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Energy Storage Battery

VEST Energy Announces Battery Trading Agreement with IBNE

Cleantech trading house VEST Energy has signed a long term battery trading and offtake arrangement with Infra Balance New Energy.

United Kingdom

Scottish Renewables Calls for Storage 'Price Floor'

Vital electricity storage capacity needed to help the UK meet its net-zero target should be supported by an innovative funding mechanism, new research from Scot…

Electric Car

Biden’s High-Cost Plan To Accelerate U.S. Adoption Of Electric Vehicles

In a November post-election trip to Detroit, then-President-elect Biden told an audience that he has big plans to increase the incentives for EVs already in pla…

Electricity Transmission

Hitachi ABB: Coordination At National Level Needed For Transmission Planning

The company said that the lack of intraregional, as well as interregional, transmission capacity is a major limiting factor for large-scale development of hydro…

Rosatom

Russia’s State Run Nuclear Energy Firm Buys 49% Stake in Korean Lithium-ion Battery Maker

A subsidiary of Russian state-controlled nuclear energy firm Rosatom has taken a 49% share of Enertech International, a South Korean manufacturer of electrodes,…

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE Begins Nuclear Power Plant Tests

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation said yesterday that it has started tests as part of the reactor start-up process for the Barakah nuclear power plant.

Concentrating Solar Power

Mount Isa Looks to 50MW Solar Thermal Storage

Regardless of a tendency to tower over sandy barren plains, forms of generation that rely on storing the sun’s heat focused by a field of mirrors have been slo…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Masirah Completes Oil Project in Oman

Muscat-based Masirah Oil, which operates Block 50 off Oman’s east coast, has completed the planned upgrade of a mobile offshore production unit to 30,000 barre…

Oil&Gas Drilling

UK Seeks to Drill more Oil and Gas from North Sea

More oil and gas wells are to be drilled in the North Sea, the UK government has announced.

Net Zero Emission

Saudi Arabian City to Include ‘Zero Cars, Zero Streets, Zero Carbon Emissions’

Saudi Arabia will be home to a zero-carbon city, known as The Line, said the crown prince on Sunday

Hydrogen Project

Plans Unveiled for Italy’s First Hydrogen Valley

The development of Italy’s first hydrogen valley, to be located just outside of Rome, has been kickstarted with a €14m investment.

Hydrogen Project

$1.5bn Plans Unveiled to Integrate Hydrogen into the Northwest German Coastline

Several of North Germany’s largest industrial companies have partnered together in a $1.5bn project which aims to integrate hydrogen into the northwest German …

Pumped Storage

Australian Renewable Agency Approves Funding for Pumped Hydro Plant

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has committed to provide $35.8m to support a pumped hydro storage project.

Nuclear Reactor

Assembly Operations Completed at Unit 2 Reactor of Belarusian NPP

The assembly operations have been completed at Unit 2 reactor of the Belarusian NPP to ensure the cold and hot run stage.

Energy Investment

Scatec to Invest $11.6bn in Renewables for 15GW Capacity Target

Renewable energy company Scatec has announced an investment of $11.6bn to increase its renewable energy generation capacity by 2025.