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March 2024

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Vattenfall enters bid for Alpha and Beta sites in IJmuiden Ver offshore wind tender
28 March 2024 IJmuiden Ver consists of two sites, each with a 2 GW capacity. Plans for...

Planning underway for world's largest tidal scheme
28 March 2024 A flythrough video has unveiled the ambitious vision for the world's...

World leaders attend first Nuclear Energy Summit
28 March 2024 On 21 March world leaders gathered in Brussels for the first ever...

$475 m to support clean energy solutions on mining land
26 March 2024 As part of president Biden’s ‘Investing in America’ agenda, the US...

New nuclear reactor types will not solve waste and safety issues
26 March 2024 Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology’s...

‘New era’ for Latin America’s grid transformation
26 March 2024 On 21 March Atlas Renewable Energy signed a 15 year power purchase...

‘Invest ahead to get ready for net zero’ – Eurelectric
26 March 2024 The EU has recognised the need to future-proof its power infrastructure...

Google, Microsoft, and Nucor in new aggregating initiative
26 March 2024 Google LLC, Microsoft Corp, and Nucor Corp have announced that they will...

Tenaska plans Longleaf CCS hub
26 March 2024 Tenaska, a private US energy company, has announced the Longleaf CCS Hub,...

'Hydropower opportunities remain untapped in the USA' – new report
21 March 2024 In the shift towards cleaner energy solutions such as solar power,...

Canadian partnership to develop transportable nuclear power plants
21 March 2024 Canada’s Prodigy Clean Energy and Des Nëdhé Indigenous...

National Grid announces ‘Upstate Upgrade’ for New York
21 March 2024 National Grid plans to invest more than $4 billion to transform its...

Romania secures US funding to build six SMRs
21 March 2024 Romania, supported by US funding, is to build six small modular...

Nordex to supply 800 MW of wind capacity to RWE
21 March 2024 In a deal signed at the WindEurope conference in Bilbao, RWE and Nordex...

ZNPP’s 330 kV power line restored
19 March 2024 The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has regained access to its...

Green hydrogen ‘can be competitive’
19 March 2024 In a new report published on 11 March and prepared with support from...

Vestas to supply 319 MW of WTGs to wind project in Mexico
19 March 2024 Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra, has placed a 319 MW order...

Mitsubishi achieves number one GT status for second year
19 March 2024 According to the latest McCoy Power Report, Mitsubishi Power, the...

Germany launches first auction for decarbonisation subsidy scheme
19 March 2024 The German government launched on 12 March a novel subsidy system...

Lhyfe €149m grant towards green H2 production
19 March 2024 Lhyfe has received confirmation from the French government of...

RWE starts construction of its first UK solar farms
19 March 2024 RWE has taken a major step towards the realisation of its first solar...

Electricity production down by 2.6%
19 March 2024 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

EIA expects low natural gas prices to continue
19 March 2024 The US Energy Information Administration expects the benchmark Henry Hub...

Longroad's Serrano solar storage project begins construction
19 March 2024 Longroad Energy, a US based renewable energy developer, has announced...

Production starts at the Mendubim solar plant
12 March 2024 On 8 March the 531 MW Mendubim solar plant in Brazil started...

National Gas to study Gravitricity’s H2FlexiStore
12 March 2024 National Gas – the UK’s gas transmission system owner and operator –...

AI protection system to be deployed in the nuclear industry
12 March 2024 An innovative Artificial Intelligence camera system designed to cut the...

UK budget backs nukes
12 March 2024 Energy related measures in the UK spring budget (presented by the...

Shelling continues near ZNPP
12 March 2024 Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael...

UK government proposes new ‘dash for gas’
12 March 2024 The UK government “will stand with you as you build new gas fired...

Iberdrola secures approval for Valdecañas pumping project
12 March 2024 Spanish electric utility Iberdrola has secured administrative...

Conditional agreement achieved for Empire Wind 1 project
07 March 2024 Following Equinor’s successful rebid in New York’s fourth offshore...

CIP signs preferred supply agreement for Taiwan wind project
07 March 2024 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has signed a preferred supply...

BBC report alleges that Drax is still burning rare forest wood
06 March 2024 A recent report by the BBC’s long standing current affairs...

New report says wave energy has vital role in meeting net zero ambitions
05 March 2024 A new report from LUT University Finland has highlighted the pivotal role...

Growth of clean energy ‘has limited the rise in emissions’
05 March 2024 Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose less strongly in...

Germany’s aim for 80 % renewables by 2030 ‘well within reach’
05 March 2024 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 % of the country’s...

Masdar breaks ground on two UK BESS sites
05 March 2024 Masdar Arlington Energy, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company...

R-R supplies large-scale storage to the Latvian grid
05 March 2024 Rolls-Royce has received an order from the Latvian transmission...

RWE and Masdar to develop 3 GW of UK offshore wind
05 March 2024 RWE and Masdar have closed their transaction, flagged up in December,...

Grid connection for Vogtle 4
05 March 2024 US-based Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Co,...

February 2024

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105km Finland – Estonia EstLink 1 to be upgraded
29 February 2024 Hitachi Energy has won an order to provide Fingrid and Elering,...

Bekaert and Toshiba sign PEM electrolyser agreement
29 February 2024 Bekaert and Toshiba Energy Systems have entered into a global...

India boosts nuclear expansion with launch of two new units at Kakrapar
29 February 2024 India aims to add 18 new nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 13,800...

XFLEX HYDRO unveils seven recommendations to enhance hydropower flexibility
29 February 2024 The XFLEX HYDRO project has unveiled a comprehensive set of...

GE and Dragos to develop grid protection solutions
27 February 2024 GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business and Dragos Inc have announced...

Plan for 100 MW green H2 plant in Finland
27 February 2024 Oulu Energy is in the initial stages of planning what it believes will be...

Aker awarded waste-to-energy study contract
27 February 2024 Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a study from an un-named...

$559 m financing for 1 GWh BESS in Arizona
27 February 2024 Strata Clean Energy, a developer, owner, and operator of renewable...

ZNPP in more danger as the front line comes nearer
27 February 2024 Powerful explosions shook windows at the site of Ukraine’s...

Prysmian signs €2 billion contract for EGL2 link
27 February 2024 Prysmian has finalised a contract worth in the region of €1.9 billion...

Move to establish offshore wind in the Incheon region of Korea
26 February 2024 Ørsted has signed a memorandum of understanding with Incheon...

Plans approved for 2 GW Orkney wind farm
26 February 2024 The Orkney Island Council has given its backing to the West of...

Oersted to cut up to 800 jobs and pause dividend
20 February 2024 Ørsted, which is developing the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the...

FirstEnergy abandons its 2030 climate target
20 February 2024 FirstEnergy Corp has notified its shareholders that it has abandoned its...

‘Global leap forward’ in nuclear welding technology achieved
20 February 2024 Completion of the first full sized small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear...

World's largest renewable energy park starts operations
20 February 2024 Adani Green Energy Ltd, India's largest renewable energy company and...

Opening of first dual-fuel gas and green hydrogen plant in Australia
20 February 2024 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and EnergyAustralia have announced...

Wärtsilä to lead €200 million ecosystem collaboration
20 February 2024 Technology group Wärtsilä will lead a five-year collaboration of more...

1200 MW gas fuelled project to replace coal firing
20 February 2024 Sandow Lakes Energy Co, headquartered in Rockdale, Texas has outlined...

RheEnergise secures equity investment for pumped hydro
16 February 2024 RheEnergise, the UK company that is developing HD Hydro, said to be...

Electricity production continues upward, but coal declines
16 February 2024 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

Average global temperature rise likely to exceed 1.5 °C in 2024
13 February 2024 January 2024 was the warmest January on record globally, with an average...

EU focuses on climate-friendly industry in 2040 climate target proposal
13 February 2024 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net...

GE to build onshore connection for Poland's largest offshore array
13 February 2024 GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business, in partnership with Polimex...

General Atomics awarded SiC foam contract
13 February 2024 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded...

Holtec to be offered loan to restart Palisades NPP
13 February 2024 Bloomberg News reports that the US federal government intends to offer a...

Global gas demand set for stronger growth in 2024
13 February 2024 The growth in global gas demand is rebounding and set to pick up in...

Feasibility study to produce e-methane in Abu Dhabi
13 February 2024 Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), Inpex Corp, Tokyo Gas Co.,...

IEA head urges climate bonus payments
13 February 2024 The planned climate bonus (‘Klimageld’) payment to return state revenues...

Holtec unveils hybrid nuclear-solar power plant design
09 February 2024 Holtec International has announced the development of a new power...

Success for Ballard/Caterpillar/Microsoft fuel cell demo
07 February 2024 Caterpillar says its collaboration with Microsoft and Ballard Power...

Energoatom staff banned from ZNPP
06 February 2024 Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic...

Record participation in German PV auction
06 February 2024 Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that the volume...

First tidal energy plant in Southeast Asia
06 February 2024 Energies PH, Inc, through its affiliate San Bernardino Ocean...

Bydgoszcz will be Poland’s largest gas-fuelled power plant to be ‘H2 ready’
06 February 2024 INNIO Group has announced that five Jenbacher J920 FleXtra engines will...

Plan to create a deep mine gravity energy store
06 February 2024 The community of Pyhäjärvi, population 5000, lies 450 km north of...

Shell joins ‘Renewables for Subsea Power’ project
06 February 2024 Energy major Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power...

Drax to launch new business focused on large-scale CO2 removal
06 February 2024 Drax Group has announced that it plans to establish a new...

Rolls-Royce uprates mtu Series 1600 by 49%
06 February 2024 The new generation of the Rolls-Royce 12-cylinder mtu Series 1600 Gx1...

January 2024

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Safety concerns persist at ZNPP – IAEA Update
30 January 2024 Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost its immediate...

Aker and MAN ES join forces to accelerate CCUS
30 January 2024 Aker Carbon Capture and MAN Energy Solutions have signed a Memorandum...

GE announces 1.4 GW of onshore wind projects in Australia
30 January 2024 GE Vernova’s Onshore Wind business on 29 January confirmed the signing of...

Hinkley Point C may be delayed until 2031
30 January 2024 A review of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in the UK has...

NJ Transit scraps plan for gas-fired backup plant
30 January 2024 New Jersey’s public transit agency announced on 26 January that it...

Rolls-Royce opens US mtu overhaul centre
30 January 2024 Rolls-Royce Power Systems Division has opened a new Remanufacturing...

CHF 20 million raised to further develop subcritical nuclear
30 January 2024 Transmutex SA, a nuclear engineering company based in Geneva, has announced...

US administration pauses natural gas projects
30 January 2024 President Biden’s administration has stopped the USA’s surging exports...

Enchanted Rock receives grant to create ‘breakthrough engine’
30 January 2024 On 25 January Enchanted Rock, a provider of electrical resiliency...

GE Hitachi awarded nuclear design funding
30 January 2024 GE Vernova’s nuclear business, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, was on 25...

Substantial fall in global electricity production from fossil fuels
23 January 2024 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

Germany ‘to miss coal phase-out target by eight years’
23 January 2024 Germany's energy system is not expected to fully retire coal until the end...

EU parliament endorses a call for a geothermal strategy
23 January 2024 On 18 January the European Parliament’s Plenary voted on a resolution, led...

First STEP – major landmark reached
23 January 2024 An industry “first” has been achieved with the initial hot-fire closed...

Drax CCS consent
23 January 2024 On 16 January 2024, the Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and...

Grid readiness ‘is key to transition’ – new utilities study
23 January 2024 On 17 January Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) and...

Vestas introduces low-emission steel for WTGs
23 January 2024 Vestas has established a partnership with ArcelorMittal to launch...

German onshore wind auctions fall short of target
23 January 2024 Onshore wind power was significantly expanded in Germany last year, when...

Ceres signs first hydrogen licence with Delta
23 January 2024 Ceres Power Holdings, a prominent UK developer of clean energy...

Empire Wind 2 offshore wind project announces ‘reset’
16 January 2024 Equinor and bp have announced an agreement with the New York State...

ZNPP safety inspections still being hindered
16 January 2024 International Atomic Energy Agency experts at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya...

Green hydrogen falling well behind other renewables
16 January 2024 Speaking at a press conference for the launch of the IEA’s Renewables...

Avaada to develop 6 GW hybrid wind-solar in Gujarat
16 January 2024 Avaada, a prominent integrated energy platform in India, has signed...

Largest UK H2 production hub plans approved
16 January 2024 The local governing authority, Cheshire West & Chester Council, has...

MAN Energy Solutions to supply Karpowership with 48 dual-fuel engines
16 January 2024 MAN Energy Solutions and Karpowership have signed a contract for the...

Global market for microgrids ‘will top $55 bn by 2032’
16 January 2024 A new report from Guidehouse Insights exploring the global microgrid...

ScottishPower unveils £5.4bn in network investment
16 January 2024 ScottishPower, which is part of the Iberdrola Group, has unveiled...

Biggest expansion of UK nuclear power for 70 years
16 January 2024 On 11 January the UK government launched its plans for the biggest...

Solar and wind lead growth of US power generation
16 January 2024 In its latest ‘Short Term Energy Outlook’ report, the US Energy...

World Energy Council Announces Programme For 26th World Energy Congress
10 January 2024 With 100 days until the 26th World Energy Congress, the World Energy...

JET delivers its final plasma pulse
09 January 2024 Some 40-and-a-half years after delivering its first plasma pulse on 25...

UK invests in high-tech nuclear fuel HALEU
09 January 2024 The UK will become the first country in Europe to launch a high-assay...

Record investments in Norwegian hydro and wind power planned
09 January 2024 Statkraft, the state-owned Norwegian enterprise said to be Europe’s...

Copenhagen Infrastructure acquires solar PV portfolio
09 January 2024 On 3 Jan Soltec Power Holding and Copenhagen Infrastructure...

Gazelle and Tugdock to jointly develop modular floating platform
09 January 2024 Gazelle Wind Power, which develops next-generation floating offshore...

GE to power first H2-ready power plant in Queensland
09 January 2024 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business announced on 8 January that it had secured...

Vestas secures 401 MW order for wind project in Arizona, USA
09 January 2024 Vestas has received a 401 MW nameplate capacity order, consisting of...

Initiative to standardise design of 700W+ modules
09 January 2024 Trina Solar, said to be the world's leading smart PV and energy...

Prysmian expands its cable laying fleet
09 January 2024 Prysmian Group has responded to the growing market for undersea power...

RWE to take over development of the Norfolk Wind Zone
03 January 2024 RWE and Vattenfall have come to an agreement under which RWE will take...

Vestas signs 1362 MW of wind supply contracts
03 January 2024 Vestas has released details of eight wind turbine supply contracts...

Aker awarded carbon capture design project for Grain power station
02 January 2024 Uniper has awarded Aker Carbon Capture a Process Design Package (PDP)...

Prysmian completes Fécamp offshore cable project
02 January 2024 Prysmian Group has announced the successful commissioning of the...

RWE secures 684 MW wind project with Mitsui and Osaka Gas
02 January 2024 RWE Offshore Wind Japan has been selected in a consortium together...

Vestas secures its largest onshore project to date
02 January 2024 Vestas has secured a firm order from Pattern Energy to power a major...

China’s world-first pebble bed facility goes commercial
02 January 2024 Following a 168 hour demonstration run, China’s HTR-PM (high temperature...

December 2023

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Global electricity production starts to rise again
19 December 2023 According to the International Energy Agency’s ‘Monthly...

Construction of Germany’s north-south power link starts
19 December 2023 Online news agency Clean Energy Wire reports that following several years...

“Significant advance” in ocean modelling
19 December 2023 A Dutch offshore wind report has categorised the Unified-WRF model...

Topsoe awarded €94 m from EU fund
19 December 2023 The EU’s Innovation Fund has awarded Topsoe €94 million for the...

Voith to equip major hydro plant in Angola
19 December 2023 Voith is set to supply equipment for the large-scale hydropower plant...

Wood to support one of the world’s largest offshore connection projects
19 December 2023 Wood, the prominent consulting and engineering company, has been awarded...

US solar and wind ‘to overtake coal-fired generation in 2024’ – EIA
19 December 2023 The US Energy Information Administration expects, for the first year...

PPA signed for South Africa's largest hybrid renewable project
19 December 2023 ACWA Power, the lead shareholder and developer of the ACWA Power Project...

Delegates reach ‘historic’ COP28 deal to transition away from fossil fuels
13 December 2023 After a night of intense wrangling, and a day after the UN’s climate...

Oman announces plans for green hydrogen corridor
12 December 2023 The Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Energy and Minerals, and Hydrogen...

Chaos in Dubai as COP28 overruns
12 December 2023 At the time of writing the debate was still going on at COP28, the UN...

A reliable power supply for SE Asia’s largest floating solar plant
12 December 2023 The Cirata project is Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar project,...

UK plans for offshore wind leasing Round 5
12 December 2023 The UK’s Crown Estate, which controls the disposition of land under...

ENEC signs MoU with MoltexFLEX
12 December 2023 Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a Memorandum...

EC approves compensation for early phase-out of coal
12 December 2023 Having approved in February a law that effectively bans the sale of...

ABB and Gravitricity to collaborate on gravity fed energy storage systems
12 December 2023 ABB has signed an agreement with UK-based gravity energy storage...

At COP28, IEA emphasises the urgent action needed
12 December 2023 The IEA’s delegation in Dubai has been making clear what needs to be done...

Significant declarations at COP28
05 December 2023 A historic Ministerial Declaration signed on 2 December at the COP28...

MIDA and Masdar sign 10 GW renewables agreements
05 December 2023 Masdar and the Malaysian Investment Development Authority have put...

Global CO2 emissions will rise through to 2050 – EIA
05 December 2023 The US Energy Information Administration projects that global...

DTEK ready to implement largest wind farm in E Europe
05 December 2023 Ukraine energy major DTEK Group and Vestas on 4 December signed a...

Investors file lawsuit against NuScale after SMR cancellation
05 December 2023 A group of investors has filed a lawsuit against Portland-based US...

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners launches GMF II growth fund
05 December 2023 On 4 December Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners announced the launch of...

Masdar expands its European presence
05 December 2023 Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – aka Masdar – and Taaleri Energia,...

GE Vernova to supply 36 WTGs to O2 Power in India
05 December 2023 GE Vernova has received an order from O2 Power Private Ltd to...

Saskatchewan microreactor receives $80 m funding
05 December 2023 Saskatchewan Research Council has received $80 million in government...

November 2023

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Violent winter storms cause havoc in Ukraine and west Russia
28 November 2023 Violent wind and snow storms have brought widespread death, destruction...

Prospect of a new pipeline across the Alps
28 November 2023 The German and Italian governments have agreed to expand energy...

Mott MacDonald to explore UK nuclear prospects with KEPCO
28 November 2023 Mott MacDonald has signed an MOU with KEPCO Engineering &...

DNV launches power transformer project
28 November 2023 DNV has initiated an innovative Joint Industry Project in collaboration...

Wärtsilä launches advanced energy storage system
28 November 2023 Wärtsilä has launched ‘Quantum High Energy’ (QuantumHE), which it...

Oil and gas producers ‘are being confronted with profound choices’ – IEA
28 November 2023 Oil and gas producers face pivotal choices about their role in the...

RWE and partners secure contracts in French offshore bidding round
28 November 2023 The French CRE (Commission for the Regulation of Energy) has published...

Siemens Gamesa recovery plan
28 November 2023 At its third Capital Market Day in Hamburg, Germany, Siemens Energy...

Vestas secures order for V163-4.5 MW WTGs in US
28 November 2023 Vestas has received a 239 MW order to power an undisclosed wind project...

An $18 trillion capital gap is ‘threatening the green energy transition’
21 November 2023 Closing the $18 trillion gap to fund the green energy transition through...

Hydrogen ramp-up in Germany ‘is slowing down’
21 November 2023 The ramp-up of the hydrogen economy in Germany is slowing down,...

First power from Denmark’s next offshore wind farm
21 November 2023 On 10 November, the first power from Vattenfall’s offshore wind...

Next generation tidal energy project in Wales
21 November 2023 HydroWing is preparing to deploy its next generation tidal energy...

Global electricity production rose in August
21 November 2023 The 15 November issue of the International Energy Agency’s...

RheEnergise to develop LDES project in Chile
21 November 2023 Colbún, the third largest power generation company in Chile, and a...

Berlin provides €7.5 bn ‘safety net’ for Siemens Energy
21 November 2023 Germany’s Federal government is providing the facility of a safety net...

First sensor of commercial scale emissions goes into orbit
21 November 2023 An orbital sensor able to detect carbon dioxide emissions from...

Alternative to diesel-powered generators unveiled
21 November 2023 Hitachi Energy has unveiled a demonstration unit of its HyFlex...

Largest hospital in Gaza has lost all power
14 November 2023 The Al-Shifa hospital, one of the few health centres still functioning...

UK faces extensive transition challenges
14 November 2023 A new report produced by the REA (the Association for Renewable Energy...

ACWA, Masdar and SOCAR sign MoU for 500 MW RE projects in Azerbaijan
14 November 2023 ACWA Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Abu Dhabi...

Consortium wins bid for 1100 MW solar project
14 November 2023 A consortium of Masdar, EDF Renewables and Nesma Co has signed a...

SA to fill power gap with gas projects and NPP extension
14 November 2023 South Africa’s state-owned power utility Eskom is accelerating plans for 3...

The largest BESS project in southeast Europe
14 November 2023 Stationary battery manufacturer Hithium and solar project EPC...

ULC-Energy, Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to co-operate on H2 production
14 November 2023 ULC-Energy has signed an agreement with Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to...

FERC–NERC final report on storm Elliott
14 November 2023 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North...

SE Asia’s largest floating solar plant inaugurated
14 November 2023 On 9 November in Java, Indonesia’s state-owned utility PLN Group, with...

DTEK wins Hague case over seized Crimean assets
07 November 2023 In a ruling handed down on 2 November, the International Arbitral...

DNV concludes Phase 1 of project to optimise floating designs
07 November 2023 DNV has successfully concluded Phase 1 of its joint industry project aimed...

First Ammonia and Uniper green ammonia project in Texas
07 November 2023 First Ammonia is to produce ammonia from renewable electricity at...

National Grid to accelerate up to 20 GW of grid connections
07 November 2023 The UK’s National Grid is accelerating the connection of up to 20 GW of...

STEP forward for Brayton high efficiency demo
07 November 2023 GTI Energy and its partners, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and...

Aiming for 100% green hydrogen in DeBary 7E peaker
07 November 2023 Duke Energy is planning a “first-of-its-kind” project at its DeBary site...

H-class combined cycle plants to replace German coal power plants
07 November 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has secured two orders from EnBW to...

TenneT installs artificial reefs at Hollandse Kust west alpha
07 November 2023 TenneT, in collaboration with contractor Equans/Smulders, has created...

Clean Power runs electrolyser at utility scale
07 November 2023 Clean Power Hydrogen, the UK-based green hydrogen technology...

Austin and CPS oppose Constellation NPP purchase
07 November 2023 Constellation has completed its acquisition of NRG Energy’s 44%...

Global community sets new ambition for hydropower to enable sustainable growth
03 November 2023 The World Hydropower Congress 2023, hosted in Bali, Indonesia, has unveiled...

October 2023

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Wind power package: a game-changer for Europe
31 October 2023 In her State of the Union speech in September, EU Commission president...

AEP to receive federal grant to enhance grid reliability
31 October 2023 American Electric Power has been selected for a $27.8 million federal...

Russians ‘likely targeted Khmelnytsky nuclear plant’
31 October 2023 The likely target of a Russian drone attack in western Ukraine was...

IAEA Update 191 – attacks on two nuclear plants, but little damage
31 October 2023 International Atomic Energy Agency experts have assessed the damage caused...

Large-scale Netherlands CCS project in the offing
31 October 2023 MAN Energy Solutions has won the contract for the delivery of...

National Grid awarded $50m federal infrastructure grant
31 October 2023 National Grid has been awarded a $50 million grant from the US Department...

RWE awarded 1.3 GW offtake contract in New York
31 October 2023 New York State governor Kathy Hochul announced on 24 October that...

UK government's offshore wind shortfall ‘could delay net zero’
31 October 2023 A new report forecasting the energy generation mix out to 2030 has...

Germany seeks new hydrogen partnership with Nigeria
31 October 2023 News agency Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany’s chancellor Olaf...

Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
25 October 2023 As a result of the Hamas attack on 7 October, Israel shut off the supply...

‘Global CO2 emissions will peak by 2030’ – IEA report
25 October 2023 The International Energy Agency has released a new edition of its...

New blade a ‘step change’ for tidal energy
25 October 2023 A ‘state-of-the-art’ design of tidal turbine blade has been manufactured...

Cabling complete for Vineyard Wind 1, first US utility-scale offshore wind
25 October 2023 Prysmian Group has successfully completed installation and HV...

Geophysical survey for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm underway
24 October 2023 RWE has commenced a geophysical survey off the Danish west coast. Up to...

MAN and Energy Dome to collaborate on CO2 energy storage
24 October 2023 MAN Energy Solutions and Energy Dome, a long-duration energy...

ACWA in co-operation agreements with Chinese firms
24 October 2023 Saudi-listed ACWA Power has signed seven co-operation agreements with...

EDF under nuclear cybersecurity scrutiny in UK
24 October 2023 The UK government’s nuclear safety watchdog, the Office for...

The 1.8 GW Hamriyah PP starts commercial operations
24 October 2023 In the run-up to COP28, Sharjah Electricity, Water, and Gas Authority...

DTEK prepares for more strikes on Ukraine’s energy system
18 October 2023 Ukraine’s largest private energy producer has braced itself for more...

7 billion dollars for USA’s first clean hydrogen hubs
18 October 2023 The US Department of Energy on 13 October announced $7 billion in funding...

