Articles - Past and present news from The Energy Industry Times

Media Partners

South Africa to embrace private power generation

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-15)
  • David Flin

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the country will encourage efforts by businesses to generate their own power.

Canadian nuclear power plant sends emergency alert in error

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-14)
  • David Flin

Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, Canada sent out an emergency alert about an “incident” at around 07:30 local time on 12 January to people living within six miles of the facility.

Puerto Rico’s largest power plant could be offline for a year

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-10)
  • David Flin

Jose Ortiz, Executive Director of the power utility PREPA, said that Puerto Rico’s largest power plant could remain out of action for up to a year because of earthquake damage.

JinkoSolar to launch 150MW solar power in Cambodia

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-09)
  • David Flin

JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it is to supply photovoltaic panels for three solar power plants in Cambodia with a combined capacity of 150MW.

Financing approved for 565MW gas-fired power plant in Brazil

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-08)
  • David Flin

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS), Patria Investments, and Shell have announced the signing of a contract with Brazil’s state-owned development bank BNDES to finance the gas-fired Marlim Azul Energia power plant, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro state.

SSE refused permission for oil-fired power plant in Ireland

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-07)
  • David Flin

Scottish energy company SSE has had planning permission refused for its plans to develop an oil-fired power generation plant at Platin, Co Meath, Ireland.

Vietnam to buy 1500 GWh of power annually from Laos

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-06)
  • David Flin

Vietnam’s state power utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has announced it will buy around 1500 GWh of electricity a year from Laos for two years starting in 2021.

Plans progress for UK-France power link

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-03)
  • David Flin

Registration of interested parties has started for the Aquind HVDC power project, after its application was accepted for examination by the Planning Inspectorate.

Russia sets record for nuclear power generation

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-02)
  • David Flin

Rosenergoatom, which operates all nuclear power plants in Russia, has announced that it generated 209 TWh of energy production in 2019, a record amount.

UAE nuclear power plant scheduled to be operational in early 2020

  • 4 years ago (2020-01-01)
  • David Flin

Al-Ittihad, the Abu Dhabi government-owned newspaper, has reported that Barakah Unit 1 should start operating in the first quarter of 2020.