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Electricity Transmission

Maine Invests $1 Billion in Transmission Lines to Bring Canadian Hydropower to the New England grid

The state agency that handles zoning in Maine’s unregulated territories gave its approval Wednesday to a proposed $1 billion transmission line aimed at bringin…

Electric Car

Mercedes-Benz and Geely Establish Electric Vehicle JV in China for Smart Brand

Mercedes-Benz AG and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) have formally established the global joint venture “smart Automobile Co., Ltd.” for the smar…

Scottish Government Launched A Consultation on New Energy Efficiency Standard for Homes

The proposed standard will be legally binding and will come into effect from 2024, with the aim of reducing fuel poverty in Scotland and ameliorating the effect…

Nuclear Technology

Korea, Saudi Arabia Progress with SMART Collaboration

A revised pre-project engineering contract has been signed by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Atomic …

Thermal Plant

Israel's Largest Power Plant to be Converted from Coal to Natural Gas

Israel's largest power plant will be largely converted from coal to natural gas production by 2022, the state's Ministry of Energy announced Tuesday.

Power Construction

Grid Project Completion Brings Stable Electricity to Southern Xinjiang

A 3.6-billion-yuan ($514.29 million) grid project was officially completed and started operation in the southern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region by the end of …

Oil & Gas Trade

Russia Begins TurkStream Gas Flows to Greece, North Macedonia

Russia has started European gas deliveries through the new TurkStream pipeline to Turkey, Bulgaria’s Bulgartransgaz said on Sunday, as Moscow looks to reduce s…

2019 Is "Historic Year" for Pakistan's Development of Hydropower Resources

The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority says 2019 was a historic year for development of water and hydropower resources in Pakistan.

Wind Power Company

Wind Power Giant Vestas Sets 2030 Carbon-Neutral Goal

Wind group Vestas unveiled a target to become carbon-neutral by 2030 at the start of a sustainability push that it said will also set ambitious goals for its su…

Solar Power Panel

Carbon Nanotubes Boost Solar Cell Efficiency

Carbon nanotubes improve the stability and performance of perovskite solar cells, say scientists in Japan.

LNG

Qatar Petroleum and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Sign Agreement to Supply 3 Million Tons of LNG

Qatar Petroleum and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) entered into a long term Sale and Purchase Agreement for the supply of up to 3 million tons per annum of …

Gas power plant

Work Starts on €120 Million Croatian Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Power Plant

Italian contractor FATA has started construction work on a new gas-fired combined cycle power plant (CCPP) unit in the Croatian capital Zagreb.

Nuclear Power Plant

CGN Changes Hongyanhe ACPR-1000 Start-Up Schedule

China General Nuclear (CGN) has announced that units 5 and 6 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Liaoning province are now expected to start operating in th…

Snowy Hydro Scheme Lost Assets Due to Australian Bushfires

Although its power stations appear to have avoided major damage, Snowy Hydro reports it has “lost a number of other assets” in its Snowy Hydro scheme due to t…

Peru Huamuco Hydropower Project Development Plan Altered

Senace, Peru’s environmental certification service for sustainable investments, has approved an update to Hidroeléctrica Río Huamuco’s citizen participation…