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Electrification

​ABB Electrification Launches Virtual ‘Smart City’

To celebrate UN World Cities Day today, ABB has launched an interactive landscape showing some of the safe, smart and sustainable solutions that can contribute …

Energy Storage Project

Softbank Invests $110M in New Energy Storage System

Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its …

Energy Storage Battery

The 7 Battery Technologies that can be Cost Competitive by 2030

Rapid performance improvements, falling prices and massive investment is accelerating us towards a time when batteries undercut fossil fuels for storage and des…

Libya Signs Nuclear Agreement for 2019–2023

The CPF was previously signed by Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation.

Evolutionary Triumph: China’s First ACPR1000

Completion of the first ACPR1000 reactor at Yangjiang 5 within a mere 58 months marks a major achievement for China’s lengthy efforts to commercialize the firs…

Solar Company

RCEP Risks Wiping Out India's Solar PV Industry

While India is trying to add 20-25 GW every year to reach the solar target of 100 Gigawatt (GW) by 2022 and another long term goal of 450 GW in the distant futu…

Crude

Russia: US Smuggling Syrian Oil Worth $30 million a Month

Russia has slammed President Donald Trump's plan to deploy troops into Syrian oil fields as “criminal activity,” accusing the US of seeking to smuggle out oil…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Russia’s Oil Output Still Exceeds OPEC+ Cap Even as Gap Narrows

Russia’s average daily oil production remained above its OPEC+ target in October, though the compliance gap is the narrowest since the Druzhba crude-contaminat…

Nuclear Fuel

US Slaps New Sanctions on Iran

Washington imposes sanctions on Iranian construction sector and trade in four materials used in its military or nuclear programs, but waives others.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

EU greenhouse gas emissions fall two per cent in 2018

Latest preliminary estimates show continued fall in emissions across the EU, but spark concern about slow progress on transport and energy.

Renewables Set New Records in Germany

Renewables contributed some 43% of electricity consumption in Germany in the first nine months of 2019 – a new record – however doubts remain over the country…

Oil & Gas Trade

South Korea's LNG Imports to Fall on New Nuclear, Coal Plants

South Korea’s imports of liquefied natural gas are set to fall over the next five years after reaching record volumes in 2018, squeezed by the start-up of new …

Nuclear Power Plant

North Korean Hackers Hit Critical Indian Nuclear Plant

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant was hacked using malware which is designed to extract data which has been linked to Lazarus Group, which is known to have tie…

Solar Power Plant

China's Solar Installations Slump to 4.6GW in Q3

According to official figures released by China’s National Energy Administration, new solar capacity installations in the third quarter of 2019 slumped to only…

First Zero-Emissions Building Fully Powered by Green Hydrogen in Southeast Asia

Located at SP’s training centre at Woodleigh Park, the self-sustaining building is 100% powered with renewable energy via an innovative Hydrogen Energy System …