First in the world operation of a GT on 100 % renewable H2
18 October 2023 Installed at Saillat-sur-Vienne, France, on the site of prominent...

Sheffield Forgemasters signs civil nuclear MOU
17 October 2023 Sheffield Forgemasters, with X-energy and Cavendish Nuclear, have signed...

Aker awarded two contracts for CO2 capture studies
17 October 2023 Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded contracts for a feasibility study...

Bekaert and Toshiba sign PEM electrolysis MoU
17 October 2023 Bekaert and Toshiba have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop...

Global electricity production continues downward trend
17 October 2023 The latest IEA Monthly Electricity Statistics report, which includes...

Siemens combines two technologies in the Irish grid
17 October 2023 Siemens Energy is to deliver the first-ever hybrid combined...

Ramboll wins major agreements with Statnett
17 October 2023 Ramboll has been provisionally awarded several framework agreements with...

Milestone reached in direct air capture process
10 October 2023 The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg...

Six companies through to next stage of UK’s nuclear competition
10 October 2023 Six companies’ designs for the next generation of nuclear reactors have...

Topsoe and Aramco to demonstrate novel low-carbon H2 hydrogen production
10 October 2023 Topsoe, a specialist in carbon emission reduction technologies, and...

Global offshore wind pipeline grows by one-third in a year
10 October 2023 A new report ‘EnergyPulse Insights’ published on 4 October by RenewableUK...

Initial plans agreed for Poland’s first nuclear power plant
10 October 2023 US and Polish officials have signed an agreement to go ahead with...

Power Barometer 2023 reveals key EU energy trends
10 October 2023 Eurelectric, the federation of the European electricity industries,...

National Grid connects Dogger Bank
10 October 2023 National Grid has connected Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore...

First Haliade-X offshore WTG produces power
10 October 2023 GE Vernova’s Offshore Wind business announced on 10 October that the first...

‘Quantum leap’ in battery technology claimed
10 October 2023 The Bonn-based start-up company High Performance Battery has achieved what...

Germany, UK, seek to expand H2 co-operation
03 October 2023 A new agreement between the UK and Germany could help to accelerate...

Getech confirms geothermal potential in UK
03 October 2023 UK based Getech has completed a geothermal study for Angus...

Offshore wind supply chain ‘has £92 bn potential’ for UK
03 October 2023 Growing the UK’s supply chain for offshore wind represents a £92...

Prysmian wins two major cable projects in Germany
03 October 2023 Prysmian PowerLink, part of Prysmian Group, has been awarded new...

Lingen 250 kW electrolyser produces first H2
03 October 2023 The GET H2 TransHyDE joint project based in Lingen has reached an...

Valmet in €175 million loan agreement with EIB
03 October 2023 Valmet has signed a €175 million loan agreement with the European...

Vestas secures orders for two huge European projects
03 October 2023 Vestas has secured a 1140 MW firm order from Baltic Power Sp. z o.o, a...

2 GW West of Orkney windfarm seeks offshore consent
03 October 2023 The West of Orkney Windfarm project has now completed its 2023...

Construction starts on new bp solar in Texas
03 October 2023 Oil major bp has started construction of its 187 MWdc Peacock Solar...

September 2023

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EDF creates new UK engineering subsidiary
26 September 2023 EDF has created EDF EPR Engineering UK, a move designed to strengthen...

The path to global warming at 1.5 °C is still open – barely
26 September 2023 The International Energy Agency has released a new edition of its Net...

ZNPP risks diminish, but not military tensions
26 September 2023 Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has completed the...

Ghana launches $550 bn net-zero plan
26 September 2023 Ghana has launched a USD 550 bn Energy Transition and Investment Plan...

Construction starts of largest biomass power plant in West Africa
26 September 2023 EDF, Meridiam and SIFCA have laid the foundation stone of the largest...

Takasago Hydrogen Park enters full-scale operation
26 September 2023 Mitsubishi Power, an MHI brand, has announced that Takasago Hydrogen...

GE Vernova MoC for Ukraine hydro
26 September 2023 GE Vernova has signed a Memorandum of Collaboration between its Hydro...

Heat pump expansion in Germany stalls
26 September 2023 Germany’s heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity...

MEPs back plans to boost renewable energy
19 September 2023 In its plenary session on 12 September the EU parliament voted to boost...

DemoSATH floating wind starts commercial ops
19 September 2023 The floating offshore wind project DemoSATH, led by the Spanish...

Global electricity production still falling
19 September 2023 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but attacks in the area continue
19 September 2023 In its Update 183 on the Ukraine situation International Atomic Energy...

EU reached 90% gas storage target 2 months early
19 September 2023 The EU reached its target of filling gas storage facilities to 90%...

Statkraft now sole owner of its Brazilian subsidiary
19 September 2023 Statkraft has purchased 18.69% of the shares in its Brazilian...

Hithium launches 5 MWh container storage
19 September 2023 Hithium has launched a new 5 MWh energy storage product based on the...

Sumitomo establishes RE company in the USA
19 September 2023 Sumitomo Corporation, through Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, together...

53 MW in tidal stream projects get the go-ahead in the UK
12 September 2023 Seven tidal stream projects have secured contracts in the UK...

RWE onshore and solar projects in latest UK CfD auction
12 September 2023 RWE has been awarded Contracts for Difference for nine of its new...

GE Vernova and partners to undertake CCUS value chain study in Indonesia
12 September 2023 GE Vernova Gas Power, Korea’s CARBONCO, a company specialising...

ABB invests in clean energy start-up
12 September 2023 ABB Motion and WindESCo, have signed a strategic partnership, whereby ABB...

Record small-scale solar capacity added in 2022
12 September 2023 The Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States...

Uniper Heyden 4 to be retired permanently
12 September 2023 Uniper will permanently decommission the Heyden 4 hard coal-fired power...

FLEX reactor development ‘reaches a watershed’
12 September 2023 Nuclear energy developer MoltexFLEX has reached what it calls a watershed...

Approval for construction of large electrolyser plant in Germany
12 September 2023 A 200 MW hydrogen project in Germany has passed an important milestone –...

ERCOT takes precautionary grid stability measures
05 September 2023 ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operates the...

FibreMax and Entrion Wind form cabling partnership
05 September 2023 FibreMax, headquartered in Joure, the Netherlands, has signed a Memorandum...

US solar panel shipments at a record high in 2022
05 September 2023 In 2022, solar photovoltaic panel shipments in the United States...

GE Vernova starts commercial operations at JERA’s Futtsu power plant
05 September 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business on 28 August announced the successful...

Mocean granted £3 m to fund next-gen wave machine
05 September 2023 Mocean Energy has secured over £3 million in EU funding to develop and...

RWE and Stanwell sign MoU for renewables projects in Queensland
05 September 2023 RWE and Stanwell Corp have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to...

Sempra and Japanese consortium to develop carbon-neutral LNG supply chain
05 September 2023 Sempra Infrastructure has announced an agreement with a consortium of...

Vattenfall is looking to new nuclear power
05 September 2023 Vattenfall's CEO Anna Borg is currently leading a delegation of...

August 2023

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Germany could incur the costs of missing EU emissions targets
29 August 2023 The German coalition government’s Climate Action Programme 2023...

NY state to fund four storage demo projects
29 August 2023 New York state governor Kathy Hochul has announced awards amounting to...

Wave energy agreement targets stranded fossil reserves
29 August 2023 Wave energy specialists Mocean Energy and offshore energy enabler...

Secursun starts construction of 1.1 GW solar portfolio
29 August 2023 Joint venture Secursun has started the construction of the first solar...

GE wins major GT contracts in Greater Bay area of China
29 August 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has won orders for four GE 6F.03 gas...

UK loan for Ukrainian nuclear sector
29 August 2023 The UK has announced a £192 million loan guarantee to allow Ukraine to...

Prysmian preferred bidder for BalWin1 and 2 connections
29 August 2023 Prysmian Group has been selected by transmission system operator Amprion...

Vestas wins 288 MW order for two US projects
29 August 2023 Vestas has received a 288 MW order to power two wind farms in the...

GE to upgrade China’s Xiangjiaba hydro plant
29 August 2023 GE Vernova announced on 22 August that it has been selected by Yangtze...

Hawaiian Electric accused of mismanaging pre-wildfire issues
22 August 2023 Hawaii’s biggest power utility faces growing scrutiny over the role it...

Canadian federal support for SMR development
22 August 2023 Canada's government believes that small modular reactors can play...

AEP completes sale of unregulated renewables assets
22 August 2023 American Electric Power has completed the sale of its 1365 MW...

German government collects €417 m in windfall profits
22 August 2023 The German state gathered in approximately €417 m from a levy on...

German state set to abolish WTG ‘minimum distance’ rule
22 August 2023 The government of Germany’s most populous state, North...

US uranium production up from record low in 2021
22 August 2023 The 2022 production of uranium concentrate (U3O8) production in the USA...

Start of commercial ops at H-Class Three Rivers plant
22 August 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has announced the start of...

Vestas secures 140 MW order in Canada
22 August 2023 Vestas has received a 140 MW order to power the Halkirk II wind project...

Wärtsilä and AGL complete 250 MWh ESS in Australia
22 August 2023 With AGL Energy, a prominent Australian integrated energy company,...

DemoSATH achieves key offshore wind demo
15 August 2023 RWE’s DemoSATH project has achieved what is said to be a...

Auction success for RWE: 1.6 GW of offshore wind secured
15 August 2023 The German Federal Network Agency has announced that RWE has been...

ZNPP external power supply falters: perimeter mines remain
15 August 2023 On 10 August Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)...

Electricity production from fossil fuels is dropping rapidly – IEA
15 August 2023 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

Topsoe to supply ammonia loop for Canada’s largest renewable H2 plant
15 August 2023 Topsoe has signed an agreement with World Energy GH2, a ‘net-zero...

Vestas has conditional agreement for 1.2 GW offshore project
15 August 2023 Vestas has entered into a conditional agreement to deliver wind turbines...

Irsching 6 gas-fired plant to go ahead
15 August 2023 On August 10, Bavarian minister president Dr Markus Söder gave the...

The IRA is creating critical minerals shortages
15 August 2023 The USA’s Inflation Reduction Act is accelerating demand for...

ZNPP perimeter has been sown with mines
08 August 2023 International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi reported...

ACWA Power installs largest WTG in Central Asia
08 August 2023 Saudi-based ACWA Power has successfully installed the first wind turbine...

More peak demand records likely in Texas
08 August 2023 Prompted by forecasts of extreme weather, on 4 August ERCOT...

Hithium provides 140 MWh energy storage
08 August 2023 BESS specialist Hithium, based in Xiamen, China, has completed...

SHINE achieves visible proof of fusion
08 August 2023 On 3 August fusion specialists SHINE Technologies announced that it...

All T-pylons now erected on Hinkley connection project
08 August 2023 National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project has reached a second...

UK government welcomes report on electricity networks
08 August 2023 A report for the UK government and published on 4 August by...

Hitachi Energy selected for the UK’s longest HVDC link
01 August 2023 Hitachi Energy has been selected as the preferred technology provider by...

Nexans awarded record-breaking cable contract
01 August 2023 Nexans has been awarded the major turnkey contract, valued at €1.43...

GE Vernova wins express GT order from ESB
01 August 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has won orders for the supply, operation...

First offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico
01 August 2023 The US Department of the Interior is to hold the first-ever sale of...

EU sets state support conditions for German H2 plants
01 August 2023 The German economic ministry (BMWK) has released a statement, reports...

RWE plans H2-ready CCGT in Weisweiler
01 August 2023 RWE plans to build hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants at its own...

Masdar explores development of 2GW clean energy in Malaysia
01 August 2023 Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC, Masdar, and Citaglobal Berhad,...

Viking and Acorn CCS cluster plans given ‘Track 2’ status
01 August 2023 The Viking and Scottish Cluster/Acorn CCS schemes have been confirmed...

Thailand invests in subsea wave power project
01 August 2023 Thailand’s state energy company, PTTEP, has joined the Renewables for...

July 2023

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Viking interconnector joins UK and Danish grids
25 July 2023 The British and Danish electricity grids have been physically connected...

New micro-modular reactor for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp
25 July 2023 Jacobs has been selected by Ultra-safe Nuclear Corporation UK (USNC)...

SeaVolt to launch floating solar test platform
25 July 2023 SeaVolt, a collaboration of Tractebel, DEME, and Jan De Nul, is preparing...

European parliament supports fuel flexibility and energy storage
25 July 2023 The European Parliament, through its ITRE Committee (the European...

Vattenfall expands its solar presence in Germany
25 July 2023 Vattenfall has acquired the German solar developer Solizer. The...

UK’s first deep geothermal power plant
25 July 2023 Exergy International, a provider of new generation Organic Rankine...

UK launches nuclear revival
25 July 2023 Great British Nuclear (GBN) an ‘executive non-departmental public...

Development of 12 SMRs in Washington state
25 July 2023 Energy Northwest and X-Energy Reactor Company, a developer of advanced...

ACWA granted land for 10 GW wind project
18 July 2023 ACWA Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with the New...

Germany ‘to miss 2045 climate neutrality target’
18 July 2023 A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the...

Bilfinger completes core meltdown stabilisation system for Hinkley Point C
18 July 2023 Bilfinger has completed and delivered the Core Melt Stabilisation System...

Global electricity production falls again
18 July 2023 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

Aker and Aramco to explore CCUS solutions in Saudi Arabia
18 July 2023 Aramco and Norway-based Aker Carbon Capture have signed a memorandum...

Sea Fern floating wind to be part of Hunter Wind Zone
18 July 2023 A consortium consisting of offshore wind specialists Simply Blue Group...

Digital pilot for South Fork offshore wind
18 July 2023 Sennen is working with Ørsted to pilot an innovative digital system...

ZNPP situation is improving – IAEA
11 July 2023 The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in its Ukraine Update 172...

Ammonia market ‘to triple by 2050’
11 July 2023 The global market for ammonia is poised to triple in the coming decades...

Aker Horizons signs long-term PPA for Narvik green ammonia project
11 July 2023 Aker Horizons ASA has signed a 10-year power purchase agreement...

Ørsted and ESVAGT opt for second methanol-powered vessel
11 July 2023 What is believed to be the world’s first green fuels vessel for offshore...

Ontario to deploy additional GE Hitachi SMRs
11 July 2023 The Province of Ontario announced on 7 July that it is working with...

Prysmian reaches EGL1 HVDC cable milestone
11 July 2023 Prysmian Group has reached an important contractural milestone with...

IAEA approves Japan’s Fukushima plans to release treated water
11 July 2023 An International Atomic Energy Agency safety review has concluded...

Wärtsilä strengthens Brazilian connection
11 July 2023 Wärtsilä has signed a renewal of its Operation & Maintenance agreement...

Sinopec green H2 pilot commences operation
05 July 2023 China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has announced that the...

Renewables at 52% of consumption in Germany
04 July 2023 Wind, solar and other renewable energy sources covered 52 % of...

World's largest hydro-solar power plant starts generating
04 July 2023 With the installation of 523.1 MW of Astronergy PV modules, the first...

Malaysia to undertake CCS installations at scale on coal plants
04 July 2023 Toshiba Energy Systems and TNB Power Generation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary...

‘Greater transparency no substitute for real delivery’ – CCC report
04 July 2023 The UK government has published its Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP),...

Contract to develop 3 GW wind power in Irish Sea
04 July 2023 Kent has been awarded a new contract to support the development of the...

Plan to re-purpose Pleasants power plant to fire H2
04 July 2023 California-based Omnis Global Technologies is in negotiations to buy the...

Ramboll wins new multi-million energy island contract
04 July 2023 Ramboll has won the contract to develop the electrical infrastructure for...

June 2023

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Gulf-to-Europe hydrogen pipeline posited
27 June 2023 RINA, the inspection, certification and consulting engineering...

USA ‘at risk of summer shortfalls’ – NERC
27 June 2023 The US Energy Information Administration has reported analysis by the...

Ørsted develops uncrewed surface measuring vessel
27 June 2023 Ørsted has invented, designed and developed the first uncrewed surface...

DNV acquires Nixu to safeguard against cyber security risks
27 June 2023 DNV is to fully acquire Helsinki-headquartered cyber security services...

DTEK Group joins Ukraine Energy Initiative
27 June 2023 DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, is joining a UN-backed...

Further delay at Vogtle Unit 3
27 June 2023 Commercial operation of the new Unit 3 reactor at the Georgia Power...

RWE’s BECCUS CO₂ removal project ‘to play crucial role’
27 June 2023 RWE believes that its Beccus project will play a crucial role in achieving...

Wood and Centrica to evaluate H2 production hub
27 June 2023 Wood and Centrica Storage are working together to evaluate the feasibility...

Kakhovka reservoir – the position remains uncertain
20 June 2023 Following the explosion at the Kakhovka dam and hydro plant in...

Steep reduction in power generation from coal
20 June 2023 The latest Electricity Statistics Monthly report from the...

Consumers Energy is to close Karn coal plants
20 June 2023 Consumers Energy has marked a significant milestone in its ongoing project...

Offshore wind safety record is improving
20 June 2023 Members of G+, the health and safety organisation for the offshore...

Norway’s CCS projects face geological risks – IEEFA report
20 June 2023 Unforeseen variances encountered in the operation of two Norwegian...

RWE connects its first US utility-scale battery storage to the grid
20 June 2023 RWE has continued to expand its renewables portfolio in the USA by...

The last WTG for Hollandse Kust Zuid installed
20 June 2023 Almost two years after construction of Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust...

Vestas secures 139 MW repowering order from Vitol
20 June 2023 Vestas has received a 139 MW order to repower a project owned by Vitol...

Envision Energy awarded 1.67 GW WTG contract
14 June 2023 Envision Energy, a large Chinese multinational headquartered in Shanghai...

Build underway on USA’s first full-scale wave energy test facility
14 June 2023 Jacobs has completed the underground infrastructure engineering that...

US summer coal demand will be significantly reduced – EIA
14 June 2023 The US Energy Information Administration forecasts that the largest...

‘First ever’ clean hydrogen strategy and roadmap
14 June 2023 The Biden-Harris Administration on 9 June released the ‘US National...

UK offshore wind power capacity ‘must increase by 265%’
14 June 2023 Technology major ABB estimates, from the results of its own analysis, that...

GE Vernova and Northern Lights sign CCS MoU
14 June 2023 GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and Norwegian infrastructure...

Montana’s climate policy goes on trial
14 June 2023 In what could become a landmark trial in the USA, on 12 June in the...

Kakhovka dam situation stable – for now
14 June 2023 Following the explosion at the Kakhovka dam and hydro plant in...

UAE and Egypt to develop Africa's largest wind farm
14 June 2023 Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co, with Infinity Power, Africa’s largest...

Progressive Media International Titles Amongst First Tranche of Media Partners Ahead of 26th World Energy Congress
13 June 2023 Leading media outlets from across the world have partnered with the...

Largest Pennsylvania coal-fired PP to close by July
06 June 2023 The US Energy Information Administration reports that after 54 years...

Cancelling coal plants is cost-effective way ahead
06 June 2023 The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), a leading energy...

ERCOT launches grid notification tool
06 June 2023 ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) has announced the start...

Heliostat Consortium announces funding awards
06 June 2023 The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...

UK offshore transmission auction announced
06 June 2023 Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem has put out a call to prospective...

Prysmian invests in new plant strategy
06 June 2023 Prysmian Group is to invest around €120 million in its strategic plant...

SSE Generation fined after Ofgem investigation
06 June 2023 An investigation by UK energy regulator Ofgem has found that SSE...

May 2023

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IAEA briefs UN Security Council on ZNPP situation
30 May 2023 The International Atomic Energy Agency was on 30 May due to brief the...

Namibia launches 10 billion dollar-hydrogen project
30 May 2023 In co-operation with German investors, Namibia has commissioned...

RWE becomes 100% owner of Nordseecluster
30 May 2023 RWE has become the sole owner of the 1.6 GW cluster of offshore wind farms...

Uniper ‘does not expect any further losses from gas supply obligations’
30 May 2023 ‪Uniper believes its precarious position has now stabilised and says that...

New record for blending H2 with natural gas
30 May 2023 Constellation, reputedly the country’s largest producer of...

Prysmian is preferred bidder for UK’s EGL2 link
30 May 2023 Prysmian Group has received notification from SSEN Transmission, and...

Site agreed for Oklo modular reactor
30 May 2023 US-based Oklo and the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI)...

Ukraine latest – new wind farm starts up, amidst continuing bombardment
23 May 2023 The world’s only wind farm being built in a major conflict zone has...

World's first semi-submersible floating WTG connected to the grid
23 May 2023 CNOOC Ltd has announced that the Wenchang deep-sea floating...

Global electricity production falls again
23 May 2023 The latest IEA Monthly Electricity Statistics report including February...

NEOM completes USD $8.4 bn financial close for world’s largest green H2 plant
23 May 2023 Neom Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) has announced that, following...

Badeel and ACWA Power invest SAR12.2 bn in three new solar projects
23 May 2023 The Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), a wholly-owned company...

Aggreko partners farmers’ communities solar initiative
23 May 2023 Aggreko’s Energy Transition Solutions division is to become the...

ABB joins Bair Energy green H2 complex in Texas
23 May 2023 ABB is to join the Bair Energy Green Hydrogen and Technology Alliance...

Three RWE carbon capture projects in the UK
23 May 2023 RWE has announced plans to progress three new carbon capture projects in...

EPA proposes new carbon pollution controls
16 May 2023 The US Environmental Protection Agency on 11 May proposed new...

California ‘going big’ on floating offshore wind
16 May 2023 Federal, state and industry leaders on Day Two of the Pacific Offshore...

Masdar and IRENA aim to triple global renewables capacity by 2030
16 May 2023 Masdar has signed an agreement with the International Renewable Energy...

Five carbon capture units for Ørsted bioenergy plants
16 May 2023 Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a large-scale carbon capture project...

Canada Electricity Advisory Council launched
16 May 2023 On 5 May, Canada’s minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan...

Significant shifts in US hydropower map – EIA
16 May 2023 Record-breaking rain and snow in parts of the western United States...

Location selected for advanced SMR nuclear project
16 May 2023 Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company have announced that Dow has selected...

New study reports strong public support for nuclear
16 May 2023 A new report published on 11 May has found that there is widespread...

Sumita Tono wind project under way
16 May 2023 Pattern Energy Group LP and its affiliate in Japan, Green Power...

Olkiluoto 3 EPR finally goes commercial
09 May 2023 Fourteen years behind schedule, commercial operation of the 1600 MW...

Panic evacuation from towns near the Zaporizhzhia NPP
09 May 2023 The BBC reports that a ‘mad panic’ has ensued as Russia attempts to...

GE selected to deliver pumped storage for Chira Soria
09 May 2023 GE – in consortium with Cobra Infrastructuras Hidráulicas – has been...

Upscaling offshore WTGs ‘is creating unsustainable market risks’
09 May 2023 The offshore wind sector must take action to address a rising tide...

Agreement for 1000 MW of onshore wind build
09 May 2023 RWE has signed a framework agreement with Siemens Gamesa in pursuit of...

Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor
09 May 2023 Westinghouse Electric Company on 4 May launched its AP300 small...

300 MW Biblis grid support PS inaugurated
09 May 2023 On 9 May RWE and GE officially inaugurated the Biblis power plant,...

Contracts signed for geothermal plant in Turkey
09 May 2023 Exergy International, a specialist in Organic Rankine Cycle based plants,...

European energy ministers commit to Ostend Declaration
02 May 2023 The North Sea Summit in Ostend, Belgium, which took place during the week...

EU/Ukraine recovery conference takes place in Rome
02 May 2023 DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko took part in the Bilateral Conference on...

EDF and Maple Power awarded 1 GW offshore tender
02 May 2023 Following the fourth offshore wind tender launched in January 2021,...

Uniper subsidiary Unipro placed under Russian state administration
02 May 2023 The Russian state has published a presidential decree allowing...

Vestas order for 238 MW offshore wind project in Japan
02 May 2023 Vestas has secured a 238 MW order from Hibiki Wind Energy for...

200MW Kom Ombo solar project obtains financing
02 May 2023 ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi developer, investor, and operator of...

EnergyHub first to exceed 1 m DERMS devices under management
02 May 2023 In April EnergyHub became the first distributed energy resource...

EDF to boost NMR development
02 May 2023 EDF has created a new subsidiary, NUWARD, to boost the development of...

April 2023

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EPA ‘to propose strongest emission limits yet’
25 April 2023 The Biden Administration is widely expected to propose stringent...

Hungary agrees deal for Russian reactors
25 April 2023 According to a report in the Budapest Business Journal (BBJ) via...

Wärtsilä is preferred contractor for huge Australian storage project
25 April 2023 Technology group Wärtsilä has been selected by Origin Energy as the...

National Grid launches ‘largest overhaul in generations’
25 April 2023 National Grid has launched what it is calling ‘the largest overhaul of...

Vattenfall plans new hydro power in Sweden
25 April 2023 For the first time in twelve years, Vattenfall plans to build new hydro...

Gravitricity to enter US energy storage market
25 April 2023 Energy storage specialist Gravitricity is to partner with US...

Germany picks up speed of hydrogen ramp-up
25 April 2023 The implementation of solid showcase projects on an industrial scale...

Fluor signs laser fusion MOU
25 April 2023 Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with...

Germany's nuclear power era comes to an end
18 April 2023 The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday 15 April after...

Global electricity production falls, but renewables rise
18 April 2023 The latest International Energy Agency’s ‘Monthly Electricity...

Rolls-Royce sets up infrastructure for green hydrogen production
18 April 2023 Rolls-Royce plans to produce green hydrogen at its business unit...

