Energy output from wind farms in Great Britain and the European Union declined by 5 % to 341 Terawatt hours (TWh) over the first nine months of 2021, according to the Ember research centre.
Fifteen pumped storage hydroelectric stations may be built in Switzerland by 2040, able to provide 2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity each winter – a round table organised on 13th December by a government body announced.
On 11th December, Gazprom brought into service a pipeline to provide gas supplies to the southern part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the government of Sakhalin region in Russia’s far east announced. Attending the official opening of the site were Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko and the Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee, Vitaly Markelov.
The world-wide increase in oil production will see a rise from 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2021 to 6.4 million bpd in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest review of oil markets. In contrast, demand for oil will slow – from 5.4 million bpd to 3.3 million bpd over the same period.
One of the hurdles slowing efforts to decarbonise commercial transport vehicles in Britain is the shortcomings in electric trucks and lorries compared to their counterparts operating on petrol.
Gazprom Neft, Airbus and airlines Aeroflot, S7 Group and Volga-Dnepr, together with the Central Zhukovsky Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute and the State Scientific Research Institute of Civil Aviation, have created an association of developers and producers of low-carbon aviation fuel, Gazprom Neft announced.