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Pumped Storage

LS Power to Buy 420-MW Pumped-Storage Hydro Plant in New Jersey

US power and energy infrastructure owner LS Power Equity Advisors LLC has signed definitive agreements to acquire the Yards Creek Power Station, a 420-MW pumped…

Solar Power Plant

Neoen Signs PPA with CleanCo for 400MW Australia Solar Farm

French renewable energy producer Neoen has signed a power purchase agreement in Australia with publicly-owned renewable generator CleanCo.

Solar Power for Home

SunPower Partners up with Tech CU for $1bn Investment

Silicon Valley-based SunPower has entered a £1bn partnership with Technology Credit Union to increase the financing options available to US residential solar c…

Supplying and installing 15 solar powered drip irrigation systems

Supplying and installing 15 solar powered drip irrigation systems in rural damascus and homs governorates, re-tender (only syrian suppliers are eligible).

Nuclear Technology

Westinghouse Electric Company Installs 3D Printed Part in Commercial Nuclear Reactor

A significant milestone for additive manufacturing has been achieved in the nuclear industry: a first-of-its-kind 3D printed component has successfully been ins…

Hydrogen and Nanomaterials May Transform Energy Industry

Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to fundamentally transform the global energy landscape—but the production must benefit the environme…

Nuclear Power Plant

Egypt’s Nuclear Plant Project Continues Despite Virus Restrictions

The Egyptian nuclear project is underway, despite the restrictions imposed by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the Egyptian authorities’ decision to p…

Solar Technology

A Flexible Perovskite Solar Cell with 11.8% Efficiency

U.S. researchers have created an inorganic mixed halide perovskite solar cell which they claim shows no thermal degradation even at 200 degrees Celsius for thre…

Oil Shale

Shell Sells Appalachia Shale Gas Assets to National Fuel

The consideration is intended to be paid in cash, but National Fuel has the option to provide up to US$150 million of NFG common stock as consideration.

Oil & Gas Trade

Why Russia Finally Accepted Deeper Oil Output Cuts

When Russia refused two months ago to join the deeper OPEC oil cuts, it was because Moscow found them unnecessary. Two months later, Russia agreed to cut quite …

Crude Oil

Equatorial Guinea set to Construct Modular Crude Oil Refinery in Punta Europa

The contract was awarded to Houston based VFuels Oil & Gas Engineering (VFuels),a full service oil and gas engineering, design, and fabrication firm that specia…

Coal Mine

Aussie Bank Westpac to Gradually Shift Away from Coal Financing by 2030

Australia’s Westpac Banking Corp plans to promote the transition to climate-friendly solutions and reduce support to thermal coal projects to bring its financi…

SunPower Bolsters Residential Solar Loan Programme with USD-1bn Partnership

SunPower Corp has entered into a USD-1-billion (EUR 919m) partnership with Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) that gives the Silicon Valley-based solar company a…

Hydrogen Project

Australia's CEFC Launches $300m Hydrogen Project Fund

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has welcomed the launch of the $300m Hydrogen Fund.

Wave Energy

SINN Power Develops Floating Ocean Hybrid Platform

​SINN Power has developed a floating ocean hybrid platform it says can be used “as a complete off-grid energy solution,” generating renewable energy from wav…