Zaporizhzhya is ‘living on borrowed time…’– IAEA
18 April 2023 The dependence of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on...

Fortum and Vestas in €200 m contractural dispute
18 April 2023 The state-owned Finnish company, Fortum Oyj, has initiated arbitration in...

Carbon intensity falls to all-time low
18 April 2023 Ember’s fourth annual Global Electricity Review reports that the...

Ukraine is ‘winning the energy war’
18 April 2023 Speaking at a press conference on 12 April Maxim Timchenko, the...

Vogtle unit 3 connects to the grid
13 April 2023 US Georgia Power reports that unit 3 of the Vogtle NPP, the first new...

Mexico’s ‘new nationalisation’ prompts sale of Iberdrola assets
11 April 2023 Iberdrola is selling the bulk of its Mexican power-generating assets to...

US Inflation Reduction Act to pump up annual energy outlook
11 April 2023 The US Energy Information Administration projects that by 2050 total US...

Gazelle and WAM Horizon to develop pilot offshore wind project
11 April 2023 Gazelle Wind Power, which has developed a modular floating offshore...

Aeroderivative GT to support Czech energy transition
11 April 2023 GE has secured a contract from UCED Group, the energy division of...

Funding for net zero innovation projects
11 April 2023 The UK National Grid’s electricity transmission and distribution...

UK confirms commitment to large-scale Power BECCS
11 April 2023 The UK government on 30 March confirmed its commitment to supporting...

First cross-border offshore wind project in the Iberian peninsula
11 April 2023 IberBlue Wind, a joint venture operating in the Iberian market, is...

Solar Fast named the fastest growing solar company in the UK
05 April 2023 David Draper launched Solar Fast in 2021 as a trading style of Gas Fast,...

22 GW of offshore HVDC connections awarded by TenneT
04 April 2023 Dutch/German transmission system operator TenneT has awarded 11 contracts...

‘USD 35 trillion investment by 2030 needed’ for successful transition
04 April 2023 The global energy transition is off-track, aggravated by the effects...

Project to confirm potential of wind farm control technology launched
04 April 2023 DNV has launched a joint industry project alongside wind farm owners,...

Germany ‘will complete nuclear phase-out as planned’
04 April 2023 The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned,...

Renewable power secured for Holmaneset green H2 and NH3 project
04 April 2023 Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has secured renewable power for...

Energy and emissions added value database from IEA
04 April 2023 The International Energy Agency has created a new ‘Energy and Emissions...

Siemens to supply world’s second-largest offshore wind array
04 April 2023 Siemens Gamesa has signed a firm order with ScottishPower Renewables...

UK’s green H2 system ‘needs overhauling’
04 April 2023 A new report published by RenewableUK calls for the UK government...

New UK annual wind power record
04 April 2023 New statistics released by the UK government show that Britain’s wind...

Vestas – 3 large wind contracts and a PS
04 April 2023 Vestas has signed contracts to supply three large wind projects in...

March 2023

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Possible Zaporizhzhia counter-offensive heighten fears of disaster
28 March 2023 Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic...

Renewables overtake coal and nuclear in the USA
28 March 2023 In 2022, the US electric power sector produced 4090 million MWh of...

Italy's largest islands connected to the mainland
28 March 2023 To claim the maximum benefit from renewable energy in the future, the...

LG to invest in US battery production
28 March 2023 LG Energy Solution is to invest approximately KRW 7.2 trillion (USD...

EIA projects reduction in US energy-related CO2 emissions
28 March 2023 US energy-related CO2 emissions will by 2030 fall by 25% to 38% below...

Solid sorbent carbon capture for power generation
28 March 2023 GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, and CCS specialist Svante have entered...

Gravity energy storage ‘could form part of virtual power plants'
28 March 2023 Underground energy storage specialists Gravitricity has signed...

Largest engine ever to run on H2 blend
28 March 2023 The technology group Wärtsilä and WEC Energy Group have successfully...

Commission plan to reform the EU electricity market
21 March 2023 On 4 March the European Commission published its proposals to reform the...

EC Net-Zero Industry Act proposed
21 March 2023 On 16 March the European Commission proposed its Net-Zero Industry Act...

Electricity production falling, but total has risen compared to 2021
21 March 2023 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

National Grid energises world’s first T-pylons
21 March 2023 National Grid has successfully energised 36 of the world’s first pylons...

ACWA signs up to new green projects in Uzbekistan
21 March 2023 ACWA Power has signed three Power Purchase Agreements and...

Significant renewable power expansion in Louisiana
21 March 2023 Entergy Louisiana has made the largest renewable power expansion request...

Trial of drone-mounted field sensors for pylon inspections
21 March 2023 The UK’s National Grid and The University of Manchester are working...

UK Space Agency backs R-R nuclear power
21 March 2023 Rolls-Royce has secured funding from UK Space Agency, which is...

Cost of capital threatens UK renewable energy projects
21 March 2023 The rising cost of capital faced by developers of renewable energy...

Where things stand in the global energy crisis one year on
16 March 2023 On 23 February Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International...

Rigged tenders?
15 March 2023 RWE Renewables UK is pursuing a damages claim of £9.24 million against...

Supercritical CO2 conditions achieved in San Antonio pilot
14 March 2023 GTI Energy and its partners, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and...

Germany to build 25 GW of new gas power plants by 2030
14 March 2023 Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany will use its auction mechanism...

Demand for ocean space will grow 5-fold by 2050 – DNV report
14 March 2023 According to DNV’s Spatial Competition Forecast, collaboration...

DTEK commissions Tyligulska wind power plant in Ukraine
14 March 2023 Despite Russia's war against Ukraine, the DTEK Group has continued...

Taiwan’s Tung Hsiao power plant adds 180 MW
14 March 2023 GE has announced that the Taiwan Power Company (TPC)’s Tung Hsiao Power...

Vogtle Unit 3 NPP reaches initial criticality
14 March 2023 On 6 March Georgia Power announced that the 1117 MW Unit 3 of its...

Recyclable blades for Sofia offshore wind project
14 March 2023 132 recyclable blades made by Siemens are to be installed on 44 of the 100...

Mitsubishi No. 1 in global gas turbine market in 2022
14 March 2023 Mitsubishi Power, a brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, achieved the...

One year on – IAEA report on nuclear safety in Ukraine
07 March 2023 One year on, the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a...

Global CO2 emissions rising less than initially feared
07 March 2023 Global CO2 emissions are increasing less than initially feared, as...

The Ukraine war and the global energy crisis – IEA commentary
07 March 2023 On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the...

US GTs operated at record highs in summer 2022
07 March 2023 The average monthly capacity factor for simple-cycle, natural gas...

NKT and Prysmian to create ‘world’s largest offshore cable systems’
07 March 2023 NKT and Prysmian are to install five 525 kV XLPE HVDC cable connections...

Fervo Energy to develop combined geothermal and DAC facility
07 March 2023 Houston based Fervo Energy is to design and engineer a fully...

Vestas selected for Wando Geumil offshore wind project
07 March 2023 Vestas has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Korea South-East...

ACWA Power inks major renewables deal with Kazakhstan government
07 March 2023 ACWA Power has announced a ground-breaking partnership agreement with...

February 2023

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Demonstration of ‘clean’ plasma boosts ITER fusion
28 February 2023 Scientists from EUROfusion, including researchers from the UK...

UKAEA awards £3.1m in contracts to UK’s fusion industry
28 February 2023 Eighteen organisations have secured contracts with the United Kingdom...

‘Floating offshore wind will be fully commercial by 2035’ – DNV survey
28 February 2023 DNV has published new research about the industry’s perception of the...

CSI Energy Storage secures 487 MWh battery deal
28 February 2023 Canadian Solar has announced that CSI Energy Storage, which is part of...

Blackmail of Germany ‘has failed’
28 February 2023 Russia’s attempt to blackmail Germany and the rest of Europe into giving...

Argus launches price index for low-carbon ammonia
28 February 2023 Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has launched a...

Masdar makes strategic investment in major geothermal player
28 February 2023 Masdar is making a strategic investment in Indonesian company...

Recharge Industries completes purchase of Britishvolt
28 February 2023 Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation, has...

Alfen and Semper to build largest BESS in The Netherlands
28 February 2023 Alfen, an energy solutions specialist and SemperPower, a prominent player...

Global electricity production down, but renewables increase – IEA
21 February 2023 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

Germany and Belgium to increase energy links with three new projects
21 February 2023 Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany and Belgium have...

First-of-a-kind storage project in the UK
21 February 2023 Wärtsilä has contracted to supply a 200 MW/400 MWh energy storage...

IberBlue Wind announces huge offshore wind project in Portugal
21 February 2023 IberBlue Wind, a joint venture created to promote floating offshore...

CO₂ certification dilemma for Germany
21 February 2023 Germany’s economy and climate ministry (BMWK) wants to take off the...

Global offshore wind pipeline now exceeds 1100 GW
21 February 2023 New research published today by RenewableUK’s EnergyPulse data analysts...

Solar projects achieve significant milestones in Texas
21 February 2023 OCI Solar Power has now originated more than 3 GW of utility-scale...

Reduction in Ukrainian nuclear output – IAEA Update 146
14 February 2023 Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael...

Vestas unveils circularity solution for WTG blades
14 February 2023 Vestas is working on commercialisation of a new solution that would...

ACWA Power initiates key RE partnerships in Azerbaijan
14 February 2023 Major developer ACWA Power has announced that four separate agreements...

EU and Swiss-funded FLEX4H2 project launched
14 February 2023 The ‘FLEX4H2’ project – Flexibility for Hydrogen – aims at...

GE’s GTs to power Kazakhstan’s first CHP plant
14 February 2023 As part of modernisation of the Kazakhstan power infrastructure, Aksa...

RheEnergise and partners secure £1m grant from UK government
14 February 2023 In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of...

New England grid withstands Arctic conditions – by bringing coal and oil PPs online
14 February 2023 The US Energy Information Administration reports that from 3-5...

Deal for EU offtake from India’s first green ammonia project
14 February 2023 Uniper and Greenko ZeroC (the green molecule production arm of the...

Siemens to establish nacelle facility in New York
14 February 2023 Siemens Gamesa has announced its intention to build a major offshore...

CCSC launches 18 MW offshore WTG
07 February 2023 Communications agency Tamarindo reports that Chinese firms have...

Siemens and Doosan sign offshore wind agreement
07 February 2023 Siemens Gamesa and Doosan Enerbility (formerly Doosan Heavy Industries)...

Amokabel acquires cable maker specialising in bushfire protection
07 February 2023 Amokabel, the Swedish specialist cable producer, has acquired...

Partnership to deliver UK solar and battery storage projects
07 February 2023 Amberside Energy and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, have announced...

190 MW grid-balancing peaker plant for Texas
07 February 2023 Wärtsilä is to supply the generating equipment for a new 190 MW power...

First calculating method for total carbon footprint to be developed
07 February 2023 Eleven offshore wind developers – bp, EnBW, Fred Olsen Seawind,...

Prysmian and National Grid to upgrade UK electricity grid
07 February 2023 Prysmian Group has been awarded, through its subsidiary in the UK, a...

Duke Energy brings advanced microgrid into service
07 February 2023 Duke Energy has brought into service what is said to be one of the...

January 2023

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Update - Ukraine’s energy sector during war
31 January 2023 Ukraine’s energy security was the topic of an online briefing by DTEK...

Wärtsilä to supply huge gas engine PP in Latin America
31 January 2023 Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the engines for a large power plant...

Natural gas has displaced (most) coal-fired generation in Pennsylvania
31 January 2023 The US Energy Information Administration reports that natural gas-fired...

Enapter AG electrolyser order from S Korea
31 January 2023 Enapter AG, together with its partner YEST, has received an order from...

GE connects all units at 1.2 GW Jinzhai pumped storage
31 January 2023 In line with the planned schedule, all units of the Jinzhai pumped...

Mitsubishi Power order of H-25 GT for Chang Chun Petrochemical
31 January 2023 Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,...

Poland’s first commercial NPP may be operational by 2036
31 January 2023 Representatives of Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), ZE PAK, and South...

IMechE Steam Turbine and Generator User Group 2023
24 January 2023 Following the successful return to a live, in-person format last year,...

Uzbekistan’s first green H2 and ammonia projects
24 January 2023 Prominent Saudi developer ACWA Power has signed extensive heads of...

DNV acquires AI-enabled Proxima Solutions
24 January 2023 DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider has...

The Crown Estate seals landmark agreements for offshore wind
24 January 2023 In what is described as ‘a major milestone for the UK’s energy security...

TESLA 50Hz to build 40 MW of rooftop solar across Romania
24 January 2023 Tesla 50Hz, part of Tesla Group, Romania, has signed a co-operation...

First horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine installed
24 January 2023 The trial operation of the first horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine at...

IAEA upgrades its Ukraine presence
24 January 2023 According to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Update 143,...

Net electricity production down – IEA
17 January 2023 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

CO2 producers “must be forced to ‘take back’ carbon”
17 January 2023 UK newspaper The Guardian reports that a group of leading scientists...

‘Vibrations’ delay start up of Vogtle 3 NPP
17 January 2023 Georgia Power has delayed the start up of Vogtle Unit 3, the only...

Deepening rift between Green Party and climate movement in Germany
17 January 2023 Online news agency Clean Energy Wire reports that the leadership of...

Fontus and Verano to build a solar pipeline in Chile
17 January 2023 Verano Energy, a prominent renewable energy developer in Latin America,...

MHI signs MoU to collaborate in ammonia co-firing studies
17 January 2023 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Major T&D order to transmit 4 GW of wind power
17 January 2023 The German transmission system operator Amprion has awarded the contract...

World coal consumption reached a new high in 2022
10 January 2023 Global coal demand increased only marginally in 2022 but enough to push it...

Vestas 15 MW prototype WTG produces first kWh
10 January 2023 Vestas has finalised installation of its V236-15.0 MW offshore WTG...

First LNG cargo arrives at Germany’s LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven
10 January 2023 ‪On 3 January Germany’s first full cargo of liquefied natural gas for the...

South Dakota PUC issues permit for North Bend Wind Farm
10 January 2023 The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has approved a siting...

Jacobs to plan dismantling of Soviet-era nuclear reactors
10 January 2023 A consortium comprising Westinghouse Electric Spain, Jacobs, and...

200 MWh BESS to support New Zealand’s energy transition
10 January 2023 Saft, a subsidiary of French company TotalEnergies, has been awarded...

Germany’s power supply will survive coal and nuclear exit
10 January 2023 Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an...

Ukraine still suffering infrastructure strikes
03 January 2023 On 29 December Russia launched what appeared to be one of its biggest...

EU Commission approves Uniper stabilisation measures
03 January 2023 Following Uniper’s extraordinary general meeting on 19 December to...

Global renewables electricity production still rising
03 January 2023 The latest International Energy Agency's ‘Monthly Electricity...

Uniper extends operation of Heyden 4 and Staudinger 5
03 January 2023 ‪‪Uniper is extending the market operation of the Heyden 4 and Staudinger...

Three partners to explore offshore integrated energy hubs
03 January 2023 Neptune Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ørsted and...

Ultra Safe Nuclear and Portland to collaborate on MMR
03 January 2023 Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a prominent US-based company in...

First industrial-scale e-fuels facility in production
03 January 2023 Production has begun at what is believed to be the world’s first...

December 2022

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$3.7 bn to kick-start the USA’s CO2 extraction industry
20 December 2022 The Biden-Harris administration, through the US Department of Energy...

Sunotec builds Bulgaria’s largest solar plant
20 December 2022 The construction of Bulgaria’s largest solar power plant, the 124 MW...

Renewable PPA for new solar project
20 December 2022 INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA has announced that it has entered into...

Plans to build the world’s first laser fusion plant
20 December 2022 Following the recent announcement of fusion energy breakeven at the...

Green Fuels for Denmark receives Danish IPCEI funding
20 December 2022 The Danish Business Authority has awarded the Danish Power-to-X...

LNG terminal opening ‘sets pace for infrastructure modernisation’
20 December 2022 Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas opened on...

200 MW gas plant for Ireland’s reserve
20 December 2022 GE Gas Power and MYTILINEOS have secured an order from the Electricity...

Fusion ignition breakthrough achieved at NIF
13 December 2022 The US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security...

German government proposes changes to CCS legal framework
13 December 2022 Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that in a bid to achieve its...

Coal the largest source for generation for 15 states
13 December 2022 In 15 US states last year, coal was used to generate more electricity...

ERCOT creates voluntary curtailment programme
13 December 2022 As part of continued improvements to support grid reliability,...

Wärtsilä to supply a 100 MWh battery storage system to the UK
13 December 2022 Wärtsilä has signed a contract with EDF Renewables UK and Ireland to...

First two pumped storage units at Jinzhai commissioned
13 December 2022 GE Hydro Solutions has been contracted by Anhui Jinzhai Pumped Storage...

Global BESS capacity to exceed 2 TWh by 2033
13 December 2022 In the latest version of its market report, ‘Batteries for stationary...

Germany sets renewable power record in 2022
13 December 2022 Germany will produce a record 256 TWh of electricity from renewable...

Last coal plant in New Jersey demolished
13 December 2022 The last remaining coal-fired power plant in the US state of New...

Missile strikes on Ukraine’s power structure continue
06 December 2022 On 5 December the eighth wave of missile strikes in eight weeks hit...

Uniper initiates arbitration proceedings against Gazprom
06 December 2022 Uniper has initiated arbitration proceedings against Russia's Gazprom...

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy to develop large-scale power-to-X
06 December 2022 Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy have signed a letter of intent to jointly...

MENA region’s largest solar energy plant in prospect
06 December 2022 Saudi Arabia’s Water and Electricity Holding Co (Badeel), a wholly...

AMEA Power completes US$1.1 bn solar and wind deal
06 December 2022 AMEA Power, a fast growing renewable energy company in the Middle...

New Jersey township turns landfill into a clean energy asset
06 December 2022 CEP Renewables, CS Energy, Terrasmart, Lindsay Precast and NJR Clean...

Assystem to support new nuclear in Kazakhstan
06 December 2022 Project management company Assystem has signed a Memorandum of...

Global players on board with HyNQ green ammonia
06 December 2022 A consortium of domestic and global energy players, led by Energy Estate,...

November 2022

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“The swift reduction of global coal emissions is the central challenge” – IEA
29 November 2022 The world must move quickly to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from...

2000 MW solar and battery storage for the UK
29 November 2022 Black & Veatch has been awarded a lead role in the development of an...

AMEA Power to create West Africa’s largest solar plant
29 November 2022 AMEA Power has announced the expansion of the Mohammed Bin Zayed Solar...

John Cockerill designs the world’s largest HRSG
29 November 2022 The Awirs power plant, in Flémalle, Liege, Belgium, will be replaced by...

Renewable Power Capital enters Europe’s storage market
29 November 2022 Renewable Power Capital, the pan-European renewable energy...

Gravity energy storage could help decarbonise India
29 November 2022 A new project aims to identify how gravity energy storage can...

Irish power grid will connect to continental Europe
29 November 2022 Siemens Energy has contracted to deliver the high-voltage direct...

Four Ukrainian NPPs reconnected to grid
29 November 2022 Ukraine’s four operational nuclear power plant sites all have access to...

A mitigation deal is struck at COP27
22 November 2022 Diplomats from nearly 200 countries concluded two weeks of climate talks...

Infrastructure strikes - Ukraine government prepares to evacuate Kherson
22 November 2022 For nearly two months the BBC and various news agencies have been...

$1.1 billion grant to keep open Diablo Canyon NPP
22 November 2022 The US Department of Energy is to conditionally provide Pacific Gas...

Proposal for 990 MW floating offshore wind farm in Andalusia
22 November 2022 IberBlue Wind, a joint venture set up to develop floating offshore wind...

Collaboration to develop green hydrogen offshore
22 November 2022 Green hydrogen specialist Lhyfe and major French harbour Nantes-St...

A continental first – power using H2 blended fuel
22 November 2022 On 16 November Dr Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi, Egypt’s minister of...

California will build no new gas-fired generation
22 November 2022 In an update to its Scoping Plan the California Air Resources Board has...

Zaporizhzhya survives bombardment
22 November 2022 An expert team of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday...

Germany is ‘not hydrogen ready’
15 November 2022 Germany is not sufficiently prepared for the ramp-up of the hydrogen...

Floating wind ‘will miss 2030 targets’
15 November 2022 A critical renewable energy initiative to aid the transition away from...

Geothermal to be re-launched in Germany
15 November 2022 Clean Energy Wire reports that a new exploration process launched...

Carbon emissions from fossil fuels will hit record high in 2022
15 November 2022 Carbon emissions emanating from fossil fuels will hit record levels...

Contract awarded for largest floating solar power project
15 November 2022 SolarDuck has been awarded a contract for what it believes will be...

Business generated power could replace UK imported gas
15 November 2022 A new study has revealed that the investment in sustainable on-site...

RWE to build Hollandse Kust West VII
15 November 2022 RWE has received the necessary permit from Netherlands Enterprise Agency...

Renescience for sale
09 November 2022 Ørsted says its Renescience energy-from-waste technology is currently “in...

23% of the US coal firing fleet to retire by 2029
08 November 2022 Owing to continued competition from natural gas and renewable resources,...

Release of IEA Energy RD&D budgets data
08 November 2022 The International Energy Agency has released its ‘2022 Energy Technology...

GE and Shell sign LNG development agreement
08 November 2022 GE Gas Power and Shell Global Solutions, a prominent supplier of...

MHI and Indonesia Power to investigate H2 Co-firing
08 November 2022 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and PLN Indonesia Power, a sub-holding...

First utility-scale PP with near-zero emissions to be built in Texas
08 November 2022 NET Power announced on 7 November its plan to develop and build what...

Victoria-NSW interconnector upgrade completed
08 November 2022 A greater volume of renewable energy will be able to flow between...

Waveswing trials exceed expectations
08 November 2022 Inverness, Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy has recorded ‘highly...

Exergy unveils corporate rebrand
04 November 2022 On 3 November Exergy International announced the launch of its...

IEA sees reasons for hope in the current energy crisis
01 November 2022 The International Energy Agency’s most recent publication, World...

UN Panel on Climate Change issues stark warning
01 November 2022 A new report released on 26 October by the UN’s principal climate...

ACWA Power in sustainable infrastructure financing MOU with EBRD
01 November 2022 ACWA Power Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to...

Skimming solar PV profits could ‘poison investment climate’
01 November 2022 Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that plans by the German...

US gas fired generation down for the first time in four years
01 November 2022 According to the Energy Information Administration’s recently...

GE suffers renewables turndown, but sees growth in gas generation
01 November 2022 GE has reported a 2022 third quarter showing some disparity across...

Large-scale direct air capture moving to next step
01 November 2022 The world’s largest commercial-scale project capturing carbon...

October 2022

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Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure to develop 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark
26 October 2022 Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have entered into a...

ACWA Power and IDC to explore green H2 projects in South Africa
26 October 2022 ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi developer and operator of power...

Consortium to pursue green projects on the US Gulf Coast
26 October 2022 ‪Air Liquide, Chevron Corporation, LyondellBasell, and Uniper SE...

Siemens contracts for 105 MW of wind power to Finland
26 October 2022 Siemens Gamesa has been chosen by project developer Energiequelle for...

Scholven C coal PP returns to the market
26 October 2022 ‪Uniper will operate its Scholven C hard-coal-fired power plant for...

Ukraine’s energy sector – an update from the war zone
25 October 2022 DTEK Group, the largest owner of Ukrainian generation capacity, provided...

50 metres of Nord Stream pipeline destroyed
25 October 2022 At least 50 metres of the underwater Nord Stream gas pipeline in the...

New space-efficient battery storage from Saft
25 October 2022 Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has developed a new high-energy...

Gas markets to remain tight into 2023
18 October 2022 European demand for LNG has set off global competition for supplies, even...

OECD electricity production up 2.6%
18 October 2022 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

Cameco and Brookfield to acquire Westinghouse
18 October 2022 A consortium of Cameco and Brookfield Renewable, together with...

‘Nuclear milestone’ at Vogtle 3 NPP
18 October 2022 On 14 October Georgia Power announced that fuel loading into the...

Zaporizhzhya 750 kV connection broken again
18 October 2022 Zaporizhzhya NPP in Ukraine again lost its connection via its last...

German government confirms short life extension of three nukes
18 October 2022 German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that his government would...

GE receives H-Class GT order from Eneva
18 October 2022 GE has secured an H-Class gas turbine order from Eneva, the largest...

Zaporizhzhya reconnected, but situation ‘still fragile’ – IAEA
12 October 2022 In the IAEA’s latest Ukraine Update on 9 October director general...

Germany will continue to push for 1.5°C
12 October 2022 Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany aims to keep the Paris...

IAEA DG in meeting with Putin
12 October 2022 On 11 October IAEA director general Rafael Grossi met with Russian...

GE awarded $6.6 m to develop 100% H2 combustion in F-Class GTs
11 October 2022 GE has announced the successful completion of the award negotiation phase...

Mitsubishi completes 2650 MW GTCC PP in Thailand
11 October 2022 Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of MHI, on 1 October...

Vestas selected for 1.5 GW Atlantic Shores offshore wind project
11 October 2022 Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50:50 partnership of Shell New Energies...

Foresight Energy invests in combine PSH/wind power project
11 October 2022 Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners, Foresight Group’s flagship...

Site for UK’s first fusion energy plant named
04 October 2022 The UK’s Business and Energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has announced that...

RWE to acquire Con Edison Clean Energy
04 October 2022 RWE has signed a purchase agreement with Con Edison Inc. to acquire...

56% of world’s energy “will be generated in APAC region by 2030” – GlobalData report
04 October 2022 With the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region expected to generate over half of...

