Articles - Past and present news from The Energy Industry Times
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11 years ago (2012-10-31)
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Junior Isles
Japan's Hitachi has signed a £700 million ($1.13 billion) deal giving it rights to build a new generation of power plants in the UK, effectively restarting the UK's stalled nuclear expansion plans.
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11 years ago (2012-10-31)
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Junior Isles
TransAlta Corp. is joining with Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., a subsidiary of billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to build natural gas-fired power plants in Canada.
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11 years ago (2012-10-30)
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David Flin
The first power has been generated from the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array project, located around 12 miles off the coasts of Kent and Essex in the Thames Estuary in the UK.
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11 years ago (2012-10-27)
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David Flin
The government of the Indian state of Bihar has approved a transfer scheme and financial restructuring plan to effect the transfer and distribution of human resources, properties, assets and liabilities of the Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) among the five new power companies constituted under the provisions of the 2003 Electricity Act.
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11 years ago (2012-10-26)
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Junior Isles
As part of post-Fukushima adjustments to its nuclear policy, the Chinese government has lowered its target for construction of nuclear power plants by 2015, notably by abandoning the construction more nuclear reactors at inland locations.
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11 years ago (2012-10-24)
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David Flin
EDF Energies Nouvelles has commissioned its Massangis solar power plant, with an installed capacity of 56 MW, located in the Bourgogne region of France.
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11 years ago (2012-10-23)
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Junior Isles
New data from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute reinforces worries about the variability of wind and solar power in Germany, giving a detailed picture of the first 40 weeks of 2012 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 7.
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11 years ago (2012-10-21)
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Junior Isles
Aggreko plc, the world's largest temporary power generation company, is planning to greatly expand its Chinese business, which began operation in 2006.
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11 years ago (2012-10-19)
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Junior Isles
US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has revealed that fewer new power plants entered service in the first nine months of 2012 than during the same period in 2011, despite generators building more wind farms and solar facilities in 2012.
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11 years ago (2012-10-18)
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Junior Isles
United Technologies Corp. has agreed to sell its electric power systems business, inherited from Goodrich Corp., to French aerospace manufacturer Safran SA for $400 million.