Germany has closed three of its last six nuclear power stations ahead of schedule. The reactors at Brokdorf, Grohnde, and Gundremmingen C, run by E.ON and RWE, shut down at the end of 2021 after three and a half decades in operation.
Masdar has signed an agreement with the Georgian Energy Development Fund (GEDF) to develop a 100 MW solar PV power project in Georgia.
The German government is supporting a large expansion of the country’s offshore wind power generation. Planning authorities are moving to accelerate the expansion of offshore renewable energy after years of delay.
The Guodian Power Shanghaimiao Corporation, part of the state-owned China Energy Investment Corporation, has announced that the first of four 1 GW coal-fired units at Shanghaimiao in the northwest region of Inner Mongolia has entered operation.
Mohammad Eslami, Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, has said that Iran hopes to replace Russian fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant with domestic uranium.
Babcock International has finalised the £50 million sale of its power business to M Group Services.
Hyundai Engineering has signed an MOU with Macquarie Green Investment Group (GIG) to cooperate in developing renewable energy power generation projects.
Ørsted’s Hornsea 2, located 89 km off the east coast of the UK, has achieved first power after its offshore substation (OSS), the world’s largest offshore AC substation, and reactive compensation station (RCS) were installed in October.
US Government officials have approved two large-scale solar power projects in California and have moved to make public land in other Western states available to potential solar power development.
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has confirmed that it will take a 10 per cent stake in the Rolls-Royce small nuclear reactor arm, with an investment of £85 million.