alck Renewables S.p.A. has announced the signing of a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between its subsidiary Falck Renewables Sviluppo S.r.l. – owners of a solar project under development in Apulia, Italy – and Solvay, the global leader in materials, solutions and chemicals. The 10-year contract...
Aker Solutions, in a consortium with Siemens Energy, has signed a contract with ScottishPower Renewables with the intention to provide the HVDC (high-voltage, direct current) converter stations for the East Anglia THREE offshore wind project in the UK. East Anglia THREE is the second project to...
Daimler Truck AG and lithium-ion battery manufacturer and developer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) – both global leaders in their fields – announced the intensification of their existing partnership based on their shared vision of CO2-neutral electrified trucking. CATL will be the supplier of...
Equinor, RWE Renewables and Hydro REIN have signed a collaboration agreement for offshore wind in Norway. The partners will jointly prepare and submit an application to the Norwegian authorities to develop a large-scale bottom-fixed offshore wind farm in the Sørlige Nordsjø II area in the...
Total announces the acquisition of a stake in Hysetco, a French company dedicated to the development of hydrogen mobility in cities. Hysetco owns the largest fleet of hydrogen taxis in the world, launched in 2015 and operated in the Île-de-France region under the Hype brand,...
EIA released its primary report on recent and historical energy statistics, the Monthly Energy Review (MER). Preliminary estimates for February 2021 indicate: Biomass accounted for 38% of U.S. renewable energy consumption, wind energy for 27%, hydroelectric power for 22%, solar energy for 10%, and geothermal energy for 2%. Renewable...
Hyundai Motor Company today released images of its newly upgraded XCIENT Fuel Cell, the world’s first mass-produced, heavy-duty truck powered by hydrogen. With design and performance updates, Hyundai’s zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle will become even more attractive to corporate fleet customers all over the world. “Hyundai Motor...
Ahead of Ofgem’s launch of its COP26 ‘green, fair future’ campaign, new research has found that almost one in four (24%) consumers plan to buy an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid in the next five years. The Climate Change Committee anticipates around 18 million battery...
Ofgem is today powering the electric vehicle revolution, with motorway service areas and key trunk road locations across the country set to get the cabling they need to install 1,800 new ultra-rapid charge points, tripling the current network. A further 1,750 charge points will be...
Chris Harris's EV of the year: the Lamborghini Sián The Lamborghini Sián – not a hybrid in the conventional sense, uses a supercapacitor and electric motor to effectively chamfer off harsh gearchanges and add a torque boost at low revs. But the driving experience is sensational...
Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, presented “Direzione Cor Tauri” (Towards Cor Tauri): a roadmap to decarbonization of future Lamborghini models and of the Sant’Agata Bolognese site based on a holistic approach to its environmental sustainability strategy. Throughout the product electrification process, Lamborghini will...
Launches new online vaccines project portal As of May 13, 2021, the World Bank Board approved operations to support vaccine rollout in 22 countries amounting to $2.4 billion. See latest project financing, project documents and procurement information in the list below. Afghanistan (Board approval: March 18, 2021)Project financing |Project documents ...