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At the start of the plenary session on the first day of the IAEA’s 65th General Conference, Sadiq M. Marafi of Kuwait was elected by acclamation as President of the Conference.

Climate change and food security are among the biggest challenges facing the global community.

The Republic of Zimbabwe pledged its commitment to nuclear safety and security by depositing legal instruments and therefore becoming a party to various international treaties under the auspices of the IAEA.

The IAEA today marked 15 years of the IAEA Integrated Nuclear Security Support Plan (INSSP), which lays the groundwork for nuclear security support by the organization.

Steering the world to net zero emissions to meet global climate goals is no simple task. It will require concrete energy policies as well as the next generation of scientists, engineers and policy makers to lead them to the finish line.

The IAEA’s General Conference, which began this morning in Vienna, elected Kuwait’s Ambassador, H.E. Sadiq M. Marafi, as President of the 65th regular session of the Conference.

Through the beneficial applications of nuclear science and technology many solutions to pressing problems can be found, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told delegates at the opening of the IAEA’s 65th annual General Conference today.

The IAEA’s 65th annual General Conference (GC) will take place next week in Vienna. The meeting, from 20 to 24 September, is expected to draw high level representatives from the IAEA’s 173 Member States.

Interested contributors have until 31 January 2022 to submit abstracts for the IAEA’s International Symposium on Managing Land and Water for Climate-Smart Agriculture, to be held from 25 to 29 July 2022 at IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said that the operator of the Hoger Onderwijs research reactor in the Netherlands has prioritized safety during implementation of significant refurbishment and modernization of the facility.

AIIB and IRENA will work together to accelerate investment and enhance awareness of renewable energy solutions throughout Asia.

IRENA offers recommendations to diversify the country’s energy mix to mitigate the effects of climate change and boost economic development.

The Energy Action Day, which took place ahead of the UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy, aimed to accelerate collective action towards net-zero and climate-resilient energy systems.

Green hydrogen has received increasing attention across the energy sector in recent years, given its capability to decarbonise ‘hard to abate’ sectors and provide seasonal storage for power grids rich in variable renewable energy.

Two parties agree to accelerate the clean energy transition through the deployment of hydrogen solutions.

The initiative is led by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) with the technical and financial support of the European Union (EU), and is aimed at establishing a long-term continent-wide planning process.

IRENA assessment presents concrete findings to support renewables deployment and realisation of economic and social goals.

Two parties will use convening power to advance solutions and build cooperation to support governments as they pursue sustainable development.

Solar water heaters are a mature technology that has been successfully deployed in several countries for more than 30 years, mostly in the residential sector, providing an affordable solution for many households.

The virtual traineeship programme aims to prepare the future generation of global energy professionals

The US Department of Defense, acting through the Strategic Capabilities Office and with the Department of Energy as a cooperating agency, has released a draft environmental impact statement for the construction and demonstration phase of a prototype mobile microreactor. A public comment period on the draft EIS will begin on 24 September.

The reactor pressure vessel for the second new reactor under construction at Russia's Kursk II nuclear power plant has been delivered to site. Made from nickel-free steel it can give the plant service life of up to 100 years, Rosatom said.

With 44 days to go until the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, leaders from ten nations plus the European Commission, European Council and United Nations last week joined US President Joe Biden in a closed-door forum at which they underscored the urgency of strengthening climate ambition ahead of COP26 and […]

Australian welding technology specialist K-TIG has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre to develop innovative automated fabrication techniques for decommissioning waste containers. Under the MoU, K-TIG will work with the Nuclear AMRC to design, develop and supply the robotic welding cell to be used in the fabrication of […]

The Reactor Institute Delft at the Delft University of Technology, the operator of the Hoger Onderwijs research reactor in the Netherlands, has prioritised safety during implementation of significant refurbishment and modernisation of the facility, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts. The team also found areas requiring further enhancements, including the organisational […]

The former salt mine in Gorleben, Lower Saxony - previously considered a possible site for geological disposal of Germany's high-level radioactive waste - has officially closed, it was announced on 17 September. The site was excluded from a list of potential repository sites published last year by waste management organisation Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung.

The Czech Republic's support framework for nuclear investment has been approved by the lower house of parliament. The Low Carbon Act should come into effect from 1 January 2022, the energy ministry said. "Currently, there are no market incentives for investment in new nuclear or other emission-free energy sources," noted Tomáš Ehler, the deputy minister of […]

Recycled REMIX nuclear fuel has passed a five-year operational test in Russia and is ready for pilot operation, Rosatom fuel subsidiary TVEL has said. REMIX is designed to reduce uranium consumption and close the fuel cycle using mainstream light-water reactors.

