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Green light for 299 MW Tees biomass plant

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-16)

The Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP), MGT Power’s proposed 299 MW biomass plant located in Redcar North Yorkshire, is to go ahead following the announcement that it has secured funding from Australian investment bank, Macquarie Group.

EU invests in central and southern Europe energy infrastructure

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-15)
  • Junior Isles

The EU will provide a €150 million ($164 million) package to develop gas and electricity infrastructure projects across the region.

Natural gas overtakes coal as top source of US power generation

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-14)
  • David Flin
Natural gas has overtaken coal as the top source of US electric power generation for the first time ever.

APR Energy expands power generation in Senegal

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-13)
  • David Flin
APR Energy has announced that it intends to expand its interim generation capacity for the Societe Nationale d’Électricite du Senegal (Senelec), Senegal’s national electric utility.

Hydropower plants to be built on Luapula River, Zambia

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-10)
  • David Flin
Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will jointly develop hydropower plants on the Luapula River as a long-term measure to boost power generation.

UK Government scraps climate change levy

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-09)
  • David Flin
George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, has confirmed he will remove the climate change levy in his first budget since the Conservative party won the UK general election in May.

Thai electricity authority says drought will not affect power generation

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-09)
  • David Flin
The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has said that the public will continue to receive an uninterrupted supply of power despite the current water shortage, and that it has launched a power saving campaign ahead of the closure of a gas field.

TerraForm to buy 930 MW of wind farms in North America

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-07)
  • David Flin
TerraForm Power, a unit of SunEdison, has announced that it will buy 930 MW of wind farms in the USA and Canada from Invenergy Wind for $2 billion

OECD calls for end to new coal-fired power generation

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-06)
  • David Flin
Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD, has called for an end to new coal-fired power plants.

Germany finalises coal deal after months of debate.

  • 8 years ago (2015-07-03)
  • David Flin
Germany has abandoned plans for a levy on coal-fired power plants, but will reduce brown-coal power generation to safeguard its 2020 carbon reduction targets.