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 […]

African Energy Week has ended in Cape Town, South Africa and in a featured panel discussion that focused on the role of hydrogen as an energy fuel of the future and the significant potential it has as an alternative energy source for sub-Saharan oil and gas producing countries. Under the theme ‘Hydrogen, Game Changer for […]

Shell has signed an agreement with Irish leading blue economy developer Simply Blue Group to acquire a 51% share of their Western Star venture, which seeks to develop a floating wind farm off the Clare coast in Ireland. This follows a similar agreement earlier this year to jointly develop the Emerald floating wind project off […]

Equinor has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korean East-West Power (EWP) to cooperate on 3 GW of offshore wind projects in South Korea. Together the partners will contribute significantly to the country’s ongoing energy transition and development of an offshore wind industry in Korea. The Korean Government has set out an ambition to […]

ENGIE   has completed the acquisition of Abengoa’s indirect stake in Xina Solar One (Pty) Ltd. Following completion of the transaction, ENGIE will now hold a 40% equity stake in the Xina Solar One 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, as well as a 46% of the Xina Operations & Maintenance Company (Pty) Ltd. The […]

African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina used the global stage of COP26 to rally support for the flagship Desert to Power project, which aims to provide solar electricity to 250 million people across 11 Sahel countries. The project recently received $150 million in concessional resources from the Green Climate Fund and a $20 million […]