Xi

Bhutan’s Hydropower Potential, Availability Increases to 37GW

Bhutan's hydropower potential and availability is currently at around 37GW from 155 identified sites, including existing power plants.

Wind Turbine

Vestas Wins 108 MW EPC Order in Mexico

Vestas has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order for the 108 MW Energía Sierra Juárez II wind park, to be located in Tecate, Baja C…

Hydropower Potential Increases to 37,000MW

The country’s hydropower potential and availability is now around 37 gigawatt (GW) or 37,000 megawatt (MW) from 155 identified sites, including the existing po…

China’s Exim Bank Agrees $214m Loan for Rwandan Dam

A $214m concessionary loan has been agreed between the Export-Import Bank of China and the government of Rwanda for the Nyabarongo II dam, to be built by Chines…

Crude

Shell Looks To Expand Mars Crude Pipeline System

Shell Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: SHLX) announced that it is considering expanding its 163-mile-long Mars crude oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, the company…

Crude

South Sudan Ignores Reports on Oil Pollution, Birth Defects

The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy met…

Australia’s Renewables Chaos Prompts Solar Exit of top EPC player

The builder of some of Australia’s largest solar plants will not take on any new sector contracts, amid claims that grid fallout and other factors have decimat…

Rwanda Secures $214 mln China Loan for Hydropower Plant

Rwanda secured a $214 million loan from China’s Export-Import Bank (EximBank)to build a new 43.5 megawatts hydropower plant that will help it reduce reliance o…

Solar Power Panel

New Perovskite Promises 38.7% Efficient Tandem Cells

Scientists from Japan’s Gifu University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have identified a chalcogenide perovskite material with light absorption attribut…

Oil & Gas Trade

Petrobras Selling Offshore Field and Blocks in Brazil

Petrobras said on Monday that these transaction were in line with the portfolio optimization and the improvement of the company’s capital allocation, aiming at…

Stadtwerke Kiel Replaces Coal Plant with Cutting-Edge CHP Facility

A power station hailed as one of Europe’s most modern and flexible combined heat and power plants is now operational on the site of a former coal-fired plant i…

Brexit Day: The Great Green Gamble Begins

Whether you regard the prospect as exciting or terrifying, the UK is embarking on an uncertain journey outside the EU - the consequences for the environment and…

GE Renewable Energy & ENMAX to Implement Canadas First Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine System

GE Renewable Energy and ENMAX announced that they have reached an agreement to upgrade an existing LM6000 Gas Turbine (GT) at ENMAX’s Crossfield Energy Center …

MeyGen Tidal-Energy Array Exports Electricity for Whole of 2019

The world’s largest tidal-stream array ran for the whole of 2019, the longest ever period of uninterrupted generation from a multi-megawatt tidal turbine insta…

Thermal Plant

German Local Utilities Say Threatened by Hard Coal Exit Plan

German local utilities group VKU said on Friday the government’s draft plans to phase out hard coal fired power stations in the coming years as part of its cli…