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RWE suffers write-down due to low plant profitability

  • 2014-01-29 09:41:09
  • Junior Isles
Declines in the profitability of conventional power plants will force RWE to write down €3.3 billion worth of assets in the German utility giant’s 2013 earnings report, according to a company statement, with some analysts speculating that RWE will declare a net loss.

UK launches distributed energy funding scheme

  • 2014-01-27 13:42:52
  • Junior Isles
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) this week unveiled a new ‘Community Energy Strategy’ report, aimed at encouraging decentralised power generation via community ownership.

Mott MacDonald appointed owner’s engineer on Turkish power plant

  • 2014-01-26 21:18:33
  • Junior Isles

Mott MacDonald has been appointed owner’s engineer by Icanadolu Doğalgaz Elektrik Üretim ve Ticaret A. Ş. – a subsidiary of Gama Enerji A. Ş. – for a new 840 MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant in Kirikkale, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

Dewa to pilot CSP plant

  • 2014-01-23 15:51:31
  • Junior Isles

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has signed an agreement to pilot the Middle East’s first Stirling Engine Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant.

Renewable lobby unhappy with EU proposal

  • 2014-01-22 22:13:56
  • Junior Isles

Europe’s renewables lobby has reacted angrily to the EU’s Whitepaper on energy and climate change. The European Commission presented its proposal for a climate and energy framework 2030. The proposal includes a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 40 per cent and a binding EU-level target of 27 per cent for renewable energy.

Ukraine suffers 2013 generation fall due to low nuclear output

  • 2014-01-21 21:14:12
  • Junior Isles
Ukraine suffered a 2.3 per cent year-on-year fall in its power generation output during 2013, with generation falling by 4.556 TWh to 193.563 TWh overall, an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source has revealed.

Draft proposal cuts German renewables support

  • 2014-01-19 11:40:20
  • Junior Isles
Germany's economy minister and leader of the SDP, Sigmar Gabriel, plans to cut the feed-in-tariff (FiT) support level for solar and wind power generators by about a third from 2015, according to a draft cabinet proposal.

RWE npower to close seven UK plants by 2023

  • 2014-01-10 12:00:56
  • Junior Isles
Energy giant RWE npower has said it will avoid expensive retrofits of seven of its UK plants by closing them before the end of 2023, escaping the requirements of the emissions reducing EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).

UK wind breaks generation records in December

  • 2014-01-08 18:04:21
  • Junior Isles
The UK’s wind sector set three generation records in December 2013, with new highs for total generation in a month, seven-days, and a single day.

Marubeni expands North American portfolio

  • 2014-01-08 18:03:27
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Marubeni Corp. said this week that it has acquired a 90 per cent interest in a wind power project in Solano County, California run by EDF Renewable Energy Inc., a US arm of French utility Electricite de France (EDF). Marubeni did not disclose details of the acquisition.