China General Nuclear Power Corporation has confirmed its investment in the UK’s nuclear industry as Britain’s nuclear regulator began the second stage of the process to assess China’s HPR1000 reactor.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $5.5 million in federally funded financial assistance for cost-shared research and development projects under the first phase of the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) Advanced Components for 65 per cent Combined Cycle Efficiency, SCO2 Power Cycles, and Advanced Modular Hybrid Heat Engines.
The electricity generator Luminant has announced that it is closing three coal-fired power plants and a coal mine in Texas, USA, with a consequent loss of around 600 jobs.
Musandam Independent Power Project (IPP), a 120 MW power plant supplied by Wärtsilä, has been inaugurated in northern Oman.
Siemens has announced that it will cut 6900 jobs as it responds to what it describes as an “unprecedented” change in the power generation market.
Hydroelectric power plants owned by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) in India have produced 23 per cent more electricity from the months since April 2017 compared with the same period last year.
The Afghanistan Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Siemens and Bayat Power for the provision by Siemens of its SGT-A45 mobile gas turbine for a three-phase energy project in the country.
Pakistan has said that 14 coal-fired power plants, based on Thar coal, with a combined capacity of 6000 MW, will be installed by 2025.
GE and Green Investment Group have partnered to deliver and operate 650 MW of onshore wind through the Markbygden ETT wind farm in Northern Sweden.
A major outage in Puerto Rico has plunged more than 80 per cent of the island back into darkness.