Nord Stream pipelines ‘have stopped leaking’
04 October 2022 Leaks from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has finally stopped after...

EDF revises its UK nuclear plant strategy
04 October 2022 In response to fast rising wholesale gas and power prices feeding through...

RWE to restart three lignite units
04 October 2022 RWE announced on 29 September that it is to restart three lignite...

Proposed launch of Great British Energy
04 October 2022 The UK’s largest opposition party, the Labour party, announced at its...

September 2022

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After the perfect storm
28 September 2022 We are all energy experts. Social media is flushed daily with opinions on...

Norway has ambitions as a battery powerhouse
27 September 2022 Siva – the state-owned Industrial Development Corporation of Norway –...

Federal government acquires 99% stake in Uniper
27 September 2022 ‪The German Federal government, Uniper and Fortum agreed on 21 September...

China increased generation annually from 2000 to 2020
27 September 2022 China has steadily increased its electricity generation over the past...

IberBlue Wind launches in Spain and Portugal
27 September 2022 IberBlue Wind, a joint venture focused on the development of...

‘2030 coal exit unachievable’ in Germany
27 September 2022 The energy crisis is forcing Germany to rapidly rearrange its energy...

€194 m grant for Nextchem to develop waste-to-H2 plant
27 September 2022 Maire Tecnimont subsidiary NextChem has been assigned a €194 million...

Tripartite subsea energy MoU signed
27 September 2022 Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy and Verlume have signed a triparty memorandum...

Clean energy ‘now employs more people than fossil fuels’ – IEA
20 September 2022 Clean energy industries now employ more people globally than fossil...

ACWA Power announces investment in Silk Road Fund
20 September 2022 ACWA Power and China’s Silk Road Fund have signed a share purchase...

Carbon intensity of US power generation continues to fall
20 September 2022 From 2016 to 2020, the carbon intensity of USA power generation fell...

Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear plant to produce hydrogen
20 September 2022 Bloom Energy is to install a 240 kW electrolyser at Xcel Energy’s...

RWE and Latvenergo team up on offshore wind in the Baltic
20 September 2022 RWE and Latvenergo have joined forces to develop, construct and...

Siemens and Shell sign low-carbon energy solutions MoU
20 September 2022 Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Shell Global Solutions International BV...

1350 tonne green H2 plant commissioned in Germany
20 September 2022 One of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has been...

Zaporizhzhya NPP still in a ‘precarious situation’
13 September 2022 In several phone calls between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron,...

Saipem and Siemens to develop a floating electrical substation concept
13 September 2022 On 5 September Saipem and Siemens Energy signed a Memorandum of...

1.4 GW Bang Pakong PS starts commercial operations
13 September 2022 GE and Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, the main...

ScottishPower Renewables exploring offshore 5G with JET
13 September 2022 JET Engineering System Solutions has recently been awarded a contract...

Uniper and Vesta to develop green ammonia terminal
13 September 2022 ‪Uniper Global Commodities and the Dutch company Vesta Terminals have...

DNV launches online battery ‘scorecard’
13 September 2022 DNV, the independent energy consultancy and assurance provider, has...

NREL-led breakthrough – a more efficient perovskite cell
13 September 2022 Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable...

Germany likely to miss its 2030 zero-C target
06 September 2022 Online energy news agency Clean Energy Wire has reported the findings...

Siemens Gamesa sells renewables assets to SSE
06 September 2022 Siemens Gamesa has announced the completion of its sale of South...

JERA and Uniper to collaborate on ammonia and LNG
06 September 2022 ‪JERA and its wholly owned subsidiary JERA Americas plan to collaborate...

Sizewell C gets extra government funding
06 September 2022 Outgoing UK prime minister Boris Johnson has said the UK government...

California to delay retirement of Diablo Canyon NPP
06 September 2022 California’s legislators have approved a bill to extend the life of...

Carlton Power to build the first green hydrogen hub in the UK’s southwest
06 September 2022 Carlton Power is to build its third green hydrogen hub in the UK at...

US solar panel shipments reach record levels
06 September 2022 US shipments of photovoltaic solar panels rose to a record level in terms...

Financial close for Central Asia’s largest wind farm
06 September 2022 Uzbekistan’s ministry of Energy announced on 31 August that it had...

August 2022

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UN mission heads to stricken Ukrainian NPP
30 August 2022 A team of UN atomic energy experts set out on 29 August for...

EBRD supports Ukraine electricity company with €97.3 m
30 August 2022 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and...

UK to extend life of coal plants as ‘last resort’ facility
30 August 2022 At the request of the UK’s Business and Energy ministry, BEIS, National...

Rolls-Royce and ULC-Energy to collaborate on SMR for The Netherlands
30 August 2022 Rolls-Royce SMR has signed an exclusive agreement with the Dutch...

RWE acquires 3 GW solar pipeline in Poland
30 August 2022 RWE has further strengthened its European renewables business by...

Uniper draws down entire €9 bn credit facility
30 August 2022 ‪‪On 29 August Uniper drew down €2 billion under its existing credit...

Hitachi launches world’s first eco-efficient 420 kV CB
30 August 2022 Hitachi Energy chose CIGRE Session 2022 on 29 August as the place to...

Reduced Russian gas flow heavily impacts Uniper’s H1 2022 results
23 August 2022 Uniper’s reported results for the first half of 2022 showed heavy...

Uniper re-opens Heyden 4 coal-fired plant, and advances Canada’s first green H2 hub
23 August 2022 ‪Uniper's Heyden 4 hard-coal-fired power plant in Petershagen near...

ACWA signs energy agreements worth $12 bn with Uzbekistan
23 August 2022 Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy has signed three agreements with Saudi...

IAEA update 92 – the situation in Ukraine
23 August 2022 The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency,...

RWE starts construction of solar farm in Badajoz
23 August 2022 RWE is still expanding its solar business in Spain. Last year it...

Upgrade for iconic Cameroon power plant
23 August 2022 Wärtsilä is to carry out an upgrade of the electrical and automation...

US gas fired generation hit a daily record in July
23 August 2022 The US Energy Information Administration’s Hourly Electric Grid...

Warning note sounded on UK biomass
16 August 2022 The importing of wood to burn in Drax power station “is not sustainable”...

Whitetail CCS project shortlisted
16 August 2022 8 Rivers Capital’s UK-based project Whitetail Clean Energy has been...

Shelling of Zaporizhzhia NPP
16 August 2022 International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano...

Renewables investment is reducing UK power prices
16 August 2022 Cornwall Insight’s latest report – ‘GB Power Market Outlook to 2030’ –...

Baker Hughes acquires Brush power generation division
16 August 2022 Baker Hughes announced that it has agreed to acquire the Power...

Utility scale solar projects report delays
16 August 2022 Power plant developers in the USA plan to install 17.8 GW of...

Global electricity production up 3.6%
16 August 2022 The latest International Energy Agency’s Monthly Electricity...

EDF cuts output from nuclear generation
09 August 2022 State owned French energy major EDF is reducing output at nuclear...

Wind energy to power offshore oil & gas platform
09 August 2022 UK green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds, and Ping...

Extending life of German NPPs ‘might make sense’
09 August 2022 Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz has hinted that the life of the...

US power grid added 15GW of generation in H1 2022
09 August 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that according to its...

Hitachi to build SuedLink DC4
09 August 2022 Hitachi Energy has won a major order from TenneT and TransnetBW, two...

Ørsted inaugurates Taiwan offshore hub
09 August 2022 On 2 August Ørsted inaugurated the Ørsted Taiwan Offshore Wind...

Russia’s gas exports to Europe decline to 40 year low
09 August 2022 Russia’s natural gas exports by pipeline to the European Union and the...

Disturbances in Paris
05 August 2022 A significant feature of the biennial six-day Cigre Paris Session, being...

Drax reports increased profits and renewables progress
02 August 2022 In its first half 2022 performance figures Drax Group has reported...

Small scale solar is changing hourly utility demand
02 August 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that an increase...

GE awarded funding to develop decarb technologies
02 August 2022 GE Gas Power has secured $4.2 million in federal funding from the...

First offshore wind power order for Siemens in Japan
02 August 2022 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded by Green Power Investment...

Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
02 August 2022 Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of...

NGK to install battery and PV combination
02 August 2022 NGK Insulators has elected to install a combination storage battery and...

First turbine commissioned at Kaskasi wind farm
02 August 2022 The first turbine of RWE’s 340 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm was...

UBS acquires 700 MW of energy storage projects
02 August 2022 UBS Asset Management has announced the acquisition of five...

July 2022

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EU approves curbs on gas
26 July 2022 European Union ministers agreed on 26 July to ration natural gas...

USA is now world’s largest LNG exporter
26 July 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that the USA became...

Ukraine joins the IEA
26 July 2022 Ukraine officially joined the International Energy Agency as an...

ACWA and POSCO to explore green H2 and NH4 production
26 July 2022 ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi based developer and operator of...

ABB to spin off its Accelleron business
26 July 2022 ABB to spin off its turbocharging division Accelleron and list the company...

8 GW boost for UK offshore wind
26 July 2022 Commenting on the UK government’s approval of six offshore wind projects...

UK-Germany energy link reaches financial close
26 July 2022 The €2.8 bn NeuConnect project, a significant new energy link between two...

IAEA Ukraine Update 86 – vital equipment arrives
19 July 2022 Ukraine has received a large batch of crucial radiation protection...

Two RWE projects selected for EU grants
19 July 2022 Two innovative projects with RWE involvement have been pre-selected...

Battery storage to be 24% of Ireland's installed energy by 2030
19 July 2022 Data from Cornwall Insight Ireland’s ‘All-island power market outlook...

Renewables share of electricity production still rising
19 July 2022 The latest International Energy Agency 'Monthly Electricity...

Mitsubishi selects software for world’s largest storage/hydrogen hub
19 July 2022 Mitsubishi Power Americas, which is creating reputedly the world’s...

Mocean starts new wave energy test programme
19 July 2022 Mocean Energy has begun tank testing models of its 250 kW Blue Horizon...

GE energy businesses to be re-branded GE Vernova
19 July 2022 GE has announced the brand names of the future companies it will...

UK renewables auction promotes move away from fossil fuels
12 July 2022 A record amount of renewable energy was secured on 7 July 2022 via...

Germany to reactivate hard coal plants in gas crisis
12 July 2022 The German government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that...

Offshore wind pipeline has ‘nearly doubled’
12 July 2022 RenewableUK’s latest ‘EnergyPulse’ market intelligence report shows that...

Energy storage systems for huge solar-plus-storage project
12 July 2022 Wärtsilä is delivering a 500 MWac, 2 GWh portfolio of energy storage...

Indeck Niles 1.1 GW energy centre comes online
12 July 2022 On July I Indeck Energy Services along with its Korean partners KOSPO and...

Uniper applies for stabilisation measures
12 July 2022 On 8 June Fortum’s subsidiary Uniper filed for government support under...

GE to acquire Nexus Controls from Baker Hughes
12 July 2022 GE has announced that its Gas Power business intends to acquire...

€475m EIB innovation loan for Vestas
12 July 2022 Vestas has signed a €475m green loan with the European Investment Bank...

EUROfusion starts design of demonstration fusion power plant
05 July 2022 Following its record-breaking results earlier this year*, Europe's...

Fossil fuel was 79% of US primary energy in 2021
05 July 2022 Fossil fuels – petroleum (ie oil products) natural gas, and coal –...

Iberdrola’s first commercial-scale battery system
05 July 2022 Iberdrola’s 50 MW Gorman Battery Energy Storage System has been...

Supreme Court limits EPA's authority to regulate GHG emissions
05 July 2022 On June 30 the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in ‘West...

Compact CO2 capture system goes into operation at Hiroshima
05 July 2022 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, MHIENG, has launched...

RWE and Hellenic Petroleum join forces for offshore wind
05 July 2022 RWE and Hellenic Petroleum Holdings, through their respective...

Vestas sells Delta wind project
05 July 2022 Vestas has sold its 183 MW Delta wind project in the USA to the...

‘Sweeping measures’ needed if Canada is to attain 2030 targets
05 July 2022 Prominent project management company SNC-Lavalin has released...

June 2022

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Germany triggers gas emergency plan
30 June 2022 Online news agency Clean Energy Wire reports that – citing a...

Global energy investment is rising, but too slowly - IEA
28 June 2022 Global energy investment is set to increase by 8% in 2022 to reach...

ACWA Power-led consortium signs project agreement for 1.1 GW wind project in Egypt
28 June 2022 ACWA Power has signed an agreement to develop a 1.1GW wind project in...

Hybrid wind plus solar project for Turkey
28 June 2022 GE and its regional solution partner Inogen have been selected by Sertavul...

Announcement of 1.2GW Southern Winds offshore wind project
28 June 2022 Co-developed by Energy Estate and BlueFloat Energy, Southern Winds is a...

Siemens and Air Liquide form JV to produce H2 electrolysers
28 June 2022 Siemens Energy and Air Liquide have jointly entered into a project to...

RWE expands its offshore wind ambitions
28 June 2022 RWE is increasing its activity in the offshore wind business. RWE...

Fund to stimulate German offshore wind
21 June 2022 RWE, in conjunction with Commerzbank, plans to create a ‘Green...

Renewables share increases globally
21 June 2022 The International Energy Agency’s latest Monthly Electricity...

Zaporizhzhia data link restored
21 June 2022 The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Ukrainian operator of...

First offshore wind farm in a Spanish port
21 June 2022 Spanish companies Capital Energy and BlueFloat Energy have join forces...

Wärtsilä agreement to guarantee African gold mine operations
21 June 2022 Wärtsilä has signed a 5-year performance-based agreement for a 20 MW...

Global offshore wind project pipeline doubles in 12 months
21 June 2022 RenewableUK’s latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows...

Mercury Renewables’ ‘first-of-a-kind’ green hydrogen plant
21 June 2022 A first-of-a-kind green hydrogen generation project located on the border...

RWE halts personnel early retirements as coal firing is ramped up
21 June 2022 RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, has halted early retirement...

Fugro to develop digital twin of Denmark’s transmission network
14 June 2022 Energinet, the Danish national transmission system operator, has...

Vestas and EnBW sign agreement for the 900 MW He Dreiht offshore array
14 June 2022 Vestas has secured a conditional order agreement to supply 64xV235-15.0...

Sweden’s Nysäter wind farm connects to the grid
14 June 2022 The Nysäter wind farm, located 400 km north of Stockholm, is now an...

Europe importing record amounts of LNG in 2022
14 June 2022 The Energy Information Administration reports that Europe’s (the EU and...

EIA expects high energy prices through 2023
14 June 2022 The US Energy Information Administration forecasts that US energy prices...

GE to triple its manufacturing capacity for energy storage electronics
14 June 2022 GE is responding to strongly increased demand by tripling the...

German government increased coal reserves
14 June 2022 To counteract future gas supply shortages, the German cabinet has decided...

European geothermal sector ‘emerges stronger’ from pandemic
14 June 2022 The European Geothermal Energy Council reports in the 11th edition of...

Potential reliability concern for central USA
07 June 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that higher...

RWE acquires 1.4 GW power plant from Vattenfall
07 June 2022 RWE is to acquire from Vattenfall the 1.4 GW gas-fired power plant...

Ørsted + ATP and GlobalConnect to work on North Sea Energy Island digital hub
07 June 2022 Ørsted + ATP has signed an agreement with prominent digital...

Exergy and GDI in geothermal development
07 June 2022 Exergy International and Geothermal Development & Investment Inc. (GDI),...

Magnesium to be researched as a sustainable lithium alternative
07 June 2022 The potential for magnesium to offer a sustainable and affordable...

Westinghouse and Bloom Energy to accelerate zero-carbon H2 production in the nuclear industry
07 June 2022 Westinghouse Electric and Bloom Energy Corp have entered into a Letter...

Illinois coal plants awarded funding for development as storage
07 June 2022 The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)...

UK task force to promote floating offshore wind technology
07 June 2022 RenewableUK has initiated the launch of a new body, the Floating...

May 2022

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EU leaders reach compromise deal on Russian oil ban
31 May 2022 EU leaders came to an agreement on 30 May to ban most imports of Russian...

G7 to play crucial role in reducing emissions from heavy industry
31 May 2022 After a two-day meeting in Berlin under Germany’s 2022 presidency of the...

BlueFloat to enter round 3 market auction in Taiwan
31 May 2022 Spanish developer BlueFloat Energy has entered the Taiwan wind energy...

Jacobs builds robot to clean up Fukushima
31 May 2022 US firm Jacobs has designed and built a robotic tool to obtain...

Siemens to build huge shore-side power connection
31 May 2022 Seehafen Kiel GmbH, the port of Kiel, Germany, has commissioned Siemens AG...

UK trial of ‘renewables only’ network restart
31 May 2022 SP Energy Networks has led a successful trial to re-energise its...

Cyber attacks worrying German wind industry
31 May 2022 A string of apparently targeted cyber attacks on German wind farms has led...

Wärtsilä to test hydrogen blended fuel in the USA
31 May 2022 Wärtsilä, in collaboration with WEC Energy Group, the Electric Power...

Future WTGs ‘will achieve 27% greater LCOE’
31 May 2022 Researchers Philipp Beiter and Eric Lantz from the US National...

EU €300 bn plan for recovery and resilience
24 May 2022 On 8 March the European Commission proposed the outline of a plan to...

Floating wind farm proposed for Sardinia
24 May 2022 A 975 MW floating offshore wind farm off the northeastern coast of...

Wärtsilä in green H2 blending trials
24 May 2022 Wärtsilä is to collaborate with the Portuguese independent power...

EIA forecasts increasing share of renewables in the USA during 2022
24 May 2022 In its ‘Summer Electricity Outlook’, a supplement to its May 2022...

RWE issues €2 billion green bond
24 May 2022 RWE has successfully issued a further green bond with a total volume of...

Hinkley Point C delayed and will overrun by £3bn
24 May 2022 Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant developer EDF has announced that...

Carbon sequestration project for Louisiana
24 May 2022 Mitsubishi Corporation has signed a participation agreement with...

Drax to trial pioneering new carbon capture technology
17 May 2022 Drax is collaborating with the University of Nottingham and...

RWE’s grand scheme for Hollandse Kust West
17 May 2022 RWE is participating in the Dutch offshore wind tender for Hollandse...

Vestas introduces its V163-4.5 MW WTG
17 May 2022 Vestas intends to take part in the expected expansion of renewable energy...

Russian oil supply could fall by 3 million barrels a day
17 May 2022 Russia’s isolation following its invasion of Ukraine is deepening as...

GE secures first 9HA CCPP order in Vietnam
17 May 2022 GE has secured an order from Samsung C&T Corporation, which is leading...

Energy storage for Côte d'Ivoire’s first solar plant
17 May 2022 Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has won a major contract from...

Chornobyl safeguards resumed – IAEA Update
12 May 2022 On 9 May the International Atomic Energy Agency issued the...

Hydrogen retrofit for Rotterdam Capelle
12 May 2022 Thomassen Energy is to retrofit one of Uniper’s Rotterdam Capelle...

EU stumbles over plans to ban Russian oil
11 May 2022 Discussions among the EU-27 states starting on 4 May had by 9 May...

Hydrogen fuel network trial gets underway
11 May 2022 Building a UK-wide delivery network for hydrogen has taken a step...

El Algodon Alto wind farm has started operations
11 May 2022 RWE Renewables’ El Algodon Alto, a 200 MW onshore wind farm located in...

Advanced storage project receives $500 m commitment from US DoE
10 May 2022 The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office has issued...

German government charters four FSRUs via Uniper and RWE
10 May 2022 In the effort to free Germany from its dependency on Russian gas,...

Planning permission secured for Hams Hall storage project
10 May 2022 Penso Power and Luminous Energy, partners in the Welbar Energy Storage...

Strabag and Exergy in geothermal alliance
10 May 2022 Exergy International and Strabag’s plant engineering and...

US renewables generation has overtaken nuclear
03 May 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that power sector...

Gazprom refuses payments in Euros from German firm
03 May 2022 Russia’s Gazprom bank has for the first time refused to accept a payment...

Renewables funding via power bills cancelled in Germany
03 May 2022 As of 1 July, German consumers will no longer have to pay the...

Largest green hydrogen hub selects EPC provider
03 May 2022 Black & Veatch has been selected by Mitsubishi Power Americas and...

Russia halts gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria
03 May 2022 Russia has responded to the West’s escalating arms shipments and...

Gas Technology Institute re-named GTI Energy
03 May 2022 The Gas Technology Institute, located in Des Plaines, Illinois, has...

April 2022

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First demo of advanced H2 firing PP using GE HA turbine
27 April 2022 GE and Long Ridge Energy Terminal, a subsidiary of Fortress...

First WTG installed at Hollandse Kust Zuid
27 April 2022 The first turbine of the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm, located...

‘Power consumption to triple by 2050’ – McKinsey report
27 April 2022 McKinsey & Co has launched its 2022 ‘Global Energy Perspective’ report,...

Government ‘sharpens toolbox’ for energy supply security
27 April 2022 Germany’s federal government has sharpened the tools available to combat...

First Ampelmann W2W for US offshore industry
27 April 2022 Ampelmann has signed its first contract in the US offshore wind market....

Siemens Gamesa to sell south European renewables assets to SSE
26 April 2022 Siemens Gamesa has entered into an agreement with SSE to sell...

Twenty20 Energy to build gas fired PP in Papua New Guinea’s highland region
26 April 2022 Twenty20 Energy Systems has announced plans to design, build and maintain...

US DoE seeks bids for $6 bn nuclear credit programme
26 April 2022 The US Department of Energy has announced plans to seek applications...

Rising wind in the USA
19 April 2022 On 29 March, wind turbines in the Lower 48 states produced 2017 GWh...

World’s largest flywheel starts its journey to Ireland
19 April 2022 A real heavyweight in the energy transition is on its way to Ireland. On...

RWE aims at €1.5 billion in Ireland investments
19 April 2022 RWE has committed to investing €50 billion gross through to 2030 to...

OECD electricity production rises 6.6%
19 April 2022 The latest International Energy Agency ‘Monthly Electricity...

Largest-ever IEA emergency oil stock release
19 April 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its global repercussions have put...

European renewables prices rise 27.5%
19 April 2022 European renewable Power Purchase Agreement prices have surged 8.1%...

GE first WTG in French waters
19 April 2022 On 13 April GE completed the installation of the first offshore wind...

Vestas launches its V172-7.2 MW variant for low to medium wind
19 April 2022 Vestas is introducing a 7.2 MW variant in its EnVentus onshore platform,...

Four Canadian provinces publish strategic plan for SMR
12 April 2022 The governments of four Canadian provinces – Ontario, New...

Shell and Uniper to work on blue H2 production in the UK
12 April 2022 Uniper has signed an agreement with Shell to progress plans to produce...

Four weeks to apply for UK update funding
12 April 2022 Manufacturing and industrial businesses in the UK that own or...

First phase of Tampa coal-to-gas upgrade completed
12 April 2022 Tampa Electric Company (TECO) has completed the first phase of...

Third M701JAC unit started up at 5.3 GW GTCC in Thailand
12 April 2022 Mitsubishi Power, a power industry brand of MHI, has commenced operations...

RWE signs Thor connection agreement with Energinet
12 April 2022 Danish grid operator Energinet has signed an agreement with RWE...

IAEA statement on the Ukraine situation
12 April 2022 In its Update published on 7 April the International Atomic Energy...

Major acceleration of home-grown power in the UK
12 April 2022 The UK government on 5 April announced plans under the heading...

Malaysia's largest CC plant starts up
06 April 2022 GE and Edra Energy Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s second-largest independent...

Aggreko commits to greener fuels switch
06 April 2022 Power rentals major Aggreko has confirmed its commitment to reaching net...

Siemens Gamesa steps up WTG manufacturing
06 April 2022 Siemens Gamesa has started manufacture of its patented offshore direct...

‘We can halve emissions by 2030’ – guarded optimism from the IPCC
05 April 2022 We can halve emissions, but the time for action is now, says...

Russian gas supply cuts would cause severe damage
05 April 2022 Leading industrialists in Germany have warned against the severe damage...

‘World first’ plasma electrolyser project
05 April 2022 Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are embarking on a £250 000...

Drought reduces hydro generation in the USA
05 April 2022 The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2021, a...

March 2022

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UK government to take 20% stake in Sizewell C NPP
30 March 2022 The UK government plans to take a 20% stake in a the projected £20...

Siemens Energy to power China’s Greater Bay Area
30 March 2022 Siemens Energy has recently entered into separate agreements with...

Plan to develop GW scale ‘green H2’ floating wind sites in the Celtic Sea
30 March 2022 Source Energie has been working for some time to identify medium and...

Joint statement of the EC and the USA on energy security
30 March 2022 On 25 March the USA and the European Commission issued a joint...

USA exported record amounts of LNG in 2021
30 March 2022 US exports of liquefied natural gas set a record high in 2021, averaging...

Ørsted sells 50% stake in Hornsea 2 wind farm
30 March 2022 Ørsted has signed an agreement to divest a 50 % ownership stake in its 1.3...

Assessment of H2 plant readiness at Grain
30 March 2022 GE has announced that is has commenced its hydrogen plant...

'Renewables will supply 44% of US electricity by 2050’ – EIA
22 March 2022 In its Annual Energy Outlook 2022 Reference case, which reflects current...

European grid synchronised with Ukraine and Moldova
22 March 2022 On 18 March the EU commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson issued the...

Completion of the largest wind project in North America
22 March 2022 On 21 March Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy announced commercial...

UK’s Greenlink construction under way
22 March 2022 Greenlink Interconnector Ltd has announced financial close on construction...

Germany agrees LNG supply deal with Qatar
22 March 2022 Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has initiated an...

