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Vermont Yankee nuclear plant taken off line permanently

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-29)
  • Junior Isles

The 620 MW Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, located on the banks of the Connecticut river in Vermont, is to be disconnected from the power grid after four decades of producing electricity according to parent company Entergy Corp.

India’s Nalgonda district to build 7500 MW power plant

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-24)
  • Junior Isles

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Telangana, announced plans today to develop a 7500 MW thermal power plant in Nalgonda district to ease power shortages and help development.

Kyocera joint venture to construct 13.4 MW floating solar plant

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-23)
  • Junior Isles

Century Tokyo Leasing Corp and Kyocera Corp. are set to build the world's largest floating solar power plant, a joint statement released by both companies said.

Scotland to build world's largest tidal energy farm

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-22)
  • Junior Isles

Development of the world's largest tidal energy project will begin in January 2015 off the coast of Scotland.

UK capacity auction hailed as success

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-19)
  • Junior Isles

The UK’s Capacity Market auction undertaken by National Grid has contracted 49.26 GW of capacity to provide backup power in the year 2018/19. The contracted amount falls slightly short of the intended capacity procurement of 50.8 GW but was hailed as a success.

Balfour Beatty purchases Kent offshore transmission project

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-18)
  • Junior Isles

Balfour Beatty, the UK-based construction services company, has completed the acquisition of the £164 million ($257 million) Thanet offshore transmission project in Kent.

Europe’s largest battery storage project opens in UK

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-17)
  • Junior Isles

S&C Electric Company has begun operating Europe's largest battery-storage project. S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos collaborated to deploy the technology onto a United Kingdom Power Networks substation in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

Hitachi and ABB declare joint venture in Japan

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-16)
  • Junior Isles

Switzerland’s engineering group ABB has agreed a joint venture with Hitachi to develop marketing strategies for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission equipment in Japan.

Emerson to sell power transmission business to Regal-Beloit

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-15)
  • Junior Isles

Emerson Electric Co. has announced a $1.44 billion cash deal with Regal-Beloit Corp. to sell its power transmission solutions business.

Hitachi adds biogas to power from waste expertise

  • 10 years ago (2014-12-13)
  • Junior Isles

The final closing of an asset deal between Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI) and Axpo Kompogas Engineering AG will see all plant construction activities of Kompogas transferred to HZI with immediate effect.