China is making progress in phasing out coal-fired power stations in favour of renewable energy, according to the Global Energy Association (GEA). Its research shows that the rate of building…

Egypt’s General Authority for Investment (GAFI) will commission Polish energy company Hynfra to build a green ammonia plant, local media report. The plan is to produce ammonia for export to…

Award-winning British actor Idris Elba aims to develop a wind farm in Sierra Leone with UK utility Octopus Energy. Octopus said on Tuesday it had submitted detailed plans to the…

With new powers to develop independent electricity supplies, the Nigerian state of Lagos has invited bidders to express interest in building a series of gas-fuelled power plants totaling 4GW of…

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Morocco this week resulted in 20 deals covering desalination, energy, rail and water management, as well as finance, banking, and education, the North Africa…

The German government is giving chemicals giant BASF €310m to build the world’s largest industrial heat pump. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is funding the project at…

Global electricity demand in the coming years is set to grow faster than it has in two decades, adding the equivalent of Japanese demand to total demand every year, the…

Finnish company Steady Energy has signed an agreement to develop nuclear-powered heating for the town of Kerava, about 10km north of Helsinki. The deal, with utility Keravan Energia, will use…

As Germany adjusts to the removal of Russian gas from its energy mix, its government is now eyeing geothermal energy as a clean, reliable way of heating buildings. A 2022…

China has connected the world’s biggest flywheel system to its national grid.

Oracle is planning to use three small modular reactors (SMRs) to power a 1GW datacentre, according to founder Larry Ellison. He told investors and analysts in an earnings call this…

A combination of inflating commodity costs and high interest rates has forced Denmark to postpone the start of work on the first of its planned “energy islands” for at least…

Ethiopia has agreed a deal with a Dubai renewables developer AMEA to develop the Horn of Africa’s biggest wind farm. The letter-of-award was signed by Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s finance minister,…

The US is planning to invest as much as $12.6bn in a programme of works that will turn the state of California into a hydrogen hub. The project will receive…

Finnish energy company Helen has picked Sweco as engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) partner to build Helsinki’s first green hydrogen plant, called the 3H2 Helsinki Hydrogen Hub. Helen aims…

Uzbekistan will start work in September on a nuclear plant for six small modular reactors (SMRs), local media report. UzAtom, the country’s nuclear energy agency, signed a protocol with Russian…

Chinese energy engineering firm Wison New Energies will discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and will “stop taking any new Russian business”, the company said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.…

Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…