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Virtual power plants

The Great Untapped Potential of Virtual Power Plants

We need every tool in the toolkit to improve grid reliability, and we need them now, RMI’s managing director, Mark Dyson, told the pv magazine USA Week au…

Nuclear Policy

US Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050

The United States announced new nuclear energy deployment targets at the UN climate summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. As outlined in the framework, the aim is…

Greece

Greece Launches 200 MW Battery Storage Auction

Interested parties can submit bids by December 23. Awarded projects will be announced in February 2025 and need to be connected to the grid by April 2026.The Gr…

Solar project

US Solar Project Transforms Contaminated Brownfield Site

Thirty years in the making, but the site of a former circuit board recycling facility is now generating 7 MW of solar energy and providing power to 960 subscrib…

Finland

Testing to Start On 100 MWh Sand-Based Thermal Battery in Finland

The Sand Battery will stand about 13 meters high and 15 meters wideFinnish startup Polar Night Energy is building an industrial-scale thermal energy storage sys…

Solar project

Israel Plans 2,000 m2 PV Project in Occupied Palestinian Territories

Israeli settlement of Carmel, Har HebronIsrael plans to bild a 2,000-square-meter solar PV project in the occupied Palestinian territories and has directed civi…

Solar project

Financing Secured for Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Senegal

Madagascar-based Axian Energy has obtained €84 million ($89.2 million) of financing for a solar-plus-storage project, featuring a 60 MW solar plant and a 7…

Solar Power Plant

Azerbaijan Breaks Ground on 240 MW Solar Plant

Work is underway on a 240 MW solar project in southwestern Azerbaijan following the signing of an investment agreement and land lease agreement. It is being dev…

Solar project

South Africa’s Tax Authority Opens Solar Systems Tender

South Africa’s revenue department is seeking bidders for the engineering, design and installation of solar panel systems at its offices across the country…

Wave Energy

Thames Water Gets Key Creditor Support for Rescue Plan

Thames Water won crucial support from creditors to move forward with its plan to raise £3 billion ($3.8 billion) in emergency funding.Holders of more than…

Thermal Plant

Payra Power Plant's Unit 2 To Remain Offline For Maintenance For 2 Months

One unit of the Payra 1320 MW Thermal Power Plant in Patuakhali will remain out of service for the next two months for essential maintenance, according to plant…

Thermal Plant

Ministry Of Coal Receives Strong Industry Participation In Financial Incentive Scheme For Coal Gasification Projects

The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has received an enthusiastic response to the Financial Incentive Scheme aimed at promoting coal gasification projects, marking a sign…

Thermal Plant

Now Payra To Cut Down Power Production By Half

Amid the backdrop of all other coal-based power plants in the country, including India's Adani, the production of a unit of Payra Thermal Power Plant went i…

Nuclear Fusion

China's Fusion Reactor Debuts Digital Twin

China’s Huanliu-3 (LJ-3) tokamak has launched a new series of physical experiments, incorporating for the first time a digital twin system developed by China N…

Nuclear Reactor

Concreting Completed For The Containment Dome Of Akkuyu Unit 1

Concreting of the outer containment dome of the first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant took 104 days, with3511 cubic metres of high-strength self…