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Politicians Should Prioritise Climate Action Over Economic Growth, UK Consumers Say

Almost three quarters of European consumers are willing to accept slower economic growth if it means action to protect the environment is accelerated, according…

Nuclear Power Plant

Bulgaria and USA to Explore Nuclear Energy Cooperation

The USA intends to send a technical team to Bulgaria to explore the possibilities for further cooperation in different areas of energy, including nuclear.

CCS

Everyone Wants Carbon Capture And Sequestration — Now How To Make It A Reality ?

A sense of urgency to keep global emissions of greenhouse gases from peaking beyond 2020 is bringing environmentalists to accept the oft-contentious carbon capt…

Nuclear Policy

Swedish Support for Nuclear Continues to Grow, Poll Shows

As many as 78% of people surveyed in Sweden - up from 71% in 2017 - strongly support nuclear energy, 43% are open to the construction of new nuclear power plant…

Shale Gas

Is Shale Still Challenging OPEC’s Output Strategy?

US shale producers are cutting spending for the second year in a row. That raises questions about shale’s medium to long-term resilience as it struggles with s…

Gas turbine engine

Siemens & DEWA Co-developed the First Intelligent Gas Turbine Controller

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Siemens have co-developed the first thermodynamic Digital Twin Gas Turbine (GT) Intelligent Controller that…

Oil Price

OPEC Countries Unanimously Support Extension of Oil Output Cuts

The Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) unanimously support an extension to the agreement on the reduction of oil output after March 2020 and continue to discu…

Siemens Delivers Its First HL-class Gas Turbine for Testing at Duke Station

Workers lifted the 500-ton SGT6-9000HL onto its foundation at the Lincoln Combustion Turbine Station near Denver, North Carolina. The SGT6-9000HL is expected to…

EIB Will Provide €90 million loan to Accelerate Energy Efficiency in Belarus

The bank has approved €90 million loan to support investments in biomass-based heat generators, the upgrading of district heating systems and thermal renovatio…

Gas turbine engine

The First Gas-fired Turbine in Forty Years is Now in Operation in Afghanistan

Julian Erfurth of Siemens and Montgomery Simus of Bayat Group spotlight how the two companies have collaborated in this innovative project to provide electricit…

Thermal Plant

RusHydro Launches State-of-the-art Thermal Power Plant on Sakhalin Island

RusHydro has announced the opening of the Sakhalinskaya GRES-2 on Sakhalin Island. The modern 120 MW power plant with long-run annual output of 840 kWh will rep…

Electric Vehicle Charging

Crealis In-Motion-Charging for Limoges Métropole

Limoges Métropole received three 18-metre Iveco Bus Crealis In-Motion-Charging for its busiest network line, Line 4, which runs through the heart of the urban …

Market Analysis

145 Years After Jules Verne Dreamed up a Hydrogen Future, It Has Arrived

Clean hydrogen is produced from water using renewable energy, or from fossil fuels with technology that captures and stores carbon.

UK Households Support a Return to Hydrogen as a Domestic Fuel

Households in the U.K. would support a return to the use of hydrogen as a domestic fuel and believe it would have a positive environmental impact, research show…

Hydrogen from Natural Gas Without Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Methane pyrolysis will allow for the future climate-friendly use of fossil natural gas. Methane is separated into gaseous hydrogen and solid carbon that is a va…