Policy & Regulatory The US will support NuScale’s 2.5 GW nuclear project in South Africa 20 Oct 2020 The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), which was authorised by US authorities to support nuclear power projects abroad in July 2020, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) to support NuScale, a US…
Policy & Regulatory The EU is on track to meet its GHG emissions cut target by 2030 19 Oct 2020 The European Commission has adopted the 2020 State of the Energy Union Report and released individual assessments of the 27 National Energy and Climate Plans, which analyses the pathway and…
Volume 3 Issue 10, October 2020 Dust and infant mortality Air pollution impacts health globally, but studying this effect is challenging because economic development worsens pollution while bettering health. Burke and colleagues focus on the health effects of distant Saharan dust, unlinked from economic activity, and find that it leads…
Policy & Regulatory India plans to allow Coal India units to set prices independently 16 Oct 2020 The Indian government plans to allow units of state-owned coal mining company Coal India Ltd (CIL) to independently set coal prices in a bid to foster competition and cut the price of coal in…
Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2020 Polymer collector passes current Current collectors are needed to support electrodes and collect electrical energy from them in Li-ion batteries, however they do not contribute to the battery’s energy output. Cui et al. report a polymer-based current collector that not only makes batteries store…
Policy & Regulatory The European Commission unveils a regional strategy for energy efficiency 15 Oct 2020 The European Commission has unveiled its Renovation Wave Strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings, which intends to at least double renovation rates in the next decade and to make sure renovations lead…
Policy & Regulatory Ethiopia plans to unbundle state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power 14 Oct 2020 The Ethiopian government is considering unbundling the national power utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), by separating transmission and generation activities to ensure an equal access of independent power producers (IPPs) to the grid. EEP has an installed…
Policy & Regulatory Romania will sign a deal with the US for Cernavoda nuclear project 12 Oct 2020 Romania and the United States have agreed to cooperate for the construction of Units 3 and 4 and the refurbishment of Unit 1 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. Romania…
Policy & Regulatory Germany’s Bundestag approves a national price of €25/t for CO2 emissions 9 Oct 2020 The Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, has passed a text introducing a national price of €25/t of CO2 emissions in the transport and building sectors from 2021, which will be raised to…
Policy & Regulatory India vows to shift from coal-fired power capacity to renewables 8 Oct 2020 According to the Ministry of Power, India is considering closing some of its coal-fired power plant, in a bid to cut the country’s carbon footprint. The coal-fired power plants would be replaced with renewable…
Volume 1 Issue 10, October 2020 Vegetation fires are integral to some ecosystems, but can be economically and environmentally destructive. This Review discusses contemporary and future fire regimes, adaptation to fire in the Anthropocene and the need for increased transdisciplinary research to achieve better fire management. See Bowman et al….
