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Wind energy to power offshore oil & gas platform
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by UK green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds, and Ping Petroleum UK have signed an agreement to create one of the UK’s first oil and gas facilities powered mainly by...

Extending life of German NPPs ‘might make sense’
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz has hinted that the life of the country's nuclear power plants might be extended as reduced gas flows from Russia increase the likelihood of winter...

US power grid added 15GW of generation in H1 2022
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by The US Energy Information Administration reports that according to its latest inventory of electric generators, 15 GW of new utility-scale electric generating capacity came online in...

Hitachi to build SuedLink DC4
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by Hitachi Energy has won a major order from TenneT and TransnetBW, two of Germany’s four transmission system operators, to supply a transmission solution for the SuedLink DC4...

Ørsted inaugurates Taiwan offshore hub
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by On 2 August Ørsted inaugurated the Ørsted Taiwan Offshore Wind Farms Operations and Maintenance Hub. Located at the Port of Taichung, the O&M hub is the first operations facility...

Russia’s gas exports to Europe decline to 40 year low
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 by Russia’s natural gas exports by pipeline to the European Union and the United Kingdom declined by almost 40% during the first seven months of 2022 compared with the same period in...

Disturbances in Paris
Friday, August 05, 2022 by A significant feature of the biennial six-day Cigre Paris Session, being held live this year for the first time since 2018, is the ‘large disturbance’ workshop, a collaboration...

Drax reports increased profits and renewables progress
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by In its first half 2022 performance figures Drax Group has reported strong financial performance, and developments in its investment in renewables.

Small scale solar is changing hourly utility demand
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by The US Energy Information Administration reports that an increase in electricity generation from small-scale, customer-sited photovoltaic solar in New England is changing the...

GE awarded funding to develop decarb technologies
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by GE Gas Power has secured $4.2 million in federal funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E OPEN...

First offshore wind power order for Siemens in Japan
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded by Green Power Investment a firm order for the 112-MW Ishikari offshore wind power project. It is the company’s first firm offshore...

Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of heat pump, a flexible heat pump technology, which could help households save on their energy bills and...

NGK to install battery and PV combination
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by NGK Insulators has elected to install a combination storage battery and PV system at its manufacturing sites in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The system will capture...

First turbine commissioned at Kaskasi wind farm
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by The first turbine of RWE’s 340 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm was recently commissioned on the site 35 km north of the island of Heligoland, and is now supplying green electricity to...

UBS acquires 700 MW of energy storage projects
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by UBS Asset Management has announced the acquisition of five standalone, development-stage energy storage projects in Texas from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). This marks...

EU approves curbs on gas
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by 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.

USA is now world’s largest LNG exporter
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by The US Energy Information Administration reports that the USA became the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter during the first half of 2022, according to data...

Ukraine joins the IEA
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by Ukraine officially joined the International Energy Agency as an Association country on 19 July, with the signing of a joint declaration by Ukraine’s minister of Energy German...

ACWA and POSCO to explore green H2 and NH4 production
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi based developer and operator of power generation, has signed a memorandum of understanding with POSCO Holdings, the holding company of South Korea’s...