Capital Energy has hired Lazard to sell a portfolio of 4.3 GW of solar and onshore wind power plants in Spain, estimated to be worth up to $1 billion.
The Scottish Government has formally approved Drax Group’s plans to build a £500 million underground pumped storage hydropower plant at its existing Cruachan facility in Argyll, Scotland.
EDF has said that output restrictions are expected at two nuclear power plants along the Rhone river in eastern France due to high temperature forecasts.
Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN) has announced that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Britain’s National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) to build a 2 GW subsea cable linking northern Scotland to England.
Rob Jetten, Energy Minister of the Netherlands, said in a letter to parliament, that the country is in discussions with “three potential and interested suppliers” to build two new nuclear power plants.
Drax has scrapped a plan to bring two coal-fired units at its plant in North Yorkshire out of retirement.
Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko has said that Ukraine is carrying out its largest ever programme of repairs and rehabilitation to its power network to prepare for another winter of possible Russian air strikes.
GE has stopped servicing gas turbines at thermal power plants in Russia following the latest sanctions by the US, the Russian business newspaper Kommersant has reported.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and Northern Lights, a Norwegian company developing infrastructure for cross-border CO2 transport and storage in Europe, have signed an MOU to enable development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions.
Uniper has announced that following a request from National Grid, it has placed on standby two units of its Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in the UK.