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South Korean Government to ban life extensions on nuclear power plants

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-30)
  • David Flin

The South Korean Government has announced that it will prohibit life extensions of old nuclear plants, and will cease construction of new nuclear facilities.

Brazil cancels 25 wind and solar power projects

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-29)
  • David Flin

Brazil’s Government has cancelled the construction of 25 wind farms and solar parks in the country after companies behind the projects requested to return construction licenses for a fee.

470 MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan arrives in Ghana

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-28)
  • David Flin

Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has announced the arrival of what it claims is the world’s largest ship-mounted power generation facility, the 470 MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan, in Ghana.

GE’s biogas engines to power three Turkish landfill power sites

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-25)
  • David Flin

GE’s Distributed Energy has announced that it is providing its Jenbacher biogas engine technology and its myPalnt Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions for three new landfill power production sites in Turkey.

US Energy Department says more baseload power needed to secure grid

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-24)
  • David Flin

The US Energy Department has released a report on 23 August stating that cheap natural gas and the growth in renewable energy are speeding up the closure of coal and nuclear plants, which it claims could put the resilience of the US electric grid at risk.

US administration rejects order to protect coal-fired plants

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-23)
  • David Flin

The Trump Administration in the USA has rejected a coal industry request for an emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the President personally promised him.

KEPCO to enter renewable energy development

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-22)
  • David Flin

The South Korean Government has decided to allow Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) engage in new renewable energy business in an effort to increase the share of renewable energy in the country’s power production by 20 per cent by 2030.

Masdar and Oman to build first large-scale wind farm in GCC

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-21)
  • David Flin

Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, Madar, has signed an EPC contract with a global consortium comprising GE and Spain’s TSK to build the 50 MW Dhofar Wind Power Project in Oman, the first large-scale wind farm in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Nigerian transmission company to invest $2 billion in expanding capacity

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-18)
  • David Flin

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has secured $2 billion to rehabilitate national grid infrastructure, and expand its transmission capacities up to 20,000 MW within the next three years.

Taiwan blackout causes scrutiny of power policy

  • 7 years ago (2017-08-17)
  • David Flin

Taiwan’s electricity grid has been under strain, and an outage at the country’s biggest gas-fired power plant resulted in a power outage affecting 6 million households on Tuesday.