercoal Assessment Process and has started its journey towards becoming a Bettercoal Producer by signing a l…

Carbon Emissions

DOE Releases Blueprint to Decarbonize US Transportation

The U.S. Department of Energy on Jan. 10 released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, which describes a strategy for achieving net-z…