Canada Orders Chinese Companies To Divest From Critical Materials Operations

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:52:25 +0000

China CanadaCanada has ordered three companies based in China to divest from lithium companies doing business in Ontario and other provinces.

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U.S. Coal Plant Closures Continue, While China Rapidly Builds More

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:01:37 +0000

A wave of retirements for U.S. coal-fired power plants continues, with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reporting almost a quarter of the nation’s remaining facilities could be shuttered by the end of 2029. The EIA in its preliminary monthly electric generator inventory report released Nov. 7 said that 23% of the nearly 201 GW of […]

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New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000

Hydrogen demand projection through 2100The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.

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China Unveils World’s First Commercial Offshore Wind-Plus-Solar Project

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:48:17 +0000

A pilot project in the waters off China, featuring two floating solar power arrays connected to a transformer on a moored offshore wind turbine, will test the viability of the technology in an area prone to typhoons. China’s government-owned State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) on Nov. 1 announced it had commissioned the project, calling it […]

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New Units at Hongyanhe Further China’s Nuclear Ambition

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:17:00 +0000

An innovative design, emphasizing safety and economic efficiency, is key to the reactor technology at China’s newest—and now largest—nuclear power plant. China’s nuclear power program has utilized

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China Approves Commissioning of Thorium-Powered Reactor

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:13:00 +0000

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Aug. 2 gave Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) the green light to commission the experimental 2-MWth thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR-LF1) at

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Wind Goes Global Giga

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:15:19 +0000

China — Chaozhou, in the Guangdong province of China, intends to install a 43.3 gigawatt wind farm in the Taiwan Straits about 100 km off the coast. According to the city’s five-year plan, work should start before 2025. “The area has unique topographical features that mean wind will be strong enough to run the turbines […]

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China Building World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm — 43.3 Gigawatts

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:00:48 +0000

offshore wind Baltic Sea Germany Denmark hydrogenChaozhou — a city in China’s Guangdong province — has revealed ambitious plans for a 43.3 gigawatt facility in the Taiwan Strait. Operating between 75 and 185 kilometers off the coast of Chiuna, the new offshore wind farm will be 10 kilometers long and feature thousands of powerful turbines. Because the location is unusually windy […]

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China Electric Car Sales — 26% Fully Electric, 35% Have A Plug

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:59:24 +0000

Full electric cars accounted for 26% of new car sales in the Chinese market!

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