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Electricity Transmission

Nexans to Begin Laying Cable to Syros Under Aegean Sea

Top officials from the Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO or ADMIE) of Greece and contractor Nexans SA, based in France, announced yesterday in La…

Electrocaloric Heat Pumps Promise Refrigerant-free Cooling

Six Fraunhofer institutes are joining forces on a newly launched project, ElKaWe (for Electrocaloric Heat Pumps) aiming to develop efficient solid-state and ref…

Microgrid

A Plug-and-Play Microgrid for Rooftop Solar

The future of solar energy depends on making residential power good enough for the grid.

Coal Power

Big European Banks Face Call to End Funding for Firms Building Coal-fired Plants

Some of Europe’s biggest banks are being challenged by environmental groups to sever all lending to utilities which they say are still developing new coal-fire…

Gas power plant

Hong Kong to Invest 500 Million Dollars to Build Two LNG Power Stations

Hong Kong based CNTIC VPower YGI Limited is planning to invest over US$500 million to build a 400-megawatt LNG fired power station in Thaketa Township and a 150…

Coal Company

One of the Biggest U.S. Coal Companies Filed for Bankruptcy

A judge approved a bankruptcy reorganization for one of the biggest U.S. coal companies Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty about how its mines will be bonded in …

Solar Company

Australia’s Biggest Businesses Could Deliver “A Yallourn” of New Wind And Solar

ustralian companies that have committed to source 100 per cent of their electricity from renewable energy now represent almost one quarter of the value of the A…

EV Market

How India Will Try To Turn 200 Million Vehicles Electric In Just Six Years

In September 2017, India’s Minister of Road Transport and Highways provoked outrage when he told an audience of carmakers that he would require all of India’s…

TVA Hosts Uganda Public Power

US utility Tennesse Valley Authority recently hosted visitors from the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL), sharing knowledge and experience o…

Energy storage technology

How Energy Storage’s Growth Trajectory Differs

It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. But storage's trajectory differs f…

Solar Company

HBS Completes 900kWp Solar Array for Anglian Water

HBS New Energies has completed its latest solar install for Anglian Water, this time at the utility's Jaywick Water Recycling Centre in Essex.

Electric Car

New Two-Way Charging Initiatives for Electric Cars

An electric car that not only has to be charged regularly but can also provide power by itself: it’s something we will see more and more often in the coming ye…

PowerGrid Technology

Michigan Launches MI Power Grid

MI Power Grid is also designed to offer feedback to help utilities improve their grid investments for affordable and reliable electricity services.

Carbon Pricing

Is Carbon Pricing the Key to a Clean Energy Future?

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has proposed incorporating the social cost of carbon into the wholesale price of electricity.

Wind Capacity Exceeds Hydro, While Solar Tops Oil in US

New capacity placed into service that month included 359 MW of wind and 232 MW of solar but only 100 MW of natural gas.