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India’s great renewables potential

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-11)
  • Junior Isles

Renewable energy sources can play an important role in increasing India's energy security, according to The World Bank. It said 68 000 MW of power costing less than Rs 6 per unit can be generated in the subcontinent.

Scotland to host the UK’s first CCS site

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-10)
  • Junior Isles

Shell, Petrofac and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) have joined an ambitious bid to turn Peterhead power station into the UK’s first carbon capture and storage plant, which would see carbon dioxide emissions pumped into an empty North Sea gas field.

Dong open's first UK power plant

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-10)
  • Junior Isles

Dong Energy A/S, Denmark’s biggest utility, has inaugurated its first power station in the UK, the gas fired Severn Power station at Uskmouth in south Wales.

Toshiba awarded $500m hydro contract

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-07)
  • Junior Isles

Toshiba’s US business has secured a $500m hydro power equipment supply deal with Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison.

Mesquite Solar 1 to commence construction

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-07)
  • Junior Isles

Sempra Generation's ambitious Mesquite Solar 1 project is scheduled to begin construction in mid-2011 and will be completed by 2013.

New thermal unit pushes Iran’s generation over 60 000 MW

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-06)
  • Junior Isles

Iran’s electricity generation capacity has increased to 60 000 MW after the inauguration of a new gas unit in Semnan’s combined cycle power plant in northern Iran.

Brazil reneges on non-fossil promise

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-04)
  • Junior Isles

Brazil is seeking proposals for natural gas power plants barely two months after releasing an official energy plan that said the country would not build new electricity projects powered by fossil fuels.

Report shows slowing wind installation in 2010

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-03)
  • Junior Isles

The rate of wind turbine installations slowed 7 per cent last year, though almost 36 GW of wind capacity was installed worldwide, according to figures released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

New Jersey approves controversial power plant legislation

  • 14 years ago (2011-02-03)
  • Junior Isles

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed into law a programme of long-term incentives for the building of new gas fired power plants in the state, despite opposition from within the US's largest electricity market.

Nigerian generation showing recovery

  • 14 years ago (2011-01-28)
  • Junior Isles

Nigerian power generation, which has recently nosedived due to a number of factors, is rising again. It now stands at 3800 MW and will hit 4000 MW by the end of the first quarter of this year as some plants under the National Independent Power Plants (NIPPs) scheme come on stream.