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French oil major TotalEnergies has announced plans to sell its minority stake in a major Nigerian oil joint venture. The firm said it wants to divest its share of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and is looking to reshape its portfolio since producing oil in the Niger Delta is not in line with its health, security and environmental policies. “We want to divest our share of SPDC, and we are looking to reshape the portfolio. “Fundamentally it’s because producing this oil in the Niger…

Photo: SANY Group SANY Renewable Energy, a wind turbine manufacturer in China, has built the world’s longest onshore wind turbine blade. The SY1310A is 430 feet (131 meters) long and rolled off the assembly line on January 21 at SANY’s zero-carbon, smart industrial park in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia. That means these giants sport a diameter that stretches over 860 feet (262 meters) – the scale of the length of almost three football fields. But making something this massive was…

Location map, showing seismic and well data available from UK Onshore Geophysical Library (based on UKOGL website, with permission: https://ukogl.org.uk). Credit: Earth Science, Systems and Society (2024). DOI: 10.3389/esss.2023.10076 A study exploring the potential of a decommissioned gas field in Scotland as a major hydrogen store has highlighted concerns over potential leaks and recommended that it shouldn't be used.…

Binance, Binance.US and the U.S. securities regulator announced a deal to ensure that only Binance.US employees could access customer funds in the short term, CoinDesk reported on Saturday, citing a proposed agreement.Under the agreement, which still needs sign-off from the federal judge overseeing the case, Binance.US will take steps to make sure that no Binance Holdings officials have access to private keys for its various wallets, hardware wallets or root access to Binance.US's Amazon Web Services tools, the report…

Siemens Gamesa has created a new onshore wind turbine that’s specially designed for US weather conditions – here’s what makes it unique. The Spanish-German wind giant says that its bespoke US onshore wind turbine “has the right design profile to maximize revenues by harnessing the wind conditions most common in the US and features a design lifetime longer than the industry standard.” The SG 44.164 lifetime is 25 years, whereas the standard lifetime of a wind turbine is 20 years. The wind…

Monsoon Wind, Southeast Asia’s largest onshore wind farm, is Laos’ first wind project, and it’s also the region’s first cross-border wind power plant. The 600-megawatt (MW) Monsoon Wind, which is owned by Thailand-based Impact Energy Asia Development, has just kicked off construction. The site is in southeastern Laos, in the Sekong and Attapeu provinces, at an elevation of 1,200-1,600 meters (3,937-5,249 feet) above sea level. The 133-wind turbine wind farm will sell its power to…

Too Long; Didn't ReadTesla announced it has plans to expand its manufacturing operations onshore in the U.S. for the upcoming year. The company looks to leverage major tax credits offered under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which provides tax incentives to manufacturers investing in clean energy. CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk stated on the company’s Q4 2022 earnings call that he expects the financial kickback brought by “these credits to be very significant’ Too Long; Didn't ReadTesla announced it has plans…

Eco Wave Power is officially unveiling its onshore wave energy power station at public-private ocean institute AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles tomorrow. The AltaSea pilot project is the Israel-based Eco Wave Power’s first in the US, and it says it believes it’s the “first-ever onshore wave energy technology that will be deployed in the United States.” Eco Wave Power, which produces clean electricity from ocean and sea waves, has modified, upgraded, and transported the unit to Los Angeles…

A Vestas wind turbine photographed in Denmark. The company said Tuesday it would launch an onshore wind turbine tower with a hub height of 199 meters.Jonas Walzberg | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesDanish firm Vestas said Tuesday it was launching an onshore wind turbine tower with a hub height measuring 199 meters (just under 653 feet), in the latest example of how the sector is turning to increasingly large structures.In a statement, the Aarhus-headquartered company described it as "currently the world's tallest onshore…

Early last month, Siemens Gamesa reported that recyclable turbine blades had been successfully installed at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Now the company has announced the market availability of an onshore equivalent.The company reports that, although around 85% of a wind turbines can be fully recycled at the end of their working lives, many of their huge blades end up in landfill. The RecyclableBlades project was created to change that.The key to making Siemens Gamesa's turbine blades recyclable after…