Thermal power plants to become energy storage facilities
22 March 2022 E2S Power and India Power Corp have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Hysata’s electrolyser breaks efficiency records
22 March 2022 Australian company Hysata’s hydrogen electrolyser technology has...

Kärnfull and GE Hitachi SMR collaboration
22 March 2022 Sweden's energy consumption continues to grow and there is a demand...

CO2 emissions at ‘highest level in history’ - IEA
15 March 2022 Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 by over...

US natural gas production to rise, fuelled by export demand
15 March 2022 In its ‘Annual Energy Outlook 2022’ Reference case, the US Energy...

Nexans wins US offshore wind export cables contract
15 March 2022 Nexans has won a contract with Ørsted and Eversource to install and...

ScottishPower and Shell confirm offshore wind funding
15 March 2022 ScotWind partners ScottishPower and Shell are set to invest a total of...

Joint European action via REPowerEU
14 March 2022 The European Commission on 9 March proposed the outline of a plan,...

Russia attacks nuclear facilities in Ukraine
14 March 2022 As of 9 March, the Chornobyl nuclear plant site, location of the...

Ukraine war adds impetus to Asia’s energy transition
14 March 2022 The invasion of Ukraine is leading to further turmoil for global...

Gas prices rise to astronomic levels
14 March 2022 The IEEFA (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis)...

US energy consumption ‘will grow for next 30 years’ – EIA
08 March 2022 Energy consumption will increase in the United States over the next 30...

Voith completes the acquisition of Voith Hydro
08 March 2022 On 1 March, following receipt of all the necessary official approvals,...

GE awarded 2 GW order for Guangdong
08 March 2022 GE Gas Power and Harbin Electric have received an order from...

IAEA statement on the situation in Ukraine
08 March 2022 Ukraine has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – on...

Germany to spend $220 bn on industrial transformation by 2026
08 March 2022 Germany has earmarked 200 billion euros ($220 billion) to fund an...

Strategy rethink in fossil–dependent Germany
08 March 2022 The war in Ukraine is forcing Germany to radically rethink its energy...

Rolls-Royce SMR entering regulatory assessment process
08 March 2022 Rolls-Royce SMR’s nuclear power plant design is entering the Generic...

Ukraine update – Chornobyl radiation ‘not a danger to the public’
02 March 2022 Ukraine has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that...

Anyang CHP starts commercial operation
02 March 2022 On 28 February GE today announced the start of commercial operations at...

Mocean lands £730k wave energy funding
02 March 2022 Wave power specialists Mocean Energy has secured major new investment...

Floating wave power units installed off Jaffa
02 March 2022 Eco Wave Power has finished production of ten of its of floating wave...

“Time is fast running out for climate change solutions” – new IPCC report
01 March 2022 The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could...

US$1.59 billion Red Sea Project achieves financial close
01 March 2022 A consortium led by ACWA Power, and composed of SPIC Huanghe...

Siemens 14 MW WTG selected for Poland’s first offshore wind array
01 March 2022 Siemens Gamesa has signed two Preferred Supplier Agreements for the...

USA ‘fiddles while Rome burns’
01 March 2022 The USA’s legislators are still embroiled in legal conflicts about who,...

February 2022

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Global electricity production continues to rise - IEA
23 February 2022 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity...

INNIO and Concord Group to develop four biogas plants in Malaysia
23 February 2022 INNIO has signed a memorandum of understanding with Concord Group to...

World’s first centre for H2 system validation
23 February 2022 Mitsubishi Power, an MHI subsidiary, is planning to establish the...

German chancellor suspends Nord Stream 2
22 February 2022 German chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country’s economy ministry...

RWE and Tata Power collaborate to explore offshore potential in India
22 February 2022 RWE and Tata Power have agreed on a partnership to explore the potential...

Nordex to investigate WTG collapse in Wales
22 February 2022 ​​​​​​​An investigation has been launched following the collapse on...

US DoE awards $5.7 m for GE-led CCUS project
22 February 2022 GE Gas Power has announced that the company’s front-end engineering...

RWE and Neptune Energy join forces in H2 initiative
16 February 2022 RWE and Neptune Energy have signed a Joint Development Agreement to...

COWI contracted for Empire Wind project
16 February 2022 COWI, a prominent international engineering consulting group, has...

Macron sets out plan for French nuclear renaissance
15 February 2022 Following the announcement in November last year of a radical change...

Using offshore wind transmission for grid support
15 February 2022 For the first time in Britain, a transmission asset primarily intended for...

GE to sell part of Steam Power nuclear business to EDF
15 February 2022 GE and EDF signed an exclusive agreement on 10 February under which EDF...

Generators in Texas fill the cold snap gap
15 February 2022 The very cold weather and icy conditions in Texas early in February...

Market volatility is impacting renewables PPAs – report
15 February 2022 The energy market turmoil of the fourth quarter of 2021 is leading...

‘Black blades on wind turbines may reduce bird kill’ – new research
09 February 2022 The province of Groningen in the Netherlands and energy company RWE...

RWE signs agreement to build Thor offshore wind farm
09 February 2022 On 25 January RWE has signed a concession agreement with the Danish...

First micro-nuclear PP for Alaska
09 February 2022 Copper Valley Electric Association, located in Glennallen, Alaska...

Biden administration proposes restoration of toxicity rules
08 February 2022 The Biden administration on 31 January proposed restoring the...

‘Carbon reduction goals will have little impact on US CO2 emissions’ – EIA
08 February 2022 Executing several plans announced by US power utilities to reduce...

AG Energy licensed to build Libya’s first solar power plant
08 February 2022 Authorities in Libya have granted the Dublin-based AG Energy, an...

Government awards £100m to proposed Sizewell C NPP
02 February 2022 Plans to build the Sizewell C 3.2 GW nuclear power plant have been backed...

‘Time to act’ as momentum builds for CCUS and H2
02 February 2022 This year companies and governments will need to make good on the...

Art of darkness
02 February 2022 A 40-metre illuminated tower has been constructed in the centre...

470 MWh storage project gets under way in the Philippines
01 February 2022 On 27 January Fluence announced today that the first 20 MW/20...

A second Siemens HL class turbine for South Korea
01 February 2022 Siemens Energy has received another order to deliver its HL-class power...

Wind farm Blakliden Fäbodberget is completed
01 February 2022 Vattenfall’s largest onshore wind farm to date is now complete. The last...

AWS wave energy converter arrives in Orkney for EMEC demo
01 February 2022 On 25 January a new wave energy converter, developed by Inverness-based...

January 2022

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Vestas and Ørsted named as world’s most sustainable companies
25 January 2022 Prominent Danish energy companies Vestas and Ørsted have been named as...

The Texas grid is ‘ready for winter weather’
25 January 2022 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has filed its final...

Independent certification for Celtic Sea floating wind project
25 January 2022 Bureau Veritas (BV), the testing, inspection and certification...

Industrial–scale electrolysis goes into series production
25 January 2022 The first series production of electrolysis systems from...

K2 to monitor Dogger Bank third phase
25 January 2022 Dogger Bank C, located off the coast of the UK, and the final phase in...

UK government auctions £285m in funding for renewables
25 January 2022 Analyst Cornwall Insight reports that applications for the UK...

Italy’s increasing focus on system balance
25 January 2022 A2A Gencogas, Italy, has contracted with Wärtsilä for the supply of a...

Azerbaijan’s largest renewables project gets under way
19 January 2022 On 14 January in Baku the Azerbaijani Ministry of Energy and Saudi...

Energy Island cable route survey contract awarded
19 January 2022 Fugro has secured a contract with Energinet to undertake cable route...

First supply contract in Spain for Siemens’ 5.X WTG
19 January 2022 Siemens Gamesa is to supply its 5.X platform turbines to Iberdrola’s 94...

Power cuts as USA and Canada are hit by winter storms
18 January 2022 A major winter storm has brought heavy snow and ice to parts of the USA...

Huge New Mexico wind project comes online
18 January 2022 The Pattern Energy Group said this week that its Western Spirit Wind...

Contracts awarded for proposed Aldbrough hydrogen storage
18 January 2022 Equinor and SSE Thermal have awarded two key contracts for work on...

Renewable power plants are reducing US gas demand
18 January 2022 In its January ‘Short-term Energy Outlook’ the US Energy...

Coal’s sharp rebound ‘is threatening net zero goals’ – IEA
12 January 2022 Rapid economic recovery is driving global coal power generation towards...

Large fuel cell order for SFC Energy
12 January 2022 SFC Energy, a prominent supplier of hydrogen and methanol fuel cells...

Solar power – ‘half of new US capacity in 2022’
12 January 2022 The US Energy Information Administration forecasts that in 2022, 46.1 GW...

Germany retires more reactors and lignite plants
12 January 2022 Germany’s nuclear and coal phase-out programmes both took a step...

Hunterston B NPP retires
12 January 2022 The 1.22 GW Hunterston B nuclear power station, the most productive...

Ammonia co-firing project is funded
12 January 2022 JERA Co and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have been granted funding, under...

$100m fund for grid-scale battery storage in Australia
12 January 2022 A competitive funding round worth A$100 million (£53.5m) has been...

Texas generation fleet ‘ready for winter’ – ERCOT
05 January 2022 ERCOT  – The Electric Reliability Council of Texas – mindful of the...

EDF consortium wins major UAE transmission project
05 January 2022 A consortium of EDF, KEPCO and Kyushu Electric Power Co has signed a...

VINCI completes the acquisition of ACS energy business
05 January 2022 VINCI’s acquisition of ACS’s energy business Cobra IS for a consideration...

Energy prices rose by 59% in 2021
04 January 2022 Energy prices used in the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) ended...

Fortum and Uniper JV launches its first project
04 January 2022 The joint team of Fortum and Uniper for wind and solar businesses in...

Langley completes acquisition of Bergen from R-R
04 January 2022 Langley Holdings has completed the acquisition of the Norwegian...

Interest in Princes Ariane wind farm sold to a.s.r.
04 January 2022 Vattenfall is to sell 40% of the 301 MW Prinses Ariane wind farm in...

Olkiluoto NPP achieves first criticality
04 January 2022 The EPR reactor installed at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant...

December 2021

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FEED competition contracts awarded for UK’s East Coast Cluster
22 December 2021 On behalf of its partners, bp, the operator of Net Zero Teesside Power...

Prysmian secures two US wind farm projects
22 December 2021 Prysmian Group has secured cabling contracts for two new offshore wind...

28% US coal fired plants to retire by 2035
21 December 2021 Although coal-fired power plants have no mandatory retirement age,...

World’s first offshore hydrogen storage concept
21 December 2021 Tractebel and partner companies have developed the world's first...

100 MW Uzbekistan wind power project agreed
21 December 2021 ACWA Power, a prominent Saudi developer of power generation, has...

Chimney of Europe’s largest coal-fired PP is demolished
21 December 2021 The photograph shows the demolition on 9 December of the chimney of what...

Mitsubishi ships 2.4 GW gas-fired CC plant to the UAE
21 December 2021 On 16 December Mitsubishi Power, an arm of MHI, shipped three M701JAC...

First replacement of SF6 in existing HV equipment
14 December 2021 Hitachi Energy and National Grid have successfully energised a pilot...

Decarbonisation roadmap for heavy industry in the UAE
14 December 2021 Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and GE Gas Power have announced...

Project Greensand to receive DKK 197 m funding
14 December 2021 The Danish Energy Agency is to award 197 million DKK (€26 million) to...

RE growth is accelerating worldwide – IEA report
14 December 2021 The growth of the world’s capacity to generate electricity from...

Major UK offshore wind farm project consented
14 December 2021 Vattenfall’s Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Farm, located off the UK’s...

US LNG export capacity ‘will be world’s largest by end–2022’
14 December 2021 The US Energy Information Administration reports that US liquefied...

First H2 fuelled GTs in China
14 December 2021 Chinese state-owned power utility Guangdong Energy Group has ordered...

UK chooses HTGR for AMR development
07 December 2021 In a speech to the UK Nuclear Industry Association on 2 December, Greg...

Nuclear research leads to storage breakthrough
07 December 2021 Research in molten salts at Danish company Seaborg Technologies...

DNV to lead study on potential of European H2 networks
07 December 2021 Independent certification organisation DNV is to lead a study...

Refinancing of four biomethane units secured
07 December 2021 Waga Energy, a prominent European company in the production of...

£158 million redress agreed for delays to major power cable
07 December 2021 National Grid Electricity Transmission and Scottish Power Transmission...

Compact CO2 capture for Hiroshima biomass plant
07 December 2021 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering has received an order for...

150 MWh battery to be built at Hazelwood
07 December 2021 ENGIE, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group, and Fluence have joined forces...

Atos and Siemens to support Morocco‘s ‘smart grid’
07 December 2021 Atos and Siemens have announced an agreement to collaborate with...

Vestas cyber attack ‘was ransomware’
01 December 2021 Since the cyber security incident was discovered on 19 November, Vestas...

New partnership to develop offshore wind farms in New Zealand
01 December 2021 BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate and Elemental Group have formed a...

New initiative to explore carbon storage off Norway‘s coast
01 December 2021 Storegga, a UK company specialising in carbon reduction and removal,...

November 2021

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TSOs partner on interconnectors to energy islands at sea
30 November 2021 Transmission system operators Energinet of Denmark and Elia of Belgium...

Upgraded V-162 launched by Vestas
30 November 2021 Vestas has launched a 6.8 MW version of its V162 range of wind turbines...

Carbon Gap calls for meaningful support for carbon removal
30 November 2021 Carbon Gap, a not-for-profit independent research and advocacy launched...

Prysmian awarded framework contract for the Tyrrhenian link
30 November 2021 Prysmian Group has been awarded a framework contract worth around...

Vestas recovering from cyber attack
24 November 2021 Integrated wind company Vestas has started restoring IT systems after a...

World’s first 66 kV fault ride through test system
24 November 2021 Danish offshore wind turbine test specialist R&D Test Systems has...

Shell and Blue Group sign Western Star agreement
24 November 2021 On 18 November Shell signed an agreement with Irish leading blue...

New plant for production of SF6-free switchgear
24 November 2021 Siemens Energy is investing over €60 million in a new 6200 sq m...

NET Power claims zero-carbon gas generation breakthrough
23 November 2021 On 16 November, NET Power, a clean energy company whose technology is said...

FERC Notice of Inquiry on reactive power capability compensation
23 November 2021 The USA Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a Notice of...

First 100% hydrogen engine PP in Asia Pacific
23 November 2021 Hyosung Heavy Industries has selected INNIO Jenbacher ‘Ready for...

COP26 keeps 1.5C alive – but on life support
17 November 2021 On 13 November COP26 came to a close in Glasgow with nearly 200...

France’s first floating offshore wind at scale
17 November 2021 Ocean Winds (a Joint Venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables) and...

Macron says France will construct new NPPs
16 November 2021 In a significant change to national policy, France is to begin building...

Rolls-Royce to deliver mtu engines to China
16 November 2021 The Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems has signed contracts...

EIA expects volatile US gas prices this winter
16 November 2021 After extremely cold weather in February led to lower-than-average...

First certification of ‘H2-Ready’power plant concept
16 November 2021 Testing and certification organisation TÜV SÜD has developed a guideline...

GenCell and E.V. Motors to facilitate off-grid EV charging
16 November 2021 Israeli company GenCell Energy has signed an agreement with E.V. Motors...

COP26: World leaders make pledges to kick start accelerated climate action
09 November 2021 Announcements by world leaders on day three of COP26 have perhaps signalled...

Degradation ‘is a material issue for batteries competing in the CM’
09 November 2021 According to Cornwall Insight, degradation is a key issue for...

US Congress passes signature infrastructure package
09 November 2021 US Congress passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on 5...

Long duration energy storage companies form a council
09 November 2021 The Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council, whose launch has...

National Grid ESO launches world-first digital grid replica
09 November 2021 The UK’s National Grid ESO has launched a programme, a world first of...

Rolls-Royce develops energy saving new bearing
09 November 2021 The Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems has developed a sliding...

R-R confident of SMR delivery by 2030s
09 November 2021 Roll-Royce has announced that following the raising of £195 million in...

Historic alliance to unlock $100 billion for climate solutions
03 November 2021 A new financial initiative, the Global Alliance for People and...

COP26: a promise to end deforestation by 2030
03 November 2021 More than 100 world leaders have promised to end and reverse deforestation...

COP26: a pledge to cut global methane emissions
03 November 2021 Leaders of 103 countries have signed a deal brokered by the EU and USA...

COP26 gets under way
03 November 2021 COP26 got under way formally on 31 October. Opening speeches by...

Updated climate commitments fall short – UNEP report
02 November 2021 New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to...

Climate goals threatened by coal-to-gas switch in Asia
02 November 2021 A planned US$379 billion expansion of gas infrastructure in Asia...

Plan to convert fossil fuelled plants to energy storage
02 November 2021 E2S Power and SNC-Lavalin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Illinois NPPs reverse retirement plans
02 November 2021 Exelon, the owner-operator of Illinois’s six nuclear power plants,...

October 2021

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Siemens Energy transfers joint venture stake to Voith
26 October 2021 Siemens Energy and Voith have agreed that Voith will take over...

Iberdrola to invest £6bn in the East Anglia hub
26 October 2021 Through its UK subsidiary Scottish Power, Iberdrola has undertaken to...

US-Japan joint fusion research
26 October 2021 TAE Technologies, reputedly the world's largest private fusion...

Big fossil fuel producers' plans exceed climate targets – UN report
25 October 2021 Despite efforts to strengthen climate targets, most major oil and...

Energy price hikes – an IEA perspective
25 October 2021 Gas, coal and electricity prices have recently risen to their highest...

World’s first T-pylon is installed
25 October 2021 The world’s first ‘T-pylon’, the first new design for an electricity pylon...

World’s largest floating windfarm is operational
19 October 2021 The 50 MW Kincardine offshore windfarm, the world’s largest floating...

ENEOS to acquire Japan Renewable Energy for $1.8bn
19 October 2021 Japanese refiner ENEOS Holdings, through its subsidiary ENEOS, has agreed...

Successful final testing of KS-21 solvent for CO2 capture
19 October 2021 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering has concluded testing of its...

Electricity production rising, but RE dipping – IEA
19 October 2021 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

IFA ‘will take two more years’ to get back to full service
19 October 2021 One of Britain’s most important electricity import cables, the 2000 MW...

US coal fired electricity generation will increase for the first time since 2014
19 October 2021 The US Energy Information Administration expects 22 % more US...

Five sites listed for UK fusion energy plant
19 October 2021 A final decision on a site for the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant –...

Green hydrogen production plan for Pakistan
13 October 2021 Oracle Power PLC, the international natural resources project developer,...

Hitachi ABB to lead Egypt-Saudi interconnector consortium
13 October 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced that it is to lead the consortium...

Prysmian Group to invest $100M in US production
13 October 2021 Prysmian Group is planning to invest an additional $100 million over the...

Hai Long Offshore Wind selects consortium to deliver two offshore substations in Taiwan
13 October 2021 Yushan Energy, a subsidiary of low carbon energy developer Enterprize...

‘Global energy consumption and emissions will double by 2050’ – EIA
12 October 2021 The US Energy Information Administration projects that without...

Large-scale green hydrogen facility for Orkney
12 October 2021 Offshore Wind Power Limited, the consortium formed by Macquarie’s...

‘Revolutionary’ battery management system launched
12 October 2021 Brill Power, an Oxford University spin-out company, has launched the first...

Major step for Vineyard offshore wind farm
05 October 2021 Notice to Proceed with the approximately €200 million contract to supply...

Vestas expands footprint in Canada with two major contracts
05 October 2021 Vestas has received a 151 MW order from Pattern Energy Group to power...

Uniper hands over Schkopau power plant to Saale Energie
05 October 2021 ‪‪‪On 1 October Uniper transferred its shares in the Schkopau power...

Siemens supplying HL-class technology for Greek power plant
05 October 2021 Siemens Energy is supplying its high efficiency HL-class gas...

Global offshore wind pipeline exceeds 400 GW
05 October 2021 New research by RenewableUK’s Project Intelligence team shows that the...

Prysmian awarded €221m submarine cable project in the Middle East
05 October 2021 Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract for a ±500 kV HVDC submarine...

North Sea Link commences operations
05 October 2021 National Grid’s €1.6 billion North Sea Link (NSL), the world’s longest...

September 2021

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Masdar, ADNOC and bp to form strategic partnership
28 September 2021 ADNOC, bp and Masdar have signed three agreements with the potential to...

NuScale Power signs MoU with Getka and UNIMOT
28 September 2021 NuScale Power, Getka Group and UNIMOT S.A. have signed a Memorandum...

Financing agreements for $12 bn ASU/gasification/power joint venture
28 September 2021 Aramco, Air Products, ACWA Power and Air Products Qudra have announced...

Aggreko illuminates the Ryder Cup
28 September 2021 Aggreko, the prominent supplier of mobile and modular power...

US hydropower generation to decline 14% in 2021
28 September 2021 In its latest Short Term Energy Outlook the US Energy...

Siemens and Sumitomo awarded Ireland-UK interconnector
28 September 2021 Greenlink has awarded the EPC contract for the Greenlink...

Inaugural meeting of the Vienna Group
28 September 2021 The ‘Group of Vienna’ is an IAEA (International Atomic Energy...

China pledges to end funding for coal fired power stations abroad
28 September 2021 China’s president Xi Jinping made the announcement, that China will not...

EVs predicted to increase UK demand by 71.6 TWh
21 September 2021 The latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Benchmark power curve’...

Hitachi ABB to boost efficiency of EETC Delta Zone network
21 September 2021 A consortium of Hitachi ABB Power Grids and Elsewedy Electric T&D,...

Virtual power plant reaches 1000 MW in Poland
21 September 2021 The Polish subsidiary of virtual-power-plant operator Next Kraftwerke,...

Converter station fire shuts down France-UK interconnector
20 September 2021 A fire at the National Grid’s converter station at Sellindge,...

Vestas partners with Vitol Wind for US repowering project
20 September 2021 Vestas has received a 240 MW order to repower the Vitol Wind ‘Big Sky’...

Hurricane Ida: the slow recovery continues
20 September 2021 Louisiana is still slowly recovering from the devastation caused by...

Slow recovery in RE production after low-wind dip
20 September 2021 The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics...

First motion compensated gangway for Chinese RE market
14 September 2021 ​​​​​​​Ampelmann, the offshore access specialist, has signed its...

Ørsted and T&T sign offshore wind MoU
14 September 2021 Ørsted and T&T Group, a leading Vietnamese cross-industry company,...

MAN wins 120 MW contract for McIntosh PP
14 September 2021 MAN Energy Solutions has contracted to supply 6 x 18V51/60G high output...

Prysmian connector for Gruissan offshore array
14 September 2021 Prysmian Group, in a consortium with Asso.subsea, a submarine...

Mitsubishi and Shell to co-operate on H2 development
13 September 2021 Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Shell Canada have signed a Memorandum...

Chevron, Magnum and Mitsubishi in framework agreement
13 September 2021 Chevron USA Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, has agreed on...

EDF to sell West Burton B
13 September 2021 EDF has reached an agreement to sell its 1332 MW combined cycle gas...

Specialist firms to support construction of North Sea energy island
07 September 2021 Ørsted and ATP are bringing in three specialists in industrial...

Hydropower made up 66% of Brazil’s generation in 2020
07 September 2021 The Energy Information Administration reports that Brazil, which...

Hurricane Ida: widespread power outages persist
07 September 2021 ABC reported on 4 September that at least 11 people have died in...

EU Oyster consortium chooses site for innovative H2 project
07 September 2021 Grimsby, in the northeast of the UK, has been chosen as the location for...

AI is 'critical enabler of the energy transition’ – new study
07 September 2021 Artificial intelligence has tremendous potential to accelerate and...

Siemens to supply first HL-class gas turbine to Taiwan
07 September 2021 Siemens Energy, together with its consortium partner CTCI Corporation...

ACWA Power marks inauguration of 300 MW first stage of Shuaa Energy 3 PSC
07 September 2021 ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪At an official ceremony on 23 August ACWA Power...

Construction of Hollandse Kust Zuid underway
01 September 2021 After months of preparation, the installation of the foundations of...

SP Energy Networks starts £40m network refurbishment project
01 September 2021 SP Energy Networks, which owns and manages overhead and underground...

MAN and Woodside announce LNG alliance
01 September 2021 MAN Energy Solutions and Woodside Energy, prominent company in the...

August 2021

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I million people in New Orleans without power
31 August 2021 Category 4 Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people, including...

Exelon to build hydrogen electrolyser at NY NPP
31 August 2021 Exelon Generation plans to develop a hydrogen electrolyser at its Nine...

USA has retired over 60 GW of coal fired fleet
31 August 2021 In 2011, the USA had 317.6 GW of coal-fired electric generation...

Vestas wins 181 MW deal for Dulacca wind farm
31 August 2021 Together with RES Group, Vestas has secured a 181 MW supply contract...

US lab closes in on a key goal of nuclear fusion
24 August 2021 Scientists at the National Ignition Facility, a science institute...

Financial close for 1500 MW Sudair solar
24 August 2021 ACWA Power has announced financial close for the 1500 MW Sudair solar...

Record rise in US electricity demand
24 August 2021 On 12 August, most of the United States registered a daily high...

Eco 1 MW wave power pilot permitted
24 August 2021 Eco Wave Power has been granted approval from the Portuguese government...

Renewables investment bounce back in India
24 August 2021 The 2020 decline in investment in India’s renewables programme resulting...

Power automation solution for NTDC
24 August 2021 Pakistan’s largest transmission company, National Transmission &...

Siemens awarded SuedLink HVDC contract
24 August 2021 It is expected that lines totalling 7500 km in the German...

