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Energy Investment

White House Touts Biggest Single Investment in US Solar Energy by Korean Company

Korean solar power company Hanwha Q Cells will spend more than $2.5 billion to expand its Dalton, Ga., facility, the largest one-time investment in solar manufa…

Thermal Coal

Japan’s Soma Fully Restores Quake-Hit Coal-Fired Plant

Japanese power producer and wholesaler Soma Kyodo Power has resumed full operations at the 1,000MW No.2 coal-fired unit at its Shinchi power complex following a…

Oil Refinery

Fire Breaks Out at Pdv’s Cardon Refinery

A fire broke out today in the fluid catalytic cracking unit at Venezuela's Cardon refinery, the second major blaze at the site since late December.Operator …

Electric Car

MIT Study Finds Computational Load for Widespread Autonomous Driving Could Be a Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions

In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous vehicles could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as…

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Is Not a Transition Fuel, It Is a Destination Fuel – Qatar Energy Minister

H.E. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President of QatarEnergy has said that natural gas is not a transition fuel a…

Switzerland

Swiss Startup Makes First Attempt to Deploy Solar on Railways

Swiss startup Sun-Ways has developed a patented solution under which it directly rolls out solar modules between railway tracks like a carpet. The panels can be…

Energy Transition

Not Enough Money Being Put on the Table for Energy Transition Efforts, John Kerry Says

John Kerry, special US climate envoy, and Andrew Steer, president and chief executive of the Bezos Earth Fund, during a panel discussion at the Atlantic Council…

Solar Power Plant

Tunisia: A 10 Mwp Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Goes Into Service in Tataouine

A solar photovoltaic power plant has just been inaugurated near the town of Tataouine, 531 km south-east of Tunis. The 10 MWp facility belongs to the Renewable …

United Kingdom

2023 Predictions: Renewables, Hydrogen and Grid Connections

Here, Mark Rowcroft, development director at solar and storage developer Exagen, spotlights six areas to watch in the UK energy sector this year.2023 will see s…

Hydro Generator Unit

Large Dams Face Around 26% Loss of Storage by 2050 Says New Research

Large dams worldwide have lost an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage capacity as a result of trapped sediment, with that number set to rise…

Energy Security

Lithuania-Latvia Gas Pipeline Hit by Explosion, Operator Says

A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia, like the one seen here, has been hit by an explosion. Reuters.A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia was…

United Arab Emirates

Masdar Signs Agreement with Four Dutch Companies for Green Hydrogen Exports

Dr Sultan Al Jaber with Netherlands Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, third from left, Masdar chief executive Mohamed Al Ramahi, right, and other officials at th…

Solar Technology

Net Zero Review Calls for “Rooftop Revolution” to Unlock 70GW of Solar by 2035

Net Zero Review calls for rooftop revolution to unlock 70GW by 2035. Image: Getty.The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has release…

Wind Farm

Delays to Onshore Wind Investment Increase Long-Term Power Prices in Ireland

Data from Cornwall Insight Ireland’s fourth - ‘All-Island Power Market Outlook to 2030’ – has forecast that energy prices will not retur…

Energy Storage Technology

New Technique to Turn Abandoned Mines Into Batteries

Underground Gravity Energy Storage system: a schematic of different system sections. Credit: Hunt et al.A novel technique called Underground Gravity Energy Stor…