Canadian companies Cameco and X-energy have entered a non-binding and non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to explore possible areas of cooperation to support the potential future deployment, fuelling and servicing of Xe-100 small modular reactors in Canada and the USA.

World nuclear generating capacity will double to 792 GWe (net) by 2050 from 393 GWe in 2020 under the high case scenario of the International Atomic Energy Agency's latest projections. Compared with last year's high case projection of 715 GWe by 2050, the estimate has been revised up by just over 10%, marking the first […]

Rooftop solar installations were up 517 per cent year-on-year

The government is expecting a grand response to the programme with bids at nearly four times the 10 Gw tender

The CBM would be extracted from Jharia Block I under leasehold area of BCCL, an official statement said

KEC announced the acquisition of Gujarat-based Spur Infrastructure at an enterprise value of ₹62 crore.

All oil majors face mounting pressure from regulators and investors worldwide to develop cleaner energy and divest from fossil fuels, a primary source of greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming.

The contract is for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of two LNG storage tanks with a capacity of 170,000 m3 each for phase 3-B of Dahej expansion project in Gujarat

With this, the total renewable capacity of Tata Power will reach 4,611 MW

The company saw its vehicle sales surging by a record 435 per cent to 2001 units in August over 374 units in the same period year-ago

While for its Vapi, Valsad (Gujarat) based plant, the board has approved additional investment relating to automation for faster production turnaround at lower cost

Value of the exports from India will grow to USD 13 billion, from USD 8.62 billion at present, he said, adding the world now looks for India as an alternative to China

The global economy is growing far more strongly than anticipated a year ago but the recovery remains uneven, exposing both advanced and emerging markets to a range of risks, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook.

The OECD Business and Finance Outlook 2021, the Organisation’s annual flagship publication providing data and analysis on the trends shaping business, finance and investment, will be released on Friday 24 September at 11.00 CEST (09.00 GMT).

Climate finance for developing countries rose to USD 79.6 billion in 2019 – OECD

Governments should boost their investment in education in order to tackle the sources of inequality of opportunity. This would help create a more level playing field for people of all ages to acquire the skills that power better jobs and better lives, according to a new OECD report.

Yoshiki Takeuchi has been appointed as a new Deputy Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development replacing outgoing Deputy Secretary-General Masamichi Kono.

G20 GDP growth slows to 0.4% in the second quarter of 2021, but large differences exist across countries

After rebounding rapidly from last year’s COVID-19 recession, Australia’s economy has weakened due to containment measures to combat new outbreaks of the virus. Once the economy reopens and the recovery resumes, the focus should turn to reforms to revive productivity growth, lift living standards and strengthen resilience, according to a new OECD report.

CLIs point to moderating growth

Europe’s economy is growing again after COVID-19 caused its worst-ever recession, helped by swift and powerful policy action by European governments and institutions to cushion the shock.

ASEAN and the OECD launched the OECD Competition Assessment Reviews: Logistics Sector in ASEAN and the OECD Competitive Neutrality Reviews: Small-Package Delivery Services in ASEAN reports at the ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting today.

Light has no mass, but Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can convert light's energy into massive particles. Physicists studied matter-generating collisions of light and showed the departure angle of their debris is subtly distorted by quantum interference patterns in the light prior to collision. Their findings will help physicists accurately interpret future experiments aimed at […]

Modifying surfaces by shooting particles at them - this technique, called 'sputtering', is indispensable in surface science. However, if the surface is not perfectly smooth and regular, it is hard to predict the result of the sputtering process. Scientists have now managed to explain the effect of particles on rough surfaces during sputtering - with […]

Results of a heat-confinement experiment on the twisty Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany could enable devices based on the W7-X design to lead to a practical fusion reactor.

Scientists have transferred a technique from one realm of plasma physics to another to enable the more efficient design of powerful magnets for doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.

Applying a new coarse-graining, spatial method of analysis to satellite imagery, scientists provide a direct measure of the impact of wind driven eddy-killing on the kinetic energy of ocean currents -- a continual loss of 50 gigawatts, equivalent to the detonation of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb every 20 minutes, year round.

