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Chilean power producer AES Gener announced on October 15 that it has commenced construction of a solar-plus-storage plant named Andes Solar II-B and a wind farm named Campo Lindo. A virtual event to celebrate the groundbreaking of both projects was held on the same day and attended by Juan Carlos Jobet, Chile’s Minister of Energy. ...  more

The petrochemical industry is an indispensable sector for the manufacturing process of plastics as most plastics are refined from petroleum and natural gas, which impacts the environment and increases the emission of carbon dioxide more or less. Scientists in Japan have managed to produce a super heat-resistant bioplastic with environmentally friendly materials in the hope of infusing a certain degree of environmental protection in the ubiquitous plastics. ...  more

Engie EPS, an energy storage subsidiary of French energy conglomerate Engie, announced on October 19 that it has completed a pilot project that shows the advantages of its hydrogen-based energy storage system. Currently supporting a microgrid located at the Greek village of Agkistro, the project is developed under an EU-funded research program known as “Remote Area Energy Supply with Multiple Options for Integrated Hydrogen-Based Technologies” or REMOTE. ...  more

The 2020 US presidential election is currently at the ballot-counting phase. How will the energy arrangement in the US be impacted after the presidential election? Trump and Biden each holds a different perspective in the issue of energy, where the US President has been implementing an active “rescue of petrochemical industry” since he took office in 2017, and has established subsidies on coal burning and petroleum, as well as opened excavation of petroleum and natural gas, in the hope of achieving energy independency. As for Biden, the US presidential candidate emphasizes on climate change and renewable energy, and has proposed the Green New Deal that is worth US$2 trillion. ...  more

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (HPUC) has approved a new solar-plus-battery project on Maui. The greenlighting of the project was announced by the state’s main utility Hawaii Electric via a press release on October 7. The solar array of the project will have a generation capacity of 15MW, while the energy storage facility of the project will have a storage capacity of 60MWh. ...  more