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Hydropower Plant

AFRY to Conduct Feasibility Study for Upgrade of Norway’s Largest Pumped Storage Plant

Statkraft has hired engineering and consulting firm AFRY to conduct a feasibility study to optimize operations at the Saurdal pumped storage power plant, the la…

Battery

Chile Inaugurates Largest Standalone Battery Energy Storage Project

Chilean Energy Minister Diego Pardow attended the inauguration of the BESS del Desierto, a 200 MW/800 MWh battery energy storage system in northern Chile. Descr…

HVDC

‘Largest US Subsea Cable Factory’ Breaks Ground

LS Cable & System has initiated construction of a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable manufacturing facility in Chesapeake, Virginia, through its U.…

Oil Refinery

Mexico’s Olmeca Refinery Will Restart and Halt Was ‘Nothing Serious,’ President Says

Mexico’s Olmeca refinery, located at the port of Dos Bocas, is prepared to resume production following a temporary outage, President Claudia Sheinbaum ann…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Electric Utility Entergy Eyes Adding More Nuclear Power in U.S. South

Entergy, a U.S. electric utility, announced plans to increase its nuclear power production by enhancing its existing facilities in the U.S. South and exploring …

Crude Oil

Petrobras Posts Slight Drop In First-Quarter Oil and Gas Output

Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil company, reported its first-quarter production results, achieving a daily output of 2.77 million barrels of oil equivale…

SMR

Partnership to Look Into SMRs for Utah Site

EnergySolutions, a Salt Lake City-based company specializing in nuclear services, has joined forces with the Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) and the state of U…

Solar Module

Vietnamese Solar Giant Boviet Opens First Us Factory in North Carolina

Boviet Solar, a Vietnamese solar panel manufacturer, has launched its first U.S. factory in Greenville, North Carolina. The state-of-the-art facility, built wit…

Liberia

Liberia Turns to Côte D’Ivoire for Internet Stability During Submarine Cable Repairs

Liberia is set to rely on Côte d'Ivoire for stable internet services during the repair of its sole submarine cable. Scheduled from April 23 to 30, the…

United States

Balfour Beatty Lands $889M Contract to Widen I-30 in Dallas

Balfour Beatty has secured an $889 million contract from the Texas Department of Transportation to expand Interstate 30 (I-30) in Dallas, Texas. The project aim…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Agreement Signed to Continue Work on Polish Project

Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ), a company fully owned by Poland’s State Treasury, has signed an Engineering Development Agreement (EDA) with the Westi…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Gives Update on Tesla Semi Factory, Says on Track for Volume Production in 2026

Tesla has provided an update on its Tesla Semi factory located adjacent to Gigafactory Nevada, confirming that the facility is on track for volume production of…

United States

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces $2 Billion Investment in U.S. Operations

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., based in Waltham, Massachusetts, has announced a $2 billion investment in the United States over the next four years to advance i…

Spain

Spain’s ‘Globally Important’ Green Steel Plant Gets €60M

Spain has allocated a €60 million grant from EU funds to develop a hydrogen-powered steel mill in Puertollano, Castile–La Mancha, approximately 100 k…

China

JAC Group to Form Joint Venture With Tashkent Investment for Expansion in Uzbekistan

Chinese automaker JAC Group has entered into a joint venture agreement with Tashkent Investment Company Limited in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Both parties have commi…