An international study has found evidence of a long-sought effect in accelerator data. The so-called 'triangle singularity' describes how particles can change their identities by exchanging quarks, thereby mimicking a new particle. The mechanism also provides new insights into a mystery that has long puzzled particle physicists: Protons, neutrons and many other particles are much […]

Deuterium, a heavier but less abundant version of the hydrogen atom, has many practical applications. Unfortunately, producing deuterium and using it to protect silicon-based semiconductors requires a lot of energy and very expensive deuterium gas. Now, scientists have discovered an energy-efficient exchange reaction to swap hydrogen atoms for deuterium on the surface of nanocrystalline silicon. […]

One of the most important optimization goals underlying the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device has now been confirmed. An analysis shows: In the optimized magnetic field cage, the energy losses of the plasma are reduced in the desired way. Wendelstein 7-X is intended to prove that the disadvantages of earlier stellarators can be overcome and that […]

Novel camera detects the birth of high-energy runaway electrons, which may lead to determining how to prevent damage caused by the highly energetic particles.

A new special edition of EPJ Special Topics brings together several papers that detail our understanding of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and the processes that transformed it into the baryonic matter we around us on an everyday basis.

The cost of generating power from onshore wind has fallen by around a quarter since 2010, with solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity costs falling by 73 per cent in that time, according to new cost analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The report also highlights that solar PV costs are expected to halve by […]

More than 350 government representatives from 115 countries — including Ministers and high-level officials — gathered in Abu Dhabi to attend the 14th Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). At the outset of the meeting, the Council re-elected China as Chair of the meeting and Colombia as Vice-Chair.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), is inviting applications for renewable energy projects in developing countries. Within the framework of the ADFD-funded US$350 million (AED1.285 billion) IRENA/ADFD Project Facility, the current funding round of US$50 million in concessional loans marks the sixth of seven annual […]

The Government of Wallonia of Belgium has committed €1 million to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as part of the Government’s support of renewable energy as a key pillar of international climate efforts.

Countries have an opportunity to significantly increase renewable energy ambition within Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and to accelerate its deployment in line with climate objectives under the Paris Agreement, per a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Energy innovations will be centered on digital technologies and the strategic use of data, according to new research published. A shift is coming in the energy industry from a focus on hardware to the increased importance of software in order to make systems more efficient, resilient, and digital.

Two years since the signing of the Paris climate agreement and eight years after Copenhagen, countries on both side of the rich-poor divide are falling short on promises made to address climate change through clean energy investment, research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) finds.

The FOWIND Consortium launched a new report: "Grid Integration Study for Offshore Wind Farm Development in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu". This DNV-GL led study is a significant step forward in preparing a roadmap for the offshore wind sector in India by the GWEC led FOWIND consortium.

Energy storage capacity to triple by 2030, if countries double the share of renewables in the world’s energy system

Governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), have established a strategic partnership to accelerate the region’s transition to low-carbon, sustainable energy and build its climate resilience.

While wind and solar power purchase agreement prices are trending upward, LevelTen doesn't expect demand to soften.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul kicked off Climate Week by announcing the selection of two massive transmission and renewable energy infrastructure projects that will deliver clean energy to New York City.

A renewable energy developer has acquired the site of a retired New Jersey coal-fired power plant in hopes of converting it into an interconnection hub for offshore wind turbine energy delivered to onshore customers.

bp has partnered with Abu Dhabi energy firms ADNOC and Masdar to decarbonize the UK and United Arab Emirates’ energy and transportation systems.

Xcel told one customer they would need to wait 15 years to connect their solar system to its electric grid. The utility says it’s working to improve its process, but some in the industry say legislation or an investigation is needed to fix the problems.

The utility-scale solar farm was developed through a partnership between Ørsted and TVA. The project will support Facebook's data center.

Rhodium Group estimates that the initial policies outlined in the infrastructure and reconciliation plans, though subject to change, would be equivalent to removing the annual emissions from all light-duty vehicles in America or zeroing out net annual emissions from Texas and Florida combined.

The Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in the North Sea is expected to become operational in 2025 with an export capacity of 900 MW.

Lightsource bp, the largest solar developer in Europe, has secured $1.8 billion in financing and is targeting 25 gigawatts of solar by 2025, the company announced.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a US Department of Energy national lab, has released a new report discussing the five conditions that can lead to an increase in energy storage deployment across South Asia.

