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Rosatom state nuclear energy corp. plans to launch No. 1 unit at Bangladesh NPP in coming days

Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation expects to launch the physical startup of the No. 1 unit at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh in the coming…

Czech Republic

Czech Republic plans to buy up to 2 bcm of gas a year from Azerbaijan

The Czech Republic plans to buy up to 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Azerbaijan annually, Supplies could begin in 2028-2029. Czech Industry and Trad…

United States

US to end more offshore wind leases in exchange for fossil fuel investments

President Donald Trump's administration said on April 27 that it had reached a deal to end two more ‌U.S. offshore wind leases in exchange for $885 mil…

Canada

Oil giant Shell to buy Canada’s ARC Resources for $16.4 billion in push to boost output

Shell has agreed to buy Canadian energy company ARC Resources in a $16.4 billion deal, paid for mostly with shares, the British firm said on April 27.ARC will b…

Germany

GE Vernova announces new wind turbine orders from BBWind and Greenvolt Power in Germany

GE Vernova’s Wind segment announced on April 23 that it has secured agreements to supply 71.5 MWs of onshore wind turbines to BBWind and Greenvolt Power f…

China

Rosatom Ensures Readiness of Control Systems for Start-Up Operations at Tianwan NPP Unit 7 in China

Specialized Scientific Research Institute for Instrumentation Engineering JSC (SNIIP JSC, a company of the Instrumentation & Control and Electrical Engineering …

United States

Texan start-up targets disused oil wells for low-cost hydrogen extraction

Engineering firm Wood will work with start-up Eclipse Energy on producing hydrogen from disused oil wells using microbes at a target price of $0.5 per kilogramm…

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan launches industrial production of gasoline with bioethanol made from grain processing waste

Kazakhstan has begun industrial production of Bi-95 automotive fuel with the addition of bioethanol made from grain processing waste, the Kazakh Agriculture Min…

Russian

Druzhba pipeline restarts Russian oil flows to Europe

Russian oil flowed through the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline on April 22 after a halt lasting months, officials ​said.Hungarian oil group said that…

United States

World's first 50 MW superhot geothermal power plant targets Oregon by 2030

Quaise Energy said it is moving ahead with plans to build what it describes as the world’s first power plant using superhot geothermal energy, with an ini…

United States

US judge blocks Trump administration actions stymieing wind, solar projects

A federal ​judge on April 21 blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar ‌energ…

Congo

Rosatom, Congo working on project to build 2 small HHPs with total capacity of 2.6 MW

Russia's Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Congolese government are working on a pilot project to build two small modular hydroelectric power…

United States

USA Rare Earth buys Brazil's Serra Verde for $2.8 billion

USA Rare Earth said on April 20 it will buy Brazilian rare earths miner Serra Verde in a ‌cash-and-stock deal worth $2.8 billion, the latest in a string of…

Design efficiency up 70%: Digital platform transforms lighting project delivery, says industry innovator Chen Donghong

Lighting design has long been slowed by disjointed software, repeated modeling, and inconsistent on-site results. Now a fully integrated digital platform develo…

Australia

Amazon signs first solar-plus-storage PPAs in Australia to power AI expansion

Tech giant Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia totalling 430MW, with eight projects featuring solar gen…