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Genesis to close New Zealand’s remaining coal power plants

  • 8 years ago (2015-08-08)
  • Junior Isles

Genesis Energy, the Wellington and Sydney dual-listed electricity generation company, is set to shut down its last two coal-burning generators by December 2018, due to more economical supplies of cheap renewable energy and a lowered demand.

Chinese grid company lands first overseas project

  • 8 years ago (2015-08-05)

State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC has begun preliminary construction work on a new 2000 km, 800 kV ultra-high voltage (UHV) direct current (DC) transmission project. This is the first UHV transmission project that the SGCC has won overseas, marking a milestone in Chinese efforts to develop its UHV technologies overseas.

Indian purchase agreements tough on power plants

  • 8 years ago (2015-08-04)
  • David Flin
India Ratings and Research, a private credit ratings agency, has said that power plants that have started operations since April 2014 with a total capacity of 13,900 MW are facing financial uncertainties due to a lack of sufficient off-take agreements as part of the purchase agreements, and due to transmission constraints.

Obama orders steeper greenhouse gas cuts from US power plants

  • 8 years ago (2015-08-03)
  • David Flin
US President Obama has announced that he will be imposing stronger greenhouse gas cuts on US power plants, setting up an inevitable confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.

World Bank to back Ghana energy transformation

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-31)

Centrica to exit wind energy

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-30)

Ethiopia signs for first phase of 1000 MW geothermal project

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-29)

The government of Ethiopia and Icelandic-US firm Reykjavik have signed a construction agreement for the first phase of the Corbetti 1000 MW geothermal plant in Ethiopia.

China’s PV power growth held back by grid capacity

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-28)
  • David Flin
While the establishment of photovoltaic power generating stations is rapidly increasing in China, connecting these stations to local power grids is not progressing at an adequate rate, according to a report from the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA).

Ballard Power to provide 1 MW clean power generation in France

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-27)
  • David Flin
Ballard Power Systems has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a 1 MW ClearGen fuel cell distributed generation system for Hydrogène de France (HDF).

NorthWestern Energy to buy 80 MW wind farm in South Dakota

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-24)