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ABB launches new microgrid system to boost use of renewables

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-11)
  • David Flin
ABB has announced the launch of a modular and scalable plug-and-play microgrid solution to address the growing demand for flexible technology in the developing market for distributed power generation.

Calpine buys Noble’s US energy business for $1 billion

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-10)
  • David Flin
Noble Group of Singapore has announced that it has signed a deal valued at $1.05 billion with Calpine Corporation to sell its American energy business to the US power generation company.

Bruce Power and SNC-Lavalin sign agreement

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-08)
  • David Flin
Bruce Power and SNC-Lavalin of Ontario, Canada have signed a framework agreement worth $400 million, as part of Bruce Power’s multi-year investment programme.

GE and NYPA sign power grid management software agreement

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-07)
  • David Flin
GE Power has announced an agreement with the New York State Power Authority (NYPA) to provide software that will monitor, analyse, and enhance the performance of NYPA electricity generating assets across its 16 generating facilities and electricity transmission network.

PSEG to close two coal-fired power plants in New Jersey

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-06)
  • David Flin
PSEG has announced that it will be closing the 632 MW Hudson Generation Station in Jersey City, and the 620 MW Mercer Generation Station in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, USA. The two coal-fired power plants will be closed on 1 June, 2017.

Solar outstrips coal in past six months of UK electricity generation

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-05)
  • David Flin
Over the last six months, electricity generated in the UK by solar panels has exceeded that of Britain’s coal power stations, according to a report from the climate change analysts Carbon Brief.

EIA charts nuclear power growth to 2040

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-04)
  • David Flin
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), in its Annual Energy Outlook 2016 report, electricity generated by nuclear power plants worldwide will jump from the current 2.6 trillion kWh to 4.5 trillion kWh in 2040.

Blackout in South Australia leads to calls for national grid upgrade

  • 7 years ago (2016-10-03)
  • David Flin
The Federal and South Australian governments have called for new or upgraded connections in the national electricity grid to ensure national energy security across the country, despite a dispute over whether a recently closed South Australian coal-fired plant could have stopped the state-wide power blackout last week.

Hinkley Point C nuclear deal officially signed

  • 7 years ago (2016-09-30)
  • David Flin
Government ministers and stakeholders from the UK, France, and China have officially signed the £18 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear power station agreement.

GE Renewable Energy unveils uprated 3MW onshore wind turbines

  • 7 years ago (2016-09-29)
  • David Flin
GE Renewable Energy has added two new wind turbine models to its recently announced platform of 3 MW wind turbines at Wind Europe, in Hamburg, Germany.