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BC Hydro announces rate increase only 16 percent

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-12)
  • David Flin

Canada’s BC Hydro has announced that it has halved its proposed rate increases over the next three years.

Desert Sunlight receives approval for 550 MW solar project in USA

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-11)
  • David Flin

Desert Sunlight Holdings has received an approval from the USA Federal Department of Interior for building the 550 MW Desert Sunlight solar farm in California.

US clean tech investment takes a nosedive

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-09)
  • Junior Isles

US venture capital investment in clean technology, including power generation, shrank 44 per cent to $1.1 billion during second quarter 2011 compared to the same period last year, according to analysis from Ernst & Young.

Sempra signs off another solar PPA with PG

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-05)
  • Junior Isles

Sempra Generation has signed a power purchasen agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas & Electric of San Francisco to sell the utility 150 MWs of electricity generated at its Copper Mountain Solar complex in Boulder City.

Barriers continue for Germany’s clean coal

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-05)
  • David Flin

The German Bundestag has passed a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology bill allowing demonstration projects at carbon-emitting power plants until 2016 to pump CO2 emissions underground.

US coal-fired generation sees new 30-year low

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-03)
  • Junior Isles

In the first quarter of 2011 the amount of US power generated by coal-fired power plants reached a new 30-year low.

Is smart grid technology too smart?

  • 12 years ago (2011-08-03)
  • David Flin

Studies by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest that new technologies intended to increase use of renewable energy could destabilise the power grid if they are not matched with careful pricing policies.

UK surges ahead on offshore wind construction

  • 12 years ago (2011-07-30)
  • Junior Isles

The UK has built more offshore wind power generation in the first six months of 2011 than any other country in the world, accounting for almost all the offshore turbines erected so far in Europe this year.

TEPCO’s cost structure drawing scrutiny by monitoring panel

  • 12 years ago (2011-07-29)
  • David Flin

A Japanese government panel has said that it will thoroughly check Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) cost structure and how it has been reflected in electricity bills to see if its rates are appropriate.

Kailuan Energy and Syngas sign Letter of Intent

  • 12 years ago (2011-07-27)
  • David Flin

The Australian firm Syngas and the Chinese company Kailuan Energy Chemical have announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent. The companies aim to implement above ground coal gasification and coal-to-liquid projects, and to successfully develop and operate biomass power generation projects.