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Coal-Fired Power Plants

US DoE Pledges up to $64m in Clean Coal R&D Funding

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $64m in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportun…

Electrical Wiring Accessories

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Solar Power Plant

Sembcorp Awarded Singapore’s Largest Floating PV plant

Sembcorp Industries' Singapore-based subsidiary has been selected to build the largest floating PV plant in the Southeast Asian state, standing at 60MW on Tenge…

World's Carbon Emissions Flatline as Rich Nations Ditch Coal for Wind and Solar

Wind and solar expansion helped bring an unexpected stall to the growth of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, said the International Energy Agency (…

Debate Renews Between Iran, US at IAEA Meeting

Debate renewed Monday between representatives of the United States and Iran on the 2015 nuclear deal, during a meeting for the International Atomic Energy Agenc…

Oil & Gas Trade

Russia Still Studying Proposed Deeper Opec+ Output Cuts: Novak

Russia is still studying proposed deeper oil output cuts by the Opec+ grouping of top producers prompted by the new coronavirus outbreak in China, Energy Minist…

Russian Oil & Gas Firms Plan to Invest $20 BILLION in Iraq’s Energy Industry

Russian oil and gas companies could triple their investments in Iraq in the near future, Yury Fyodorov, first deputy chairman of the Economic Policy Committee a…

First Industrial-scale Solar Electricity Farm

The solar farm will generate 120MW of solar electricity from about 400,000 photovolatic (PV) panels and is expected to be completed in early 2021. The project …

Energy Storage Battery

Renault Batteries Find ‘Megawatt-Scale’ 2nd Life use in Belgium

An energy storage system made up of ‘second life’ batteries previously used in Renault’s electric vehicle (EV) has been deployed for Umicore, a multinational…

New Technology

Geothermal Energy: Drilling a 3,000-Meter-Deep Well

Geothermal energy is an efficient, non-polluting solution but in certain cases geothermal operations must be handled with care.

Crude

OPEC+ Panel Calls for More Oil Cuts on Coronavirus Impact

An OPEC, non-OPEC technical panel has recommended extending a current oil supply cut pact until the end of 2020 and more output reductions due to the impact of …

Hydrogen Investors Go All-in with Falling H2 Costs Within Their Sights

A global industry body said last month that the cost of the gas could be half as big in a decade.

Clean emission

Researchers Work on Project to Develop Cleaner-Burning, Renewable Fuels

Biofuels offer potential benefits as renewable fuels with cleaner emissions, but with thousands of types of biofuels to choose from, it makes it hard for the en…

Market Analysis

Planned Hydropower Dams Threaten Fish in the Tropics

Planned hydropower dams will greatly increase threats for freshwater fish species because of habitat fragmentation, especially in the tropics.

Market Analysis

Northeast US Added 800 MW of Rooftop Solar in 2019

Solar contractors added about 800 MWac of small-scale solar across nine Northeastern states in the 12 months ending in November, 2019, with contractors in New Y…