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Malawi's electricity generation, transmission utilities collaborate with USAID to stabilise national grid
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited and Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) Malawi Limited on November 8 launched an automatic generation control (AGC) system to better balance generation and demand.
Kazakhstan expects oil output at up to 94mn tonnes in 2024
Kazakhstan to address shortage of LPG
Ukraine’s diesel imports put pressure on Romania’s ports
The volumes of diesel imported by Ukraine through port terminals in Romania increased by 60% month on month to 141,000 tonnes in October, after Ukraine banned the import of oil products without documents of of non-Russian origin.
Guardian reports BP helped fund Azerbaijan’s aggression against Karabakh Armenians
Guardian reports that BP’s fossil fuel projects in Azerbaijan have helped fund the military aggression against Karabakh Armenians through the transfer of billions of dollars to the Azerbaijan government since 2020, a campaign group has claimed.
EU's $51.5mn disbursement to accelerate Vietnam's green energy transition
The EU has recently allocated an additional $51.5mn under its Global Gateway Strategy and European Green Deal agenda to bolster Vietnam's efforts in achieving net-zero emissions and combating climate change
Thai Pipeline Network successfully transports oil, reduces carbon emissions
Luechai Sudsakorn, the manager of Thai Pipeline Network Limited, has revealed the success of the oil transportation system from the oil storage depot in Saraburi to the storage depot in Khon Kaen
India’s Ministry of Power urges state-owned firms to consider acquiring troubled power assets
India’s Ministry of Power has issued an advisory to encourage both states and power generation companies to participate in the corporate insolvency resolution process for the acquisition of struggling thermal power assets
Hinduja Renewables secures contract for NHPC's 3,000-MW ISTS solar power projects
Hinduja Renewables Ltd. clinched a major contract from NHPC Ltd to establish a 250-MW solar project at a highly competitive tariff rate of $0.03 per kilowatt-hour
India’s Thermax Ltd achieves robust profit growth in September quarter
Thermax Limited, a prominent player in the energy and environment management industry, has announced its financial performance for the quarter ending in September 2023
Almost no large companies meet UN’s target climate guidelines, says study
As many as 50% of the world’s largest companies have a net-zero target by 2050, but only 4% of major companies meet the UN’s target climate guidelines.
Iranian giant refinery setting up 1,000-MW solar park in Isfahan
The Esfahan Oil Refining Co. (EORC) is constructing a mega solar farm, boasting an annual output of 1,000 MW, which will become Iran’s largest renewable energy power station.
Zimbabwe to mothball its small, inefficient coal power plants, focus on greener generation instead
Zimbabwe’s government has announced a plan to decommission and repurpose its three small underperforming coal-fired facilities so as to contain technical and non-technical energy losses.
Havfram closes down offshore development unit Kontiki Winds
Norway-based Havfram has decided to close its Kontiki Winds business unit, which focuses on early-phase development of offshore wind farms.
Iranian crude sales nosedive last month, Bloomberg says
Iran’s oil exports plunged in October for a second consecutive month, a Bloomberg report said in what appears to be flatly contradicting an account by a leading Belgian company that tracks seaborne crude.
WWW and AF Gruppen to test innovative rotating floating offshore wind turbine
Oslo-based startup World Wide Wind (WWW) and Norwegian engineering and construction company AF Gruppen are to test WWW’s innovative wind turbine design at a site in Vats, south-west Norway.
China to be home to more than 80% of global solar manufacturing capacity out to 2026
China will be home to more than 80% of the world’s polysilicon, wafer, cell and module manufacturing capacity from 2023 to 2026, having invested more than $130bn into the solar industry in 2023.
Record third quarter for US clean energy installations
The clean-power industry brought online 5.5 GW of utility-scale clean power capacity in the third quarter of 2023, enough to power 813,000 American homes, according to ACP.
Turkey’s floating LNG regasification fleet joint third in ranking of world’s largest
Naturgy Energy Group to participate in research on storage using recycled EV batteries
Spain-based utility Naturgy Energy Group is to fund and participate in a two-year research project in Spain intended to assess the feasibility of building stationary energy-storage systems from used electric vehicle batteries.
TKF to supply offshore wind cables to Vattenfall
Dutch cable manufacturer Twentsche Kabelfabriek is to supply inter-array cables for offshore wind projects in Europe developed by Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall as part of a multi-year partnership.
H2B2 unveils largest US operational green hydrogen plant
H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies – a provider of green hydrogen energy solutions based in Spain – has unveiled SoHyCal in California, the largest operational green-hydrogen production plant powered entirely by renewable energy in North America.
Iberdrola and Masdar finalise €1.6bn deal to develop Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
Iberdrola has signed a strategic agreement with Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy group Masdar to co-invest in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
Shanghai Electric completes floating offshore renewables project
China’s Longyuan Power Group and Shanghai Electric Power Group have completed their deep-sea floating wind project which also makes use of solar photovoltaic and aquaculture energy.
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