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Carbon Emissions

Rio Tinto and GravitHy Join Forces to Accelerate the Decarbonization of Steelmaking in Europe

Rio Tinto has entered into definitive agreements with GravitHy, an early-stage industrial company, to help accelerate GravitHy’s steel decarbonization pro…

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle

Toyota Aims for Hydrogen-Electric Hybrid Van Public Road Test in 2025

Toyota Motor Co. unveils the commercial hybrid HiAce van powered by hydrogen and electricity in Shizuoka Prefecture on Nov. 16, 2024. (Kyodo)Toyota Motor Corp. …

Offshore Wind Power

Control System Improves Stability Of Subsea Robots For Offshore Wind Maintenance

Engineers at theUniversity of Edinburghin Scotland have conducted trials of underwater autonomous robots that could predict waves in real time.They are designed…

Solar Technology

Lowest Cost of Heat for Modular Sodium CSP? A “Billboard” Solar Receiver With a “Cartesian” Heliostat Layout

High-temperature liquid sodium receivers able to run at over 700°C may allow use of modular multi-tower system configurations similar to that being develope…

Battery

MVP Lithium to Use Evove’s Direct Lithium Extraction Technology in Montney in 2025

Midas Vantage Projects (MVP) Lithium Limited has received a letter of intent (LOI) from Evove Ltd outlining Evove’s commitment to commissioning MVP Lithiu…

Energy Storage Project

GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas & NREL Begin Solid State Hydrogen Storage Demonstration Project

GKN Hydrogen, and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced the commissioning of a research demonstration project with the SDepartment of Energy’s …

United States

US House Passes Critical Mineral Consistency Act

US Congressman Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) celebrated the bipartisan House passage of his legislation to ensure parity between Critical Materials, as defined by the …

Battery

West Sussex County Council Issues Public Tender for 16MW BESS

The initial plan was also to use second-life batteries repurposed from electric vehicles.West Sussex County Council has issued an invitation to tender (ITT) for…

Nuclear Technology

NSERC Funds LM26 Diagnostic System

For the second time this year, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance programme has awarded funding to support the devel…

Nuclear Technology

Orano Starts Construction Of Thorium-228 Facility

Orano subsidiary Orano Med has laid the foundations for its Advanced Thorium Extraction Facility plant in Bessines-sur-Gartempe in Haute-Vienne, western France.…

Nuclear Reactor

Orano Prioritises Niger Employees As Financial Situation Worsens

Days after Mining Minister Ousmane Abarchi said that Niger was actively seeking to attract Russian investment in natural resources including uranium, Orano has …

Oil Price

Election Euphoria Ends For Oil Prices

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects there to be an oil surplus of more than 1.0 million bbl next year based upon a continuing decline in demand center…

Nuclear Reactor

New York Is Exploring Interest in Building Out Nuclear Power

The state of New York is asking atomic energy developers and major power users to share information about their interest in seeing new nuclear projects built ac…

Energy Investment

Octopus Exceeds $2bn Offshore Wind Investment in Just Two Years

Octopus Energy has surpassed $2 billion in offshore wind investments in two years, aiming to accelerate global offshore wind developmentsOctopus Energy has anno…

COP29

UN Chief Urges Faster Climate Action as COP29 Opens

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders that urgent action is needed to prevent the worst effects of climate change, stressing that ti…