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

  • 8 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

  • 8 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

  • 8 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

  • 8 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

  • 8 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

  • 8 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.

Greenhouse power plants under development at NC State

  • 8 years ago (2016-09-28)
  • David Flin
Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) in the USA are launching a project to develop next generation greenhouses with built-in solar cells that make use of the entire spectrum of solar light.

Siemens secures first LTP order for industrial gas turbines in China

  • 8 years ago (2016-09-28)
  • David Flin
Siemens and Hangzhou Steam Turbine Company (HTC) have secured a long-term service programme (LTP) order from Kunshan GCL Blue Sky Distributed Energy Company, a subsidiary of Golden Concord Power Group (GCL).

Four British power firms call for carbon tax extension

  • 8 years ago (2016-09-27)
  • David Flin
Four British power generators, SSE, Drax, Vitol owned VPI Immingham, and Calon Energy, have called on the British government to maintain the country’s carbon tax until at least 2025, putting them at odds with industrial groups who want it scrapped.

CGN Power buys $1.5 billion of parent’s China Nuclear Assets

  • 8 years ago (2016-09-26)
  • David Flin
CGN Power, China’s biggest nuclear power operator, will acquire two nuclear power plants and an engineering unit from its parent company for $1.5 billion.