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CLEEN Energy obtains rights to enter market in Croatia

BlackRock’s Larry Fink: The next 1,000 unicorns will be green energy companies

Finance & Investment

According to BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink’s most recent widely anticipated annual letter, the next wave of successful start-ups will be those that help make the shift to carbon-free energy affordable. The next 1,000 unicorns, he writes, will not be search engines or social media firms, but rather sustainable, scalable innovators – enterprises that help the …

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Chinese fusion reactor is five times hotter than the sun

Innovation & Technology

China’s “artificial sun” has set a new world record by heating plasma to temperatures five times that of the sun and maintaining it for more than 17 minutes. According to the Xinhua news agency, the EAST (Experimental Superconducting Tokamak) fusion reactor maintained a temperature of 70 million degrees for 1,056 seconds. This achievement is another …

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Scientists discover unique microorganisms in oceans that thrive without sun

Innovation & Technology

There would be no oxygen on Earth if it were not illuminated by sunlight, a key element of photosynthesis. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria mainly produce oxygen. Now, researchers have made a startling discovery: deep below the surface of the ocean, oxygen can be produced without sunlight. Scientists have discovered that ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), the species …

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IEA: Market instability is not due to the shift to clean energy

Energy Transition

According to Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), stories claiming that volatility in gas and power markets is a consequence of the clean energy transition are “misleading”, Bioenergy-news.com reports. Natural gas and electricity prices have hit record highs in recent weeks and months, most notably in Europe and certain major Asian …

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How renewable hydrogen might reshape energy geopolitics

Innovation & Technology

According to a new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the transition of the global energy system away from fossil fuels and toward renewable hydrogen could result in a significant reassessment of geopolitical relationships, potentially supporting the emergence of new global powers. Similarly to how fossil fuel resources have long had an …

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BP and Oman partnering in massive renewable energy projects

Energy Transition

BP and Oman will possibly construct several gigawatts of renewable energy and green hydrogen projects in Oman by 2030, boosting the British major’s gas business in the Middle East’s largest non-OPEC oil producer. According to S&P Global, BP and Oman’s ministry of energy and minerals inked a strategic framework agreement on Jan. 17 that will …

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Tado, German smart home energy startup plans to go public

Finance & Investment

Tado, a German smart home startup  that specializes in thermostats and has lately expanded into flexible “time of use” energy tariffs based on loadshifting technology, announced today the next phase in its business existence. According to TechCrunch, it will go public via a SPAC transaction. GFJ ESG Acquisition, a German SPAC organization concentrating primarily on …

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