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Nuclear Technology

South Korean Investment in X-Energy

X-energy of the USA - developer of the Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) as well as TRISO advanced nuclear fuel - has announced a s…

Solar Power Plant

Australia Connects 3GW of New Capacity in 2022, Must Double That to Reach Renewable Target

Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park. Source: Iberdrola.The Australian Energy Market Operator has published its latest connections data, showing 2.9 gigawatts (GW…

Oil & Gas Trade

OPEC Stands by 2023 Oil Demand Forecast Amid Improving Outlook in China

Opec says it is holding to its forecast demand for crude this year despite forces arraying against it. ReutersOpec stuck to its global oil demand forecast for t…

Energy Transition

UAE and Japan Sign Agreements to Support Energy Transition

The deals were signed at a meeting between Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE special envoy to Japan, and Yasutoshi Nishim…

South Korea

South Korean President: Country Needs More Nuclear Power

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his country’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050 must include construction of more nuclear power generation, in a…

Hydrogen Production

Making Hydrogen Will Consume 2% Of Total Global Renewable Capacity Growth by 2027

25 countries plus the EU have announced big ambitions for renewable hydrogen production. But how much renewable energy will be needed to make the H2 over the ne…

Japan

Japan, Us Partner to Develop Small Modular Reactors

Source: Johannes Plenio (Unsplash)They will also explore other next-generation advanced reactors.The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and the US …

Nuclear Technology

General Fusion’s UK demo gets go ahead

Canada-based General Fusion has been granted permission to construct a demonstration of its fusion technology at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) …

Carbon capture

John Kerry Says ‘Money, Money, Money’ Is Needed Most to Tackle Climate Change

John Kerry photographed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17, 2023.Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty ImagesThe world will eventually mo…

Oil Exploration

Totalenergies to Invest $1 Billion in Oil Development Offshore Brazil

(WO) — TotalEnergies has approved the final investment decision of the Lapa South-West oil development in the Santos Basin, 300 km off the coast of Brazil.offs…

Geothermal Power Plant

New Geothermal Field at Kirklareli, Turkiye Has Strong Tourism Potential

Geothermal resource in Kirklareli, Turkiye (source: Kirklareli Governorship)The tourism potential of the newly discovered geothermal resource in Kirklareli, Tur…

Carbon Emissions

Wintershall: German Industry Must Be Able to Benefit From CCS Technology

(BERLIN) — Even though energy consumption fell in Germany in 2022, emissions still rose. If Germany is to achieve the climate goals it has set for itself in th…

Natural Gas

Enagás Buys Stake in UK-Netherlands Subsea Gas Pipeline Operator

Spanish energy company Enagás has reached an agreement with Germany’s Uniper to acquire a 20% stake in the Dutch BBL Company, an owner of a 235-kilometre subs…

Electricity Trade

Drop in Power Price Predictions up to 2030 but Prices to Remain Above Pre-2021 Levels for Next Decade

New data from Cornwall Insight has shown a drop in our predictions for power prices up to 2030 as Europe secures alternative energy supplies, compensating for r…

Thermal Plant

MHI Signs MoU to Collaborate in Feasibility Studies on Ammonia Co-Firing for Power Generation in BLCP Power Station

-- Studies Aim to Achieve 20% Co-Firing at a Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant; Includes Procurement and Utilization of the Fuel --- MHI to consider burners and ot…