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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.

World Needs to Spend an Additional $1.3Bn on Energy by 2030

A new report found that oil and gas need a boost in contrast to previous IEA report which urged governments to stop new fossil fuel plans.

Hydrogen Project

Ireland’s ‘Hydrogen Valley’ Adds to European Clean Energy Achievements

Another week, another step forward for European renewables dominance. This week’s big news is the unveiling of a major Irish project—the ‘Hydrogen Valley’.…

Nuclear Fusion

Recent Nuclear Fusion Breakthroughs and the Opportunities They Offer

A milestone has been reached in the quest to harness the power of the stars for cost-effective clean energy on Earth by scientists working to establish practica…

Oil & Gas Trade

Possible to Pay for Russian Gas While Complying with Sanctions - Uniper

Uniper, Germany's main importer of Russian gas, on Monday said it would be possible to pay for future supplies without breaching European Union sanctions even t…