Articles - Past and present news from The Energy Industry Times
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10 years ago (2014-03-27)
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Junior Isles
UK energy giant SSE has announced huge cutbacks of its renewable generation plans across Scotland and England as a result of its energy price freeze, with millions of pounds worth of projects on hold or scrapped.
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10 years ago (2014-03-26)
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Junior Isles
The New Zealand government has said this week it will sell up to 49 per cent of power company Genesis Energy Ltd, New Zealand’s largest electricity and natural gas retailer, earning up to NZ$800 million ($684.5 million) from the sale.
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10 years ago (2014-03-24)
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Junior Isles
Kenya’s 300 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, Africa’s largest clean energy project, has completed its financing drive with the signing of a Sh76 billion ($91.2 million) loan, backed by more than 10 different financiers brought together by the African Development Bank.
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10 years ago (2014-03-20)
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Junior Isles
The UK’s carbon price floor (CPF) has been frozen at 2015’s level of £18.08 per tonne as part of the government's annual budget, announced this week by Chancellor George Osborne.
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10 years ago (2014-03-19)
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Junior Isles
Jordan has signed a $24 million agreement with Arabia One for Clean Energy Investments this week to build new 10 MW solar plant located in Maan, 220 km south of Amman.
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10 years ago (2014-03-17)
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Junior Isles
Japan is to open its first geothermal plant for 15 years next month, with the 2 MW Kumamoto plant representing the first of a new wave of non-nuclear generation.
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10 years ago (2014-03-14)
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Junior Isles
Shangani Energy Exploration, a Zimbabwean unit of Chinese-owned Sinosteel, is planning to build a 400 MW, $780 million coal-bed methane gas-fired power plant in south-western Zimbabwe, according to company officials.
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10 years ago (2014-03-14)
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Junior Isles
The African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) reached its first close this week, with $100 million worth of capital committed for investment in small and medium sized renewable energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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10 years ago (2014-03-13)
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Junior Isles
The trade association for the UK energy industry, Energy UK, has called on the British government to block plans to set a legally binding EU 2030 renewable energy target.
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10 years ago (2014-03-11)
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Junior Isles
Around 40 per cent of power generation in southern India will be hit by a three-day strike beginning on March 13th by the officers' association of monopoly coal miner Coal India. Most thermal plants in the rest of India will be unaffected as they have sufficient stocks of coal to last about two weeks.
