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 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.
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.
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).
UK power project developer Renewable Energy Generation Ltd. has seen its stock jump 28 per cent after it announced it had turned down a takeover offer valuing the company at 67.7 pence a share.
UK energy regulator Ofgem has announced a £95 million upgrade of Scotland’s high voltage grid.
Global investment in clean energy reached a record of $243 billion in 2010, a 30 per cent increase on 2009 levels, according to research house Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
Turkey’s largest electricity generation plant, Hamitabat power station (HEAŞ), is to be privatised in the next few days according to Privatization Administration (ÖİB) Vice President Ahmet Aksu.
Siemens has received an order from Seoul-based utility GS Electric Power and Services Co. for the supply of its latest (H Class) high-efficiency gas turbine. This is the first time Siemens will supply a complete combined cycle power plant equipped with its new-generation gas turbine.
The UK installed solar power generation capacity at a record rate last year, data from the energy regulator Ofgem show.