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South Korea to build world’s largest offshore wind farm
South Korea has unveiled plans to invest $43.2 billion (£31.4bn) in building what is claimed to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The project, constructed off the coast of the southwestern town of Sinan, is predicted to be seven times larger than the current largest offshore wind plant. To date, the world’s largest offshore […]
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Australia’s million dollar Hydrogen project
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has secured AUD$1 million (£560,000) in funding from the Victorian Government to develop a refuelling station to fuel and test hydrogen vehicles. The refueller project, called the Victorian Hydrogen Hub, will be trialled initially on the agency’s hydrogen vehicles and will then serve other zero emission fuel cell electric vehicles […]
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EAC: ‘Green Homes Grant voucher target would take over ten years to meet’
The government would need more than ten years to reach its Green Homes Grant voucher target of 600,000 households, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) estimates. The £2 billion Green Homes Grant was launched to fund up to two-thirds of the cost of energy efficiency improvements, including insulation, heat pumps and solar thermal measures. EAC says […]
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Total takes big step into Texan solar with 2.2GW acquisition
Total has announced it has bought 2.2GW of solar projects in Texas. French energy giant also added 600MW of battery storage assets as part of an agreement with the renewable energy company SunChase Power. The pipeline consists of four large-scale solar projects, each with co-located battery energy storage systems, in industrial areas close to Houston […]
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Energy positive house slashes bills by £1,000 a year
A three-bedroom house built at Welsh village of Pyle, considered to be the first affordable energy-positive housing project in the country, could save £1,000 a year on bills. The 100 square-metre house was designed and built by experts from Cardiff University as a prototype to meet the government’s zero carbon housing target. It was constructed […]
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New partnership to help boost energy efficiency in Ukraine’s housing sector
Residents in Ukraine are to reap savings on their energy bills following the formation of a new partnership to boost energy efficiency in the country’s housing sector. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, Ukraine’s Energy Efficiency Fund and the country’s largest state-owned bank PrivatBank, have teamed up to provide loans to homeowners’ associations […]
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Italy’s hardest-hit Covid-19 region to become ‘hydrogen valley’
Lombardy, Italy’s hardest-hit Covid-19 region, will soon become home to the ‘country’s first hydrogen valley’. Enel Green Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Italian transport group FNM, to purchase new hydrogen-powered trains, replace the current diesel-powered trains and build hydrogen production facilities powered by renewable energy. These facilities will be constructed […]
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Green light for ‘world’s first energy island’ in North Sea
Denmark has reached a landmark agreement to build what is claimed to be the ‘world’s first’ energy island in the North Sea. The energy hub, owned by a public-private partnership, will be an artificial island 80 kilometres off Jutland peninsula in northern Europe. The plant is predicted to cover the energy consumption of ten million […]
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More than a million EVs and hybrids sold in Europe in 2020
More than one million battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), were sold for the first time in Europe last year, securing a 10% share of overall sales in the market. The report by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (EAMA) shows nearly one-in-six passenger cars, registered in the fourth quarter of 2020 was an […]
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US wind output hits new heights in December
US wind-powered electricity generation set a new daily and hourly record in December. A new report by the Energy Administration Information (EIA), shows that on 22nd December, 82.GW of electricity sourced from wind was dispatched across the US. That figure surpassed the previous hourly record of 73.4GW set on the evening of 18th November. In […]
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