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The Public Regulation Commission (PRC) of New Mexico (United States) has cleared the location control permit for Pattern Development’s 2,200 MW Corona wind park complex, located in Corona, in the Lincoln County of New Mexico. US-based independent renewable project developer Pattern Energy will now move forward with the project’s construction, which is expected to entail an estimated 950 wind turbines. Expected to be completed by the end of 2020, the wind park will deliver power to the domestic grid through 80 miles (129 km) of 345-kV transmission lines that Pattern Energy will install across three counties.

Norwegian state-held oil and gas company Equinor (formerly known as Statoil) has reduced the estimated investments scheduled for its operated offshore Norway projects in development phase by a total of NOK30bn (approximately €3.2bn) since the submission of their development plans to the government.

The Australian government has turned down the United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report’s call to phase out coal power by 2050, saying that Australia will continue to tap into its coal reserves and that renewable energies could not replace coal-fired power.

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the standard design for Korea Electric Power Corporation’s and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR-1400). This approval will be valid for a 15-year period: it finds the design technically acceptable and certifies the APR-1400 nuclear reactors for use on the United States territory. However,…

Chinese state-run oil and gas company China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has officially started to build the 3 Mt/year (4.1 bcm/year) Zhangzhou LNG regasification terminal in Fujian province (China). The construction is estimated to require roughly CNY6.2bn (US$968m) and the investment will be allocated in two phases. Approved in 2017,…

The British energy regulator Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) has opened the tender for the electricity transmission line to the 1,218 MW Hornsea 1 offshore wind park located off Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (United Kingdom).

The governments of Ghana and Burkina Faso have inaugurated the 225 kV interconnection line, a 188-km long line spreading from Bolgatanga (Ghana) to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). The 100 MW line paves the way for exporting of power from Ghana to Burkina Faso.