Monthly Archives: February 2023

The construction of Bangladesh’s coal-fired TPP Matarbari, which has a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts (GW), is 95% complete, says the regional media The Business Standard. The project is being implemented in the city of Cox’s Bazar located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal.

China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has commenced the construction of a pipeline to supply thermal energy from the Haiyang nuclear power plant (NPP) to the city of Weihai in the eastern province of Shandong. The 23-kilometre-long transit pipeline will come into operation before the end of 2023.

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of ITMO University and North Ossetian State University named after K.L. Khetagurov have proposed a new method of detecting gaseous hydrogen halides, which are toxic to humans. The solution is based on perovskite nanolasers. The results of the study have been published in the journal ACS Nano issued by the American Chemical Society.

Gazprom Neft jointly with its partners has successfully completed the testing of a hybrid electric vehicle for cargo warehousing and transportation. The vehicle can be charged from hydrogen fuel cells and from the regular grid, the company says.

Bellingshausen Station, the northernmost and warmest Russian station in Antarctica, is celebrating its 55th anniversary. Today, the station operates in one of the most populous areas of Antarctica: it is located in the immediate vicinity of Chile’s Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva with the Marsh airstrip, China’s Great Wall Station and Uruguay’s Artigas Base, with the stations of South Korea, Brazil, Poland, Argentina and Peru operating a little farther away.

IberBlue Wind has announced its plans to build a floating wind power plant (WPP) with a capacity of 990 megawatts (MW) 30–50 kilometres off the coast of the Figueira da Foz municipality in central Portugal. The project will be named Botafogo in honour of the eponymous 16th-century galleon.