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U.S. DOE Awards $7m in Funding for Work on Reducing Geothermal Drilling Cost

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the recipients of $7 million funding to help decrease the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field developme…

New Generator That Uses Substance to Convert Waste Heat into Clean Electricity

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a generator prototype that uses liquid metal to convert waste heat from sources such as electric cars o…

Converting Low Grade Heat into Electricity

Researchers at Hong Kong University have recently invented a device that is capable of converting low grade heat into electricity. Low grade heat, or waste heat…

Energy Storage Project

Bosch to Develop Fuel Cell Batteries in China

Bosch broke ground on a fuel cell battery development center last week in the east China city of Wuxi with the aim of supplying the emerging local fuel cell veh…

Material Developed for Solar Cell Efficiency Enhancement

The Institute for Basic Science announced on Dec. 2 that its Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, led by director Lee Young-hee, has developed a two-dim…

Cincinnati Signs on for Largest Municipal Solar Array in the Country

The City of Cincinnati, Ohio, will construct the largest municipal solar array in the country to provide clean, renewable energy to all city facilities and serv…

Nuclear Technology

Holtec Announces New Cask Technology Developments

Holtec International has announced the launch of three new technologies that have been developed under its Project Cheetah initiative. These include a new stora…

NextEra Starts Construction on Largest Solar Project in Arkansas

A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas announced the start of construction of Arkansas’ largest universal, utility-scale solar energy pr…

Nuclear Power Plant

Leningrad II Plant Begins Providing District Nuclear Heating

Unit 1 of Russia's Leningrad II nuclear power plant has been integrated into the heat supply system of the city of Sosnovy Bor, operator Rosenergoatom has annou…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Coal Power Generation Continues to Drop in the US

By comparing 2018 and 2019 energy production data for the entire country, the researchers found that coal generation in 2019 Q2 was down 19% when compared to th…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iran Still Selling Oil Despite US Sanctions on Tehran’s Exports

Iran is still selling its oil despite US sanctions on Tehran’s exports, the country’s Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri was quoted on Monday as saying by state T…

Without the Enforcement of Environmental Laws, Oil Infrastructure Projects in Timor-Leste Come at a Cost

Ignoring environmental laws in Timor-Leste to build a petroleum infrastructure project could mean serious problems for communities including environmental destr…

Market Analysis

Installed Solar Capacity is Now Greater than Oil in the United States

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the first three-quarters of 2019, sol…

Mexican Renewables Hail Court Win Over 'Destructive' Rule Change

The Mexican renewable energy sector is celebrating an early court victory in its fight against retroactive changes that it warned could “destroy” project valu…

Ireland's New Climate Plan Calls for 70% Renewables by 2030

Ireland has published the details of its long-awaited Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) this week, finally unveiling details around how the country wi…