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Coal Mine

Trump Administration Approves Coal Mine Expansion to Boost Asia Exports

On Friday, the U.S. Interior Department approved a plan by Signal Peak Energy to expand coal mining operations at the Bull Mountains mine in Montana’s Mus…

Green Hydrogen

HDF Energy and Southern Power to Develop Green Hydrogen Projects in Vietnam

HDF Energy and Southern Power Corporation (EVNSPC), a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity (EVN), have announced a partnership to explore green hydrogen power proj…

Pumped Storage

India’s First Variable Speed Pumped Storage Plant Commences Operations

THDC India Limited (THDCIL) has initiated the commercial operation date (COD) process for the first 250 megawatts (MW) of its 1,000 MW Variable Speed Pumped Sto…

Nuclear Reactor

KHNP Sets Out Plans for USD18.6bn Czech Nuclear Project

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is preparing to initiate subcontract agreements and set up a project office at Dukovany following the official signing of an …

Finland

Metso to Launch PCAM Pilot and Demo Production Plants

Metso Corporation, based in Espoo, Finland, has announced the launch of pilot and demonstration plants to advance the development and production of precursor ca…

Monaco

Monaco Telecom Debuts GenAI Virtual Assistant Developed by Altores

Monaco Telecom has introduced a new virtual assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence, developed in collaboration with Altores, a startup nurtured…

Vietnam

MobiFone Debuts Vietnam’s First Open RAN Network With Rakuten Symphony

Rakuten Symphony and MobiFone have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a pilot project for deploying a nationwide 4G and 5G Open RAN mo…

Carbon Capture

MODEC and UK Firm Going in Hot Pursuit of FPSO-Based Carbon Capture Tech

Japan-based MODEC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UK-headquartered Carbon Clean Solutions to explore the deployment of offshore carbon captu…

France

France’s ‘Largest-Ever’ Shore Power Facility Completed

The Port of Toulon has commissioned France’s largest shore power solution for ships, operational since February 13, 2025, and currently in its final accep…

Solar Battery (Storage)

Ivory Coast Launches Tenders for 200 MW/66 MWh of Solar-Plus-Storage

Ci-Energies, Ivory Coast’s state-run utility, has launched two tenders for the construction of 100 MW solar power plants, each integrated with 33 MWh of e…

Electric Vehicles

FAW-Volkswagen to Produce Two CMP-Based NEV Models at Tianjin Plant From 2027

On June 4, 2025, FAW-Volkswagen entered a cooperation agreement with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) government to manufacture two ne…

Solar Cell

Involt Energy Breaks Ground on 1.78 GW N-Type Topcon Solar Cell Factory

Involt Energy, a company based in India, has launched a solar cell manufacturing initiative with a new facility in Rajkot, Gujarat. The plant will have an annua…

Brazil

Brazil’s Poultry Exports Fell in May, Hit by Bird Flu Case

Brazil’s poultry exports saw a significant decline in May compared to last year, government data revealed on Thursday, due to trade restrictions following…

China

China’s Homegrown C919 Completes First Commercial Flight to a Regional Airport in Henan Province

On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, China Southern Airlines operated its first commercial flight using the domestically developed C919 aircraft on the Guangzhou to Nany…

Natural Gas

China’s Largest Coalbed Methane Field Reaches Milestone Output

By the end of May 2025, the Daning-Jixian coalbed methane field in Shanxi Province, northern China, achieved a cumulative gas production of over 3.6 billion cub…