Power sector emissions in Germany reached their highest level last month since before the onset of Covid-19, as lower renewable output and increased cooling demand from a heatwave boosted output from thermal power plants.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has won two new onshore wind projects in Texas, with a total installed capacity of 325 MW.
Siemens Energy has won a contract for the supply and long-term service of the planned 900 MW Cascade Power Plant in Alberta, Canada.
NuScale Power has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the last phase of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the company’s SMR with the issuance of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER).
EDF has announced it will begin decommissioning its Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland by January 2022.
Rosatom has said that it will make remix (regenerated mixture) uranium-plutonium fuel for VVER-1000 reactors.
In India, Hyderabad-based Greenko Energies will partner with state-run NTPC to develop ‘round-the-clock’ green power supply.
GE Renewable Energy has announced that construction and commissioning of the test rigs at its wind turbine rotor test facility at LM Wind Power’s WMC Technology Centre in Wieringerwerf, Netherlands, will be completed in November 2020.
KEPCO and Manikaran Power have signed an MOU by which they will acquire and operate stressed power plants in India.
The Iraq Government has signed two new agreements with GE to strengthen the nation’s power infrastructure, particularly to meet requirements during peak summer demand.