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Western Australia’s first tidal plant approved

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-22)
  • Junior Isles
Western Australia’s first tidal power station has been given approval by Environment Minister Albert Jacob.

KSEB increases hydropower generation output

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-20)
  • David Flin
India’s Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has announced that it has been generating through hydropower an average of over 20.5 million units of electricity daily throughout July.

Indian gas shortage prompts reprioritisation of gas-fired plants

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-16)
  • Junior Isles
Indian ministers are considering changes to India’s gas allocating priorities, re-routing natural gas to idle factories and power plants in the face of ever dwindling domestic supplies.

China to quadruple solar power generating capacity

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-16)
  • David Flin
China’s State Council has given official backing the State Grid’s target of quadrupling the country’s solar power generating capacity to 35GW by 2015.

Galaxy Consortium to invest $2 billion in Pakistan hydropower sector

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-13)
  • David Flin
The Galaxy Consortium has signed an agreement with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government to invest $2 billion to develop a 1000MW hydropower plant.

Iran to increase the pace of power privatisation

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-11)
  • Junior Isles
Iran will privatise a further 22 power plants during the coming Iranian calendar year, ending March 20, 2014, according to power sector privatisation project manager Bahman Allahmoradi.

World Bank supports new capacity in Egypt

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-09)
  • David Flin
The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank have approved a $585.4 million Helwan South Power Plant project, a gas-fired power plant that will contribute 10 per cent of Egypt’s new generation capacity to be added by 2018.

Ikea and Hanergy to cooperate on solar power generation

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-06)
  • David Flin
Swedish home furniture giant Ikea Group is cooperating with the Chinese solar panel company Hanergy Holdings Group on a grid-connected solar power generation project for all the Ikea stores in China as well as Ikea’s selected suppliers.

Origin Energy acquires state owned generator

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-02)
  • Junior Isles
Australian firm Origin Energy Ltd is to pay A$659 million for New South Wales’s state-owned generator Eraring Energy, as part of a A$3 billion power privatisation sell-off.

Renewables to surpass gas in global power mix by 2016

  • 10 years ago (2013-07-02)
  • David Flin
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that it expects power generation worldwide from hydro, wind, solar and other renewable sources will exceed gas and be twice that from nuclear by 2016.