The Scottish Government has announced that it has accepted a proposal from Statoil, Norway’s largest energy company, to commercially test its Hywind floating wind turbines in deep water either off the coast of Lewis or Aberdeenshire.
Ahmet Aksu, Vice President of the Turkish Privatisation Authority, has said that the country will soon start to privatise electricity generation.
With Iran’s nuclear power plant at Bushehr approaching a major milestone, Iranian officials say that they are looking to expand the programme with more such plants.
A senior South Korean government official said that it is on the verge of signing a deal to supply a nuclear power plant to Turkey ahead of schedule.
Iran will start generation of electricity from nuclear power in early December, according to Mohammad Ahmadian, Managing Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Generation and Development Company.