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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Hot Testing Starts of Second CGN Hualong One Unit

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have begun at unit 4 of the Fangchengg…

Net Zero

Bolder Policy Action Needed to Make Net Zero a Reality Says IEA

IEA Executive Director Fatih BirolThe International Energy Agency’s latest edition of the Net Zero Roadmap calls for the ramping up of policy mechanisms t…

Solar Panel

Powerful Accuracy: Improving Solar Power Plant Efficiency With Automatic Weather Stations

Vaisala’s Automatic Weather Station AWS810 Solar Edition enables operational output monitoring and accurate assessment of solar irradiation and weather pa…

Nuclear Reactor

US microreactor apparatus begins tests

Tests now under way using an electric-powered prototype of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) MARVEL microreactor will demonstrate the natural circulation …

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Cybertruck Spotted Doing Straight Line Acceleration Runs

The Tesla Cybertruck's acceleration has been demonstrated in a new video shot by a drone operator.The short video shows the Cybertruck driving on the compan…

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle

BMW IX5 Hydrogen Shows Strong Performance in Desert Test Drive

Bennett OghifoThe vehicles in the BMW iX5 Hydrogen pilot fleet, which launched in February this year, have completed an intensive round of hot-weather testing i…

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle

ORLEN Pioneers Poland's Hydrogen-Powered Railway Era

Polish energy company ORLEN has proudly unveiled the country’s first hydrogen-propelled locomotive, marking a significant stride towards sustainable rail …

LNG

Chevron, Unions Again Fail to Reach Deal to Halt Australian LNG Strikes

A general view of Chevron's Wheatstone LNG facility in Pilbara coast, Western Australia, as seen in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on Septem…

SMR

US University Builds Facility for First-Of-A-Kind Research Reactor

The Gayle and Max Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas will host the Nuclear Energy eXperimenta…

Solar Cell

Canada's Silfab to Set up Solar Cell Factory in South Carolina

Canada's Silfab Solar on Tuesday said it will invest $150 million in a new solar cell manufacturing plant in South Carolina, expanding its U.S. operations t…

Geothermal Drilling

EEP Confirms 25 MW at Aluto Langano Geothermal Project in Ethiopia

Well on site of Aluto Langano geothermal plant, Ethiopia (source: ThinkGeoEnergy, creative commons)State-owned Ethiopian Electric Power company reports that dri…

Biofuel

Great Britian's Biomass Power Generation Down in Q2

Biomass power generation in Great Britian was down approximately 20 percent during the second quarter of 2023. The decline primarily resulted from unprecedented…

Biofuel

EIA Updates Bioenergy Production, Capacity Forecasts

The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts renewables will account for 25 percent of U.S. electricity generation next year, up from 22 percent this yea…

Nuclear Technology

Tokamak Energy Reports DEMO4 Milestone Cryogenic Tests

Tokamak Energy says its engineers have successfully validated electromagnetic current test results of the first of 14 toroidal field limbs in liquid nitrogen at…

Nuclear Reactor

Rwanda Will Host a Company's 1st Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Testing Carbon-Free Energy Approach

Rwanda's atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the compan…