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Global Geothermal Alliance Meeting to be Held On January 12, 2020

On January 12, 2020, IRENA will hold it’s 10th General Assembly and a thematic meeting of the Global Geothermal Alliance (GGA) will coincide with the event. He…

Crude

China Sinochem to Start $4.6 Billion Quanzhou Petrochemical Complex in Mid-2020

China Sinochem Group is expected to start up a new crude processing unit and a petrochemical complex in southeastern China around mid-2020, marking the state fi…

California Begins Enforcing The Light Bulb Efficiency Rule Trump Wants to Reverse

California can now begin enforcing new minimum standards for light bulb efficiency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. It's the latest split between the state and t…

Oil & Gas Trade

Venezuela's PDVSA to Deliver Gasoline to Fuel-starved OPEC Nation

With an emoji of a flexing bicep, Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA, on Tuesday celebrated what was once a routine task in th…

Solar Power Panel

Net Billing System to Continue for Solar Rooftop Consumers

Nagpur: In a major jolt to state discom MSEDCL, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has rejected its demand of making net billing compulsory fo…

Electricity Transmission

9,293MW Power Generation Capacity Lies Idle

The nation’s 27 power plants stood started the year with a generation of 3,617.5 megawatts despite having a combined installed capacity of 12,910MW.

Solar Power Plant

ACWA Power Signs Ethiopian Photovoltaic Power Purchase Agreement

ACWA Power has signed a power purchase agreement with state-owned power generator Ethiopian Electric Power to sell electricity for $ 25.26 / MWh (€ 22.26 / MWh…

Wind Power Project

Vestas Wins 750MW Wind Projects from The US Via Russia to the Mekong Delta

Danish wind OEM Vestas in the last week of 2019 announced a flurry of turbine orders with a combined capacity of more than 750MW that extended to three continen…

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE Set to Start First Nuclear Plant; Sweden, Germany Shut Units

The first nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reportedly will come online in early 2020.

Oil & Gas Trade

Bulgaria Starts Getting Transit-Free Russian Gas Via TurkStream

Bulgaria's Bulgargaz and Russia's Gazprom have agreed for Bulgaria to start receiving Russian gas directly from the TurkStream pipeline rather than through Roma…

Biomass Power Plant

​Case study: Fast Boiler Repair at Biomass Plant

Biomass is becoming an increasingly popular fuel solution for power generation. It is one of several technologies being implemented to improve the sustainabilit…

Hawaiian Island will Create a Virtual Power Plant from 1,000 Solar Homes

Sunrun and Open Access Technology International (OATI) will create what they describe as the world’s largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) by managing …

Distributed energy

The True Value of Distributed Energy Resources?

Connecticut regulators are working to pin down the true value of distributed energy resources, which some stakeholders say needs to take into account community …

Microgrid

Microgrids Poised for the Moment, as Businesses Seek Energy Resilience

Increasingly, U.S. companies are concluding that they need the type of business continuity, cost predictability and sustainability goal-aligned energy solutions…

Microgrid

Microgrids as Non-Wires Alternatives

S&C Electric’s Erik Svanholm discusses the potential of microgrids as non-wires alternatives, which use distributed energy resources and microgrids to defer or…