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Yazd Province in the middle of the Iranian plateau enjoys the opportunity of generating solar power in nine months of a year, so for an eight-year period, President Hassan Rouhani’s administration has attached importance to developing solar power plants with the capacity 71.5 megawatt of energy. Utilizing renewable energies has …

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian, who is the chairman of the Iran-Iraq Joint Economic Committee, has said Iraq is going to transfer $125 million of its energy dues to Iran to a European bank to be paid for 16 million COVAX Covid-19 vaccines. “The necessary license has been issued to …

The Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation Gazprom has resumed oil production in Libya following a ten-month hiatus. The ports, export terminals and production facilities in Libya have gradually restarted operations, according to a report by the Russian news agency Tass. The managing director of Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom EP International, …

National carbon prices and similar mechanisms are urgently needed as a part of countries’ concrete national net-zero policies, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol told the World Bank Group’s virtual climate action event Innovate4Climate on 26 May. The IEA recently released a report describing how a rapid rise …

Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulguinov and Pakistani Ambassador in Moscow Shafkat Ali Khan signed an agreement for the future construction of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline on Friday. According to the energy portfolio, the parties penned a protocol of amendments to an intergovernmental agreement that provided for the construction of …

The Russian gas supplied to Europe through the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has a carbon footprint four times lower than that delivered by US companies, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday. According to several analytical and consulting agencies, the reason is determined because most of the …

Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are highly efficient and can be coupled with traditional silicon cells to greatly boost the performance of both devices, said an international team of scientists. The research represents a step toward developing completely transparent solar …

U.S. energy companies are urgently building their cyberattack insurance coverage following the Colonial Pipeline network attack earlier this month, Reuters has reported, adding that premiums were likely to rise on this increased demand. A ransomware attack shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States two weeks ago, causing …

Natural gas production in Russia is eco-friendly and the best available technologies are used for its production and transport, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko told reporters on Friday. “The best available technologies are used in production and transport of our gas. This is indeed eco-efficient production,” she said. Russian …

Germany to provide € 8 billion worth of funding to hydrogen projects across the country, with a focus on the Northern parts. EPA-EFE/FELIPE TRUEBA Germany said on Friday (28 May) it would invest €8 billion in 62 large-scale hydrogen projects, including electrolysers and pipeline infrastructure, as part of the country’s …