Energy Industry

On Monday a French nuclear company, Framatome, announced it is supporting efforts to resolve a “performance issue” with its Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China’s heavily populated Guangdong Province, raising concerns about a potential nuclear leak. The nuclear plant is located in Guangdong, which according to Chinese census estimates for...

Outdoor adventurers looking for a small wind turbine which is small enough to fit in a backpack, maybe interested in Shine. A new wind turbine launched via the Kickstarter crowdfunding website, which has blasted past its required pledge goal, raising over $150,000 thanks to over 560 backers with still nine days remaining. The Shine wind turbine takes less than five minutes to setup, is completely water resistant and weighs 3lbs and is capable of generating up to 40 W with wind speeds between 8 to 28 mph. “Shine creates energy faster than any other handheld renewable product. It is able to collect three phones’ worth of power in an hour at maximum rated wind speeds.”

Analysts at Goldman Sachs have named a number of renewable energy companies that are set for "unprecedented growth" and said now is the time to invest. "Many renewables are down more than 20% from their peak," the analysts wrote in a research note on June 8, adding that their stock picks provide an attractive entry point into "clean" energy.

The Chinese government and its official news services have remained silent amid reports of a suspected radiation leak at a nuclear power plant, nearly 24 hours after the facility's operator claimed all of the readings were "normal." China was still observing a public holiday on Monday, and news presented by...

The Atacama salt flat is a majestic, high-altitude expanse of gradations of white and grey, peppered with red lagoons and ringed by towering volcanoes. It took me a moment to get my bearings on my first visit, standing on this windswept plateau of 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles). A vertiginous drive had taken me and two other researchers through a sandstorm, a rainstorm and the peaks and valleys of this mountainous region of northern Chile. The sun bore down on us intensely – the Atacama desert boasts the Earth’s highest levels of solar radiation, and only parts of Antarctica are drier.

Last week, the developer behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline pulled the plug on the $8 billion project that was slated to bring 830,000 barrels of crude oil sands a day from Alberta, Canada to the U.S. On the same day, a press release was issued claiming Canada's largest oil sands producers have formed an alliance to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands operations by 2050.

In the recent past, there has been a paradigm shift towards renewable sources of energy in order to address the concerns pertaining to environmental degradation and dwindling fossil fuels. A variety of alternative green energy sources such as solar, wind, hydrothermal, tidal, etc., have been gaining attention to reduce global carbon footprints. One of the key challenges with these energy generation technologies is that they are intermittent and are not continuously available.

Wind farm developer Invenergy was reportedly hacked and threatened with the release of personal details of its CEO by a notorious ransomware gang over the weekend. The US clean energy firm does not intend to pay any ransom after discovering unauthorised breaches on some of its information systems, according to the Financial Times.

The operator of Texas’ main power grid has asked residents to conserve power until the end of the week, citing “tight grid conditions” amid potential record demand. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said in a statement that the state’s power grid ― which operates separately from the rest of the country ― is facing a number of power plant outages combined with heightened electricity use.

The U.S. government reportedly spent the last week assessing allegations of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part-owns and helps operate it warned of an "immediate radiological threat." The Chinese plant denied the allegations and said that its generators are functioning normally, evoking...

A French energy company says it has deliberately released gas from a Chinese nuclear power plant in a bid to fix a "performance issue". EDF Energy confirmed that there was a build-up of noble gases in one of the two reactors' primary circuits. It comes after CNN reported that the...