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Battery Recycling

Fortum Announces “Breakthrough” in Battery Recycling

Fortum has developed a new method to recycle lithium from rechargeable batteries.

Electric Car

Hyundai Motor Group Places 4th in Global Electric Vehicle Sales

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. placed fourth in global electric vehicles in the January-September period of 2020.

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

TÜV SÜD to Build UK’s First Mobile Facility for Testing Dispensed Quantity at Hydrogen Stations

TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory will build the UK’s first mobile primary standard facility for testing hydrogen refuelling stations to ensure they de…

Coal Production

As More Countries Pledge Zero Emissions, Coal Finance Evaporates

Financing for coal projects is drying up at ever increasing rates as more countries target zero carbon emissions amid an energy transition sweeping the world.

Nuclear Fusion

ITER Says Schedule Maintained Despite COVID-19

The Council of the ITER Organisation said on 19 November that it had reviewed in a videoconference the performance of the ITER Project toward first plasma in vi…

Electricity Transmission

Xcel Completes Transmission Build in Mississippi Backwaters in Record Speed

Because the line is located in an environmentally sensitive area that is home to many protected species, replacing it required a unique level of effort.

LNG

GE Makes Deal for Vietnam LNG Project

General Electric Co. and a Vietnamese company signed a memorandum of understanding to develop an LNG power plant near Ho Chi Minh City.

Crude Oil

Marginal Oilfields Output Dips to 1.52mb

Marginal oil fields in Nigeria produced 1.52 million barrels of crude oil and condensates in August 2020, accounting for 2.97 per cent of Nigeria’s total oil a…

Energy Storage Project

BYD Provides 75-MW Energy Storage System to Mustang Solar Project

BYD “Build Your Dreams” announced it will partner with Canadian Solar to provide advanced battery technology for the 100-MWAC Mustang solar plant in Kings Cou…

Rooftop PV System

DRC: EIF OGEF Lends $4m to Bboxx for Electrification Via Solar Home Systems

UK company Bboxx obtains a $4 million loan from the Off-Grid Energy Access Fund of the Energy Inclusion Facility.

Solar Power Plant

China Set to Acquire 820 MW of Solar Project Capacity

The latest, seven-project, 217 MW, $150 million project sell-off announced by the development business of polysilicon producer GCL-Poly means a lot will be at s…

Hydrogen Project

Plug Power Raises $1B for US Green Hydrogen Infrastructure Build-Out

Stock sale to fund U.S. green hydrogen production facilities and fuel cell and electrolyzer gigafactory.

Energy Subsidies

UK Urged to Redirect Biomass Subsidies to Wind and Solar

BEIS receives open letter signed by 75 organisations that include public health bodies.

Submarine Cable

UK Launches Subsea Cable Monitoring Project

SHARC will develop techniques for real-time condition monitoring.

Hydro Generator Unit

Siemens Energy to Upgrade and Expand Services at Jebel Ali L2 Power and Water Station in Dubai

Integrated 20-year long-term service agreement includes intelligent gas turbine controller, jointly developed by DEWA and Siemens Energy.