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Wind Turbine

Mingyang Confirms Prototype Blade Damage

[Image: Mingyang's MySE 18.X-20MW ]Mingyang has confirmed that a high-powered turbine prototype at its Lingao test facility has suffered blade damage.The Ch…

Wind Turbine

20 MW Wind Turbine Prototype in China Suffers Blade Failure

Mingyang Smart Energy issued a statement on 13 December, following reports that two blades broke off of the company’s 20 MW offshore wind turbine prototyp…

Net Zero

Emissions Fall In Hard-To-Abate Sectors but Still off Track to Reach 2050 Net-Zero Targets

The World Economic Forum’s latest Net Zero Industry Tracker shows progress in reducing emissions across eight hard-to-abate sectors—steel, aluminium, cem…

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Tests Advanced VVER Reactor Fuel

The tests are being carried out at the NIIAR at the MIR.M1 research reactorTests are underway using the MIR.M1 research reactor at Russia’s Research Insti…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Starts Reactor Tests Aiming to Increase Nuclear Fuel Enrichment

Russia's Rosatom is testing VVER nuclear fuel containing the neutron absorber erbium and uranium enriched to about 5%. It says such fuel could significantly…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Grossi Restates Key Role for IAEA , After Agency Vehicle Hit by Drone

An International Atomic Energy Agency vehicle was hit and damaged by a drone on the day of the latest rotation of the agency's team of experts at the Zapori…

Crude Oil

Oil Production Hits 1.7mbpd – FG

The Federal Government has declared that Nigeria’s oil production, including condensates, increased by 9.9 per cent to 1.69 million barrels per day in Nov…

Natural Gas

Azerbaijan Unveils Latest Data on Its Oil, Gas Output, and Export Volumes for Current Year

Oil-condensate production in Azerbaijan was 26.5 million tons, and the exports were 22.2 million tons, while the gas production and exports amounted to 45.8 bcm…

Liquid Hydrogen

World’s First Successful Demonstration Test of Ship-To-Shore Loading and Unloading Using a Steel Tube Loading Arm for Liquefied Hydrogen

This was the world's first successful demonstration of a loading and unloading system using a rotating arm, which is essential for building a liquefied hydr…

Hydrogen Storage

Bonfire Test Confirms Safety of the SAG LH2 Tank System Even in Extreme Conditions

The liquid hydrogen tank system for trucks developed by SAG has reached a decisive milestone on the way to approval for road traffic: the successful completion …

Floating Solar

Testing Rigid Connectors in Floating Photovoltaics

New research from China shows that using rigid connectors instead of polyester ropes in floating photovoltaic arrays may help reduce the relative motion of floa…

Battery

Australia’s Batteries Surf Revenue Wave on Back of Volatile Power Prices

Investments in battery storage within Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) are increasingly profitable due to higher power price volatility and c…

Solar project

Five-Year Testing Show PV Façades Perform Better Than Expected

Researchers in the Netherlands have analyzed the performance of PV façades during the period 2018-2023 and have found that these system may generate more…

Wind Turbine

Fuchs Lubricants and Clemson University Partner to Develop Wind Energy Solutions

Fuchs Lubricants has partnered with Clemson University's Dominion Energy Innovation Center (EIC) to develop solutions for the next generation of wind power …

Wind Farm

TÜV SÜD Making WTG Testing More Efficient With Industrial Drone Inspections IDIAI

TÜV SÜD is using artificial intelligence and drones to make visual testing (VT) of wind turbine generators (WTGs) more efficient, the main beneficiari…