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Zimbabwe licenses Zimbabwe-Chinese joint venture to construct 50MW thermal power plant

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-19)
  • David Flin

Zimbabwe has licensed a joint venture between Zimbabwean and Chinese investors to establish a 50MW coal-fired power plant.

Power generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine in Rotterdam to be bought by Eneco

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-18)
  • David Flin

Eneco, Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and SIF Holdings Netherlands), and GE Renewable Energy, have announced that Eneco will purchase all of the electricity generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12MW prototype.

Wärtsilä Modular Block solution ordered for West African gold mine

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-17)
  • David Flin

Wärtsilä has announced the first order of its new Wärtsilä Modular Block solution for power generation by Aggreko.

Kenya launches Chinese-built 50MW solar power plant

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-16)
  • David Flin

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has opened a 50MW solar power farm in Garissa, in the northeast of the country.

NuScale’s SMR design clears phase 4 of NRC’s review process

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-13)
  • David Flin

NuScale Power has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the fourth phase of review of the design certification application (DCA) for the company’s small modular reactor (SMR).

Sabotage at Eskom was cause of power outages

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-12)
  • David Flin

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that “acts of sabotage” at Eskom led to a massive power loss of 2000MW during the most recent load-shedding period.

Siemens supplies gas turbines for peaking power plants in Belarus

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-11)
  • David Flin

Siemens has announced that it will deliver the power generation equipment for two new peaking power plants in the Republic of Belarus, supplying the equipment to the state-owned utility company RUE Vitebskenergo.

Tradebe Inutec gets approval for new facility at Winfrith, UK

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-10)
  • David Flin

Dorset County Council has approved planning permission for Tradebe Inutec’s application for a new facility on its Winfrith nuclear decommissioning site.

E.ON to construct biomass plant in Hürth, Germany

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-09)
  • David Flin

E.ON has announced that it is to construct a biomass power plant on a paper mill site owned by UPM in Hürth, Germany.

South Africa suffers power cuts as Eskom units break down

  • 6 years ago (2019-12-06)
  • David Flin

South Africa was hit by power cuts on 5 December after a number of generating units broke down, forcing the state utility Eskom to cut 2000MW from the national grid on a rotational basis.