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Off-Grid

Pakistan Suffers Major Power Outage After Grid Failure

A man starts a generator outside his shop during a country-wide power breakdown in Karachi, Pakistan January 23, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar SoomroISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (R…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Oman’s State Energy Company OQ Plans to List Drilling Unit Abraj in Muscat

Oman’s state energy company OQ plans to sell up to 49 per cent stake in its drilling unit, Abraj Energy Services, through an initial public offering, beco…

Nuclear Technology

Xe-100 SMR attracts South Korean investment

South Korea’s DL E&C and Doosan Enerbility are to invest $25m in US-based X-energy to advance the deployment of its Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor …

World Energy Outlook

Ørsted expects EBITDA excluding new partnership agreements of DKK 21.1 billion for 2022

Ørsted presents operating profit (EBITDA) for 2022 based on preliminary and unaudited reporting.It has been a year with unusual market conditions, not le…

Energy Technology

Iron flow, sodium-sulfur battery technologies at airport and space station energy storage projects

Ground operations for the aviation and space exploration sectors will be powered with the help of non-lithium battery technologies in the Netherlands and Japan.…

Net Zero Emission

A fifth of new cars in California zero-emission in 2022: data

Teslas are a common sight on roads around Los Angeles and San Francisco, and data shows electric vehicle sales in the state are rising.One-in-five new cars sold…

Hydrogen Production

Yosemite Clean Energy wins $1M for biomass-to-hydrogen projects

Yosemite Clean Energy was selected to receive two $500,000 Forest Biomass to Carbon-Negative Biofuels grants from the California Department of Conservation. The…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Installed the Vessel of the Unique Russian Research Reactor – MBIR – in the Design Position

On January 18, 2023, the vessel of the world's largest multipurpose fast neutron research reactor (MBIR) was installed in its designed position at the const…

Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE Announces New Funding for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $2.3 million in funding for 10 projects that will pair private industry with DOE's National Laboratories t…

Geothermal Power Plant

Proposed Bills Seek to Spur Geothermal in New Mexico, U.S.

Santa Fe National Forest, NM (Source: Flickr, CC, By: Artotem)Senators Jerry Ortiz y Pino and William Soules are sponsoring a series of bills that aim to accele…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Exploration Drilling Planned in Ankara, Turkiye

Exterior of Ankara YIKOB (source: Ankara YIKOB 2021 Annual Report)State authority Ankara Investment Monitoring and Coordination Presidency (YIKOB) is planning t…

Geothermal Power Plant

Saudia Arabia to Undertake Geothermal Exploration

Mountain Range near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (source: flickr/ yosoynuts, creative commons)The Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Geological Survey (SG…

Solar Power Plant

Longroad Energy Developing 285-Mw Solar + Storage Project in Arizona

Longroad Energy’s operational 200-MWDC Sun Streams 2 solar project. The company’s adjacent SunStreams 3 – a 285-MWDC and 215 MWac /860 MWh sol…

Hydrogen Production

ACWA Power, Austria-Based Electricity Firm to Develop Green Hydrogen

The green hydrogen to be generated will be used by Verbund.ACWA Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Verbund, an Austria-based electricity firm, to e…