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ACWA Power initiates key RE partnerships in Azerbaijan
Major developer ACWA Power has announced that four separate agreements have been finalised for the development of new renewable energy in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
EU and Swiss-funded FLEX4H2 project launched
The ‘FLEX4H2’ project – Flexibility for Hydrogen – aims at ‘moving technological frontiers for low-emission combustion of hydrogen beyond the latest state-of-the-art’ technology –...
Update - Ukraine’s energy sector during war
Ukraine’s energy security was the topic of an online briefing by DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko, on Wednesday 25 January. DTEK is the major operator of thermal PPs in Ukraine. It was...
First LNG cargo arrives at Germany’s LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven
On 3 January Germany’s first full cargo of liquefied natural gas for the new Uniper-operated LNG terminal arrived in Wilhelmshaven. The LNG ship Maria Energy, owned by Tsakos...
Germany’s power supply will survive coal and nuclear exit
Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country’s...
EU Commission approves Uniper stabilisation measures
Following Uniper’s extraordinary general meeting on 19 December to authorise a framework agreement over proposals for stabilisation and to create a viable way forward for the company,...
Green Fuels for Denmark receives Danish IPCEI funding
The Danish Business Authority has awarded the Danish Power-to-X flagship project ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ DKK 600 million as part of Denmark’s participation in the European...
LNG terminal opening ‘sets pace for infrastructure modernisation’
Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas opened on 17 December, and is scheduled to supply gas to the German grid within days, reports online news agency Clean...
Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy to develop large-scale power-to-X
Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a Power-to-X facility in Denmark with one of the country’s most attractive locations. The facility will...
Infrastructure strikes - Ukraine government prepares to evacuate Kherson
For nearly two months the BBC and various news agencies have been reporting air strikes as far west as Kyiv on the Ukraine’s energy and water delivery infrastructure.
Collaboration to develop green hydrogen offshore
Green hydrogen specialist Lhyfe and major French harbour Nantes-St Nazaire have reached a partnership agreement to develop the offshore renewable sector.
The deal could ramp-up...
Germany is ‘not hydrogen ready’
Germany is not sufficiently prepared for the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy. This is the conclusion of the ‘H2-Bilanz’ (H2 balance), an analysis by E.ON based on data from the...
Ukraine’s energy sector – an update from the war zone
DTEK Group, the largest owner of Ukrainian generation capacity, provided the following update on 13 October via an online briefing by its CEO Maxim Timchenko that took place during an...
50 metres of Nord Stream pipeline destroyed
At least 50 metres of the underwater Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea is thought to have been destroyed by a series of explosions in late September. Video film shot by...
Germany will continue to push for 1.5°C
Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach even as the energy crisis in Europe puts the...
Federal government acquires 99% stake in Uniper
The German Federal government, Uniper and Fortum agreed on 21 September an amendment to the package of measures announced on 22 July this year that is intended to ensure the...
EBRD supports Ukraine electricity company with €97.3 m
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Ukrainian authorities have agreed the repurposing of the final €97.3 million of an existing loan to Ukrenergo,...
Renewables investment is reducing UK power prices
Cornwall Insight’s latest report – ‘GB Power Market Outlook to 2030’ – shows greater investment in renewables by countries across Europe, which has resulted in lower price projections...
EU approves curbs on gas
European Union ministers agreed on 26 July to ration natural gas supplies this coming winter to protect member states against further supply cuts by Russia.