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UK must offer more incentives for renewable energy

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-30)

The UK government must increase incentives for renewable energy production, in order to further investment over the next ten years, the government's global-warming adviser has said.

Canada and the UK to strengthen ties on nuclear energy

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-29)
  • Junior Isles

The United Kingdom and Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which will strengthen the relationship between the two countries on developing nuclear energy.

Bill Gates to invest $2 billion in renewable energy projects

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-26)
  • Junior Isles

Bill Gates has announced that he will invest $2 billion in renewable energy breakthrough projects, although he has rejected calls to take away his other investments from fossil fuel companies.

Pakistan’s NEPRA decreases wind power generation tariff

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-26)
  • David Flin
Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has announced a decrease in the levelised tariff for wind power generation.

29 power plants to be privatised in Turkey by 2020

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-25)
  • David Flin
The Turkish government has announced that it plans to privatise 29 hydroelectric and gas turbine power plants.

Unit 1 of Bongaigaon starts generating

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-24)
  • David Flin
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India has announced that the first unit of its 3 x 250 MW Bongaigaon Thermal Power Station in Assam has started power generation.

Softbank to invest $20 billion to further India’s solar ambitions

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-23)
  • Junior Isles

Softbank, the Japanese telecoms giant, has announced plans - alongside India's Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan's Foxconn - to invest $20 billion in Indian solar energy projects to meet massive increases demanded by new government targets.

AFD grants €170 million for Nigerian transmission networks

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-23)

British government to end onshore wind farm subsidies a year early

  • 10 years ago (2015-06-19)

Britain's Conservative government will end onshore wind farm subsidies in April 2016, a year earlier than set out in the previous Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.

RWE opens 576 MW Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm

  • 10 years ago (2015-06-18)
  • Junior Isles

RWE has officially opened the Gwynt y Mor wind farm in North Wales. The project, financed with a £2 billion ($3.18 billion) investment by Stadtwerke Munchen and Siemens, has seen the development of 160 turbines some 13 km into the Liverpool Bay.