Clean transportation advocates are largely supportive of proposals by National Grid and Eversource to spend $470 million on programs to help the state reach its ambitious goals for electrifying transportation over the next decade. Massachusetts utilities propose plans to ramp up electric vehicle infrastructure is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service […]

Upcoming workshops could lead to new rules for solar farms and other generation facilities, but a new law will soon let counties keep out projects that might otherwise meet state siting standards. Ohio’s SB 52 raises profile for upcoming workshops on solar siting issues is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service […]

Lawmakers asked Hochul to uphold the state's climate law, which mandates greenhouse gas emissions cuts that benefit disadvantaged communities. New York officials call on governor to revisit rate hike tied to controversial Brooklyn pipeline is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition. If you would like to […]

Xcel told one customer they would need to wait 15 years to connect their solar system to its electric grid. The utility says it’s working to improve its process, but some in the industry say legislation or an investigation is needed to fix the problems. Long waits to connect to Xcel’s grid are stalling Minnesota […]

Manufacturers, mills, and environmental interests oppose Duke-backed legislation because it hampers the role of regulators and costs ratepayers. In North Carolina, falling costs of clean energy make strange bedfellows is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition. If you would like to support us please make a […]

The company will focus on upskilling its system integrators on AVEVA’s leading-edge software solutions and offer comprehensive lead generation and implementation support for its partners across verticals, it said

Schaeffler’s outlook echoes the stance of India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., which is also glum about the uptake of electric vehicles and is focusing on hybrid models until charging infrastructure improves and EVs become more affordable for Indian buyers.

According to Anil Gupta, Managing Director, Okaya Power Group, slow-speed scooters have a well-defined target audience. These empower teenagers, aged and female to be self-reliant, he said

The state government’s Electric Vehicle policy calls for the public transport undertaking maintaining a 15% fleet as ‘electric’ by 2025. Chandra said that the BEST has taken this target seriously

Of 25 economies in the region, it identified 10 that have highly negative or very highly negative exposure to water management risks -- including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China.

The project has been awarded to TPSL through tariff-based competitive bidding followed by e-reverse auction

Honda plans to add additional electric vehicle models as it aims to have sold a total of 500,000 electric vehicles in the United States by 2030, and to achieve 100% zero emission vehicles sales in North America by 2040

The minister joked that people then would deliberately name their daughters “Bijli” so they could tell others that electricity was at home in the evening.

Buhari, who doubles as petroleum minister, signed an oil bill into law last month that has been in the works for nearly two decades, aiming to overhaul the sector and turn the state-owned oil company into a private firm

The company saw its vehicle sales surging by a record 435 per cent to 2001 units in August over 374 units in the same period year-ago

What form factor is best for electric vehicle batteries?

In August 2020, The Buffalo News reported that Tesla donated a solar roof to the Buffalo Heritage Carousel at Canalside, which was scheduled to open in the spring of 2021. The article noted that the black tiles were made at Tesla’s factory in South Buffalo and that each would be stamped “Assembled in Buffalo, NY, […]

The Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) facility in California’s Mojave Desert retired five of its solar plants (SEGS 3 through 7) in July 2021 and plans to retire a sixth (SEGS 8) in September 2021, based on information submitted to EIA and published in our Preliminary Electric Generator Inventory. After SEGS 8 is retired, only […]

The Tesla Model Y (five seater) has now been approved for sale in Australia, TechAU reports. The approval came from Australia’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, and Communications Road Vehicle Regulator (ROVER) website. ROVER is the system that administers road vehicles according to the nation’s Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018. From the approval documentation, […]

A Russian news site, Arguments of the Week, reported that the first Tesla Russian plant will be built in Korolev, the heart of Russian cosmonautics. Korolev is near Moscow and the article noted that this was confirmed by two sources in the Ministry of Industry and Trade as well as the Russian Federation Chamber of […]

You founded Heimdal with your friend Marcus Lima in 2020. How long before did you have the idea for the company and what was it initially inspired by? We started working on the company in October 2020. We started the company because climate change is the biggest threat to humanity. Whilst Marcus was doing his […]

Akio Toyoda says moving to electric cars will destroy the Japanese economy.

Taco Bell has set aside millions of dollars to make sure those little Mild, Hot, and Fire (and, sometimes, Diablo) sauce packets you get with your takeout order don't end up in landfills.

The Harley-Davidson S1 Mosh/Tribute is available to order now.