UK government launches hydrogen economy plan
18 August 2021 The UK government intends to unlock billions of pounds in investment and...

Ørsted signs power purchase agreement with the Microsoft Corporation
18 August 2021 Ørsted and Microsoft Corporation have entered into an agreement for...

Plans for Manchester’s hydrogen fuel hub submitted
18 August 2021 Plans for the UK’s city of Manchester first low-carbon hydrogen fuel hub...

EIA expects 7% increase in energy-sector CO2 emissions
18 August 2021 Increased economic activity and a changing fuel mix in the electric...

Explosion at Medupi power station
18 August 2021 Medupi power station owner Eskom reported on 9 August that there had been...

Chia Hui power plant starts operations
18 August 2021 On 10 August GE announced the start of commercial operation for Chia...

US battery storage capacity increased 35% in 2020
18 August 2021 The United States has continued a trend of significant growth in...

Siemens Energy suffers headwinds from SGRE
06 August 2021 “We are not satisfied with the performance of SGRE [Siemens Gamesa...

Electricity demand is growing faster than renewables – IEA
06 August 2021 A new report from the International Energy Agency shows that renewables...

Uniper accelerates UK coal phase-out
06 August 2021 ‪‪‪Uniper will close one of the four 500 MW units at its Ratcliffe...

The most powerful tidal turbine starts exporting
06 August 2021 Orbital Marine Power’s O2, said to be the world’s most powerful...

Mitsubishi AI based hubs to include storage
06 August 2021 MHI subsidiary Mitsubishi Power is introducing a global network of...

Medupi unit 6 achieves commercial operation
06 August 2021 On 31 July, Unit 1, the last of six generation units of...

Ørsted completes its largest onshore wind project
06 August 2021 Ørsted has completed the 367 MW Western Trail wind farm located in...

The Chernobyl NPP fills and seals first module at ISF-2 storage
04 August 2021 The first concrete module in the new used nuclear fuel storage...

MAN and Andritz seal hydrogen co-operation agreement
03 August 2021 MAN Energy Solutions and Andritz Hydro have completed a strategic...

Siemens Gamesa secures major wind deal in India
03 August 2021 Siemens Gamesa, which recently revised downwards its 2021 EBIT and...

Biden takes aim at cyber-attacks on infrastructure
03 August 2021 US President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity Executive Order with...

RE in the USA overtakes nuclear and coal – EIA
03 August 2021 The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2020,...

GE’s HA fleet passes the million hours mark
03 August 2021 GE is celebrating the achievement of several significant landmarks for...

Testing underway on ‘unique’ H2 distribution grid
03 August 2021 A first-of-its-kind gas distribution test grid (‘MicroGrid’) is...

Gode Wind and Borkum inter-array links contracted
03 August 2021 Prysmian Group has been awarded the €60 million contract for the...

July 2021

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Duke to invest $1 bn in Florida solar
27 July 2021 Duke Energy Florida is to begin construction on four new solar energy...

Revolutionary combination of solar energy and strip cultivation
27 July 2021 Vattenfall has received a permit to build a solar farm in Almere,...

Success for first GT26 HE upgrade
27 July 2021 GE and Uniper have conducted implementation and testing of the first...

Aggreko’s new fleet of battery storage systems
27 July 2021 Aggreko, has launched a new fleet of battery storage systems. These are...

Rolls-Royce sets out net-zero road map
27 July 2021 The Rolls-Royce Power Systems business unit aims to cut greenhouse...

Funded SMR project may be cut back
27 July 2021 It has been reported by local press that Utah Associated Municipal...

First automated battery storage system
27 July 2021 On 2 July, RTE, the French public electricity transmission system...

Siemens to build one of Europe’s largest battery storage facilities
20 July 2021 Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Zukunftsenergie Nordostbayern GmbH...

Cormetech to demonstrate improved DAC technology
20 July 2021 Cormetech has been selected for an award from the US Department of...

Green Investment Group awards ODE Ltd Korean contract
20 July 2021 Offshore Design Engineering has been chosen as owner’s engineer and...

Large-scale floating wind farms may come to UK waters
20 July 2021 ScottishPower and Shell have joined forces to develop large-scale...

ERCOT unveils grid reliability Roadmap
20 July 2021 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has delivered its...

Wärtsilä launches major test programme on H2 and NH4 as fuels
20 July 2021 Wartsila has launched a major test programme to advance the adoption...

Construction costs for US solar generation still falling
20 July 2021 The annual capacity-weighted average construction costs for...

GE signs agreement for green H2-fuelled power plant
20 July 2021 GE and Cricket Valley Energy Centre have announced the signing of...

Wudongde 10.2 GW hydro comes fully online
14 July 2021 The Wudongde (WDD) project is the seventh largest hydropower station in...

Celtic Sea Power to drive floating offshore wind
14 July 2021 The company given the task of leading the development of floating...

Masdar signs for two solar plants in Uzbekistan
14 July 2021 Uzbekistan’s ministry of Energy has announced signed project agreements...

New York to explore green hydrogen potential
14 July 2021 New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on 12 July that the state...

Wood hires hydrogen expert to lead global H2 effort
14 July 2021 Wood, The Scottish engineering and consulting giant, has appointed...

Shell and Uniper to drive development of H2 economy
14 July 2021 Shell Gas & Power Developments and Uniper Hydrogen GmbH have signed...

Agreement to bring hydrogen supply to UK rail
14 July 2021 H2 Green, the hydrogen network operator, has entered into an agreement...

£25 million backing for HydrogenOne
07 July 2021 INEOS Energy has agreed to purchase 25 million shares in the forthcoming...

Caterpillar launches 12 new standby models
07 July 2021 Caterpillar has added 12 new models to its growing series of Cat GC...

EirGrid and Smart Wires partner on grid optimisation
07 July 2021 EirGrid is partnering with power technology firm Smart Wire Grid...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids to become Hitachi Energy
07 July 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids today announced that it will be ‘evolving’ to...

World bank to support Uzbekistan’s transition
07 July 2021 Uzbekistan’s ministry of Energy has announced that a new $380 million...

Vestas and Iberdrola finalise Baltic Eagle contract
07 July 2021 Vestas and Iberdrola have finalised the turbine supply contract for...

Parrot unveils the first 4G connected robotic UAV
07 July 2021 Parrot, a leading drone maker in Europe, has introduced ANAFI Ai, a...

June 2021

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GE and IHI sign ammonia agreement
29 June 2021 GE, and Japan’s IHI Corporation, have announced the signing of a...

Plans for a zero carbon power plant
29 June 2021 HyNet North West and independent power producer InterGen have announced...

Aggreko trials hydrogen generator and fuel cell hybrid
29 June 2021 As part of its Net Zero programme mobile energy specialist Aggreko...

48.9 GW of renewables projects in the UK pipeline
29 June 2021 Renewables projects labelled as “scoping” currently represents 50% or 48.9...

Valmet automation order for Newhurst EfW
29 June 2021 Valmet is to supply an automation system to an energy-from-waste...

New data shows impact of energy transition on distribution networks
23 June 2021 depsys, a specialist digitalisation company, reports that the acceleration...

Offshore industry training “is a money-making racket”
23 June 2021 Severe shortcomings in the arrangements for training offshore...

The USA consumed a record amount of RE in 2020
22 June 2021 In 2020, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for...

New submarine link to connect Europe and Asia
22 June 2021 Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract worth a total of around...

Fortum to divest 500 MW of solar power in India
22 June 2021 Fortum has signed an agreement to sell the 250 MW Pavagada II and the 250...

Nuclear startup raises millions in seed funding
22 June 2021 The German-Canadian nuclear startup Dual Fluid, founded in January 2021,...

Orca DAC has achieved DNV validation
22 June 2021 Climeworks’ new large-scale direct air capture plant ‘Orca’ has...

MAN Energy takes over H-TEC Systems
22 June 2021 MAN Energy Solutions has acquired the majority of shares in...

Major wind research centre starts operations
22 June 2021 The NorthWind research centre on wind energy, located in Trondheim,...

Sudan’s first wind turbine arrives
22 June 2021 Construction of the first commercial-scale wind project in Sudan is...

Duke energy implosion
15 June 2021 At 8 a m on Saturday 12 June Duke Energy marked the end of an era when...

Drax and MHI to create world’s largest negative emissions project
15 June 2021 Drax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd., part of the...

G7 agrees to end new government support for coal power
15 June 2021 The G7 group of the richest nations, at its summit in the UK on 13...

Launch of the EU's DSO entity
15 June 2021 ENTSO-E comments that it is looking forward to co-operating with the EU...

ABB and Axpo partner on green hydrogen project
15 June 2021 ABB has joined forces with Swiss utility Axpo to develop modular...

Tight conditions expected in Texas grid
15 June 2021 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked consumers to...

TerraPower and PacifiCorp to advance nuclear technology in Wyoming
15 June 2021 PacifiCorp and TerraPower, backed by Wyoming governor Mark Gordon...

Vattenfall to become minority shareholder in Estonian nuke start-up
08 June 2021 Vattenfall has signed an agreement with the Estonian nuclear energy...

Siemens and Mitsubishi sign SF6-free MoU for HV
08 June 2021 On June 5 Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Electric signed a Memorandum...

Fortum to increase its wind capacity in Russia
08 June 2021 The Fortum-Rusnano wind investment fund has made an investment decision...

Kriegers Flak WTG installation completed
08 June 2021 On 5 June, the last of a total of 72 turbines was installed at Kriegers...

Warning of public health threat from heat pumps
08 June 2021 Following a public health warning by the German government, the...

Fifth Chinese company joins Global Wind Organisation
08 June 2021 Fast growing Chinese wind turbine manufacturer CRRC Zhuzhou Institute Co....

bp boosts its renewables business in the USA
08 June 2021 bp reached an agreement on 1 June to purchase 9 GW of solar...

Ørsted and HOFOR agreement on hydrogen power
01 June 2021 On 31 May Ørsted and HOFOR (a Greater Copenhagen utility) entered into...

Hamburg H2 project in government shortlist
01 June 2021 The partners of the Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub, namely Shell,...

Uniper’s Heyden 4 coal plant ‘still needed’
01 June 2021 ‪‪‪‪‪Uniper's Heyden 4 coal fired power plant in Petershagen, near...

E.ON to support 28 ‘innovative’ island projects
01 June 2021 E.ON and its partners have selected 28 innovative projects on...

UK path to integrating more renewable energy
01 June 2021 What is being called a ground-breaking project – the Constellation project...

ESB and dCarbonX to partner on green H2 storage
01 June 2021 ESB and dCarbonX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the...

Design for floating offshore wind in Ireland
01 June 2021 Wood, the prominent consulting and engineering company, has been awarded...

May 2021

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‘Pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050 is narrow’ – IEA special report
25 May 2021 The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector...

Gas–based generation in the USA in decline
25 May 2021 In the first four months of 2021, natural gas-fired generation in the...

First hydro pumped power project in the Gulf region
25 May 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has contracted to supply Andritz Hydro with what...

Air-captured-CO2 project in Oman
25 May 2021 Swiss company Climeworks and Omani company 44.01 have joined forces...

Mitsubishi establishes CCGT business unit in Europe
25 May 2021 Mitsubishi Power, a prominent player in gas turbine technology, has...

Potential solution to one of fusion energy's hottest problems
25 May 2021 Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority have successfully tested what...

Qatalum signs agreement with GE
25 May 2021 Under Qatar National Vision 2030, which is intended to foster...

India to build six nuclear reactors
18 May 2021 EDF has submitted an offer to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd ...

Commissioning of giant capacitor bank in Minnesota
18 May 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced the successful commissioning on...

US coal deliveries for power sector declined by 22% in 2020
18 May 2021 The US electric power sector received 428 million short tons (MMst) of...

‘Groundbreaking’ analysis reveals potential net zero cost reductions
18 May 2021 The Carbon Trust says that ‘Flexibility in Great Britain’, is its most...

Hexicon to acquire Wave Hub test site
18 May 2021 Swedish floating windfarm developer and technology provider Hexicon is...

Martha’s Vineyard wind farm is consented
18 May 2021 The US Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has...

Fusion research ­company installs UK’s biggest gas gun
18 May 2021 First Light Fusion, a prominent company in the research field of...

New international partner joins STEP demo project
11 May 2021 The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has joined...

ERCOT anticipates record electricity demand this summer
11 May 2021 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is...

Vattenfall may sell its Magnum power plant
11 May 2021 Vattenfall is considering selling its Magnum power plant at Eemshaven in...

UK carbon price likely to rise
11 May 2021 Carbon prices, especially via the EU Emission Trading System (ETS),...

Glenmuckloch pumped storage project goes on sale
11 May 2021 Buccleuch has announced that with the assistance of...

Siemens Gamesa is preferred supplier for entire Hai Long project
11 May 2021 The collaboration between Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and its...

Vestas EnVentus WTGs for 404 MW Mutkalampi project
11 May 2021 Vestas has been engaged by Neoen to deliver a full EPC turnkey solution...

Report casts doubt on RWE and Uniper compensation demands
04 May 2021 German utilities RWE and Uniper (owned by Fortum in Finland) are suing...

Black & Veatch enlisted in Drax ‘net zero’ effort
04 May 2021 UK power provider Drax has awarded Black & Veatch a role on the...

Senate reinstates Obama-era Controls on methane
04 May 2021 The Senate voted on 28 April to effectively reinstate an Obama-era...

Indian Point NPP retired after 59 years
04 May 2021 The Indian Point Energy Center permanently stopped generating electricity...

Ørsted completes Permian Energy Center
04 May 2021 The company's first utility-scale solar plus battery storage project...

UK’s first ‘clean air’ substation tested
04 May 2021 SP Energy Networks is trialling ‘clean-air’ technology at one of...

Offshore wind FIDs to ‘skyrocket’ 57% by 2022 – new report
04 May 2021 New analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market...

April 2021

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New study suggests Texas ice storm led to $4 bn loss for wind farms
27 April 2021 ArcVera Renewables, a prominent international provider of consulting...

Mocean Energy unveils wave energy prototype
27 April 2021 Wave power specialists Mocean Energy unveiled on 21 April its ‘Blue X’...

UKAEA completes project to accelerate
fusion development
27 April 2021 The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has completed a pilot project...

GE to equip Verbund’s new pump storage power plant
27 April 2021 GE Power Conversion has been selected to equip Verbund’s new fully fed...

Hitachi ABB and GE sign agreement on SF6-free products
27 April 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids Ltd and GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions...

Jacobs supports UK AMR research funding
27 April 2021 Dallas-based Jacobs is to provide cutting-edge technical support for...

MAN Energy solutions to partner on world’s largest LAES project
27 April 2021 Highview Power has selected MAN Energy Solutions to provide its liquid...

IRENA and SGCC to partner on grid transformation
20 April 2021 The International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, has signed a Memorandum...

Uniper seeks judgement over Maasvlakte shutdown
20 April 2021 Uniper’s coal fired power station MPP3 located at Maasvlakte, near...

Mitsubishi Power wins GT order in Uzbekistan
20 April 2021 Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of the MHI Group, has received an order...

Ørsted acquires Ireland and UK onshore wind power platform
20 April 2021 On 16 April Ørsted entered into an agreement with Brookfield Renewable,...

Rolls-Royce to supply mtu Kinetic PowerPacks to Saudi Arabian university
20 April 2021 Rolls-Royce is to supply twelve mtu Kinetic PowerPacks to King...

A turbine to utilise residual heat in a chemical plant
20 April 2021 Steam turbine manufacturer Doosan Škoda Power is to supply a 15 MW...

Sweetch Energy secures €5.2m investment in osmotic energy
20 April 2021 Sweetch, a European company in the business of developing...

Major milestone for PIF
13 April 2021 On 8 April, Sudair Solar PV, Saudi Arabia’s first utility scale...

Sale of Bergen to TMH halted
13 April 2021 In an unusual use of the National Security act to prevent a...

Planning begins for Bornholm underwater cable routes
13 April 2021 As part of the Danish climate agreement of June 2020, it was decided to...

GE and Sembcorp seal Sofia transmission deal
13 April 2021 The consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp...

Giant stator by Voith Hydro is on the road
13 April 2021 During the night of Tuesday/Wednesday 6-7 April, Voith Hydro...

80 MWh energy storage project for Georgia
13 April 2021 Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to supply the ‘engineered...

UK pipeline for RE and storage projects grows to 86 GW
13 April 2021 The most recent figures from analyst Cornwall Insight's Renewables...

GE wins its largest-ever onshore wind contract
06 April 2021 GE Renewable Energy has contracted to provide onshore wind turbines for...

MHI strengthens footprint in EMEA region
06 April 2021 Effective 1 April, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has changed the name of...

ACWA Power signs financing for $1 billion gas project in Uzbekistan
06 April 2021 ACWA Power, a major developer, investor and operator of power generation...

Ørsted to develop huge renewable hydrogen plant
06 April 2021 'SeaH2Land' is an ambitious vision, linking GW-scale electrolysis to...

Phanes Group signs PPA for 200 MW solar plant in Uzbekistan
06 April 2021 Phanes Group, a solar energy developer headquartered in Dubai, has signed...

Crete’s record-breaking subsea interconnection completed
06 April 2021 On 1 April Prysmian Group and independent power transmission operator...

SEEIT acquires district energy system in USA
06 April 2021 SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, reputedly the first...

March 2021

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Prysmian finalises Sofia offshore cable contract
30 March 2021 Prysmian Group has finalised its contract agreement with RWE...

US government plans for 30GW offshore wind
30 March 2021 On 29 March secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland joined the secretaries...

Turkey’s first grid-stabilising battery commissioned
30 March 2021 Aggreko has successfully commissioned Turkey’s first...

Exide goes live with solar-plus-battery installation
30 March 2021 On 25 March Exide Technologies and Energias de Portugal went live at...

GE wins order for 1.2 GW of power components in Malaysia
30 March 2021 GE has secured an order from the engineering, procurement, and...

Ørsted FID for its largest onshore project to date
30 March 2021 Ørsted has taken a final investment decision on its largest onshore...

New 11 MW WTG for Hollandse Kust Zuid
30 March 2021 Vattenfall and Siemens Gamesa are working on the development of a new 11...

‘Future-ready’ grid control centre system
23 March 2021 Ellevio, Sweden’s second largest grid company, has contracted with...

GE begins microgrid study
23 March 2021 GE Energy Consulting along with its subcontractor and partner Nexant,...

Ørsted starts Greater Changhua installations
23 March 2021 With all the permits and EIA approvals in place, leading offshore...

Masterplan for UK’s first hydrogen transport hub
23 March 2021 Mott MacDonald has developed for the UK Department for Transport...

CO2 emissions prices in the NE USA reach record level
23 March 2021 The USA’s most recent Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)...

National Grid shifts emphasis away from gas
23 March 2021 National Grid has announced plans to buy Western Power Distribution,...

UK industry wide plan to cut emissions
23 March 2021 An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon...

GE to take part in UK’s major offshore wind initiative
16 March 2021 The UK government has announced that two new ports on The Humber...

Three major firms commit to exploring carbon capture
16 March 2021 Ørsted, Aker Carbon Capture, and Microsoft have signed a memorandum...

Electric cars global count rises to 10.9 million
16 March 2021 Electric mobility is gaining momentum. The number of electric cars...

£1 million gravity energy storage demonstrator is taking shape
16 March 2021 Work is reported to be well advanced on a 250 kW demonstrator energy...

Largest-ever last-stage blade for Hinkley Point C
16 March 2021 GE Steam Power reports that it has successfully designed, manufactured...

Gas engines complement CHP in Saarbrücken
16 March 2021 On 10 March a 4x10 axle heavy haulage truck that set off from the...

Wärtsilä to supply energy storage systems for Texas grid
16 March 2021 Wärtsilä is to supply its energy storage technology for two major projects...

New legislation in the aftermath of the ERCOT crisis
09 March 2021 The Texas House of Representatives is making it a priority to target...

Simply Blue Energy launches the Western Star floating offshore wind farm
09 March 2021 Simply Blue Energy, has announced its initiative ‘Western Star’, a...

USA broke its installed wind turbine capacity record in 2020
09 March 2021 In both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed...

Sale of Hornsea 1 transmission assets
09 March 2021 Hornsea 1 Ltd, a joint venture owned by Ørsted (50 %) and...

Fortum and RDIF to build Russia’s largest solar array
09 March 2021 Fortum and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is planning to build...

10 MW of generation fuelled by landfill gas to be delivered by Aggreko
09 March 2021 Aggreko has signed a seven-year contract with Brazilian energy company...

Demonstration of subsea wave power
09 March 2021 Scottish wave power company Mocean Energy and energy storage developer...

ACER and ENTSO-E to investigate the 8 January system separation
02 March 2021 National regulators along with the European Agency for the Co-operation...

First commercial operation of GE’s 9HA.02 technology
02 March 2021 GE, CTCI Corporation and Southern Power Generation Sdn Bhd (SPG)...

Industrial plant trial of hydrogen as a GT fuel
02 March 2021 Ineos Group and Engie have announced a pilot project to replace natural...

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia sign SMR MOU
02 March 2021 Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Europe’s largest ‘Power-to-X’ facility to go ahead
02 March 2021 In February Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure...

Wärtsilä invests in direct air capture of CO2
02 March 2021 Wärtsilä has invested a further €1 million in Soletair Power Oy, a...

Coal giant emerges as environmental saint
02 March 2021 The 4 GW Drax complex, once the largest coal fired plant in western...

February 2021

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Extreme weather causes rolling blackouts in Texas
23 February 2021 On the weekend of 13/14 February, a major winter weather system...

Hitachi ABB launches new smart digital substation
23 February 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced the launch of its Smart...

TDK Corp and GenCell to develop new green ammonia production process
23 February 2021 GenCell Energy, an Israel-based manufacturer of fuel cell energy...

C-Capture completes £8m funding round
23 February 2021 C-Capture has completed an £8 million funding round supported by...

Voith wins major orders for pumped storage
23 February 2021 Voith Hydro has been awarded two major orders for pumped storage plants...

Nexans to supply 1 million Windlink cable kits to Vestas
23 February 2021 Nexans has secured a two-year global supply contract with Vestas to...

Vestas launches 15 MW offshore WTG
16 February 2021 Vestas, the market leader in onshore wind, improved its chances of...

National Grid storage trials ‘highly successful’
16 February 2021 Software platform provider Arenko has announced that the Reserve from...

Rolls-Royce on track for 2030 delivery of UK SMR
16 February 2021 Rolls-Royce has almost completed the feasibility stage in the development...

Batteries and pumped storage are 80% efficient
16 February 2021 According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA),...

IXcellerate expands into growing Russian data centre market
16 February 2021 Caterpillar has announced that IXcellerate, a leading data centre operator...

GE aeroderivatives to help retire Martin Drake coal plant
16 February 2021 Colorado Springs Utilities is to purchase and commission six GE...

MHI invests in H2 production
16 February 2021 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced on 10 February that it has invested...

Is this a revolution in hydro-power storage?
10 February 2021 British company RheEnergise has invented a low-cost, energy efficient...

Plans confirmed for Britain’s first ‘hydrogen town’
10 February 2021 Britain’s gas grid companies have set out plans to deliver the...

Energy storage system to boost Mexico’s wind power
10 February 2021 Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide a project-critical energy...

Planned hydrogen projects outnumber current projects
09 February 2021 The number of planned or announced hydrogen projects across Europe is...

Singapore’s first virtual power plant
09 February 2021 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has been selected to deploy its energy...

Direct air capture ‘is an efficient solution’ – new study
09 February 2021 Climeworks reports that a life cycle assessment by an independent...

Boost for Finnish e-fuel technology
09 February 2021 Commercialisation of the electrofuel (e-fuel) production process...

DNV GL combines its oil & gas with its power & RE businesses
03 February 2021 To help support and accelerate the energy transition, and drive...

GE and BLP Industry.AI to join forces in AI technology
03 February 2021 GE Power Conversion and BLP Industry.AI have signed a Memorandum...

Shell partners with Simply Blue to develop Emerald
03 February 2021 Shell has signed an agreement with Irish developer Simply Blue Energy...

Construction starts at Kriegers Flak offshore array
03 February 2021 Vattenfall reports that on 27 January, the tower, nacelle and blades...

Voith in small hydropower collaboration
02 February 2021 Voith has won an order for the supply and installation of a vertical...

Centrica enters into battery storage agreement
02 February 2021 Alfen has been selected by Centrica Business Solutions, a UK energy...

IFA2 interconnector is open for business
02 February 2021 22 January marked the opening of the new power line, IFA2, linking France...

Wärtsilä and Huaneng Jiangsu sign co-operation agreement
02 February 2021 Wärtsilä and Huaneng Jiangsu, the provincial subsidiary of China...

January 2021

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System separation in Europe – update
27 January 2021 On 8 January 2021 at 14:05 CET the synchronous area of Continental Europe...

Germany’s offshore future ‘challenging’
27 January 2021 New impetus for the German offshore wind industry is needed if it is...

Nordic utilities call for swift revision of EU 2030 legislation
27 January 2021 Fortum, Statkraft and Vattenfall, the three largest Nordic energy...

Shell, MHI, Vattenfall and Wärme Hamburg in 100 MW H2 project
26 January 2021 The four participants are planning how they can jointly produce hydrogen...

£12 million UK-Japan robotics deal for fusion energy
26 January 2021 Britain and Japan have signed a research and technology...

Ørsted takes final investment decision on first H2 project
26 January 2021 Ørsted has taken a final investment decision on the Danish...

Ansaldo wins tender to supply GT to Arvedi
26 January 2021 Ansaldo Energia has been awarded by Gruppo Arvedi a contract for the...

