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TECO 2030 aims to build hydrogen fuel cell gigafactory in Norway

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TECO 2030 is a partner in the project Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube, together with players such as Siemens, Bosch, AVL and Verbund, where hydrogen generated from solar and wind power will be produced in Romania and transported on barges along the Danube to industrial buyers in Austria and Germany.

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Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

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Enel has installed around 5,000 charging stations in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. For example, JuiceNet allows users to schedule EV charging when electricity from domestic solar rooftop systems is most abundant. GW powered by renewable hydropower, wind, geothermal and solar energy.

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Mercedes-Benz begins construction of new €500M engine plant in Jawor, Poland

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The Jawor site is also expected to set standards in the area of resource-saving production processes: together with energy suppliers and local authorities, solutions for CO 2 -neutral engine production are being developed, for example through the use of wind power, solar energy or biogas applications.

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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The obvious answer might be solar and wind. In October, Romania adopted a plan to double its nuclear capacity by 2031. It’s entirely possible that the picture might change as solar and wind costs continue to fall and as renewables expand. After all, the cost of renewables continues to plummet.

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OMV says it will stop oil and gas production by 2050 in transformation to net-zero

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The three European refineries in Austria, Germany, and Romania will continue to be run as one integrated system, optimizing plant utilization, and maximizing margins. OMV will also expand its solar and wind power generation for captive use to at least 1 TWh and explore opportunities in gas and hydrogen storage solutions.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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Natural gas first came through the Ukraine Transit pipeline (with branches to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania) lines, then through the Yamal line (via Poland) and later also via Nord Stream 1 (under the Baltic Sea to Germany) and the Turkstream pipeline, under the Black Sea. is the world’s largest natural-gas importer.

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