Focus on Electricity
Google data centre new source of heat for town in Finland
Google says it will use waste heat from its data centre in the Finnish port city of Hamina to heat 80 per cent...
French, Russia, Chinese firms vie to build Ghana’s 1st nuclear power plant
Ghana started considering building a nuclear power plant in the 1960s but the process was derailed by a coup. It revived the plan...
Slowing EV uptake may delay Panasonic’s EV battery expansion, CEO says
A slowdown in the take-up of electric vehicles in the U.S. may prompt Tesla-supplier Panasonic to delay investing in additional plants to boost...
Platinum loses shine amid BHP’s vast Anglo bid
Platinum is used in the manufacture of catalytic converters for high-polluting petrol engines — but demand has long been forecast to slump as...
Texas heat wave sends power demand to all-time high for May
Texas power demand reaches a record for May – but supplier projects demand will rise even higher before the month is over.
Yellen says US, Europe must respond jointly to China’s industrial overcapacity
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the US and Europe needed to respond to China's industrial policies in a "strategic and united way"
Apple supplier Foxconn asked to cut power use in Vietnam
Vietnamese officials have called on Foxconn to voluntarily reduce power use by 30% at its assembly plants in the north of the country.
From corn to solar – one Chinese farm family’s newest crop
Chinese solar power push is working at industrial levels and rooftop installations as families embrace getting paid to feed electricity back to the...
UK running out of options for offshore energy ‘just transition’
UK offshore industry needs political alignment to ensure 'just and fair' energy transition, concludes report.
Call for orangutan row firm to be barred from renewable leases
Opposition grows towards wind farm bid by Red Rock Power over parent company's Indonesian dam project that could threaten rare orangutan.
