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Solar Power Panel

ARENA Targets Solar Panel Recycling in New $15m Funding Round

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has launched a $15 million funding round to support projects aimed at cutting the cost and amount of waste created by sol…

Flora to Fuel: Could Wind-Powered Algae Make Bioreactors Competitive?

The ENBIO project uses excess energy from wind turbines to power 16 1,000-litre photo-bioreactors which grow algae that can then be used for biofuels. The proje…

Gas turbine engine

Siemens to Deliver Gas Turbines for Two New Peaking Power Plants in Belarus

Siemens has been selected to deliver the power generation equipment for two new peaking power plants for the state-owned utility company RUE Vitebskenergo in th…

South Korea Shuts Down 10 Coal-Fired Power Plants to Curb Pollution

The shutdown comes after the government said last month it would idle up as much as 15 coal-fired power plants between December and February, while its remainin…

Micro Reactor

France and Japan Collaborate in Fast Reactor Development

An agreement to cooperate on the development of fast neutron reactors has been signed between Framatome and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Co…

Concentrating Solar Power

Elsewedy Electric to Bring Solar, Storage to South Sudan

Elsewedy Electric has signed a contract with South Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Dams to construct hybrid solar and storage system valued at approximately $45…

Nigeria International Petroleum Summit

Nigeria’s petroleum industry is the largest in Africa with proven Oil and Gas reserves of 37 billion barrels (bbl) and 192 trillion cubic feet respectivel…

Five Emerging Energy Technologies to Look Out for in 2020

Increased technological consolidation can be seen as an epoch in the energy sector for this year at least, according to Greentechmedia.com, which has compiled a…

Five Emerging Energy Sources That Could One-Day Change Our Lives

Fossil fuels aren’t just killing the environment, we’re running out of them – fast. Could any of these emerging sustainable sources replace them?

Virtual power plant

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant Rescues Grid After Coal Peaker Fails

Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant project in South Australia is only around ~2% complete, but it is already proving to be a difference-maker, rescuing Queensland’s …

Thermal Plant

Engie Will Close its Newest Power Plant in Chile to Become Carbon Neutral

Engie will close its newest power plant in Chile after just five years of operations as part of the country's efforts to become carbon neutral, the company said…

Carbon Neutral

Helsinki Carbon Neutral Building Pledge to Improve Energy Efficiency

Helsinki has become a signatory to the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment developed by the World Green Building Council, an international network of 70 sustai…

Electricity Transmission

SSEN Submits Scots Grid Masterplan

SSEN Transmission has today submitted a business plan to the UK energy regulator Ofgem for the future of the north of Scotland electricity network that aims to …

EU and Africa Signed A $120m Deal to Fund Sustainable Energy Projects

The European Investment Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) have signed a deal to fund sustainable energy projects over t…

New Technology

Reduce the Water Use in Thermal Power Plants by Satellite Imagery

A team of researchers at LUT University in Finland has recently investigated water use in thermal power plants, trying to project future scenarios for water use…