News After two-year delay, Vietnam approves $135bn power plan Vietnam has approved a scheme to prevent a looming power shortage and meet net-zero goals with a $135bn investment package that will favour renewables and gas power rather than coal,…
News Turner & Townsend wins role on Germany’s SuedOstLink scheme to power the south German grid operator TenneT has hired UK-headquartered Turner & Townsend to project manage part of the SuedOstLink, an underground high-voltage direct-current transmission line that will carry electricity generated from renewables…
News Canadian First Nation group sues Quebec power company for $1.6bn A Canadian First Nation community is seeking damages against Quebec’s state-owned utility for the destruction of its land caused by the construction of a dam in Labrador some 50 years…
News Equinor, RWE to build hydrogen power stations for Germany Norwegian energy company Equinor has teamed up with German utility RWE to develop a supply chain for hydrogen power stations. The aim is to replace Germany’s coal-fired power stations with…
News Almost no CO2: US firm to build world’s first carbon captured gas power plant North Carolina clean energy company Net Power plans to build the world’s first utility-scale gas power plant in Texas that will emit almost no CO2 thanks to its carbon capture…
Perspectives Solar panels on superstore roofs would power 8 million US homes, so why don’t they do it? If retailers and developers in the US put photovoltaic panels on the roofs of some 100,000 thousand existing malls and superstores across the country, it could generate 84.4 terawatt-hours (TWh)…