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Electric Vehicle Battery

Germany Battery Pass to Create EU Standards

The three-year German-funded R&D project comprising 11 consortium partners will set out data specifications and technical standards for batteries in the EU.

Coal Mine

Campaigners Slam Potential Approval of New UK Coal Mine

If the project goes ahead, it would be the first deep coal mine to launch in the UK for more than 30 years.

Energy Transition

Samsung Elec to Join Renewables Pledge as S.Korea Shifts Gears on Green Energy

Samsung Electronics plans to join as soon as next month a group of global corporations committed to 100% renewable energy, a person familiar with the matter sai…

Net Zero Emission

Construction of UAE's First Waste-To-Energy Plant Complete

Sharjah facility will be driving force behind plans to become a zero-waste community.

Carbon Neutral

More Metals Needed to Meet EU's Green Deal Goal of Climate Neutrality by 2050

Meeting EU's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth met…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Developed with Inexpensive Materials to Expand Its Usage

Scientists at Imperial College London have engineered a hydrogen fuel cell that utilizes iron rather than rare and expensive platinum, allowing better applicati…

Joe Biden

Biden Blocks Sales of Inefficient Lightbulbs, Reversing Trump-Era Policy

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new energy efficiency regulations that will phase out old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs.

Crude Oil

EU Steps Up Purchases of U.S. Oil

EU crude oil imports from the U.S. are ramping up as the EU mulls an import ban on Russian crude.

Nuclear Power Plant

Sixth Hongyanhe Unit Achieves First Criticality

Unit 6 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time.

United States

DOE Funnels $12M to Enhance US Energy Systems’ Cybersecurity

The US department of energy (DOE) has announced $12 million for six new research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects that will develop cybersecurity …

Floating Offshore Wind

Eni's Plenitude Invests in Floating Wind Technology

Plenitude (Eni) has announced that it is to invest in EnerOcean S.L., the Spanish developer of the W2Power technology for floating wind power.

Carbon Emissions

Xprize Milestone Award for ISU Researchers for their Efforts to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

A research group from Iowa State University that helped develop a demonstration-scale pyrolyzer that has the ability to sequester thousands of tons of carbon di…

Carbon Emissions

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Detecting Changes in Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions

A team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has made a major breakthrough in detecting changes in fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions more …

Oil&Gas Drilling

Shell Gets Closer to Drilling North Sea Gas Target This Year

Oil major Shell and its London-based partner Deltic Energy are planning to drill an exploration well on the Pensacola gas prospect in the UK sector of the North…

LNG

UK’s Gas Imports From Russia Increased by 37% in 2021

Russia was the fourth-most imported source for the UK last year, according to official data.