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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Electric Utility Entergy Eyes Adding More Nuclear Power in U.S. South

Entergy, a U.S. electric utility, announced plans to increase its nuclear power production by enhancing its existing facilities in the U.S. South and exploring …

Spain

Spain’s ‘Globally Important’ Green Steel Plant Gets €60M

Spain has allocated a €60 million grant from EU funds to develop a hydrogen-powered steel mill in Puertollano, Castile–La Mancha, approximately 100 k…

Metal

Lindian Resources Secures Full Ownership of Lelouma Bauxite Project in Guinea

Lindian Resources has finalized a binding share purchase agreement (SPA) to acquire the remaining 25% interest in Bauxite Holding, securing full ownership of th…

Metal

Aclara Inaugurates Heavy Rare Earths Pilot Plant in Brazil

Aclara Resources has launched its semi-industrial heavy rare earths pilot plant in Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. The facility is designed to process ap…

Solar Cell

U.S. Startup Offers New Solar Cell Copper Metallization Paste

US-based startup Bert Thin Films, Inc. (BFT) has developed a new copper metallization paste for solar cell manufacturing. The paste, named CuBert, is compatible…

LNG

Woodside Greenlights $17.5 Billion US LNG Project, Targets 2029 Start

Woodside Energy, an Australian energy company listed as WDS.AX, announced its final investment decision for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Louisiana, …

China

Mainland China’s Smartphone Market Grows 5% in Q1 2025, Xiaomi Takes Top Spot

Mainland China’s smartphone market shipped 70.9 million units in the first quarter of 2025, a 5% year-on-year increase, according to research from Canalys…

Norway

Marrying Sails and Biofuel, Odfjell Tanker Demonstrates ‘First’ Near Carbon-Neutral Transatlantic Voyage

Norwegian shipping company Odfjell reported that its chemical tanker, Bow Olympus, is crossing the Atlantic using a combination of wind-assisted propulsion and …

Canada

Trump Tariff Chaos Makes Dow Pause $8.4bn Plant in Canada

US chemical company Dow has postponed its plan to construct a major net-zero chemical facility in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, Alberta, according to CBC. T…

Crude Oil

US Eases Downhole Commingling Policy to Boost Oil Production

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) has revised its policy to increase the allowable pressure differential for single-wellbore oil production fro…

Offshore Wind Power

EnBW Installs First He Dreiht Turbine

EnBW has successfully installed the first wind turbine at its 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm, located approximately 85 kilometers northwest of Borkum and 11…

Solar project

Spain Hits 65.8 GW of Solar Projects With Grid Permits in March

Spain reported significant progress in its renewable energy sector, with approximately 129.57 GW of renewable energy projects receiving grid-connection permits …

LNG

Axpo Bolsters LNG Bunkering Business With Operations at Second Spanish Port

Axpo, a Switzerland-based renewable energy producer, recently completed its first ship-to-ship LNG delivery in Spain. The operation took place at the Port of Al…

Norway

NCC Receives $78.6m Additional Asphalt Contracts in Norway

Nordic construction company NCC has secured 14 additional asphalt contracts with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (SVV) and various Norwegian regions. …

Moldova

ASF Moldova: 20% of Pig Herd Culled Due to Outbreaks

Moldova has experienced a severe series of African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks in March and April 2025, resulting in the culling of approximately 118,000 pigs, …