In Part 1, I covered the reasons that home solar+storage isn’t the answer for all disasters, and got into the importance of covering the basics first. Once you have those basics out of the way, it’s time to start finding ways to keep yourself out of the nineteenth century with at least a little electricity. […]

The prospect of Hinkley C riding to the rescue of a harassed electricity supply sector any time soon was always remote. The pie in the sky of a 2017 start was always laughable. Word from EdeF HQ in Paris had already put a damper on the rose tinted view from local EdeF sources that a […]

Comment process on Bradwell B reactor technology reaches ‘milestone’ as it ends after almost four years. The public comment process on the reactor technology for the proposed nuclear power station at Bradwell B has closed after almost four years. The China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and the French power company EDF, through their joint […]

Lord Turner: The facts have changed on nuclear. The first chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has backtracked on his support for new nuclear power, saying that he no longer thinks the UK needs it. Utility Week 20th Sept 2021 read more » Nuclear power could reliably provide great wads of zero-carbon energy. We’re told Hinkley […]

British Steel warns power prices are ‘spiralling out of control’. British Steel warns that unprecedented rises in electricity prices will “get out of control” and make it impossible to make a profit and produce at certain times of the day. A warning from the company, the UK’s second-largest steel producer and owner of a vast […]

Kwarteng insists UK will avoid power shortages as gas crisis worsens. Kwasi Kwarteng, UK business secretary, has insisted there is “no question of the lights going out” this winter. FT 21st Sept 2021 read more » Commenting on reports that the Government is considering intervening to bailout gas companies, STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer said: “This crisis […]

Dr Phil Johnstone and Prof Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, examine the entanglements between Britain’s civilian and military nuclear programmes and ask, would the UK be building new nuclear power stations if it weren’t for pressure from the military lobby? Scientists for Global Responsibility 20th Sept 2021 read more »

Deploying representative sea-level projections closely aligned with only conservative IPCC findings and based on only median sea-level projections; this report provides sets of annual flood risk maps for the year 2050 at nine nuclear military installations: HM Naval Base Faslane, Rosyth Dockyard, RN Armaments Depot Coulport, HM Naval Base Devonport, BAE Systems Barrow, AWE Aldermaston, […]

Britain’s nuclear-powered submarines are to use Australia as a base so that they can have a more permanent presence in the Indo-Pacific region under plans discussed by ministers. Senior government sources said that the AUKUS pact could lead to the Royal Navy’s £1.4 billion Astute-class attack submarines undergoing deep maintenance in the region so they […]

EDF has been selected as the Supplier of Last Resort for Utility Point’s 220,000 domestic customers after the latter collapsed last week. Ofgem announced the French energy giant had been chosen following a competitive process to find the best deal possible for the customers. Current 20th Sept 2021 read more » Britain’s energy woes catch vulnerable sector […]

The UK’s Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme is taking a strategic approach to advanced nuclear fuels and says it has passed a ‘major milestone’ in enabling policymakers and industry to plan for the future. The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) is leading the UK’s Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme (AFCP) which recently marked a ‘major milestone’ when […]

On the current climate change situation, the UN chief said that "to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, we need a 45 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 so we can reach carbon neutrality by mid-century", reports Xinhua news agency

Addressing the JP Morgan India Investor Summit, he also spoke about Adani Group's vision and its role in shaping India's future with global coordination

The current Climate Pledge signatories are expected to collectively mitigate 1.98 billion metric tons (BMT) of carbon emissions from a 2020 baseline, representing 5.4 per cent of global annual emissions

Speaking to reporters here after the roundtable, Guterres said based on the present commitments of member states, the world is on a "catastrophic pathway" to 2.7-degrees of heating

The CBM would be extracted from Jharia Block I under leasehold area of BCCL, an official statement said

Indonesia, the eighth-biggest carbon emitter, recently brought forward its goal for net zero emissions from 2070 to 2060 or sooner, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November, and joined a U.S.-led Global Methane Pledge.

Agarwal is also heading the mines department under which the state PSU Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Ltd (RSMML) is engaged in exploration and mining

Unless the gap between ambition and resources is narrowed, global emissions will continue to climb, and the target of net zero by 2050 will slip out of reach within the next few years

The broad process of converting coal into methanol consists of conversion of coal to synthesis (syngas) gas, syngas cleaning and conditioning, syngas to methanol conversion, and methanol purification, it said

Banerjee and his secretary Sumit Roy are supposed to appear before ED at 11 am on September 24. Earlier, Banerjee appeared before ED on September 6