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Jordan signs $2B oil shale investment agreement with Saudi company

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The government of Jordan and the Saudi Arabian Corporation for Oil Shale (SACOS) recently signed a $2-billion agreement under which the government grants the Saudi company the right to extract and to develop the oil shale resources in the Attarat Um-AL-Ghudran region covering an area of 11 square kilometers.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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With this final phase of NuScale’s DCA now complete, customers can proceed with plans to develop NuScale power plants with the understanding that the NRC has approved the safety aspects of the NuScale design. NuScale has signed agreements with entities in the US, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan.

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NREL modeling power requirements for regional air mobility

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The project includes evaluating how smaller airports could supply clean power to both the aircraft and the region. The scenarios imagine how smaller airports could supply clean power to both the aircraft and the region and how they might impact surrounding mobility. —Jordan Cox, the study’s lead researcher at NREL.

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Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). Across scenarios, we found the more cars that transitioned to electric power, the better for summertime ozone levels.

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Jordanian cabinet OKs $2.4B oil shale project with Enefit; largest in region and world

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The current cost of generating power in the Kingdom is JD0.17 (US$0.24) per kWh. Jordan has reserves of 40-80 billion tonnes of oil shale in 21 locations near the Yarmouk River, Buweida, Beit Ras, Rweished, Karak, Madaba and Maan districts. This equates to about US$0.13) per kilowatt-hour for a period of 26.5 Earlier post.).

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. The research concentrates on two aspects: maximizing the production of liquid fuel and reducing the carbon intensity of oil shale-based power and heat generation.

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Power to the people: myenergi starts work on new V2G EV charger

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Alongside the zappi EV charger sits the eddi power diverter and the modular libbi smart home battery system. As well as EV charging, myenergi offers customers a fully integrated smart home energy management system, including installation.

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