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Indian Wind sees impressive 165 per cent growth

  • 13 years ago (2011-07-06)
  • Junior Isles

The state of Gujarat, India, has experienced an unprecedented 545 per cent growth in wind power generation capacity between 2006 and 2011, moving from a mere 338 MW to 2175.5 MW in half a decade. The state currently produces around 15 per cent of the total wind power generation in India.

US DOE offers loan guarantee for three solar power plants

  • 13 years ago (2011-07-06)
  • David Flin

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees of $4.5 billion to support three AC Cadmium Telluride (Cd-Te) thin film PV solar generation facilities to be located in California.

Japan starts mandatory power saving drive

  • 13 years ago (2011-07-01)
  • David Flin

Heavy energy using Japanese companies are changing working hours and shifting production to weekends to save energy as the country’s first mandatory power-saving drive since the 1970s starts.

Saudi Arabia and Argentina sign nuclear cooperation deal

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-29)
  • David Flin

The Saudi Arabian government has announced that it has signed a nuclear energy cooperation deal with Argentina.

Ghana to increase power generation and power exports

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-24)
  • Junior Isles

Ghana is to increase power generation from the current 3000 MW to 5000 MW by 2015 in order to become a net exporter of power.

Chinese power providers face increasing summer losses

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-24)
  • Junior Isles

China's five largest state-owned power generating groups have continued to rack up losses in their thermal power generation businesses, despite the Chinese government raising power prices in April, the China Electricity Council (CEC), an industry group that represents power generators and distributors, said.

EU budget chief question global warming

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-24)
  • David Flin

Janusz Lewandowski from Poland, the EU Budget Commissioner, has said that he has major doubts over the existence of global warming, and this looks to be certain to affect the drafting of EU policy over the years 2014-2020.

Power crisis in India’s Barak Valley

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-22)
  • David Flin

Frequent power blackouts combined with soaring temperatures have combined to create disturbances from the people living in India’s Barak Valley.

Wyoming’s energy future

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-22)
  • David Flin

A recent study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests that the energy industry could bring an economic boom to the US state of Wyoming.

Gazprom signals European generation ambitions

  • 13 years ago (2011-06-21)
  • Junior Isles

Russia's Gazprom will attempt to gain entry into European generation markets after Germany's recent decision to phase out nuclear power, its export chief said.