Category: Energy Engineering

Finnish University to Build SMR Safety Test Facilities

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Finland’s Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) plans to build two safety test facilities for small modular reactors (SMRs) on its Lappeenranta campus in 2...

2025-03-27

Portugal Adds 1.77 GW of Solar in 2024

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Portugal deployed 1.77 GW of solar in 2024, setting a new record, according to the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG). This exceeded the 1.3 GW added in 2023 ...

2025-03-27

Vice Minister Assures China Has Halted Construction of New Coal Power Plants

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, China has completely halted the construction of new coal-fired power plants, contrary to claims made in an academic report published in February. We have entirely stopped bu...

2025-03-27

Latam Countries Reject U.S. Tariffs on Countries That Buy Venezuelan Oil

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Multiple Latin American countries voiced disagreement on a U.S. government decision to impose tariffs on countries that purchase oil or gas from Venezuela. "We do not agree ...

2025-03-27

KenGen Secures Geothermal Exploration Rights in Zambia and Tanzania

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Kenya’s state-owned power producer KenGen CEO Peter Njenga confirmed that the company has secured geothermal exploration rights in Zambia and Tanzania. This move furth...

2025-03-27

AEROFUGIA, Sichuan Airlines Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Urban Air Mobility Development

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, AEROFUGIA, a Chinese eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft developer, signed a strategic cooperation agreementon March 25 with Sichuan General Aviation Inve...

2025-03-27

Germany Concludes Rooftop PV Tender With Lowest Bid of €0.079/KWh

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Germanys Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has published the results of the countrys tenth tender for rooftop PV projects ranging in size from 300 kW to 1 MW. The a...

2025-03-27

Tesla Starts Production of Cheaper New Model Y Non-launch Edition

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Tesla has started production of the new Model Y non-Launch Edition, which is going to be cheaper without all the options bundled together. However, the automaker hasn’...

2025-03-27

U.S. Biodiesel Use Increases Outside of the Transportation Sector

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, A small but increasing amount of biodiesel in the United States is consumed in the residential, commercial, and electric power sectors, according to new estimates now publis...

2025-03-27

Airbus Showcases Hydrogen Aircraft Technologies

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, At its Summit 2025, Airbus provided an update on its revised ZEROe project roadmap to mature the technologies associated with hydrogen-powered flight. Airbus reconfirmed its...

2025-03-27

EIA Projects End of Month Total Distillate Stock Decrease in 2025 and 2026

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, In its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected that end of month total dis...

2025-03-27

Bóly, Hungary to Upgrade 20-Year-Old Geothermal Distict Heating System

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, The town of Bóly in Baranya County in southwest Hungary is set to upgrade and expand their existing district heating system which was first developed back in 2004. Th...

2025-03-27

Valve Issue Shuts Down Monticello NPP

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, US Xcel Energy’s Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota automatically shut down after an issue with a control valve was detected. Xcel Energy said its team i...

2025-03-27

Carbon Secures €2 Million for Solar Gigafactory, Launches Crowdfunding

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, French solar module manufacturer Carbon has secured €2 million from 11 IPPs and two consulting firms. These investors – including CVE Group, IEL, Irisolaris, Lang...

2025-03-27

Hexicon to Sell Stake in Italian Floaters

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Hexicon has signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Ingka Investments and Oxan Energy to sell its 50% stake in two Italian floating offshore wind projects, the 1150M...

2025-03-27

Industrial Park Microgrid Launched for Renewable Energy Use in East China

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, A microgrid project, the largest of its kind in east Chinas Jiangsu Province, began operations on Wednesday as the country strengthens its efforts to promote the use of rene...

2025-03-27

Hyundai’s Georgia EV Plant Is Officially Open and Ready to Launch the Three-Row IONIQ 9

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Hyundai’s massive new EV plant in Georgia is officially open for business. The company held the grand opening on Wednesday at its new Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant Ame...

2025-03-27

China’s Rongsheng Petchem Opens Canada Office, Buys Crude From Suncor

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Chinas Rongsheng Petrochemical (002493.SZ),a major independent refiner, has opened an office in Canada to buy Canadian crude and made its first purchase from local producer ...

2025-03-27

Malaysia to Keep Crude Palm Oil Export Duty Rate at 10% in April

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, The Palm Oil Authority of Malaysia has issued a notice stating that the export duty rate for crude palm oil will remain at 10% in April and its benchmark price will be raise...

2025-03-27

Grenada geothermal project receives further funding support from CBD and UK FCDO

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, The Government of Grenada (GOGR) is set to receive £10 million to support geothermal exploration drilling with the signing of an MoU with the Caribbean Development Ban...

2025-03-27

Fluxys Kicks off Construction of Hydrogen Pipeline Network in Belgium

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Infrastructure operator Fluxys has started the construction of the first phase of its hydrogen pipeline network in Belgium. In the port areas of Antwerp and Ghent, as well a...

2025-03-27

Vattenfall Gets Nod for Ourack Wind Farm

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Scottish Ministers have granted consent for Vattenfall’s Ourack wind farm near Grantown-on-Spey in the Scottish Highlands. The decision follows supportive decisions fr...

2025-03-27

Oil Gains as Industry Report Points to Drop in U.S. Stockpiles

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Oil rose after an industry report signaled a chunky decline in U.S. crude stockpiles, while the market weighed the prospect of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in the Black Sea. T...

2025-03-27

Allseas Setting the Stage for Pipelaying at Eu’s Landmark CO2 Transport and Storage Project

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, An Allseas vessel has commenced offshore works for the first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands with an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey al...

2025-03-27

Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën Launches HEDMOS NEV Brand

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, On March 25, Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën, the joint venture between Dongefng Motor and Stellantis, officially launched its proprietary new energy vehicle brand, HEDMOS. Th...

2025-03-27

Shawflex to Support Westinghouse Nuclear Projects

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, US-based Westinghouse Electric Company and Canada’s Shawflex have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support nuclear new-build projects in Canada and global...

2025-03-27

CIP Makes 2.3GW Italian BESS Pact

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Flagship Fund CI V, has entered a new partnership with Italian developer GC Storage Services (GCSS) for a 2300MW pipeli...

2025-03-27

Peak Wind Picks up Fengmiao 1 Job

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Peak Wind has entered into an operations management agreement (OMA) to oversee the operations of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 495MW offshore wind farm Fengmiao 1...

2025-03-27

Cadeler Takes Delivery of New Jack-up

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Cadeler has taken delivery of its latest jack-up wind turbine installation vessel Wind Pace marking another significant milestone in the company’s ongoing fleet expans...

2025-03-27

ENERGO-PRO Acquires Brazilian Hydropower Plant

Wedoany.com Report-Mar 27, Czech energy company ENERGO-PRO has signed an agreement to purchase the Baixo Iguaçu hydropower plant in Brazil, a 350MW facility located on the Iguaçu River i...

2025-03-27