Amazon Buys 1000 CNG-Powered Trucks
Just days after reporting a record high US$125.5 billion in fourth quarter 2020 sales, Amazon ordered 1000 compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered truck engines from a joint venture between Cummins and Westport Fuel Systems. Amazon...
Lone Star Sun
French energy giant, Total SE (Total), has acquired 2.2 GW of solar projects and 600 MW of Texas-based battery storage assets from SunChase Power and MAP RE/ES. The announcement comes just weeks after Total...
Energy Transfer Creates Alternative Energy Group
Energy Transfer LP has created a new business group to develop alternative energy projects aimed at continuing to reduce its environmental footprint throughout its operations. The Alternative Energy Group will be led by Tom...
Siemens Energy To Build Waste Heat-To-Power Facility In Canada
Siemens Energy (Siemens) has signed an agreement with Canada-based TC Energy Corporation (TC Energy) to commission a waste heat-to-power pilot installation in Alberta. The facility will capture waste heat from a gas-fired turbine operating...
Shell Acquires European EV Company, Ubitricity
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has signed an agreement to buy 100% of Berlin-based electric vehicle (EV) charging network company, Ubitricity. As of November 2020, Ubitricity is the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) largest public EV charging...
DOE Launches Clean Energy Funding Program
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering up to US$100 million in funding for transformative clean energy technology research and development via its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) OPEN 2021 funding opportunity. The...
City Of Esbjerg To Decarbonize Heat Supply
Danish multi-utility company, DIN Forsyning, has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions (MAN) to supply a turnkey technology solution for heat generation, featuring two ETES heat-pump systems. These will be installed in a new district heating...
SEC Names Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and ESG
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Satyam Khanna as senior policy advisor for climate and ESG in the office of Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee. Khanna will advise the agency on...
German State Funds Cross-Sector, Energy-Storage Solution
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is providing funding of €200,000 for a technical and economic-evaluation study of the new MAN Energy Solutions (MAN) ETES energy-storage technology. According to MAN, this still-untested technology...
Jenbacher Hits Hydrogen Milestone
The initiation of field testing on a converted combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Othmarschen area of Hamburg, Germany, represents the world’s first large-scale gas engine in the 1 MW range that...
