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Company Idles Virginia Coal Mine due U.S. and China Trade War

A company that owns a coal mine in Virginia has furloughed 600 workers until the end of the year. The reported reason behind the move is the trade war between t…

Converting Waste into Useful Energy by Improving Microbial Fuel Cells

Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute are working microbial fuel cells or MFCs, which target electrons from waste streams and convert th…

Energy Storage System

First Long-Duration, Liquid Air Energy Storage System in the US Announced

The development of the first long-duration liquid air energy storage system in the US has been announced. The 50MW/400MWh storage system will be located in nort…

AW-Energy Oy Secures New European Patents for Wave Roller

AW-Energy Oy, Finnish wave energy technology developer,has been granted new patents protecting the use of WaveRoller in 38 countries across Europe from the Euro…

Distributed energy

Glendale will get a Piece of Landmark Solar-Energy, Battery Storage Project

Glendale will be getting a small piece of one of the country’s largest and cheapest forthcoming solar and battery energy storage projects.

How Can Supercomputing Help to Improve Building Energy Efficiency ?

In the United States, building energy use is a serious problem: buildings account for 70 percent of total electricity consumption, with the plurality of the ene…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Floating Nuclear Power Plant has Started to Produce Electricity

Russia’s state-owned nuclear company Rosatom said the Akademik Lomonosov had started to produce electricity in the “isolated Chaun-Bilibino network” in the p…

Merry Christmas! An Electric Eel Is Lighting Up A Christmas tree

This christmas season has come with a big surprise for the visitors of the Tennessee Aquarium at Chattanooga, a city in Tennessee in the United States, where an…

Market Analysis

The Green Power Source that can do More Harm than Good

Hydropower falls into a similar category. It's basically emissions-free and a cornerstone of today's global renewable energy supply. It can be a potent means to…

Solar Power Plant

EDF Sells 100MW California Sun

EDF Renewables North America is to supply 100MW of electricity from the Maverick 6 solar farm in California to community energy aggregator CleanPowerSF under a …

Solar Company

Canadian PV Team Eyes Brazilian Bounty

Canadian outfit Solar Provider Group has set up a team to enter the Brazilian photovoltaic market with the goal to complete investments totalling $250m over the…

Government Loans for Geothermal Exploration Best Incentive Option

A study by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the University of Antwerp looks at best policies to push geothermal development.

New Taxonomy Regulation and its Impact on Geothermal

On the 17th of December 2019, the European Parliament reached an agreement with the Council on the new criteria to determine whether an economic activity is env…

Delhi Government Allows E-bikes to Run to The Last Mile

On Monday, the Delhi cabinet approved a policy to allow electric two-wheeler taxis by app-based ride-hailing services such as Uber and Ola. The move is aimed to…

Microgrid

Mt Athos Mini-grid Shows Greece the Way Forward

A monastic community on the Mt Athos peninsula this year installed a solar-storage-diesel mini-grid which is set to be augmented by a biomass combined heat and …