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Carbon capture and storage

26/11/2025 News

Extent of global CCS mapped for first time as projects in Qatar and UK take steps forward

A global report shows that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has now locked away more than 383mn tonnes of CO₂ since 1996. Elsewhere, QatarEnergy has awarded an EPC contract for one of the world’s largest CCS facilities and the first carbon storage appraisal well has been drilled on NSTA-licensed UK seabed.

Hydrogen

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26/11/2025 Feature / Assia Bekkar

Mediterranean hydrogen pipeline: future power hub or white elephant?

A multi-billion project to build and repurpose a 3,300 km land and subsea pipeline carrying green hydrogen from Algeria via Tunisia to Italy, Austria and Germany continues, although many key factors depend on the outcome of ongoing feasibility studies, reports Assia Bekkar.

Wave / tidal

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26/11/2025 Feature / Selwyn Parker

Turn of the tide for wave energy converters

A bright yellow, energy-producing barge is one of a range of technologies that promise to unlock low-cost electricity from the sea after years of disappointment with wave energy converters. Selwyn Parker considers whether wave energy is ready to create a flood of renewable power opportunities.

Electric vehicles

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26/11/2025 News

Bi-directional charging breakthroughs

Three projects in Europe and the US have launched using bi-directional charging for electric vehicles. This enables EVs not only to charge but also to discharge energy, powering a home or exporting energy back to the grid. This can reduce energy bills, support local electricity networks, provide backup power and increase the utilisation of renewable energy.

Coal

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26/11/2025 News

Europe’s coal retreat progresses as EC clears state aid funding for coal phase-out in Germany

The European Commission (EC) has approved state aid to accelerate the phase-out of lignite-powered coal plants in Germany. Meanwhile, recent Eurostat data shows coal consumption and production at their lowest recorded levels, and Ireland has closed its final coal-fired power station.

Oil markets

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26/11/2025 Feature / Karolin Schaps

Where does 65-year-old OPEC stand in the energy world?

There is no other group of joint economic interests that has attracted more scrutiny than the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). As it marks 65 years since its foundation, what is the international oil cartel’s role in a world striving to limit carbon emissions and deepening green electrification? Karolin Schaps assesses its challenges and opportunities.

Heat pumps

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26/11/2025 Comment / Patrick James

Smart heat pumps: the potential for demand flexibility in the home

We are partly through a journey into widespread acceptance of the efficacy and suitability of heat pumps to serve UK homes. But a new study has demonstrated another valuable set of advantages to operators of electricity networks that should tip the balance decisively, argues Professor Patrick James from the University of Southampton.

Offshore wind

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10/12/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

An engaging approach to familiarise students with offshore wind training

New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple MEI speaks to the founders of Offshore Wind Learning, Alastair Dutton and Chris Lloyd, about how they began, and the value of their award-winning e-learning programme for new entrants to the offshore wind sector and a wider professional audience globally.

Electricity markets

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3/12/2025 Comment / Lim Eu Shawn,Sarah Suherman

Powering ASEAN’s next chapter: grids, growth and the AI future

Southeast Asia’s energy transition starts from a very different place than the one unfolding in Europe or North America. For the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, this is not a story of tweaking a mature system at the margins, but of building new power systems fast enough to keep up with factories, cities and digital infrastructure that are still coming online, write Dr Lim Eu Shawn, Chairman of the Energy Institute Malaysia community and Chief Business & Solutions Officer with Aerodyne, and Sarah Suherman AMEI, Assistant Manager, GTM & Business Intelligence, Aerodyne.

Oil markets

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19/11/2025 Feature / Paul Cochrane,Dylan Carter

Ships in the night: Iran and Russia expand use of shadow fleets to avoid sanctions

Facing major sanctions from Europe, the US and elsewhere, Russia and Iran are increasingly resorting to the use of smuggling networks via shadow fleets and small ‘teapot’ refineries to export their oil. As a result, a considerable proportion of the world’s oil trades are now being handled outside formal recognised logistics networks, write Paul Cochrane and Dylan Carter.

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Extent of global CCS mapped for first time as projects in Qatar and UK take steps forward

Mediterranean hydrogen pipeline: future power hub or white elephant?

Turn of the tide for wave energy converters

Bi-directional charging breakthroughs

Europe’s coal retreat progresses as EC clears state aid funding for coal phase-out in Germany

Where does 65-year-old OPEC stand in the energy world?

Smart heat pumps: the potential for demand flexibility in the home

An engaging approach to familiarise students with offshore wind training

Powering ASEAN’s next chapter: grids, growth and the AI future

Ships in the night: Iran and Russia expand use of shadow fleets to avoid sanctions