Companies
2021, December, 10, 14:40:00
ROMANIAN RENEWABLE INVESTMENT €11 BLN
OMV Petrom plans to invest €11bn by 2030, with over 35% going to low and zero-carbon opportunities.
2021, December, 9, 12:10:00
KOREA'S FUSION 100 MLN DEGREES
Korea's National Fusion Research Institute announced in November that plasma operation at 100 million degrees Celsius, an essential requirement for nuclear fusion, successfully continued for 30 seconds during the latest tests at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) facility.
2021, December, 9, 12:05:00
U.S. FUSION INVESTMENT $1.8 BLN
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced on 1 December that it has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialise fusion energy. This includes capital to construct, commission, and operate SPARC, the world’s first commercially relevant net energy fusion machine.
2021, December, 9, 12:00:00
POLISH NUCLEAR SMR
Polish national energy policy calls for the construction of 6 to 9 GWe of installed nuclear capacity based on large-scale pressurised water nuclear reactors, with the first of those units to come online around 2033.
2021, December, 7, 18:00:00
MORE RUSSIAN GAS FOR EUROPE
Rosneft and gas giant Gazprom were tasked with coming to an agreement on the implementation of a "pilot" project under which Rosneft would supply 10 Bcm of Russian gas to Europe.
2021, December, 7, 17:55:00
ARAMCO GAS PIPELINE DEAL $15.5 BLN
Aramco Gas Pipelines Co. will lease usage rights in its parent company's gas pipelines network and lease them back to Aramco for a 20-year period.
2021, December, 7, 17:40:00
QATAR LNG FOR CHINA
In 2018, China became the world's 2nd largest LNG importer in the world behind Japan. LNG imports amounted to 90.5 bcm in 2020 (+12%). Australia is the largest LNG supplier (44%), followed by Qatar (12%) and Malaysia (9%).
2021, December, 7, 17:35:00
RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FOR INDIA 8 GW
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), through its subsidiary Central Transmission Utility of India (CTU), had earlier filed a petition to execute power transmission infrastructures for up to 18.5 GW of renewables energy zones in southern India
2021, December, 7, 17:25:00
WIND FOR SWEDEN
Sweden has currently around 200 MW of operational offshore wind capacity, on top of 9.8 GW of onshore wind capacity
2021, December, 6, 12:55:00
UAE RENEWABLE INVESTMENT $5 BLN
The agreement between Masdar and Engie was signed during French President Emmanuel Macron's official state visit to the UAE, Abu Dhabi government's media office said
2021, December, 6, 12:50:00
FRANCE'S NUCLEAR POWER +10%
The ARENH law (Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique, 2010) obliges EDF to sell part of its nuclear generation (up to 100 TWh/year, i.e. around a quarter of its production) to alternative suppliers on the wholesale market at a regulated price
2021, December, 6, 12:45:00
FRANCE'S MICRO NUCLEAR
It says its ultra-compact molten salt reactor uses "the untapped potential of used radioactive materials, and thorium, unused mining waste."
2021, December, 6, 12:40:00
U.S. SMR NUCLEAR
The NuScale Power Module is a pressurised water reactor with all the components for steam generation and heat exchange incorporated into a single unit, generating 77 MWe.
2021, December, 6, 12:35:00
U.S. LNG CANCELLED $10 BLN
Pembina Pipeline Corp has officially cancelled its US$10bn Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon (United States) after the company failed to secure state-issued permits and authorizations from various Oregon state agencies.
2021, December, 6, 12:30:00
BRITAIN'S WIND POWER 1.2 GW
The 3,600 MW Dogger Bank offshore wind project is developed in three 1,200 MW phases, by SSE, Equinor and Eni.