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Energy Transition

Italy's A2A to Stop Using Coal at Italian Power Plant with Immediate Effect

Italy's biggest regional utility A2A said on Thursday it would stop using coal at its power plant in the northern town of Brescia with immediate effect.

Energy Storage Battery

Will Hydrogen Fuel Cells Play a Role in the VTOL Revolution?

Almost all players in the emerging urban air mobility industry have converged on the idea of using fully-electric aircraft, powered by lithium-ion batteries, to…

Combined Heat and Power

Shandong Starts Construction of 1320MW Ultra-Supercritical Thermal Power Plant

The construction of the 1,320 MW (2x660 MW) Liaocheng Xiangguang ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired CHP project has started in Liaocheng, in the Shandong Prov…

Shell Greenlights $6.4 bln Australia Natural Gas Project

Royal Dutch shell said on Friday it would develop the first phase of Australia's largest coal-bed methane resource in Queensland.

Crude Oil

Demand for OPEC Oil Falls to 30-Year Low

The sharp contraction in global oil demand amid lockdowns and stalled industrial activity will lead to the lowest demand for OPEC crude in more than thirty year…

Oil Pipeline

Shell Restarts US Offshore Oil Hub After Pipeline Leak

Royal Dutch Shell Plc resumed production of 100,000 barrels a day Tuesday at its Perdido deepwater center in the U.S. gulf of Mexico.

Shell Looks To Become Net Zero Energy Company By 2050

Oil supermajor Shell announced on Thursday its ambition to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 at the latest, joining other majors such as BP an…

Hydrogen Park South Australia Takes Shape

Australia’s largest renewable gas project Hydrogen Park South Australia (Hyp SA) is starting to take shape.

Nuclear Power Plant

Hot Tests Completed at Ostrovets Unit 1

Hot-tests have been completed at unit 1 of the first nuclear power plant to be constructed in Belarus, Rosatom announced yesterday. The Russian state nuclear co…

States ask EPA for Nationwide Biofuel Waiver to help Oil Refiners Weather Coronavirus

The governors of five U.S. states have asked the Trump administration for a nationwide waiver exempting the oil-refining industry from the nation’s biofuel law…

Market Analysis

Europe can be 60% powered by solar before 2050

Perhaps it is not surprising a report co-produced by Europe’s solar industry places PV at the heart of a zero-carbon, mid-century energy system on the continen…

Wind Power Project

New UK Wind Capacity to Fall 20% This Year

Disruption caused by the coronavirus could see the UK's installed capacity of wind energy in 2020 shrink by 20%.

Oil Price

Russia’s Oil Pain Deepens as OPEC+ Prepares to Cut Output

The Kremlin may have succeeded in ending its oil war with Saudi Arabia, yet the pain of crude’s crash is only just starting to hit Russia’s budget.

LNG

Networks Unveil Plan to Deliver World's First Zero Carbon Gas Grid

The UK's gas network operators have set themselves the ambitious target of delivering the world's first zero carbon gas grid, as part of a major new programme d…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

The Decline of Coal-Fired Power Will Not Impact Reliable Electricity Supply

If the economic viability of the coal industry was not already in question before the outbreak of COVID-19, the ensuing economic downturn has really laid bare t…