Leading Australian energy producer Woodside has entered front-end engineering design (FEED) on a hydrogen project for the first time, awarding a contract in late December for FEED engineering services to Kellogg, Brown & Root LLC (KBR) for its proposed H2OK project in Oklahoma. H2OK is a liquid hydrogen production facility proposed for the Westport Industrial […]
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the institution that manages Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, is allocating $24 million (10 billion naira) in funding for renewable energy. This investment is aimed at the deployment of more than 200,000 solar home systems in Nigeria. This is another step forward in renewable energy investment in Nigeria. The Nigeria […]
Anglo-Dutch company Shell Nigeria In its quest to achieve global net-zero target, has awarded seven Nigerian start-ups each received a $10,000 grant for their innovative clean energy concepts. The award is part of the second edition of the 2021 Enterprise Development Program (EDP), managed by the Nigerian hub, Clean Technology Incubation and Acceleration Foundation, which […]
Impact investors All On and Katapult Climate are investing $1.4 million in NXT Grid. In Nigeria, the company installs and operates small-scale solar power plants for productive use, powered by artificial intelligence. NXT Grid’s assets will grow in Nigeria over the next two years. The solar mini-grid company is raising $1.4 million to fund its […]
Shell New Energies US LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), has signed an agreement to buy 100% of Savion LLC (Savion), a large utility-scale solar and energy storage developer in the United States, from Macquarie’s Green Investment Group. With this acquisition, Shell expects to significantly expand its global solar portfolio. “Savion’s significant […]
Leading Australian energy producer Woodside has announced plans to expand its portfolio of hydrogen production opportunities to the US, securing land in Oklahoma for future development of a modular hydrogen facility and entering a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Hyzon Motors. Woodside has secured a lease and option to purchase 94 acres (38 hectares) of […]
TotalEnergies announces the start of power generation from the first turbine of the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. TotalEnergies joined this project, operated by wpd, with a 23% interest in May 2021 alongside EGCO Group and a consortium of Japanese investors led by Sojitz. The Yunlin offshore wind farm has a capacity of 640 […]
In the event of the global quest in making fossil fuel usage minimal owing to it greenhouse effect, what is now termed as a twist of technology transfer is emerging in Nigeria to facilitate the procurement of renewable energy generation equipment. The $10 million initiative is supported by All On, Odyssey Energy Solutions, the Rockefeller […]
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technology that safely captures CO2 at industrial sources, transports it and injects it permanently deep into the earth, diverting it from the atmosphere and limiting the impact it has on the environment. Large-scale carbon capture opportunities are in the works around the world, from Houston to Rotterdam to Singapore. […]
Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) has secured a 15-year power purchase agreement for 240 megawatts of power to be produced from phase C of Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, bringing Shell’s total offtake to 720 megawatts. The agreement for phase C of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm follows an announcement in 2020 […]
