Global CO2 emissions from the power sector fell by 2 per cent last year, the biggest fall since at least 1990, a result of reduced coal usage in Europe and the USA.
Uzbekistan has signed more than $2 billion worth of strategic agreements with Saudi developer ACWA Power to boost electricity generation and develop technical expertise, according to an announcement by the Uzbekistan Energy Ministry.
Mexico’s private sector has drawn up a broad package worth $92 billion of proposed energy investments for the government, to provide a boost to the country’s economy.
Montenegro’s power utility EPCG has announced that it will enter talks with the German state-owned development bank KfW to help fund expansion of the Pericica hydropower plant.
I Squared Capital, a private equity firm focusing on global infrastructure investments, has agreed to sell its interests in Chenya Energy under a share purchase agreement with Marubeni Corporation of Japan.
Renewable energy sources provided a record 61.2 per cent of Germany’s net public electricity generation in February, according to figures provided by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).
Drax Group has announced that it will stop burning coal by March 2021, far ahead of the UK government’s 2025 deadline.
GE Renewable Energy has received an order from the EDF-SITAC joint venture to supply and install 112 of its 2.7MW wind turbines with 132m rotor at the Sitac Kabini wind farm in Gujarat, India.
Siemens Gamesa has signed a contract to build the first renewable energy installation in the Republic of Djibouti, in the horn of Africa.
Wärtsilä has delivered an island grid energy solution on Graciólica in the Azores, which will enable the use of renewables to increase to 65 per cent.