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GE to reorganise GE Power into two businesses

  • 6 hours ago (2018-11-20)
  • David Flin

GE has announced that it intends to reorganise GE Power into two businesses, GE Gas Power, comprised of Gas Power Systems and Power Services, and GE Power Portfolio, comprised of the Steam, Grid Solutions, Nuclear, and Power Conversion businesses.

IEA says renewables will rise to 40 per cent of global power generation

  • a day ago (2018-11-19)
  • David Flin

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2018, in which it said that the share of renewables in global power generation will increase to over 40 per cent by 2040 from the current 25 per cent.

EU imposes freeze on UK back-up power subsidy scheme

  • 4 days ago (2018-11-16)
  • David Flin

The European General Court has suspended the UK’s subsidy scheme for back-up electricity generation, stating that the payments system should be subject to a state aid investigation.

Itaipu dam modernisation contract awarded to GE consortium

  • 5 days ago (2018-11-15)
  • David Flin

A consortium of GE Power and CIE Sociedad Anonima has won a contract from Itaipu Binacional to modernise the Itaipu Dam in Brazil, one of the world’s largest hydropower plants.

Rosatom to start construction of Tianwan 7 in China

  • 6 days ago (2018-11-14)
  • David Flin

Rosatom has announced that it will begin construction of a seventh unit at the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China in 2021.

ADB signs $227.7 million loan deal for 2500 MW power plant in Thailand

  • 7 days ago (2018-11-13)
  • David Flin

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $227.7 million loan deal with Gulf SRC Company to build a 2500 MW combined cycle power plant in Thailand Chonburi Province.

GE Renewable Energy inaugurates new technology centre near New Orleans

  • 8 days ago (2018-11-12)
  • David Flin

LM Wind Power, a unit of GE Renewable Energy, has announced the inauguration of a new Technology Centre America’s facility to develop and test new techniques for designing and building wind turbine blades at its facility on the NASA Michoud campus outside New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Toshiba pulls out of £15 billion Moorside nuclear power plant plan

  • 11 days ago (2018-11-09)
  • David Flin

Toshiba has announced that it is pulling out of the £15 billon Moorside nuclear power plant project in West Cumbria, UK.

South Korea caps operations of coal and oil power plants due to air pollution

  • 12 days ago (2018-11-08)
  • David Flin

South Korea capped operations of some coal- and oil-fired power plants at 80 per cent on 7 November, as most cities, including the capital Seoul, issued an air pollution advisory.

Ansaldo to supply H-Class gas turbine for Chinese power plant

  • 13 days ago (2018-11-07)
  • David Flin

Shanghai Electric Gas Turbine Company and Ansaldo Energia have signed a contract worth about €60 million for the supply of the first Ansaldo Energia H-class GT36 gas turbine for the Minhang combined cycle power plant in China.