Zimbabwe’s government has approved a $230 million power deal between Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) and Indian firm WAPCOS Limited to upgrade boilers at three of the country’s thermal power stations, Energy and Power Development minister Elton Mangoma has said.
Kenya’s Thika Power has received a $35 million investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to help develop an IPP near Nairobi.
Higher water temperatures and lower river flows due to climate change pose significant operational and cooling problems for nuclear and coal-fired power plants in both the US and Europe, a study published in Nature Climate Change warns.
US power producers increased their natural gas use by 40 per cent year on year to March 2012, as low prices spur a switch from coal, whose share fell 20 per cent, an EIA report has said.
Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has announced a provision of $1.4 billion in the budget for the state power sector.
German solar power plants produced an unprecedented 22 GW of electricity through the midday hours of Friday 25th and Saturday 26th of May, equivalent to 20 nuclear power stations running at full capacity, Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster has said.
Analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) estimates that the world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) unit will start operation in the US in 2013.
The New Zealand Government has announced that it will invest $4.6 billion over the next 10 years in upgrading the national electricity grid.
Western Japan is to experience above average temperatures from June to August, again renewing the potential for power shortages as demand rises while nuclear power plants stay idle.
President Putin of Russia has announced that the Russian Government has placed majority stocks of Federal Grid FSK and power distributor MRSK Holding on a list of assets that cannot be sold to private owners, making it unlikely that they will be part of the government’s privatisation drive in the near term.