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Almetyevsk-Gorky Oil Pipeline

The Almetyevsk-Gorky Oil Pipeline (Магистральный нефтепровод "Альметьевск - Горький") is a system of three parallel crude oil trunk lines in Russia, running from Almetyevsk in Tatarstan to Nizhny Novgorod.

Almetyevsk-Kuibyshev Oil Pipeline

The Almetyevsk-Kuibyshev oil pipeline is a trunk crude oil pipeline in Russia, completed in 1963 as the feeder line for the trans-European Druzhba pipeline system.

Alor Gajah power station

The Alor Gajah power station, also called the Edra Melaka Power Plant, is a 2,242 MW combined cycle gas plant at Kuala Sungai Baru in Melaka, Malaysia, owned by Edra Energy.

Alpha Coal Project

The Alpha Coal Project was a proposed open-cut thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Central Queensland, Australia, planned with a 495 km railway but never built.

Alpha Metallurgical Resources

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, formerly Contura Energy, is a Bristol, Tennessee company that produces metallurgical coal for the steel industry from mines in Virginia and West Virginia.

alpha ventus

alpha ventus is Germany's first offshore wind farm, a 60 MW test field of twelve 5 MW turbines about 45 km north of Borkum in the North Sea.

Alpha West Coal Project

The Alpha West Coal Project was a proposed underground thermal coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, holding 1.8 billion tonnes of coal and never advancing past a concept study.

ALPS-treated water release

The ALPS-treated water release is the controlled discharge into the Pacific Ocean of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, begun by TEPCO in 2023.

Alrar gas field

The Alrar gas field (الرار) is a gas-condensate field in the Illizi Basin of southeastern Algeria, near the Libyan border, discovered in 1961 and producing commercially since 1987.

Alta Wind Energy Center

The Alta Wind Energy Center is a complex of wind farms in Tehachapi Pass, California, and the largest wind power site in the United States.

Altamira III and IV power station

The Altamira III and IV power station (Central Ciclo Combinado Altamira III y IV) is a combined-cycle natural gas plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, built by Iberdrola.

Altamira LNG Terminal

The Altamira LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal at the port of Altamira, near Tampico, Mexico, which received Mexico's first LNG cargo in 2006.

Altamira V power station

Altamira V, also known as Iberdrola Energía del Golfo, is a combined-cycle power station in Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, built by Iberdrola in 2006 and sold to Mexico Infrastructure Partners in 2024.

Alternative fuel

Alternative fuel is a term for transport and heating fuels used instead of conventional petroleum products, including ethanol, biodiesel, natural gas, hydrogen, and electricity, with legal definitions varying.

Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation

The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) is a 2023 European Union law setting mandatory targets for electric recharging and hydrogen refuelling stations, in force since April 2024.

Aluminium Bahrain power station

The Aluminium Bahrain power station is the captive gas-fired power complex of the Alba aluminum smelter at Askar, Bahrain, grown to about 4,200 MW since 1971.

Aluminium conductor composite core

Aluminium conductor composite core (ACCC) is a high-temperature, low-sag overhead power conductor with a carbon and glass fiber composite core, first commercialized in 2005 by CTC Global.

Aluminium conductor steel-reinforced cable

Aluminium conductor steel-reinforced cable (ACSR) is a bare overhead conductor with aluminum wires stranded around a coated steel core, the standard for overhead transmission lines since the early 1900s.

Aluminium hydride

Aluminium hydride, also called alane, is a covalently bonded metal hydride that stores 10.1 wt% hydrogen and releases it rapidly at low temperature, making it a candidate storage material.

Aluminium Stewardship Initiative

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) is a global non-profit standards and certification organization for the aluminum value chain, from bauxite mining through smelting and recycling, founded in 2015.

Aluminium-silicon phase-change material

An aluminium-silicon phase-change material (Al-Si PCM) is a metal alloy storing latent heat at high temperature, studied chiefly for concentrated solar power and industrial waste-heat recovery.

Aluminum back surface field

An aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF) is a heavily aluminum-doped layer formed on the rear of a p-type silicon solar cell to suppress electron recombination at the metal contact.

Aluminum-air battery

The aluminum-air battery, or Al-air battery, is a primary metal-air electrochemical cell that generates electricity by oxidizing an aluminum anode while drawing oxygen from surrounding air.

Aluminum-ion battery

An aluminum-ion battery is a rechargeable battery that uses a metallic aluminum anode with chloride-based electrolytes, promising high capacity and safety but not yet commercially viable.

Aluminum–sulfur battery

An aluminum–sulfur battery (Al–S battery) is a rechargeable battery pairing an aluminum anode with a sulfur cathode, typically in molten salt or ionic liquid electrolytes.

Aluto Langano Geothermal Power Station

The Aluto Langano Geothermal Power Station is Ethiopia's only producing geothermal power plant, located in the Main Ethiopian Rift about 200 km from Addis Ababa with an installed capacity of about 7.3 MW.

Alve gas field

Alve is a producing gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 1990 and producing since 2009 through a subsea tieback to the Norne FPSO.

Alvheim Oil and Gas Field

Alvheim Oil and Gas Field is a Norwegian North Sea field discovered in 1998 and produced through the Alvheim FPSO vessel since 2008, operated by Aker BP.

Alwyn North gas field

Alwyn North is an offshore oil and gas field in the UK northern North Sea's East Shetland Basin, discovered in 1975 and producing since November 1987.

Amager Bakke

Amager Bakke, publicly known as CopenHill, is a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels and topped by a public ski slope and climbing wall.