System split in continental Europe – now resolved
20 January 2021 The synchronous area of Continental Europe was split into two separated...

Siemens to focus on offshore green H2 production
20 January 2021 Because it believes that to reach Paris Agreement goals, the world will...

Ørsted signs long-term PPAs for US wind farms
20 January 2021 PepsiCo has agreed to purchase energy from the Haystack and Western...

Gas power projects and LNG import facilities at risk in Asia
20 January 2021 Emerging markets such as Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh that are turning...

Waga and Ferrovial to deliver huge landfill gas-to-biomethane project in Spain
19 January 2021 The Ferrovial Servicios group has contracted Waga Energy to...

UK’s first low carbon H2 production hub
19 January 2021 Essar and Progressive Energy, the developer of HyNet North West, the...

GE deal to add 1 GWe in South Korea
19 January 2021 GE has secured an order expected to deliver more than ! GWe power...

India should plan for post-2030 green hydrogen market
13 January 2021 ‘Green’ hydrogen is expected to become cost competitive with hydrogen...

Ringhals 1 NPP is retired
13 January 2021 The Swedish nuclear power plant, Ringhals 1, was shut down as planned on...

Most of US capacity retirement in 2021 will be nuclear and coal
13 January 2021 According to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA)...

Costain to partner with U-Battery Developments on modular nuke design
12 January 2021 Infrastructure solutions company Costain is collaborating with...

Commercial operation begins at Hitachinaka ultra-supercritical plant
12 January 2021 The 650 MW ultra-supercitical Hitachinaka 650MW Joint Thermal Power...

UK coal phase-out will require gas deployment
12 January 2021 Britain burned more coal in the week beginning 4 January than at any time...

Consortium to investigate offshore H2 production
12 January 2021 The Oyster project, a consortium of ITM Power, Ørsted, Siemens...

Funding for world’s first net zero industrial cluster
06 January 2021 A share of £8 million in government funding will be invested in developing...

First Light Fusion raises $25 million
06 January 2021 First Light Fusion, a UK-based company prominent in researching...

ACWA Power signs agreements for wind power projects in Azerbaijan
06 January 2021 ACWA Power has executed the official agreements for a 240 MW wind...

Wärtsilä and Lihir Gold sign 10-year service agreement
06 January 2021 Wärtsilä has signed a 10-year tailored guaranteed asset performance...

Canada’s hydrogen strategy revealed
05 January 2021 On 29 December Canada’s minister of Natural Resources, Seamus...

500 MW solar power project launched in Uzbekistan
05 January 2021 On 23 December in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s ministry of Energy announced that...

Trials of network storm protection to be carried out
05 January 2021 SP Energy Networks has invested £386 000 to carry out extensive UK trials...

December 2020

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New energy storage project will be one of world’s largest
23 December 2020 Independent energy company InterGen, based in Edinburgh, has been...

Contract for the 174 MW Asahan 3 hydro plant is awarded
23 December 2020 Voith Hydro has been awarded by Mitsubishi Corporation the...

Hitachi ABB launches first HV hybrid switchgear for offshore
23 December 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids' latest high-voltage hybrid switchgear for...

Greencoat to acquire Cloghan and Taghart windfarms
22 December 2020 Greencoat Renewables, the renewable infrastructure company, is to acquire...

LevelTen Energy announces new RE-Store energy agreement
22 December 2020 On 17 December LevelTen Energy announced its new RE-Store Energy...

GenCell Energy to supply long-duration backup power to CFE Mexico
22 December 2020 GenCell Energy, the Israel-based manufacturer of fuel cell energy...

Ansaldo wins €50 m turbine contract in Poland
22 December 2020 Ansaldo Energia has been awarded a contract for the supply of an 80 MW...

UK government to end support for overseas fossil fuel projects
16 December 2020 The UK government has announced that it will end direct support for...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids energises NordLink
16 December 2020 On 9 December Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced energisation of the...

Accenture makes strategic investment in Reactive Technologies
16 December 2020 Accenture has made a strategic investment and formed a strategic...

Permits granted for Vesterhav Syd and Nord
16 December 2020 On 14 December, the Danish Energy Agency approved Vattenfall's...

California needs up to 55 GW of long term storage
15 December 2020 By 2045, California will require the deployment of up to a 55 GW of...

Vestas and MHI close partnership agreement
15 December 2020 Vestas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have closed an agreement...

Climate Ambition Summit – hugely encouraging signs for COP26
15 December 2020 At the Climate Ambition Summit held simultaneously in New York, Paris...

Roll-Royce to sell its nuclear I&C business
09 December 2020 Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement to sell its civil nuclear...

Siemens developing ‘wind to hydrogen’ project
09 December 2020 Siemens is developing the Brande Hydrogen project, the first in the world...

Vestas wins 534 MW order in Brazil
09 December 2020 Casa dos Ventos, one of the pioneers and larger investors in the...

Ørsted takes FID on 430 MW solar PV project
09 December 2020 Ørsted has taken a final investment decision on the Old 300 Solar...

Gas-fired generation has increased in most US regions
08 December 2020 Natural gas-fired generation has generally increased in most U.S....

Denmark cancels new oil and gas permits
08 December 2020 The Danish parliament has announced that it will cancel all future...

Investment in green hydrogen production ‘set to exceed $1billion USD by 2023’
08 December 2020 The future for ‘green hydrogen’ is becoming clearer according to analysts...

Fusion power plant seeks home in the UK
02 December 2020 The UK government has invited UK regions and communities to put...

Uniper Heyden 4 to close at end 2020
02 December 2020 ‪‪‪‪‪As part of its aim to transform the company and complete...

Andritz to supply FGD plant to Tata Power in India
02 December 2020 Technology group Andritz has received an order from Tata Projects Ltd,...

EDF invites interest in DAC and H2 pilots
02 December 2020 EDF Energy subsidiary Nuclear New Build Generation Co, which owns...

CCS capacity sees 33% increase in 2020 – think tank report
01 December 2020 In findings released by international think tank the Global CCS...

German State to fund energy storage solution
01 December 2020 As part of its ‘progres.nrw’ funding programme, German state...

UK offshore wind pipeline falling short of 2030 target
01 December 2020 The latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Renewables pipeline...

World’s first 1 MW hydrogen engine begins field testing
01 December 2020 The recent initiation of field testing on the converted combined heat...

November 2020

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Ultra safe micro-nuclear ‘one step closer’
25 November 2020 The Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp reports that it continues to make...

Ansaldo unveils its first home grown GT36
25 November 2020 Ansaldo has achieved what it sees as a major landmark with the...

UK government seeks leadership in CCS
25 November 2020 A major component of the UK government’s recently announced 10-point...

UK’s ‘ambitious’ ten point Green Plan
25 November 2020 On 18 November UK prime minister Boris Johnson set out the...

A European strategy for offshore renewables
25 November 2020 The European Commission has unveiled the EU’s ‘Strategy on Offshore...

ORE Catapult to advance next-G blade manufacture
24 November 2020 The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has outlined its ambition...

GE HA order for Naepo CHP plant
24 November 2020 GE has secured an order to supply power generation equipment for Naepo...

The Biden plan to build a clean energy future
18 November 2020 US president-elect Joe Biden has set out his plans, under the slogan...

Record success in China for Rolls-Royce
18 November 2020 Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems has signed agreements for...

The Red Sea Project – aiming at 100 % renewables
18 November 2020 The Red Sea Development Company, the developer of what is said to be...

Siemens Energy to develop energy hub in Afghanistan
17 November 2020 Siemens Energy has signed a multi-phase agreement with Afghanistan...

Power firms to deliver underwater super-highway
17 November 2020 Three of the UK’s largest energy firms have confirmed that they...

R&D in hydrogen delivery – converting a natural gas pipeline
17 November 2020 Politics and business are increasingly turning to hydrogen as...

2020 could be a record year for US WTG build
17 November 2020 According to data collected by the U.S. Energy Information...

Rolls-Royce signs MoU with Exelon for compact NPPs
11 November 2020 Rolls-Royce and Exelon Generation have signed a Memorandum of...

Meghalaya state to modernise grid with ADB loan
11 November 2020 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $132.8 million loan...

GE and Harbin Electric contracted to boost China’s Greater Bay Area transition
11 November 2020 GE has received an order from Chinese state-owned power utility...

UK’s largest battery goes on line
11 November 2020 Gresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist...

Renewables are ‘defying the Covid crisis’ – IEA report
10 November 2020 Renewables will account for almost 90% of the increase in total...

Saft launches new energy storage hub
10 November 2020 Saft has opened a new manufacturing hub for energy storage solutions...

US power sector coal consumption falls dramatically
10 November 2020 From January to June 2020, the power sector consumed 184.8 million short...

Global security of supply – more effort needed
04 November 2020 A new IEA report from the International Energy Agency ‘Power Systems...

UK’s onshore wind pipeline ‘could supply 30 GW by 2030’
04 November 2020 New research by trade body RenewableUK shows that the total capacity...

Germany’s climate targets ‘depend on investment in grids’
04 November 2020 A study by RWTH Aachen University and Frontier Economics has quantified...

Ireland needs to double its RE capacity
04 November 2020 Findings from Cornwall Insight's 'All-Island forward curve' – a market...

ABB’s medium voltage converters gain UL certification
04 November 2020 ABB’s medium voltage PCS6000 converters have been awarded...

Vestas and MHI move closer
03 November 2020 Vestas Wind Systems and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have signed an...

CSP plant breaks African record
03 November 2020 ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi Arabian developer, investor and operator...

GE supplying ST for Australia’s new WtE plant
03 November 2020 GE Steam Power is to supply its renewable steam power technology for a...

October 2020

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50Hertz and Energinet inaugurate world’s first hybrid interconnector
28 October 2020 On 20 October, 50Hertz and the Danish system operator Energinet...

Record minimum demand levels across Australia
28 October 2020 Increasing uptake of rooftop solar (PV) systems coupled with changes...

GE’s Haliade-X WTG prototype reaches 13 MW
28 October 2020 GE Renewable Energy has announced that its Haliade-X prototype, said to...

Launch of Power System Transformation Consortium
27 October 2020 On 20 October during the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in...

Highview Power to develop giga-scale cryogenic energy storage projects
27 October 2020 Highview Power, prominent in long duration energy storage solutions,...

US utility-scale battery storage costs have fallen 70% in three years
27 October 2020 The average energy capacity cost of utility-scale battery storage in...

Vattenfall offers to sell Berlin grid
27 October 2020 Vattenfall has offered to sell to the State of Berlin all its shares...

GE and SB Energy embark on 327 MW wind power project in India
27 October 2020 GE Renewable Energy has been selected by SB Energy to supply, install...

New US record for RE consumption
21 October 2020 In 2019, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for...

10th birthday present for Nova Innovation
21 October 2020 Nova Innovation is celebrating its 10th birthday with the...

Energy PPA Price Index reveals Italy’s RE advance
21 October 2020 LevelTen, reportedly the world’s largest renewable energy marketplace,...

Voith awarded Mohmand dam project
21 October 2020 At the end of September China Gezhouba Group Corp and Voith Hydro...

American Hydro to modernise Keokuk plant
20 October 2020 American Hydro, part of Wärtsilä Corporation, has been awarded a...

Hitachi ABB system for IFA2 interconnector
20 October 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids will be delivering its HVDC Light system for the...

Aggreko adds a solar rental option
20 October 2020 Aggreko has added rental solar to its offerings. The 1 MW PV solution...

Can the Covid-19 crisis reshape energy futures?
14 October 2020 It has been a tumultuous year for the global energy system. The...

Record European demand for RE – despite COVID-19
14 October 2020 New statistics from the Association of Issuing Bodies show that the...

GB could be net exporter of power by 2040s
14 October 2020 Interconnection with EU nations, regardless of trading...

Statkraft to double its Brazilian renewables presence
13 October 2020 Statkraft is ready to start construction of its Ventos de Santa Eugenia...

Power plant transition to zero-carbon hydrogen
13 October 2020 Long Ridge Energy Terminal (“Long Ridge”), located in Hannibal, Ohio,...

Baker Botts adds CCUS to its hydrogen practice
13 October 2020 Baker Botts LLP, a prominent international technology and energy law...

Vestas secures ninth intertidal wind project in Vietnam
13 October 2020 Vestas has received an order for a 29 MW wind project from the...

Greece sets ambitious targets to phase out coal by 2028
07 October 2020 Greece has committed €5 billion to phase-out the use of coal by 80% by...

GIG launches distributed energy venture
07 October 2020 Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), Siemens Industry, and...

Mitsubishi to build 1400 MW GTCC PP in Thailand
07 October 2020 Mitsubishi Power, Ltd., a subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...

Green ammonia project to be developed
07 October 2020 Ørsted, the prominent offshore wind developer, and Yara, said to be...

Scottish project patents ‘flat pack hydro’
06 October 2020 Carruthers Renewables has teamed up with the University of...

Hornsea Two offshore construction starts
06 October 2020 Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has seen its first...

Global Offshore Wind 2020 - a virtual conference
06 October 2020 RenewableUK ‘s virtual conference and exhibition for the global offshore...

China aims at carbon neutrality before 2060
05 October 2020 China’s president Xi Jinping used his speech on 22 September, at the...

September 2020

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House passes Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act
30 September 2020 On 24 September, the US House of Representatives passed HR 4447, the...

Siemens to build CO₂-free hydrogen production plant
30 September 2020 Siemens Smart Infrastructure and WUN H2 GmbH signed a contract to build...

Hitachi ABB to acquire Pioneer Solutions
30 September 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has signed a definitive agreement to acquire...

Vattenfall opens first floating solar farm
30 September 2020 On 25 September Vattenfall officially opened its first floating solar...

Norwegian government launches ‘Longship’ CCS project
30 September 2020 In a White Paper to parliament submitted on 21 September, the...

MAN delivers molten-salt circuit for solar research at DLR
29 September 2020 The German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt;...

R-R to supply Bergen gas engines for Australian magnetite mine
29 September 2020 Rolls-Royce and its agent Penske Australia have signed a contract...

bp enters offshore wind market
23 September 2020 Oil giant bp (formerly BP) and Equinor have announced the formation of a...

GE to exit new build coal power market
23 September 2020 GE announced on 21 September that it intends to exit the new build coal...

A new power supply for Bangladesh
23 September 2020 Siemens Energy has won the contract to supply components for a new...

National Grid and TenneT to develop offshore wind links
23 September 2020 National Grid Ventures, the commercial development arm of National Grid...

Hornsea Two SOV launched in Turkey
23 September 2020 Wind energy developer Ørsted launched the latest addition to its fleet...

Ground-breaking carbon capture project
22 September 2020 Engineering major Worley has been awarded a contract to provide the...

Giant contract for a giant WTG
22 September 2020 Recently GE’s Haliade-X wind turbine set a world record by generating 288...

Hitachi abandons Anglesey NPP project
16 September 2020 Hitachi will confirm today, 16 September, that it has finally abandoned...

SP Energy Networks launches its biggest call for flexibility services
16 September 2020 SP Energy Networks in the UK has launched its largest ever tender...

Hitachi ABB wins offshore transformer contract
16 September 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has signed a significant purchase agreement with...

High pressure to ramp up electrification
15 September 2020 The Power Barometer, by European trade body Eurelectric, is a set of...

Hot testing starts at Chernobyl spent-fuel storage
15 September 2020 ‘Hot testing’ has started at the Interim Storage Facility 2 (ISF-2)...

Deep decarbonisation ‘still 15 years away’ – DNV GL forecast
15 September 2020 Although decarbonisation is rising rapidly up the agendas of industry...

GE secures HA GT order for Zainskaya PP
15 September 2020 GE has secured an order to supply power generation equipment for a...

First hydro-solar microgrid in Patagonia
15 September 2020 A run-of-river hydroelectric power station, photovoltaic installation,...

Natrium fast reactor claimed to offer cost savings
08 September 2020 On 2 September TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) launched...

Accelerated build rate required to meet UK Net Zero 2050 target
08 September 2020 A whitepaper by Atkins – a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group – shows...

World-first disaster recovery solution
08 September 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has pioneered what it believes is a...

$3.40 trillion to be invested in Renewables by 2030 – F&S report
08 September 2020 Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, ‘Growth Opportunities...

Siemens and Kineticor advance Canada’s gas policy
08 September 2020 Siemens Energy has been selected to provide its high efficiency gas...

GE wins equipment contract for Hsinta and Taichung projects
08 September 2020 GE International is the successful bidder for the 6500 MW Hsinta and...

$60 million loan from ADB for Uzbekistan hydro
08 September 2020 JSC Uzbekhydroenergo, Uzbekistan’s state hydropower producer and...

New AEM process for hydrogen production
02 September 2020 Chemical engineer Evonik reports that it has developed a novel anion...

Gas engine achieves highest efficiency in its class
02 September 2020 Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ new KG-18-T gas engine, fitted with...

Siemens’ big onshore win in Texas
02 September 2020 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded contracts for two...

Emerson to buy Open Systems International Inc.
01 September 2020 Emerson has agreed to acquire Open Systems International for $1.6 billion...

JERA goes for Ishikari public review
01 September 2020 JERA is planning to construct an offshore wind farm off Ishikari...

Vestas wins 409 MW order in Brazil
01 September 2020 Vestas has received a 409 MW order from the joint venture between...

Fabrication starts on Gravitricity’s storage demonstrator
01 September 2020 International winch specialists Huisman have begun fabrication of a...

August 2020

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Rolls-Royce launches Power Lab to drive future technologies
25 August 2020 Rolls-Royce with its Power Systems business has set up a new...

Asnæs wood waste power station inaugurated
25 August 2020 Asnæs power station can now supply green district heating to the Danish...

Wärtsilä to convert Brazilian power plant to gas
25 August 2020 Technology group Wärtsilä has contracted to convert a Brazilian power...

MPS to build full scale demonstrator device in Wales
25 August 2020 Following a successful crowdfunding campaign and obtaining funding from...

First solar plant to deliver grid services
25 August 2020 First Solar Inc. has announced that its 141 MW AC Luz del Norte PV...

World’s first smart fossil-free island
25 August 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ battery energy storage technology is being used...

Siemens first MW green hydrogen project in China
25 August 2020 Siemens Energy and Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co. Ltd,...

Wind and solar power double their global market share
19 August 2020 Wind and solar power accounted for almost 10% of the world’s...

London buses to become world’s largest vehicle-to-grid site
19 August 2020 A North London bus garage is set to become a 'virtual power...

Vestas secures final order for its largest V150-4.2 MW project in Germany
19 August 2020 Demonstrating the slow and step-by-step growth that currently...

Siemens delivers technology for seventh offshore wind farm connection
19 August 2020 Siemens Energy is to supply a new HVDC connection to the BorWin5...

Electricity demand slump hits Orsted’s earnings
19 August 2020 Danish wind giant Orsted reported an 18% drop in second-quarter earnings...

GE agreement with Walcha Energy to accelerate 500 MW pumped hydro storage project
18 August 2020 GE Renewable Energy and Walcha Energy have signed an agreement to...

Fortum initiates an EIA for Loviisa NPP
18 August 2020 Fortum has initiated an Environmental Impact Assessment procedure for...

Hornsea Two steelwork sets sail from Batam
18 August 2020 On 13th August, the heavy transport vessel (HTV) Big Lift Barentsz...

Coal-plant retirements in Europe outpace new capacity
12 August 2020 The size of the global coal fleet declined in the first half of 2020 for...

Renewables provided a third of UK electricity in 2019
12 August 2020 Renewable energy sources provided a record 37.1% of the UK’s electricity...

EPRI and GTI launch low-carbon initiative
12 August 2020 The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Gas Technology...

The future of renewables in Northern Ireland
12 August 2020 A Cornwall Insight and Ionic Consulting report that was commissioned by...

Vestas first to reach 100 GW of WTGs under service
12 August 2020 Renewables are on track to become the foundation of the global energy...

46 GW increase in renewables required by 2030
12 August 2020 Forecasts from analyst Cornwall Insight’s ‘Benchmark power curve’...

Elcogen to commercialise SOFC system for Korean market
12 August 2020 Elcogen, the European manufacturer of what is claimed to be the world’s...

NYPA and Siemens cybersecurity collaboration
05 August 2020 The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Siemens Energy have announced a...

MAN outlines restructuring programme
05 August 2020 To maintain its future viability, MAN Energy Solutions has decided on...

Shetland link supplier announced
05 August 2020 Hitachi ABB Power Grids has won the order from Scottish and...

Emerson and MHPS digital collaboration
05 August 2020 Emerson and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas are joining forces...

Modernisation of Kadyrinskaya hydro completed
04 August 2020 Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy has announced that the three-year project...

Construction of megabattery gets under way
04 August 2020 Pacific Gas & Electric and Tesla have begun construction of a 182.5 MW/...

Endesa to install 8500 vehicle charging points
04 August 2020 The European Investment Bank and Endesa are joining forces to...

EIB backing for battery gigafactory
03 August 2020 The European Investment Bank has entered into a $350 million loan...

July 2020

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30% growth in global offshore wind projects
29 July 2020 New research published by RenewableUK shows that the global pipeline...

Siemens secures final order to complete Cabo Leones cluster
29 July 2020 Siemens Gamesa has secured a new order from Ibereólica Renovables, a...

Engie, EDPR launch Ocean Winds
28 July 2020 Engie and EDPR have officially launched Ocean Winds (OW), their new...

WindFloat Atlantic powers up
28 July 2020 The 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind farm is fully...

EGP starts Lily construction
28 July 2020 Enel Green Power (EGP has started construction of the Lily solar +...

PKN completes offshore study
28 July 2020 Polish firm PKN Orlen has completed the environmental study for a...

EIB is backing CCGT in Greece
28 July 2020 The European Investment Bank (EIB) has pledged €125 million of...

TAQA closes on 2.4 GW plant financing
22 July 2020 Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) has reached financial close on...

DOE backs flexible CCS
22 July 2020 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $11.5 million in funding...

Ingeteam selected for Whitelee battery
22 July 2020 ScottishPower Renewables, which is part of the Spanish Iberdrola Group,...

Green light for Scottish island link
22 July 2020 UK energy regulator Ofgem has given the go-ahead for the construction of...

Green hydrogen costs falling
22 July 2020 Analysis by IHS Markit suggests that the production of “green” hydrogen...

Vestas secures 101 MW order B&T Wind Farm
22 July 2020 Vestas has been awarded a 101 MW order with AMI AC Renewables Corporation,...

Hybrid LPG/LFO fuelled plant for US Virgin Islands
22 July 2020 Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to deliver a ‘state-of-the-art’...

EU sets out its plans for the energy system of the future
15 July 2020 The European Commission has set out its strategies for achieving...

German government passes coal exit law
15 July 2020 Following an agreement in January resulting from months of talks with...

Polish government revises offshore wind plans
14 July 2020 Poland has revised its draft offshore wind energy regulations to...

E.On sells Innogy’s Czech retail business
14 July 2020 E.On has reached an agreement with MVM Group for the sale of Innogy...

200 MW Wärtsilä plant heads for Andes
14 July 2020 Technology group Wärtsilä has won a contract to supply a 200 MW...

Endesa aims for island decarbonisation
14 July 2020 Endesa has put forward proposals to decarbonise Spain’s island territories...

Poland orders boost Vestas
14 July 2020 Poland has received orders for 166 MW of wind turbine capacity from...

Longest subsea link reaches construction milestone
08 July 2020 National Grid and Statnett report that North Sea Link, a 1.4 GW, 720...

Doosan wins contracts for Gimpo CHP plant
08 July 2020 Doosan has signed dual contracts with Korea Western Power Co. for the...

Magnora and Kustvind to accelerate Sydkustens project
07 July 2020 Norwegian company Magnora and its Swedish partner Kustvind say they...

First turbine spins at SeaMade
07 July 2020 Belgium’s SeaMade offshore wind farm has generated first power. The 487...

Enso and GIG seal 1 GW storage, solar deal
07 July 2020 Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Enso Energy have announced...

Black & Veatch to assist Orbital
07 July 2020 Orbital Marine Power has appointed Black & Veatch as Lead Engineering...

Iberdrola buys into French onshore wind
07 July 2020 Iberdrola has finalised the acquisition of renewable energy company...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids commences operations
03 July 2020 In accordance with the agreement signed in December 2018, Hitachi Ltd and...

Unique free-to-all tidal assessment
01 July 2020 Black & Veatch believes that tidal stream energy has made a further...

Community partnership to build Netherland’s largest onshore wind project
01 July 2020 Windpark Zeewolde B.V., Vestas and Rabobank have closed contracts for...

SuedLink contracts awarded to Prysmian and NKT
01 July 2020 German TSOs TenneT and TransnetBW have selected NKT and Prysmian to...

June 2020

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USA sees falling PV costs
30 June 2020 System costs for solar photovoltaics (PV) are falling rapidly in the...

Drax partners with Mitsubishi to scale up CCS
30 June 2020 Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have confirmed plans to install...

Gore Street bolsters UK portfolio
30 June 2020 Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has secured a 131 MW project portfolio in...

Growing cyber threat to renewable energy assets
30 June 2020 Renewable energy asset owners relying more heavily on digital systems...

Iberdrola moves in on Swedish offshore wind sector
30 June 2020 Iberdrola has signed a deal to make majority acquisitions in eight...

A new giant for the North Sea
24 June 2020 Siemens Gamesa has received a conditional order for 100 units of its...

World’s first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage
24 June 2020 Developer Carlton Power has entered into a joint venture agreement...

Industry backs ORE Catapult’s floating offshore wind centre
24 June 2020 Ten of the most prominent offshore energy organisations have joined...

Ideol teams up for international floating venture
23 June 2020 Ideol, JERA and Ademe Investissement have set up an investment...

