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Energy Storage Battery

Bloom Energy fuel cells to power 4.2-MW CHP micro plant in South Korea

Bloom Energy will install the first-ever solid oxide fuel cell technology in a planned combined heat and power plant to be built in South Korea.

United States

Former AWEA Group to Merge with Energy Storage Association

The boards of directors of the American Clean Power Association and the U.S. Energy Storage Association have voted to pursue a merger of the two trade associati…

Market Analysis

China Aims to Install over 30 GW of New Energy Storage by 2025

The new energy storage will not include pumped hydro energy storage capacity.

Energy Storage Battery

RWE Turns Sod on 117MW German Battery

Energy storage systems will be virtually coupled with run-of-river power stations along the river Mosel

Wind Farm

Enel Wind Farm of 140 MW Starts Commercial Operation in S Africa

Italian electric utility Enel SpA said on Wednesday that its 140-MW Oyster Bay wind farm in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa has reached commercial ope…

Substation

Hitachi Develops Prefabricated Gas-Insulated Substation

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has composed a complete prefabricated containerized gas-insulated substation for the industrial gas company Linde.

Crude Oil

China Taps Into Crude Reserves To Curb Oil Price Rally

The world’s top oil importer, China, has started to release more than 20 million barrels of crude oil from its strategic reserve in a move seen as seeking to c…

LNG

Shell Delivers First Gas from Barracuda Project

Shell Trinidad and Tobago announced that production has started on Block 5C in the East Coast Marine Area in Trinidad and Tobago.

Nuclear Policy

Greenland Plans to Reimpose Ban on Uranium Mining

The new Greenland government is preparing to outlaw uranium mining, reinstating and strengthening a ban that the national assembly had overturned in 2013, local…

Nuclear Fuel

Framatome Advanced Fuel Technology Reaches Regulatory Milestone

The report is a critical step towards implementing nuclear fuel at higher enrichments and burnups, the company said.

Nuclear Power Plant

Tepco Anticipates Delay in Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Restart

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture will not be restarted until fiscal 2022 (ending March 2023) at the earliest

Solar Technology

REC Silicon Progressing Towards 2023 Moses Lake Restart as Biden Policy Agenda Adds Weight to Business Case

REC Silicon said it is continuing to work towards a restart of operations at its Moses Lake polysilicon production facility in the US, with the company buoyed b…

Substation

Godrej Electricals Wins Mumbai Substation Contract

Godrej Electricals & Electronics’ Power Infrastructure and Renewable Energy arm has secured an order for a 400kV substation in Mumbai.

Electric Vehicle Charging

India: HPCL & Tata Sign EV Partnership

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited has signed an agreemnt with Tata Power, to provide end-to-end EV charging stations at HPCL’s retail outlets in multiple…

Oil Pipeline

U.S., Germany Strike a Deal to Allow Completion of Controversial Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline

The United States and Germany reached an agreement to allow completion of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a thorny, long-standing point of contention be…