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Pumped Storage

Major Hydropower Station Begins Water Storage in Tibet

The first large-scale hydropower project in Tibet with an installed capacity of over one million kilowatts-Huadian Suwalong Hydropower Station in the upper reac…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

First Hydrogen Refuelling Station for Long Range Vehicles Inaugurated in Spain

Spain’s first refuelling station for long range fuel cell vehicles will demonstrate the viability of hydrogen as a fuel for transport.

Crude Oil

Belarus to Raise Export Duties on Oil

Belarus will raise export duties on oil and oil products for destinations outside the Eurasian Economic Union, on Feb. 1, 2021, the government said in a stateme…

Energy Storage Project

Siemens Energy to Build Black-Start Battery Storage for Gas-Fired Plant

Siemens Energy will handle engineering, procurement and construction duties to build a battery-based, black-start generation system at a California power plant,…

Solar Power Plant

Rooftop Solar Booming in Hawaii as Ytility Launches ‘Quick Connect’

Hawaiian Electric has announced that rooftop solar installations increased by 55% in 2020 despite the global pandemic.

Electric Car

CATL Builds Fourth Phase of Jiangsu Battery Plant

Major Chinese battery producer Contemporary Amparex Technology has started constructing the fourth phase of its power Major Chinese battery producer Contemporar…

Blockchain

Germany Launches Blockchain Energy Trading Project

Germany has launched a state-subsidised research project that will look at how to make use of blockchain technology in adapting power trading to the growing sha…

Paris Climate Agreement

Australia Hints at Net-Zero Emissions Target by 2050

Australia has hinted that it may adopt a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, moving away from its prevailing stance of achieving this in the secon…

Thermal Plant

SK E&C to Modernize Mubarek Thermal Power Plant in Uzbekistan

SK Engineering & Construction announced on Feb. 1 that it has won a US$600 million project to modernize and upgrade a gas-fired power plant in Mubarek, Uzbekist…

Hydropower Plant

Baihetan Hydropower Station: the Rotor of Unit 16 was Successfully Hoisted

​The sixth "Big Mac" rotor of Baihetan Hydropower Station was successfully hoisted into place on January 31, marking that Unit 16 of Baihetan Hydropower Statio…

Wind Turbine Blade

Siemens Gamesa Mulls Building US Blade Factory

Siemens Gamesa is considering opening a US turbine blade factory in Virginia in partnership with Dominion Energy.

Power Construction

Enel-Codensa Inaugurates First 100% Digital Electrical Substation in Colombia

The Portugal substation in the Engativá locality in the west of the capital Bogotá marks a milestone in the modernisation of Colombia’s electricity sector.

Solar Power Plant

EDF Renewables Switches on 214 MW of Solar + Storage in Southern California

EDF Renewables North America completed and reached commercial operation of the Desert Harvest 1 and Desert Harvest 2 Solar Projects.

Hydrogen Project

Coal to Green Hydrogen: Germany’s Energy Transition Summed Up in One Project

The Moorburg coal power station boasts an eventful inception, a landmark closure, and now, a bright future.

Nuclear Technology

Foratom and Canadian Nuclear Association Strengthen Collaboration

The Canadian Nuclear Association and the European Atomic Forum have signed a Memorandum of Understanding om 27 January to collaborate in nuclear energy and to p…