Four firms from Japan and South Korea – Sumitomo, Shikoku Electric Power, Korea Southern Power, and Korea Overseas Infrastructure and Urban Development Corp. – have jointly won a contract to build and operate a natural gas-fired power plant and a seawater desalination facility near Doha in Qatar.
Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER have announced they have signed an agreement for the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) using the eVinci microreactor.
Benin has started construction of the 25 MW Forsun PV plant, which will expand the total capacity of the Illoulofin solar power plant to 75 MW.
Monetnegro’s state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has started groundbreaking for its first wind farm, Gvozd, with a capacity of 54.6 MW.
Wong Shuk-han, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for Environment and Ecology, has announced that Hong Kong is planning to strengthen its electricity interconnection with the mainland through a new infrastructure project.
GE Vernova has announced that it has won an order for an LM6000 gas turbine that will operate on 100 per cent hydrogen at the Whyalla hydrogen power plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy, said that the key focus for renewable energy sources in Ukraine in 2025 will be the development of wind energy.
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Egypt has signed two MOUs to develop 5.2 GW of renewable energy capacity in the country.
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) and CPC Corporation of Taiwan have created 20 teams to conduct geothermal exploration around Taiwan in 2025.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Kazakhstan have signed an MOU regarding the early retirement of a coal-fired power plant in the country under the ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) programme.