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Electric Vehicles

Blue Bird Premieres Next-Generation Electric School Bus; More Range, Faster Charging, Increased Seating; Cummins Accelera Powertrain

Blue Bird Corporation is premiering its next-generation Vision electric school bus at STN Expo West, a student transportation industry and technology event in N…

Geothermal Power Project

Southwest Kalinga, Philippines Geothermal Contract Awarded to APEC

Dananao Tinglayan in Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines (source: Maridenic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)Aragorn Power and Energy Corp. (APEC), a unit of AP…

Electric Vehicles

Kia Expands Georgia Plant to Produce Electric EV9 SUV With $200M Investment

Kia is expanding its only manufacturing plant in the US to make room for its first electric three-row SUV. The Kia EV9 will be the automaker’s first EV as…

Offshore Wind Power

Swedish Developer Submits Application for 1 GW, 50-Turbine Offshore Wind Farm

Eolus Vind has applied for a permit to build a wind farm off the western coast of Sweden. The project, named Västvind, is planned to have up to 50 wind tur…

Biofuel

EIA: Biofuels Displace Distillate Fuel Oil on the West Coast

Last year, U.S. West Coast distillate consumption, as measured by product supplied, was at its lowest since 2002 and is on track to fall further this year. The …

LNG

India's HPCL Gets Bids to Lease Part of Chhara LNG Terminal

India's Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL.NS) has received six or seven bids from industries to lease a part of its Chhara liquefied natural gas (LNG) impo…

Nuclear Fuel

European Consortium Focuses on VVER Fuel

A Westinghouse-led consortium has been selected by the European Union to develop and deliver a "fully European" nuclear fuel supply for Russian-designed VVER pr…

Wind Turbine

Nordex Receives an Order for 56 MW of Wind Power in Türkiye

Nordex reinforces its wind market leadership in Türkiye with new orders. VRES Enerji has commissioned the manufacturer to supply 8 N163/6.X wind turbines f…

Nuclear Reactor

First Submissions for Canadian Review of Evinci Design

Westinghouse Electric Company has submitted the first set of documents to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for the pre-licensing vendor design revi…

Floating Offshore Wind

Crown Estate Outlines Next Steps for Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Lease Sale

The Crown Estate has made some modifications to the auction process for the Celtic Sea floating wind leases offshore Wales and southwest England, focusing on so…

Offshore Wind Power

Barclays Supports Moray West Offshore Wind Farm With Gbp 95.5 Million Loan

Barclays has committed GBP 95.5 million in loans to support the Moray West offshore wind farm, a project that aims to supply 50 per cent of Scotland’s ele…

Energy Storage Project

WA’s second big battery begins construction

Construction has begun on the $625 million Stage Two Battery in Kwinana, which is being funded by the Western Australian Governments to help deliver clean, reli…

Oil Price

Sheetz to Offer $1.776 Gas for July 4th in Much of the Region

HUNTINGTON/CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - How does $1.77 a gallon gas sound?It will be a reality Tuesday, July 4 for Sheetz customers in parts of the Mid-Atlantic, …

Energy Storage Project

Australia Starts Building Second Kwinana Battery ESS

Western Australia (WA) has started building the state's second grid-scale battery energy storage system (ESS) in Kwinana on 3 July.The project, which will b…

Coal Trade

Australia's Coal Exports by Volume Set to Rise on Asian Demand

Yanzhou’s Premier coal mine in Western Australia. (Image by Calistemon, Wikimedia Commons.)Australian coal exports are set to rise for at least the next t…