Us

SPI Goes Fully Virtual as Las Vegas Trade Show is Cancelled

SPI, North America’s largest solar industry event, will now be fully virtual after the organisers cancelled an outdoor exhibition rescheduled for October.

Kenya

KENYA: GivePower Installs Solar-Powered Desalination System at Likoni

The GivePower organization has just commissioned a desalination system in Likoni in Mombassa County, Kenya.

Wind Power Project

Wind Lifts UK Renewables Q1 Output by 30%

Wind helped total renewables generation in the UK increase by 30% in the first quarter of 2020 to just over 40 terawatt-hours, compared with the same period in …

IEA Lowers 2020 Oil Demand Forecast Citing Dismal Aviation Sector

The International Energy Agency (IEA) cut its 2020 oil demand forecast on Thursday, warning that reduced air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic would lower …

Azerbaijan

BP Says it has no Plans to Scale down Oil and Gas in Azerbaijan

British oil major BP has no plans to scale down its oil and gas business in Azerbaijan amid global plans to rebalance its portfolio towards renewables.

United States

Trump Administration to Roll Back Curbs on Methane from Oil, Gas Operations

The EPA is expected to retain some of the rules issued in 2012 that control methane emissions and also limit those of so-called volatile organic compounds that …

Gas turbine engine

MHPS Maintains Leadership in Global Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines Market

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems continues to lead the power generation industry in global market share year-to-date for heavy-duty gas turbines.

Nuclear Fusion

Chevron Announces Investment in Nuclear Fusion Start-Up Zap Energy

Oil major Chevron has announced an investment in Zap Energy, a nuclear fusion start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor.

Solar Plus Storage

During the day the sonnenBatterie optimizes the use of self-generated solar power, saving money on household electric bills.

Energy Storage Battery

Vistra Approved to Build a Grid Battery Bigger than All Utility-Scale Storage in the US Combined

A permit to expand Vistra’s natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been approved.

Gas power plant

Natural Gas Leads US Power Generation in H1

Cheaper U.S. natural gas prices helped the U.S. Lower 48 states to increase gas-fired power generation by 9% year-on-year in the first half of 2020.

Opec+ JMMC Meeting Delayed to 19 August

The Opec+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC), which studies compliance with the coalition's output restraint deal, has pushed back its next monthly m…

Nuclear Power Plant

Progress at India’s Kudankulam NPP

Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro, with the technical assistance of Russian specialists, has completed the installation of the dry shielding at the reactor vess…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russian Institutes Develop Welding Quality Control Method for ITER

Non-destructive testing specialists at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic Institute is to develop methods for checking the reliability of seams on components of the IT…

Nuclear Power Plant

Uzbek, Hungarian Ministers Discuss Cooperation in Nuclear Energy

The leadership of the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan met with a Hungarian delegation to Tashkent last month.