Monthly Archives: August 2022

German regional rail carrier LNVG has launched the world’s first fuel cell train built by Alstom, a French engineering company. The train, called Coradia iLint, could replace diesel-powered trains on railway lines in Lower Saxony.

SEV, the Faroe Islands power system operator, has raised 250 million Danish kroner ($33.6 million) from the Nordic Investment Bank to build the Mýruverkið II pumped storage power plant (PSPP). The 1.3 billion Danish kroner ($175 million) project is supposed to be implemented by 2027-2028, according to the industry portal PV Magazine.

Philippines’ utility Aboitiz Power Corporation jointly with the investment fund Climate Capital Management and the RMI Research Center have started feasibility study of a cascade of coastal wind turbines of total capacity 3 (GW). The project’s participants will have to complete the feasibility study by mid-2023, stated industrial publication Clean Technica.

Construction of the hydropower plant (HPP) Rusumo-Falls located in East Africa is 95% complete, reported Xinhua agency. The project of slightly less than 80 megawatt (MW) capacity and $340 mln cost will feed consumers in three countries of the region – Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania.

The scientists at the National Research and Technology University (NRTU) ‘MISiS’, the Lomonosov MSU, and the Institute of Organic Chemistry named after Zelinskiy of the RAS have developed a new method of production of cobalt-nickel catalysts for treatment of carbon oxide.

The engineering project firm Bilfinger and gas transmission company Gasunie have announces an intention to build the underground hydrogen storage in the Netherlands’ province Groningen.