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Novel Inexpensive Wind Energy Harvester

Nanyang Technological University researchers (NTU Singapore) have developed a low-cost device that can harness and store wind energy as benign as a light breeze…

Crude Oil

U.S. Sells Oil from Emergency Reserve to Marathon, Equinor, Others

The United States has sold a 10.15 million barrel batch of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to eight companies, the Department of Energy said on Friday.…

Natural Gas

PepsiCo to Make Cheetos and Lay's Chips Using Dutch Green Electricity

PepsiCo on Friday announced plans to phase out use of natural gas at a factory in the Netherlands and adopt a system based on renewable electricity.

Solar Power Plant

Equinor’s First Solar Plant in Poland Ready for Operation

Equinor subsidiary Wento has announced that the 58MW Stępień solar plant in Poland has been completed and is ready for operation.

Floating Offshore Wind

New Study to Maximise Celtic Sea Floating Wind Supply Chain

German energy company RWE has commissioned UK-based Marine Power Systems (MPS) to develop a project plan for delivering up to 1GW of floating wind using the por…

Rooftop PV System

India’s Single National Digital Portal to Boost Rooftop Solar

The launch of the single national digital portal is expected to boost the rooftop solar industry in India, a report found.

Switzerland

GE to Supply Reserve Power to Swiss Federal Office

GE Gas Power has secured an order from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) for the rental of eight of its trailer-mounted gas turbine units.

Offshore Wind Power

Australian Gov’t Grants A$1.5M Fund for Offshore Wind Project Development

The project will provide energy to the Portland Aluminium Smelter.

Energy Storage Battery

India Could Turn to 12.5GW Gas Capacity to Meet Peak Demand

This also comes as the market waits until battery storage becomes cost-competitive.

Wind Farm

Vattenfall Signs Grid Contract with Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions

Vattenfall has signed a contract with Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions AS to deliver grid connection infrastructure for the Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm o…

Nuclear Fusion

Site of UK’s First Fusion Energy Plant Selected

As part of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme, the UK government has selected the West Burton power station site in Nottinghamshire to…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Ørsted Ordered to Restart Oil- and Coal-Fired Power Plants amid Supply Crunch

Danish authorities have ordered Ørsted to continue and resume operations of three of its oil- and coal-fired power station units in order to ensure security of…

Ammonia

Mitsubishi Power Advances Ammonia-Fired Power Generation in Indonesia

Mitsubishi Power and Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) have signed an agreement to partner on research of firing ammonia in gas turbines.

United Kingdom

Energy Giants Ink Tripartite Grid Contract for a Greener UK

Vattenfall, Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions AS have signed a grid contract for a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) project to connect renewable energy onto t…

Energy Storage Project

Equinor Confirms Construction of First Commercial Battery Storage Asset

Equinor has approved the final investment decision on the Blandford Road battery storage project in the south of the UK.