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Smart Grid

Smart Grid Innovation Hub Launched by Iberdrola

The Global Smart Grid Innovation Hub in Bilbao, Spain will focus on R&D on the new challenges facing electricity distribution networks.

Smart Grid

Lithuania’s Ignitis Grupė Secures €110 Million Loan for Smart Meters and IT

In Lithuania, energy company Ignitis Grupė has secured a €110 million loan from the European Investment Bank to support its smart metering systems and IT solu…

Coal Price

South Korean Coal Market Rises on Tighter Fundamentals

Coal supply cuts in Australia and ongoing nuclear outages following two typhoons earlier this month supported South Korean coal prices for a second consecutive …

LNG

Chevron Sells More Domestic Gas to Alcoa in Australia

Chevron has signed an agreement to supply a further 37PJ of gas sourced from the three LNG projects located offshore Western Australia to US aluminium group Alc…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Smart Testsolutions and MicroNova Combine Test Technologies for Fuel Cell Controllers

The two companies have entered into a technological cooperation agreement.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

KB Financial is the First Korean Bank to Stop Funding Coal-Fired Power Projects

The bank makes the announcement the week after Korea declared a climate crisis and set a 2050 target to achieve net-zero emissions.

Thermal Plant

NTPC Invites Bids for Biomass Pellet Procurement for Thermal Plants

State-run NTPC has invited bids for procurement of biomass pellets for its various thermal plants on domestic competitive basis as part of its endeavour to redu…

Delta Energy Storage Solution Helps Taipower to Stabilize Kinmen’s Independent Grid

Delta's energy storage solution was successfully introduced at Taipower's Kinmen Xiaxing Power Plant, which is currently the largest energy storage system owned…

Ultra-high voltage grid

China's MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway

​Smart grids delivering renewable energy across continents will be a crucial advance, but they will also require extremely long electricity transmission distan…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Hyundai Develops Hydrogen-Powered Forklifts

Hyundai Mobis, along with Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Construction Equipment, has successfully developed a hydrogen-powered forklift.

Microgrid

PXiSE, Toshiba Form Alliance Targeting Japanese Microgrid Market

PXiSE Energy Solutions and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions have formed an alliance to develop microgrids, with an initial focus on Japan and growing to the g…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Energy to Replace Natural Gas at Hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Dutch news portal Gawalo has published an interesting article about efforts by a hospital in the Netherlands looking at replacing natural gas with geothermal en…

Geothermal Power Plant

HS Orka to Push Forward with 30 MW Expansion at Reykjanes Geothermal Plant, Iceland

Private power operator HS Orka has announced the intention to start with the 30 MW expansion of its Reykjanes geothermal power plant in the near future.

PowerGrid Technology

Welsh Flywheel Project Helps Stabilise Grid

‘Innovative’ technology to be up and running in Rassau in Ebbw Vale by Autumn 2021.

Solar Power Plant

Irish, US JV Toasts Solar PPA Success in Maine

Irish company BNRG and its US joint venture partner Dirigo Solar are to supply renewable electricity to a public utility in the north-east US under a 20-year po…