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9 years ago (2014-10-17)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-15)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-12)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-08)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-07)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-03)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-10-01)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-09-27)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-09-24)
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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.
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9 years ago (2014-09-19)
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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.