According to recent reports, South Africa’s tender for the $72 billion expansion of its nuclear power plants will begin in June, when state utility Eskom requests proposals from companies bidding for the project.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has said that 13 GW of natural gas-fired generating capacity is due to come online in the USA during 2017.
Mitsubishi Power Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi, and Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO) have established a new joint venture.
The first meeting of the Board of Directors for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced the first appointments for the joint management team.
Rocky Mountain Power of the USA has announced that it plans to build a $3.5 billion wind power generation and transmission project in southwestern Wyoming over the next three years.
The $3.5 billion 1.8 GW Aswan grid-connected solar power project, consisting of 41 solar power plants, located in Egypt’s southern governorate of Aswan, is on course for completion in 2018.
The financial crisis at Toshiba has put the planned new nuclear plant at Moorside, Cumbria, UK in doubt.
Siemens has won an order for a new combined cycle gas turbine at King’s Lynn power station in Norfolk, UK, owned by Centrica.
Siemens has secured orders to supply four turnkey industrial power plants in Argentina.
Westinghouse Electric Company filed for bankruptcy protection on 29 March.