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United Kingdom

UK-EU Brexit Agreement – Energy Sector Business as Usual

Under the UK-EU ‘Brexit’ trade and cooperation agreement little if any changes are anticipated to the evolution of the respective energy sectors.

Oil Field

Lukoil Reaches Oil Output Milestone on North Caspian Sea Fields

Russian independent oil company Lukoil has exceeded a cumulative production of 35 million tonnes from its Yury Korchagin and Vladimir Filanovsky fields in the N…

Brexit

RenewableUK Calls for Future EU Interconnection Benefits

Framework for post-Brexit electricity trading will not be in place for 1 January 2021.

Biobattery

Air Liquide Steps up its Biomethane Activity in the UK

One of the leading retailers in the United Kingdom, ASDA, has contracted Air Liquide to install and operate six biomethane distribution stations to refuel truck…

Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Nuclear Debris Removal Delayed by Virus

The removal of nuclear debris from Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant will be delayed by about a year, because the pandemic has set back development of spec…

Spent Fuel

Ukraine to Stop Sending Spent Nuclear Fuel to Russia

Ukraine plans to stop sending its spent nuclear fuel to Russia next year after opening a storage depot at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the state operator of at…

Energy Storage Battery

Consent Granted for the UK’s Largest Battery Energy Storage Project

Edinburgh-headquartered independent energy company InterGen has been granted consent for the UK’s largest battery energy storage project.

Biomass Power Plant

Japan’s Forest Energy Plans 7.1MW Biomass Plant

Japanese biomass power company Forest Energy plans to begin commercial operations at a 7.1MW biomass-fired power generation plant at Fukui city in the central p…

Cooperation case

China, Ukraine to Deepen Belt and Road Cooperation

China and Ukraine agreed on Wednesday to work together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, comprehensively deepen cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative, and …

Oil & Gas Trade

Gazprom lifts Ukraine January Gas Transport Bookings

Russia's state-controlled Gazprom has booked considerably more gas transport capacity through Ukraine for January, although overall booked capacity is still set…

Energy Storage Material

Researchers Design a Novel Method for Modifying the Structure and Properties of Graphene

An international research team from China, France, Canada, Denmark and the UK has demonstrated a novel process to modify the structure and properties of graphen…

Oil Field

Gazprom & LUKOIL Sign Master Agreement to Develop Two Fields

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Vagit Alekperov, President of LUKOIL, signed the Master Agreement on the terms of the developme…

Offshore Wind Power

Ofgem Picks Preferred Bidder for East Anglia 1 Transmission

UK regulator Ofgem has issued a notice stating it has determined the preferred bidder for offshore wind transmission services for the 714MW East Anglia 1 offsho…

Nuclear Power Plant

Hot Tests Completed at Ukraine’s ISF-2 Storage Facility

Hot tests have been completed at Ukraine’s ISF-2 dry used nuclear fuel storage facility constructed by Holtec International at the Chernobyl NPP site.

Nuclear Reactor

Hot Tests Completed at Ukraine’s ISF-2 Storage Facility

The American Bureau of Shipping said on 17 December that it had issued a Feasibility Statement for the Compact Molten Salt Reactor developed by Danish nuclear c…