Policy & Regulatory The UK targets 40 GW of offshore wind power capacity by 2030 7 Oct 2020 The UK government has raised its target for offshore wind power capacity by 2030 from 30 GW to 40 GW. The authorities intend to release a 10-point programme for a “green industrial revolution”…
Companies Brazil’s Supreme Court authorises Petrobras to sell 8 refineries 6 Oct 2020 The Federal Supreme Court of Justice, which is Brazil’s highest appellate court for non-constitutional questions of federal law, has authorised the Brazilian national oil and gas company Petrobras to create subsidiaries to sell 8 refineries, accounting for…
Policy & Regulatory Poland will take over nuclear development firm PGE EJ 1 by end-2020 5 Oct 2020 The Polish State Treasury has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the 57.4% state-owned power utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna to acquire 100% of PGE EJ 1, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) in…
Policy & Regulatory India receive 82 bids for 23 mines in its first-ever coal auction 2 Oct 2020 India’s first-ever tender to commercially mine and sell coal has received 82 bids from 46 companies for 23 coal mines, while a total of 38 coal mines were put for auction. The…
Diversidad de maíces en México ¡Celebremos nuestros maíces! 5 años de Mosaico Natura México Nuevo protocolo de monitoreo marino #SabrososSanosSustentables Naturalista destacado Calendario de eventos Compartir ¡Celebremos nuestros maíces! El 29 de septiembre se celebra el Día Nacional del Maíz, pero durante todo el año, los mexicanos día a día…
Policy & Regulatory The Nigerian president proposes a new Petroleum Industry Bill 30 Sep 2020 The Nigerian president has submitted a new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly. The bill proposes to transform the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) into a limited company that would be incorporated by the Ministry…
Volume 10 Issue 10, October 2020 Declining waterbird abundance in the tropics Gaps in geographic coverage of species abundance data, especially in the tropics, makes determining species’ responses to climate change difficult. Writing in this issue of Nature Climate Change, Tatsuya Amano et al. analyse 1.3 million records of 390…
Policy & Regulatory Denmark launches tender for the 800-1,000 MW Thor offshore wind project 29 Sep 2020 The Danish Energy Agency has launched the tendering process for the Thor offshore wind project, with a capacity of 800-1000 MW. The project, which will be located in the North Sea at least…
Browse Articles Article Type Year Article 23 September 2020 | Open Access Latest Pliocene Northern Hemisphere glaciation amplified by intensified Atlantic meridional overturning circulation Active overturning in the Nordic seas and strong Atlantic circulation coincided with enhanced glaciation in the… Tatsuya Hayashi Toshiro Yamanaka […] Masao Ohno Article…
Policy & Regulatory South Africa’s Eskom will procure 6.8 GW of solar and wind power from IPPs 28 Sep 2020 The government of South Africa has authorised Eskom to buy at least 6,800 MW of solar and wind power from independent power producers (IPPs) for the years 2022 to 2024. Eskom must…
Policy & Regulatory Myanmar awards 1 GW of solar capacity with lowest bid of US$3.5c/kWh 25 Sep 2020 The government of Myanmar has allocated 1 GW of solar capacity in its first auction for large-scale PV. All but one of the 30 projects, ranging from 30 MW to 50 MW, were allocated,…
Policy & Regulatory The Netherlands will organise consultations on new nuclear plants 24 Sep 2020 The Dutch government has decided to organise a public consultation on building new nuclear power plants to assess under which conditions market parties are interested in investing in nuclear power plants in the Netherlands, and…
Summary Reports UN’s 75th Anniversary 111 Heads of State and Government and 14 Ministers virtually addressed the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, which took place at a socially-distanced UN Headquarters, on the theme of “The future we want, the United Nations we need: Reaffirming our…
Policy & Regulatory China aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 23 Sep 2020 China plans to scale up its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement, targeting a peak in CO2 emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. The country is currently working on a new five-year…
Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 23 de septiembre, 2020 Sueño Por qué los pequeños duermen más En la infancia temprana, la fase MOR ocupa la mayor parte del sueño, ya que resulta esencial para la reorganización cerebral y el aprendizaje. Yvonne Buchholz Cambio Climático El Ártico está ardiendo como nunca….
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olume 5 Issue 9, September 2020 Road to recovery Recovery in fuel demand after the COVID-19 slowdown continues to depend on healthcare and economic indicators, and shows extreme uncertainty. Ou et al. combine healthcare scenarios and cellphone mobility data in a machine-learning model to predict short-term gasoline demand in the…
Companies Spain’s Iberdrola enters the Japanese offshore wind market 18 Sep 2020 The Spanish energy group Iberdrola has entered into an agreement with Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) to enter the Japanese offshore wind market by acquiring the Japanese renewable project developer Acacia Renewables. The Japanese company currently has two offshore…
2020 Release – Global Energy Statistical Yearbook Our Yearbook is a free online interactive application providing global energy statistics updated through 2019. We cover production, consumption and trade of oil, gas, coal, power and renewables, with maps, graphs, and analyses of the most salient trends in the last year. Check…