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EDF faces shake-up

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-17)
  • Junior Isles

French state-owned utility Eléctricité de France (EDF) is facing a major shake-up. According to Dow Jones newswire, the French government is likely to sell shares in as part of a broader objective to raise several billion euros of the French state’s asset portfolio in the coming year and a half.

IEA sees role for renewables in sub-Saharan Africa

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-15)
  • Junior Isles
A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report released this week claims that renewables including hydroelectric power will satisfy almost half of Africa’s additional energy needs until 2040, despite anticipated sub-Saharan demand growing by 80 per cent as the economy quadruples in size.

German energy ministry denies plans for coal-fired exit

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-12)
  • Junior Isles
Germany has dismissed reports suggesting it is planning to phase out coal-fired power generation, for environmental reasons, as this would impose too great a burden on industry along with the nuclear phase-out.

EU approves state aid for Hinkley Point C

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-08)
  • Junior Isles

The European Union has voted to back the UK’s plan to guarantee the price of power from Hinkley Point C, the country’s first new nuclear project in decades.

BHEL to lead on Telangana state’s 6000 MW of new plants

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-07)
  • Junior Isles
India’s Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TS Genco) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for construction of 6000 MW of power generation capacity in India’s newest State over the next three years.

Bolivia set to kick off nuclear programme

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-03)
  • Junior Isles

President Evo Morales has announced that Bolivia will launch its civilian nuclear energy programme this year with the construction of plants in the western province of La Paz and an investment outlay of more than $2 billion through 2025.

CEZ eyes nuclear following Hinkley CFD approval

  • 9 years ago (2014-10-01)
  • Junior Isles

Daniel Benes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Czech utility CEZ AS, has said that Brussels’ approval of the contract for difference (CFD) at the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK “without question” establishes a European-wide precedent that could make other envisaged nuclear power projects profitable.

Coal India plans 1 GW of domestic solar development

  • 9 years ago (2014-09-27)
  • Junior Isles
Coal India Limited, the world’s largest coal mining company, is in talks with the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to develop solar plants totalling 1000 MW in capacity.

UK’s new nuclear deal gets a provisional green light from the EU

  • 9 years ago (2014-09-24)
  • Junior Isles
The UK an EU negotiations on the funding of Hinkley Point C, the UK’s first new nuclear plant in a generation, have made a breakthrough, with Europe’s competition chief satisfied that the revised deal is now in line with EU restrictions on state support.

Tepco-Chubu deal for 10 GW of replacement fossil capacity in the pipeline

  • 9 years ago (2014-09-19)
  • Junior Isles
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is likely to join with Chubu Electric Power Co as its ‘preferred partner’ in discussions on a new generation joint venture to replace Tepco’s 10 GW of ageing fossil fuel-fired plants, according to local media sources.