The planned Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Plant in Somerset in the UK has received another setback, and the developer EDF has said that the project may be further delayed.
The government of Finland has proposed a November 2017 deadline for granting wind subsidies for power plants, because new applications had started exceeding a previously set capacity limit.
ScottishPower, owned by the Spanish utility Iberdrola, has announced that it has abandoned plans to replace a coal-fired power station in East Lothian with a gas-fired alternative, saying that the key reason for this decision was a tax “for being in Scotland.”
Iran and Germany have signed a contract for construction of a 100 MW wind farm and two 20 MW photovoltaic power plants in Arvand Free Trade Zone in southwest Iran.
Houshang Falahatian, Deputy Energy Minister for Iran, said that his country would shortly sign deals with German companies for the construction of new power plants.
Analysts and industry insiders have raised fresh doubts about a £24.5 billion plan by the UK Government to build the first of several new nuclear plants, with one saying that the project will be an “expensive mistake”.
Ballard Power Systems has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a 1 MW ClearGen fuel cell distributed generation system for Hydrogène de France (HDF).