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The path to global warming at 1.5 °C is still open – barely
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by The International Energy Agency has released a new edition of its Net Zero Roadmap, which shows that the road to driving down greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s energy sector...

ZNPP risks diminish, but not military tensions
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has completed the drilling of ten groundwater wells, bringing the plant close to having a longer-term solution for the provision...

Ghana launches $550 bn net-zero plan
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by Ghana has launched a USD 550 bn Energy Transition and Investment Plan aimed at achieving net-zero emissions, and expecting to create 400 000 jobs by 2060.

Construction starts of largest biomass power plant in West Africa
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by EDF, Meridiam and SIFCA have laid the foundation stone of the largest biomass power plant in West Africa. Located in the Aboisso municipality, around 100 km East of Abidjan, the 46...

Takasago Hydrogen Park enters full-scale operation
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by Mitsubishi Power, an MHI brand, has announced that Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world's first integrated hydrogen validation facility, has entered full-scale operation. The park is...

GE Vernova MoC for Ukraine hydro
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by GE Vernova has signed a Memorandum of Collaboration between its Hydro Power business and Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s largest operator of hydropower plants. As part of the...

Heat pump expansion in Germany stalls
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 by Germany’s heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country’s expansion target of installing 500 000 units a year from 2024,...

MEPs back plans to boost renewable energy
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by In its plenary session on 12 September the EU parliament voted to boost the deployment of renewable energy, in line with the Green Deal and REPowerEU plans.

DemoSATH floating wind starts commercial ops
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by The floating offshore wind project DemoSATH, led by the Spanish engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies in collaboration with RWE and Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO), has...

Global electricity production still falling
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics report, which includes June 2023 data, shows that for total OECD membership, total net electricity...

Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but attacks in the area continue
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by In its Update 183 on the Ukraine situation International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi announced that Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has been drilling more...

EU reached 90% gas storage target 2 months early
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by The EU reached its target of filling gas storage facilities to 90% of capacity more than two months ahead of the November 1 deadline, according to the latest figures released by...

Statkraft now sole owner of its Brazilian subsidiary
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by Statkraft has purchased 18.69% of the shares in its Brazilian subsidiary Statkraft Energias Renováveis (SKER) from Fundação dos Economiários Federais (Funcef), the third largest...

Hithium launches 5 MWh container storage
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by Hithium has launched a new 5 MWh energy storage product based on the standard 20–foot container structure and said to exhibit 46% higher energy density. The compact second...

Sumitomo establishes RE company in the USA
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 by Sumitomo Corporation, through Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, together with Advantage Capital has established Perennial Renewables LLC, ‘PR’, a company that develops renewable...

53 MW in tidal stream projects get the go-ahead in the UK
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 by Seven tidal stream projects have secured contracts in the UK government’s latest renewables auction, AR5. 53 MW of tidal stream capacity has been contracted in all, building on the 40...

RWE onshore and solar projects in latest UK CfD auction
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 by RWE has been awarded Contracts for Difference for nine of its new renewable energy projects in the latest UK Renewables Auction, Round 5.

GE Vernova and partners to undertake CCUS value chain study in Indonesia
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 by GE Vernova Gas Power, Korea’s CARBONCO, a company specialising in decarbonization solutions, BP Berau, the Operator of Tangguh gas fields, PLN Nusantara Power, a subsidiary of...

ABB invests in clean energy start-up
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 by ABB Motion and WindESCo, have signed a strategic partnership, whereby ABB has acquired a minority stake in the company through its venture capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures...