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Solar Power Plant

Work Begins on 30 MW Solar Plant in Burkina Faso

French solar project developer Urbasolar – part of the Swiss Axpo Group – has started construction of a 30 MW solar park in Pâ, in the Mouhoun Loop region of…

ATU Faculty to Study Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Cars

Engineering faculty members at Arkansas Tech University have earned a $63,648 grant to conduct an experimental investigation of a hydrogen fuel cell engine in a…

Germany Floats Draft Hydrogen Strategy Ahead of EU Presidency

Germany’s draft hydrogen strategy envisages the use of CO2-free gas for the industry and transport sector, as well as millions for research. Under the draft pl…

Solar Power Panel

Germany’s Manmade Lakes Hold Gigawatt-Scale Floating PV Opportunity

Europe’s largest solar market could make huge strides towards renewable targets and de-escalate land conflicts if it acts to promote floating systems on artifi…

Power Construction

New York Announces $341m Funding to Rebuild Transmission Lines

The Government of New York has announced a funding of $341m to rebuild an 86-mile stretch of ageing Moses-Adirondack transmission lines.

Market Analysis

UK Regulator Ofgem Launches Decarbonisation Plan

The UK Government’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) has set out its plan to bring the country’s emissions to net zero.

Electric Car

Toyota And Panasonic Launch Joint Venture To Make Electric Car Batteries

Toyota Motor Corp. and Panasonic Corp. will collaborate on developing a new generation of batteries for electric vehicles. The joint venture, announced Monday, …

LIBERIA: AfDB Finances Gbedin Waterfalls Hydropower Project

An agreement has recently been signed between the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the Government of Liberia to finance the Gbedin Hydroelectric Projec…

Oil&Gas Drilling

BP Produces First Oil from Alligin Field Off UK

Oil major BP has announced early production from the Alligin field located in the west of Shetland region, offshore the UK.

Market Analysis

Morocco on the Lookout for Developers for New 400MW PV Push

Morocco is to hold a tender to contract another major batch of solar PV across the country, as part of broader efforts to deploy 3GW of renewables between 2020 …

Siemens Gamesa Swings to Loss and Cuts Guidance

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in the first quarter of its fiscal 2020 due to project delays, and lowered its full-year…

Nuclear Technology

France and Poland Should Consider Nuclear Energy Cooperation

France and Poland should consider cooperation in nuclear energy, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday, as central Europe’s largest economy loo…

Coal Mine

Reliance on Coal Divides European States

Two European states with a traditional reliance on coal are taking radically different paths as the climate crisis worsens.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Endesa to Close Two Giant Spanish Coal Plants

Endesa on Dec. 27 formally moved to shutter two massive coal-fired power plants—the 1.4-GW As Pontes plant in A Coruña, Galicia, which is the biggest coal-fir…

Karot Hydropower Plant to be put into Commercial Operation

With about 70 percent of the overall construction completed, the 720-megawatt Karot Hydropower Plant, a major pilot project under the China-Pakistan Economic Co…