An Israeli wave energy company has collected $2 million (£1.3m) of funds to construct a pipeline. It comes after the firm’s ‘Second Generation’ electricity station which was installed last month at Jaffa Port, Israel.
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Global annual return from solar PV installations is likely to surpass $151 billion in 2024, as concluded by a new report performed by Navigant Research.
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WTI crude oil decreased more than 4 percent on Wednesday to reach a 6-1/2-year low and almost break below $40 per barrel, dragged down by a massive unexpected inventories hike in the United States which intensified worries about growing global oversupply. U.S. front-month futures contract, which expires on Thursday, declined $1.82, or 4.3 percent, to settle at $40.80 a barrel. It fell as low as $40.46 during the session, its lowest level since March 2009. The front-month in Brent, the global benchmark for oil, lost $1.65, or 3.4 percent, at $47.16 a barrel. It continued to slip to $2 in post-settlement trade.
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Britain awards shale gas exploration licences for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, offering new sites to firms comprising IGas and France's GDF Suez.
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RWE’s power-to-gas plant has officially been opened in Ibbenbüren, Germany. It is an energy storage technology which connects the supply of local power, natural gas and district heating.
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