French oil major Total is acquiring a 20 % stake in India’s Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL), pursuing a strategy of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050, the company announced.
China last year boosted its purchases of liquefied natural gas from abroad by 12 % — with increases of 7% and 5 % for oil and gas.
Saudi Arabia plans to create a completely “green”, environmentally clean high-tech city with neither cars nor roads.
Russia has enormous potential to become an important exporter of hydrogen in the event of a gradual elimination of carbon emissions by the world economy, the chairman of the Global Energy Prize International Award Committee said.
There are good prospects for a coal industry that remains efficient despite the economic crisis linked to the COVID pandemic and the announced transition to carbon-free energy sources, Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky said.
Russia’s biggest wind farm, the Kochubeyevskaya wind power station in Stavropol region, has started supplying power and electricity capacity to the wholesale market, according to Novawind, the wind power division of Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear power authority.
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