Chung Yeon-in, President of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, has announced that the company will invest 100 billion won ($90 million) in wind power projects by 2030.
Denmark has approved a plan to build the world’s first energy island in the North Sea that will generate around 3 GW of wind energy.
Wärtsilä and Huaneng Jiangsu, a subsidiary of the China Huaneng Group, have entered into a strategic cooperation framework to work on renewable energy development in Jiangsu.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced that it will provide a 220kV grid connection solution for the 800 MW Al Kharsaah photovoltaic power plant in Qatar.
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced that Unit 5 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province entered commercial operation of January 30, following a demonstration run of 168 hours.
Iran has inaugurated a series of new energy projects that take the country’s total electricity generation capacity in the non-renewable sector to over 85 GW.
GE has secured an order to supply gas power generation equipment for West Africa Energy’s 300 MW combined cycle power project in Cap des Biches, Dakar, Senegal.
EDF has once more revised the schedule and budget for commissioning Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, UK.
TCL Public Co of Thailand has signed a PPA with Electric Power Generation Enterprise (EPGE), a state-owned enterprise under the Myanmar Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE), for an LNG-to-power project in the Yangon region of Myanmar.
For the first time, renewables are the dominant power source in Europe’s electric grid.