Articles - Past and present news from The Energy Industry Times
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11 years ago (2012-12-20)
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Junior Isles
Canada will appeal against a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling, which could scupper Ontario’s new green energy Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) programme, aimed at encouraging renewable generation in the province.
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11 years ago (2012-12-19)
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David Flin
Despite claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it has surplus gas for power generation, the operations of four power stations across Nigeria have been hampered by insufficient gas supply from the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of NNPC.
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11 years ago (2012-12-18)
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Junior Isles
The Northern Irish Utility Regulator has approved a £44 million plan to have Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) upgrade its electricity transmission system to enable more renewables such as wind farms to connect to the grid.
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11 years ago (2012-12-15)
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David Flin
Spain’s Senate has approved a reform of its energy sector that includes a 7 per cent tax on electricity generation that is likely to cost power producers hundreds of millions of euros.
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11 years ago (2012-12-13)
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Junior Isles
Tokyo based Softbank Corp., one of Japan’s largest mobile-phone carriers, has plans to install solar panels on the rooftops of 1000 homes across the country, allowing it to increase its access to Japan’s clean energy feed-in-tariff.
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11 years ago (2012-12-11)
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David Flin
Power generation reserves in Texas, USA are forecast to fall below the state’s target for summer 2013, increasing the risk of blackouts during the hottest days, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
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11 years ago (2012-12-10)
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Junior Isles
Ukraine should move to favour renewable sources of energy and give up subsidies for ‘traditional energy generation’, which still dominates the country’s generation mix, according to Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, President of the European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF).
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11 years ago (2012-12-08)
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Junior Isles
Two loans worth $107.7 million have been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to finance the construction of the El Libertador and Palmatir wind farms in Uruguay.
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11 years ago (2012-12-08)
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David Flin
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will give $29 million to four projects to reduce the costs of installing solar panels and help utilities figure out how to manage the growing amount of solar electricity that flows into the grids.
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11 years ago (2012-12-04)
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David Flin
UK-based Blue Energy has announced that it will build Africa’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, the 155 MW Nzema project in Ghana.