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Oil Price

Oil Approaches $120 as EU Considers Ban on Russian Crude

Fitch Ratings says the outlook for the global economy has 'deteriorated significantly' as inflation rises and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens global ene…

Hydropower Plant

Low Water Levels Paralyze Hydropower Plants in Albania

Albania extended a national holiday for a day as demand for electricity outstripped domestic production and low water levels paralyzed hydropower plants across …

Wind Farm

EDF Cuts Ribbon on 24MW Polish Wind Farm

EDF Renewables' 24MW Gorzyca wind farm in Poland is fully operational, following the completion of works by contract engineer Bilfinger Tebodin.

Offshore Wind Power

Shell Applies for Licenses for 17 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind in Brazil

Shell has applied for environmental investigation licences for six offshore wind projects in Brazil with the country’s Institute for the Environment and Natura…

Carbon Neutral

Coal’s a ‘Stupid Investment’ and We’re ‘Sleepwalking to Climate Catastrophe,’ Says UN Chief Guterres

The U.N. Secretary General issued a stark warning Monday, saying the planet had emerged from last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow with “a certain naïve optimi…

Azerbaijan

Masdar Starts Building 230-MW Solar Farm in Azerbaijan

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar) announced that it has launched the construction of the 230-MW Garadagh solar farm in Azerbaijan, and signed new ag…

LNG

France Says Ban On Russian Energy Can’t Be Ruled Out

France sees a potential ban on imports of Russian energy into the EU as an option, its Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said over the weekend, adding…

Electrification

Renewable Energy Credits to Fund Electrification of South Sudan Hospital

South Sudan’s first Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-REC) agreement will support the solar electrification of the Malakal Teaching Hospital, the only referral …

Oil Price

India's Energy Dilemma: Is Cheap Russian Oil Worth Tensions with West?

India, Asia’s third-largest economy, faces a dilemma. It hopes to increase imports of Russian oil, currently an abundant source in a tight market, but the move…

Wind Power Project

Netherlands Doubles Wind Energy Targets for 2030

The Dutch government on Friday doubled its forecasts for offshore wind power generation in the country by 2030 as the Netherlands seeks to curb its reliance on …

Energy Storage Battery

Australian Utility Gets Tick of Approval for 2GWh Liddell Battery

Australia’s biggest power producer AGL has secured planning approval for a 500MW/2GWh grid-connected utility scale battery to be developed at the site of its c…

United States

Greening US Solar with End-of-Life Plan

The US Department of Energy’s five-year plan aims to reduce the environmental impacts of solar panels at the end of life, plus cut in half the cost of recyclin…

Coal Mine

Climate Impact From China’s Coal Push Visible From Space

China’s increased reliance on coal to combat an energy shortage was never going to bode well for its ambitions to cut planet-warming emissions.

Offshore Wind Power

Morocco’s Natural Resources Offer it Great Potential to Emerge as a Global Leader in Wind Energy

Morocco’s thriving offshore wind energy market has put the North African kingdom on the list of countries with the potential to emerge quickly as global leader…

Joe Biden

Amid Global Energy Squeeze, Biden Looks to Iran but Not Israel

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has thrown the global energy market into a state of turmoil, forcing the U.S. and Europe to look for substitutes for Russian oil an…