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Nuclear Policy

South Korea's Anti-Nuclear Policy To Face Strong And Growing Opposition

Public opinion is shifting in favour of nuclear after a heatwave has affected power supply and demand. Increasing concerns about rising electricity bills and co…

Solar Power Panel

PV-Wildlife Symbiosis of Techno-Ecological

With clean energy access and conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity high up the global sustainability agenda, understanding better – and quantifying – th…

U.S. Ethanol Industry Nearing Breaking Point

The U.S. ethanol industry is about to break under the weight of the Trump Administration's trade war with China and the surge in the number of small refineries …

Wind Farm

Australia Transition to 100% Renewables?

As Australia installs renewable energy at a record rate, and sets new benchmarks on output and the share of wind and solar in the grid, the next question must s…

Nuclear Fuel

Dealing with the Spent Fuel Discharged by the Plants. Could this Fuel be Recycled?

The nuclear power plant construction boom of the 1960s and 1970s held the promise of a new energy era and at the same time brought about a new challenge: dealin…

Offshore Wind Power

EOWDC Community Fund Awards First Grants

Vattenfall has allocated the first grants from the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) fund to community groups across Aberdeen committed to a foss…

More Than 60 News Media Outlets have Pledged to Dedicate a Special Week of Coverage to the Climate

A range of local, regional, and national outlets across television, radio, print, and online media have so far signed up to the Covering Climate Now pledge, whi…

Solar Power Plant

Glendale Gas Plant to be Partially Replaced by Batteries and Solar

An aging gas power plant in Glendale, California will soon be repowered by a combination of distributed solar, energy storage, and geothermal energy.

Wind Energy Technology

Glosten Launches Floating Wind Hybrid Energy Storage Concept

US offshore engineering outfit Glosten has unveiled an innovative hybrid energy storage concept that ties together a floating wind farm substation platform with…

Electric Car

Electric Black Taxis have Grabbed a 10 per cent Market Share

LEVC claims its electric black taxis have helped save cabbies a collective £3.85m on fuel costs since first launching in London last year, with the manufacture…

No Deal Brexit, Raising Fears it Could Seriously Erode Environmental Standards

The government continued to step up warnings over the weekend that a 'no deal' Brexit at the end of October was now a "very real prospect", revealing that it wa…

Electric Vehicle Charging

Fossil Fuel Giant BP Wants to Charge Electric Cars 100% in 5 Minutes by 2021

In a recent interview, BP’s head of technology David Eyton said that it wants to provide batteries for electric cars by 2021 that can charge to 100% within jus…

Nuclear Fuel

Very Small Quantities of Ruthenium-106 were Detected in Several European Countries

A used fuel reprocessing plant in the southern Urals region of Russia is the most likely source of a release of the isotope ruthenium-106 detected across Europe…

China Belt and Road Energy Investments Grow 1,370% Since 2014

Investments from China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) have supported over 12GW of wind and solar energy projects in South and Southeast Asia since 2014, acco…

Power Construction

Serious Electricity Shortage!47 Out of 62 Power Projects Are Delayed in Vietnam

Vietnam could face an electricity shortage of 6.6 billion kWh in 2021 and 11.8 billion kWh in 2022, a report by Vietnam Plus revealed.The shortage is blamed on …