This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: After several years of decline, acquisitions of renewable energy projects to pick up in North America in 2025, especially […]
Battery Pack Prices Drop Below Key Threshold but China Rules the Market
The global average price of an EV battery pack dropped below the $100 per kilowatt-hour threshold, considered the milestone at which EVs are price-competitive with conventional cars, the International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
Tripling Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050: Maximizing a High-Energy Future for Data Centres, Refineries, Manufacturing, and Beyond
Next week, the world’s most influential energy conference, CERAWeek, will see more than 10,000 delegates assemble to hear from the industry’s leaders about the future of energy. The conference has […] The […]
When the coal plant don’t work: Report counts 6,000 hours of outages at Eraring over 2024
Eraring power station, the New South Wales giant coal plant whose retirement has been pushed out from this year to at least 2027, experienced around 6,000 hours of outages across its four […]
Virtual Insanity – As Power Needs Soar, ‘Virtual’ Power Plants Proliferate, But What Are They?
The U.S. power sector is undergoing a major expansion to keep pace with the rising demand for electricity from data centers and other consumers, and trying to do a lot at once. […]
Heat pumps could be set for a revolution
In 1834 Jean Charles Peltier, a French watchmaker and part-time physicist, found that an electrical current would produce heating or cooling at the junction of two dissimilar metals. Unsurprisingly, this became known […]
India tenders record 73GW utility-scale renewables as challenges arise
Despite last year seeing a record 73GW of renewable energy utility-scale tenders, it has also witnessed a rise in undersubscribed tenders. Nearly 8.5GW of capacity was undersubscribed in 2024, a fivefold increase […]
U.S. butane exports reached a new record in 2024
The United States is exporting record volumes of normal butane as global demand for liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) surges. U.S. normal butane exports averaged nearly 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2024, […]
Gas Prices Heat Up as Europe Rushes to Refill Storage
As the first proper winter in Europe in three years is drawing to an end, the continent faces a race against time – and prices – to restock with natural gas for […]
Indonesia’s Gas Demand Rising as LNG Starts to Replace Diesel for Power
Indonesia has started replacing diesel as a fuel in dozens of power plants with LNG, which is set to boost demand for natural gas in one of the world’s top LNG exporters. […]
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