The leaders of the G7 nations announced they would rapidly scale up technologies and policies that accelerate the transition away from coal capacity, including ending new government support for coal-fired power generation by the end of this year.
Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHI) have agreed a long-term contract for Drax to use MHI’s carbon capture technology, the Advanced KM CDR process.
Rosatom has begin construction of a 300 MW nuclear power plant with the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor has started at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, in Russia’s Tomsk region.
Chile has inaugurated Latin America’s first thermal solar plant, Cerro Dominador in the Atacama desert in the north of the country.
EDF Energy has announced that it is starting the defueling phase of Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, Britain with immediate effect.
A report has been issued by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy regarding the establishment of eight power plants to generate a combined capacity of 17 300 MW.
Statkraft, in cooperation with Norwegian supplier Ocean Sun, has started commercial operations at the first unit of its floating solar power project in Albania.
TerraPower, based in Washington state, is working with Rocky Mountain Power, an electric utility serving Wyoming and other western states, to build a small modular reactor (SMR) at a soon-to-be retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming.
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has announced on 1 June that it retired its last remaining coal-fired power plant, the 400 MW Bridgeport Harbor Station Unit 3 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.
The Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva Oy announced in May the start of excavation on its deep geological nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel at ONKALO.