ENGIE has confirmed that the 1 GW coal fired power plant in Rugeley, Staffordshire, will close within weeks due to worsening conditions for coal operators.
Last week, energy consumption in Portugal was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power over a 4-day period (107 hours), which lasted from 06:45 on Saturday May 7 until 05:45 the following Wednesday, national energy network figures reveal.
German-based utility RWE has announced a 2 per cent decrease in first-quarter profits to €857 million ($975 million), a total that comfortably betters market expectations.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the ongoing legal fight in the USA over regulating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants won’t delay the nation’s accelerating shift to cleaner sources of energy.
The utility scale solar project developer, SolarReserve, has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Shenhua Group of China to construct 1 GW of solar projects in China.
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) has said that it has received five bids to build 800 MW of solar-powered generation capacity.