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Planning approval for RWE-SSE £1billion offshore windfarm

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-27)
  • Junior Isles
Power firms SSE and npower, a subsidiary of RWE, have been given permission for construction of a £1 billion, 140 turbine wind farm off the British coast.

TAG to transfer stake in New Zealand power generator to Coronado Resources

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-25)
  • David Flin
The Canadian company TAG Oil has announced that it has agreed to sell its 90 per cent stake in Opunake Hydro Limited (OHL), an electricity generator and supplier in New Zealand, to Coronado Resources, the Canadian mining company, in exchange for common shares of Coronado valued at approximately $4 million.

Goldman Sachs to invest in Japanese renewables

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-23)
  • Junior Isles
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is looking to invest as much as $487 million (50 billion yen) into Japanese renewable energy projects over the next five years, the company has said.

Tamil Nadu loses 800MW of wind power to poor transmission

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-23)
  • David Flin
K Kasturirangan, Chairman of the Indian Wind Power Association, said that even though wind flows have been high in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, insufficient transmission capability has meant that around 100 million units of wind powered generation has been lost.

Czech electricity generation and consumption stagnates

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-21)
  • David Flin
An annual report by the Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) states that Czech power plants generated 87.6 TWh of electricity in 2012, the same amount as in 2011, and gross consumption of electricity remained at the 2011 level of 70.5 TWh.

E.ON to build power units for Metro

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-18)
  • David Flin
E.ON has made its first significant move in Germany’s decentralised power market by agreeing to build four CHP units for retailer Metro.

EIB to lend $364 million for Polish CCGT

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-16)
  • David Flin
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it is lending $364 million to a Polish joint venture for construction of a new combined cycle gas turbine power station, to help the country diversify away from coal-fired generation.

Eskom signs PPAs for 417 MW of new solar PV

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-15)
  • Junior Isles
Utility giant Eskom, which provides 95 per cent of South Africa's electricity, has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) for nine solar PV projects, worth a combined 417.1 MW, as part of the second phase of the country’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPP).

Renewed calls for Indian wind subsidy revival

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-15)
  • Junior Isles
India’s wind power sector is renewing calls for the re-introduction of generation-based incentives (GBI) to support flagging wind capacity growth.

High capex and public confidence are biggest nuclear challenges

  • 11 years ago (2013-05-14)
  • Junior Isles

High capital costs and maintaining public confidence are seen as the greatest challenges facing the European nuclear power industry, according to a recent survey conducted by Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemical and metals information provider. The survey included more than 100 utilities, builders, consultancies, and regulators in Europe.