Denmark approves 4 GW energy island
23 June 2020 Denmark has given the green light for the development of two energy...

Enlight signs up for 312 MW Spanish finance
23 June 2020 Enlight Renewable Energy has secured the finance for the 312 MW Gecama...

Lithuania identifies offshore zone
23 June 2020 The government of Lithuania has identified the location of the...

SSE sets up Viking investment
23 June 2020 SSE Renewables has taken a final investment decision for the 443 MW...

‘Power bridge’ to connect Crete to mainland Greece
16 June 2020 A consortium led by Siemens Gas and Power has been awarded a turnkey...

Ocean Energy wins SELKIE tender
16 June 2020 The SELKIE cross-border project aiming to boost the marine energy industry...

Irsching 4 and 5 gas power plants restarted
16 June 2020 Uniper, N-ERGIE, Mainova and ENTEGA, the owners of the Irsching 5 gas...

Masdar inks 500 MW Uzbek deal
16 June 2020 Renewable energy firm Masdar has signed a deal with the government...

Norway opens offshore wind areas
16 June 2020 Norway has announced plans to open two major offshore wind areas...

Portugal gears up for solar auction
16 June 2020 Portugal is preparing to launch a 700 MW solar tender that it delayed...

Neoen to build largest battery in Nordics
16 June 2020 Neoen has announced plans to build a 30 MW/30 MWh battery energy...

Eneco seals new wind PPA
16 June 2020 A major onshore wind repowering project in the Netherlands has signed a...

Pandemic – a ‘historic shock’ to the global gas market
10 June 2020 The combination of the Covid-19 crisis and an exceptionally mild winter...

Vestas wins two major orders in China
10 June 2020 Vestas has secured a 50 MW order from a new customer, China Three...

Ørsted marks offshore milestone
09 June 2020 Green energy company Ørsted has completed installation of the first of...

Adani clinches ‘record’ 8 GW solar deal
09 June 2020 Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) has been awarded a $6 billion contract...

Minesto reports Faroe project progress
09 June 2020 Marine energy developer Minesto has completed the first offshore...

Enercon secures financing for business turnaround
09 June 2020 German wind turbine manufacturer Enercon has secured long-term financing...

‘Revolutionary’ Nova turbine is market ready
09 June 2020 Tidal energy company Nova Innovation has successfully completed a project...

‘One share for two’ Siemens Energy shares
04 June 2020 Siemens AG has published key details of the spin-off of its energy...

Hinkley Point C second reactor base completed
04 June 2020 Work on the 49 000 tonne base for the second reactor at EDF Energy’s...

WindFloat Atlantic approaches the finishing line
04 June 2020 The third and final floating platform of the WindFloat Atlantic offshore...

UK solar giant given go-ahead
04 June 2020 The UK government has granted permission for the construction of a 350...

MHI Vestas inks Seagreen deal
04 June 2020 MHI Vestas has signed a conditional agreement with SSE Renewables to...

Fécamp partners start construction
04 June 2020 EDF, Enbridge and wpd have started construction of the Fécamp offshore...

EDF buys into Chinese offshore wind projects
04 June 2020 French group EDF has sealed its commitment to the growing Chinese...

May 2020

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New report highlights crucial role of renewable hydrogen in UK
27 May 2020 Renewable hydrogen has a key role to play in the UK’s successful...

German government may take a share in TenneT
27 May 2020 TSO Tennet and the Dutch and German governments are reported to be...

Nexans wins Crete connector contract
27 May 2020 Nexans has been awarded a €1.6bn contract to design, manufacture and...

Tauron delays Jaworzno start up
27 May 2020 Polish energy company Tauron has delayed commercial operations at its 910...

EDL commissions 56 MW Australian hybrid
27 May 2020 Global energy firm EDL has completed the 56 MW Agnew hybrid renewable...

Court rejects appeal over Drax plans
27 May 2020 Britain’s High Court has ruled that planning permission granted to...

Commission green lights biomass scheme
27 May 2020 The European Commission has approved a state aid scheme designed to...

Wind sector tackles recycling
27 May 2020 Europe’s wind energy sector says that innovation and cross-industry...

Siemens launches a new offshore giant
20 May 2020 Siemens Gamesa has announced the development of a 14 MW SG 14-222 DD...

EDP sells two Spanish plants
20 May 2020 Portugal’s EDP has agreed to sell two Spanish combined-cycle gas...

Historic decision for CO2 storage
20 May 2020 Equinor, Shell and Total have decided to invest in the Northern...

Vattenfall launches 1.225 MWh battery pack
20 May 2020 Vattenfall and Northvolt has launched a new battery energy storage...

ADB finances Thai wind and battery project
20 May 2020 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a THB235.55 million...

EPH to build new gas capacity at Kilroot
20 May 2020 Czech-based power company Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding (EPH)...

German government reaches agreement on distance rule
20 May 2020 Germany’s coalition government says that it will be up to individual...

Wärtsilä and Uniper plan Bremen CHP
20 May 2020 Wärtsilä and Uniper have been contracted to deliver a 105 MW combined...

Vestas breaks WTG installation record
13 May 2020 Vestas has become the first wind turbine manufacturer to install more than...

BP explores Oz hydrogen investment
13 May 2020 BP has announced plans to start a feasibility study into a green...

Floating wind players join new committee
13 May 2020 Several leading players in the growing floating offshore wind energy...

Germany expands its offshore wind ambitions
13 May 2020 Germany has pledged to expand its offshore wind target for 2030 from 15 GW...

690 MW Nevada solar-storage project approved
13 May 2020 The US federal government has given final approval for the...

Gravitricity to build its first gravity storage demonstrator
13 May 2020 Edinburgh energy storage start-up Gravitricity has signed a land...

Bombora and ORE Catapult to develop co-located floating renewables
13 May 2020 Wave energy developer Bombora has joined forces with the Offshore...

MAN steam turbines for CHP plant in Leipzig
13 May 2020 MAN Energy Solutions has been awarded the contract for two MST050...

Eneco joins the PosHYdon project
06 May 2020 Eneco has joined as a partner in Neptune Energy’s PosHYdon hydrogen...

Sengwa project is making progress
06 May 2020 Rio Energy has announced that China Gezhouba Group Corp (CGGC) will assist...

Valmet wins Polish biomass conversion
06 May 2020 Valmet has received an order from Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów-Adamów-Konin...

Wärtsilä to deliver 70 MW California storage
06 May 2020 Technology group Wärtsilä is to deliver a 70 MW energy storage and...

Dutch assess subsidy-free offshore tender
06 May 2020 Holland’s Enterprise Agency (RVO) is assessing “multiple”...

Wärtsilä gas engines to burn 100% hydrogen
05 May 2020 The technology group Wärtsilä reports that it is developing the...

Solar PV continues its upward trend
05 May 2020 The IEA solar section, PVPS, published its latest ‘Snapshot’ report on...

Covid-19: energy demand and emissions fall across Europe
05 May 2020 Research from analyst Cornwall Insight has investigated the impact on...

April 2020

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TGP signs up WPD for 600 MW wind array
29 April 2020 Taiwan Green Power (TGP) and WPD have signed an agreement jointly to...

Valmet on target in Tampere
29 April 2020 Valmet has won a contract to deliver a biomass boiler plant to...

Greencoat UK buys 240 MW wind farm
29 April 2020 Greencoat UK Wind and Vattenfall have sealed a partnership to build the...

IRENA calls for “resilient’ renewable recovery
29 April 2020 The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that a continued...

Mongolia wins ADB support
29 April 2020 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the uptake of renewable...

Ofgem approves 600 MW Shetland link
29 April 2020 Ofgem has approved a proposal by Scottish and Southern Electricity...

Japanese power segment's first dual-fuel engines
29 April 2020 MAN Energy Solutions has been commissioned by Kawasaki Heavy Industries...

ORE Catapult testing resumes
29 April 2020 The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre...

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22 April 2020

ABB partners with China’s state grid
22 April 2020 ABB’s Power Grids business has won several major orders to supply...

Renewables’ share rises to all-time high in Germany
22 April 2020 Renewables covered around 52% of gross power consumed in Germany during...

Shell outlines its net zero ambitions
21 April 2020 Oil giant Shell has made a pledge to cut emissions from its operations to...

Sweden closes its last coal plant
21 April 2020 Sweden has closed its last coal-fired power plant, making it the...

Uzbekistan makes 100 MW wind call
21 April 2020 Uzbekistan’s government has issued a request for proposals for a 100...

Vattenfall inks HKZ grid connection agreement
21 April 2020 Vattenfall and TenneT have signed an agreement for the offshore...

Wärtsilä wins LatAm contracts
21 April 2020 Wärtsilä has been awarded full EPC contracts for two power plants in...

Virginia accelerates energy transition
15 April 2020 Virginia’s governor has signed legislation aimed at accelerating the...

Siemens Gamesa restarts production in Spain
15 April 2020 Siemens Gamesa has been able to restart production at its production sites...

ITM and Ørsted investigate H2 technology options
15 April 2020 ITM Power and Ørsted have embarked on a design project integrating a...

Eskom curtails wind energy
15 April 2020 Wind energy operators in South Africa are seeking legal advice after...

Developers boost Morlais tidal ambitions
15 April 2020 Three tidal stream turbine developers have agreed to deploy technology at...

MHPS syncs T-Point 2 to the grid
15 April 2020 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has begun the commissioning phase of...

GE to supply HA combined cycle units to Dolna Odra
15 April 2020 GE is to supply two high-efficiency and low emission power units for...

First fire achieved for first SGT6-9000HL
08 April 2020 Siemens Energy has achieved a major milestone for its HL class engine...

Vestas to supply Japan’s first major offshore project
08 April 2020 Vestas is to supply 33 V117-4.2MW typhoon variant turbines for the...

GWEC sets up Covid-19 response hub
08 April 2020 The GWEC hub has been set up to co-ordinate information and responses to...

Renewables outpaced fossil fuels in 2019
08 April 2020 New data shows that renewable energy continues to outpace fossil fuels...

French auction schedule is revised
08 April 2020 The French government has revised its schedule for upcoming renewable...

Greek auction boosts Quantum’s momentum
07 April 2020 Quantum Energy and Enora have secured the only contract for onshore...

Innogy plans Kaskasi build
07 April 2020 Innogy has paved the way for the construction of its third German...

Market turbulence delays Portuguese auction
07 April 2020 Portugal’s government has postponed a 700 MW solar PV tender planned for April.

Covid-19: power demand is recovering in China
01 April 2020 A report from IHS Markit suggests that China, which has experienced...

Vestas secures fourth intertidal wind project in Vietnam
01 April 2020 Vestas has secured its fourth intertidal project in Vietnam with a 29...

Siemens’ first order for 170-metre rotor onshore turbine
01 April 2020 Siemens will deliver eight units of its SG 5.8-170 to Danish developer...

Acciona to build giant wind farm in Queensland
01 April 2020 Acciona has announced plans to start construction of a 1026 MW wind farm...

Covid-19 – UK Energy sector seeks coronavirus support
01 April 2020 Energy companies in the UK have asked the government for financial backing...

Eni commissions its first wind project
01 April 2020 Italian oil firm Eni has commissioned its first wind farm, the 48 MW...

Iberdrola and EDF plan floating wind demo
01 April 2020 Iberdrola and EDF have announced plans to build a floating offshore...

Covid-19 – production lines critical, says WindEurope
01 April 2020 WindEurope has called on European governments to allow continued operation...

March 2020

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Growth in energy storage slowing – new report
25 March 2020 A new report from EASE and Delta-EE shows that that the European...

Support for USA’s largest offshore wind project
25 March 2020 Ramboll has been chosen by Dominion Energy to support development...

IEA calls for clean energy response in wake of COVID-19 crisis
25 March 2020 The International Energy Agency says that governments should put clean...

Coronavirus drives wind market downgrade
25 March 2020 The coronavirus pandemic is expected to have a widespread impact on...

European tidal generation jumps 50 %
25 March 2020 European tidal stream projects generated 50 per cent more electricity in...

Foresight and Belltown join forces
25 March 2020 Foresight Group and Belltown power have created a joint venture to...

Offshore wind sees record 2019
25 March 2020 The global offshore wind industry installed a record 6.1 GW of new...

TEPCO and Ørsted form offshore wind JV
18 March 2020 TEPCO and Ørsted are to form a joint venture company, Choshi Offshore...

Fortum’s majority investment in Uniper cleared
18 March 2020 The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has informed Fortum that the...

CBI seeks research bids
18 March 2020 The Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI) has issued a new request...

Hywind clears state aid hurdle
18 March 2020 The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has given the green light for...

Pandemic 'is delaying wind supply chains'
18 March 2020 he current Covid-19 pandemic is likely to result in delays in the...

MHPS set for IPA hydrogen build
18 March 2020 USA-based Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) has awarded Mitsubishi...

RTE announces capacity market results
18 March 2020 French transmission operator RTE has announced the winners of 7-year...

'Net Zero by 2050 is possible’ – Energy Systems Catapult
11 March 2020 A new report by the Energy Systems Catapult has found that a UK target...

Uzbekistan shortlists 54 solar bidders
11 March 2020 Uzbekistan’s government has shortlisted 54 companies interested in bidding...

LIPA launches battery tender
11 March 2020 The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has kicked off a tender to...

Iberdrola ramps up Saint Brieuc control
11 March 2020 Iberdrola has signed a deal to take full control of French offshore wind...

Elecnor wins Ghent biomass contract
11 March 2020 Elecnor is to build a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant in the...

EIB backs Pomeranian wind farm
11 March 2020 Ignitis Group has signed a financing deal with the European Investment...

Green hydrogen refinery to be built in Rotterdam
11 March 2020 CEA, Neste, Paul Wurth, ENGIE and Sunfire have announced a...

Breakthrough in ceramic fuel cell technology
04 March 2020 Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have discovered a new family...

Iren signs €180 m Turbigo CCGT extension contract
04 March 2020 Iren S.p.A. has signed an EPC contract with Ansaldo Energia for a 430...

Drax to end coal generation
04 March 2020 Drax has announced plans to end coal generation at its Yorkshire power...

E.On plans Malmö deep heat plant
04 March 2020 E.On has announced plans to build a €5.4 million deep geothermal power...

NortH2 green hydrogen project takes shape
04 March 2020 A consortium of Gasunie, Groningen Seaports and Shell Nederland has...

Polish associations work on sector agreement
04 March 2020 Two Polish wind energy associations are joining forces to create an...

UK plans back onshore wind and solar
04 March 2020 The UK government has confirmed plans to once again allow onshore wind...

February 2020

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Terna initiates power system upgrade
27 February 2020 Ansaldo Energia and ABB have won a 70 million euro order from Terna...

Uniper sells stake in Schkopau lignite-fired PP
27 February 2020 Uniper has signed an agreement with Saale Energie GmbH (Saale Energie)...

Uzbekistan seeks solar investment EoI
26 February 2020 Uzbekistan is looking for developers interested in building up to 400 MW...

Sumitomo backs Highview tech
26 February 2020 Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced a $46 million investment...

Pivot order boosts Wärtsilä
26 February 2020 Pivot Power has placed an order with technology group Wärtsilä to deliver...

UK funds hydrogen plants
26 February 2020 The UK government has announced £30 million of funding for five...

IEA reviews German energy policies
26 February 2020 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has praised Germany’s efforts...

Global carbon dioxide emissions flatlined in 2019 – IEA
19 February 2020 The latest data provides grounds for optimism that emissions can...

First Cummins gas gen in a greenhouse setting
19 February 2020 Belgian horticultural company Varegro is using a Cummins HSK78G gas...

EFW project reaches financial close
19 February 2020 The partners behind a 42 MW energy from waste (EFW) project in the UK...

MHI Vestas wins 300 MW Taiwan contract
19 February 2020 MHI Vestas has been selected as the preferred turbine supplier for the 300...

Construction of Karakurt dam completed
19 February 2020 Energo-Pro reports that it has started filling the reservoir of the...

Europe 'falling short on wind' – Wind Europe
19 February 2020 European countries are not building enough wind energy capacity to...

Alberta green-lights 900 MW at Cascade
19 February 2020 Authorities in Canada’s Alberta province have given the go-ahead for...

ABB pioneers new Statcom technology
13 February 2020 ABB’s Power Grids business has completed the installation of the...

Assystem awarded  ITER contract
13 February 2020 Assystem, the world’s second largest nuclear engineering organisation,...

EU project to develop improved turbine design
12 February 2020 An EU-funded project has been launched to help improve the performance...

Total targets 2 GW in Spain
12 February 2020 Total has announced plans to build 2 GW of solar energy capacity in Spain.

Neoen preps for Culcairn build
12 February 2020 French renewables developer Neoen has submitted the Environmental...

Equinor launches climate roadmap
12 February 2020 Equinor has pledged to expand its renewable energy portfolio tenfold over...

Cambodia green lights new coal capacity
12 February 2020 Cambodia is set to start building almost 1 GW of new coal-fired...

Record decline in EU power plant emissions in 2019
06 February 2020 In 2019, the EU electricity sector emitted 12 % less CO2 than in 2018,...

Americas wind installations have risen 12%
06 February 2020 The latest data released by the GWEC shows that 13 427 MW of wind...

Total offloads French renewables
05 February 2020 French oil major Total has sold a 50 per cent stake in a 143 MW portfolio...

New partner joins Estonian offshore venture
05 February 2020 International offshore contractor Van Oord has signed an agreement with...

French PPE boosts offshore wind ambition
05 February 2020 The French government has proposed more ambitious targets for offshore...

EBRD funds Kiyikoy expansion
05 February 2020 The EBRD is funding a project to expand the Kiyikoy wind farm in...

Elgin funds UK developments
05 February 2020 Elgin Energy has secured £4.7 million of capital from Irish investors for...

January 2020

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Fortum to close its last CHP coal boiler in Stockholm
29 January 2020 Fortum's will close its last coal-fired boiler for electricity and...

Voith Hydro to carry out Bridge River generator replacement
29 January 2020 BC Hydro has awarded a contract for work on the Bridge River Powerhouse...

MHI Vestas installs flagship WTG prototype
29 January 2020 MHI Vestas has completed installation of a 9.5 MW turbine prototype at...

Wessex Archaeology launches offshore venture
29 January 2020 Archaeological services firm Wessex Archaeology has launched a new...

Wärtsilä wins SE Asian storage contract
29 January 2020 Wärtsilä has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)...

Planners approve Greengate solar farm
29 January 2020 Local planners in Alberta, Canada, have given the go-ahead for...

Galp takes the lead in Iberian solar
29 January 2020 Portuguese oil and gas firm Galp has sealed a deal to acquire 2.9 GW of...

Cost is ‘biggest barrier’ for vehicle-to-grid electrification
23 January 2020 The London based ‘Vehicle-to-grid’ (V2G) demonstrator project, E-Flex, on...

Germany sets 2038 deadline for end of coal
23 January 2020 Germany’s government has reached agreement with regional leaders on...

Total pioneers solar in Qatar
23 January 2020 Total has won a contract to develop Qatar’s first large-scale solar power plant.

Poland pushes new wind rules
23 January 2020 Poland has published a draft of a much-anticipated law designed to...

French 'floater' crowdfund reaches €1 million
23 January 2020 Developers behind a pilot floating wind farm off the coast of France...

DP Energy signs Iberdrola for 320 MW Aussie hybrid
23 January 2020 Iberdrola and DP Energy have announced plans to partner on the...

IEA launches first in-depth review of India’s energy policies
15 January 2020 The IEA's findings show that the country has made considerable progress...

US launches energy storage challenge
15 January 2020 The US DOE has launched an energy storage “challenge” to accelerate...

Statkraft rolls out Ireland’s first energy storage project
15 January 2020 Fluence and Statkraft are preparing to commission Ireland’s first...

EDF unveils 110 MW wind farm plan
15 January 2020 EDF Renewables has announced plans to build a 110 MW subsidy-free...

Solarcentury secures funding
15 January 2020 Solar power firm Solarcentury has secured €54.8 million of funding for...

European Energy sets its sights on UK pipeline
15 January 2020 European Energy and Armstrong Capital Management have formed a joint...

MHPS ends with boiler settlement
09 January 2020 MHI and Hitachi have settled their dispute relating to problematic...

WindFloat powers up
08 January 2020 The world’s largest floating offshore wind turbines have started...

Three UK firms will pay £10.5 million blackout fine
08 January 2020 Three energy companies in the UK have agreed to pay fines totalling...

FATA starts Zagreb CCGT build
08 January 2020 Italy’s FATA has started the construction of a new gas-fired combined...

Estonia launches permit process for offshore wind
08 January 2020 The Estonian government has initiated the construction permit procedure...

Danish government backs hydrogen demo
08 January 2020 Orsted and a group of industrial partners will build a 2 MW...

MAN to provide PP for Bolivian iron ore mine
08 January 2020 MAN E S is supplying ten MAN 20V35/44G gas engines to supply electricity...

Siemens is preferred supplier for 2.64 GW US offshore wind project
08 January 2020 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been named as the preferred WTG...

Vattenfall’s last coal power plant in the Netherlands is closed down
08 January 2020 Vattenfall's last coal-fired power plant in the Netherlands, Hemweg 8...

December 2019

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Go-ahead for major tidal project in Nova Scotia
18 December 2019 Nova Innovation has landed its largest project to date – it has received...

Aggreko signs new hybrid plant contract
18 December 2019 Aggreko has signed a 16 year contract with mining company Resolute to...

GE celebrates 100 years of supplying synchronous condensers
18 December 2019 GE is celebrating 100 year anniversary of the supply of its first...

Power sector dampens global coal demand
18 December 2019 Coal-fired power generation is set to experience its largest ever decline...

New York switches site from gas to battery power
18 December 2019 The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has signed...

Lekela connects PETN to the grid
18 December 2019 African renewable energy developer Lekela has connected its 159 MW...

Major banks join the anti-fossil ranks
18 December 2019 Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse have joined the growing list of...

EBRD funds 105 MW wind farm for Kosovo
17 December 2019 The EBRD has agreed funding of €58 million for the 105 MW Bajgora wind...

PKN Orlen launches Energa takeover
11 December 2019 The Polish utility has announced plans to take over local utility Energa.

Enerparc seals solar PPA
11 December 2019 Enerparc has sealed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Statkraft...

Invenergy confirms Colombian partnership
11 December 2019 Invenergy has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Colombian...

Engie boosts growth with Renvico acquisition
11 December 2019 Engie has invested in a 329 MW wind farm portfolio in Italy and France.

EDF accelerates growth of its renewables portfolio
11 December 2019 French energy major EDF has achieved a 70 % increase in gross...

Drax sets out its carbon-negative ambitions
11 December 2019 UK generator Drax says it wants to become the world’s first...

Increase in renewables not enough to meet climate change goals – EIU report
09 December 2019 On 4 December the Economist Intelligence Unit launched its Industries in...

FRV plans Australian solar-battery project
09 December 2019 Renewable energy developer FRV has submitted plans for the construction of...

Covestro signs 10 year PPA for Borkum Riffgrund output
04 December 2019 Covestro has signed a 10-year power purchase agreement with Ørsted to buy...

EDF delays restart of Cruas NPP over safety fears
04 December 2019 French energy major EDF has delayed the restart of unit 2 at its...

Russia is developing a molten salt reactor
04 December 2019 Rosatom has the start of the construction of a molten salt research...

ESB takes stake in 450 MW offshore wind farm
04 December 2019 ESB says it has reached a “milestone” in its low carbon business...

Vattenfall sets its sights on floating solar
04 December 2019 Vattenfall is to build its first floating solar farm in the Netherlands,...

Edison to build 760 MW CCGT plant in Italy
04 December 2019 Edison is to build a natural gas fired combined cycle power plant...

November 2019

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Siemens’ most powerful offshore WTG to be installed by Vattenfall
27 November 2019 Vattenfall and Siemens Gamesa have agreed to extend the Hollandse Kust...

EDF to sell its stake in US nuclear JV
27 November 2019 French utility EDF is exercising the ‘put option’ to sell its 49.99% stake...

GIG buys US solar-storage specialist
27 November 2019 Green Investment Group (GIG) has completed the acquisition of Savion, a...

Engie gains consent for 100 MW battery storage
27 November 2019 Authorities in Ireland have given the go-ahead for construction of a 100...

Philippines awards Palawan contract
27 November 2019 The Philippines government has given the go-ahead for the construction of...

Vestas seals Kazakhstan deal
27 November 2019 Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has secured an order to deliver 48...

Neoen and Tesla expand the Hornsdale battery storage
27 November 2019 Neoen has announced plans to expand its Hornsdale Power Reserve...

French government unveils 1 GW offshore wind plan
20 November 2019 The French government has announced plans for the development of a 1...

HL-class power island for South Korea
20 November 2019 Siemens has contracted to set up an HL-class power island for a new...

EIB announces climate strategy and energy lending policy
20 November 2019 The European Investment Bank has announced a new lending policy to...

Iberdrola selects Australia for Asia-Pacific launch
20 November 2019 Spanish major Iberdrola has selected a site in Australia for its...

Mitsui invests in Thai gas plant
20 November 2019 Mitsui & Co. is to go ahead with investment in a gas-fired combined...

Orsted kicks off solar-storage project
20 November 2019 Orsted has started construction of a 460 MW utility-scale...

‘Deep disparities in the global energy  system’ – IEA report
13 November 2019 Rapid and widespread changes across all parts of the energy system are...

Formosa 1 offshore wind array inaugurated
13 November 2019 On 12 November Ørsted celebrated the inauguration of its Formosa 1...

YEKA production line poised to start
13 November 2019 A Siemens-Türkerler-Kalyon consortium is preparing to launch operations at...

Poland drafts offshore wind bill
13 November 2019 Poland’s government has drafted a bill to support the development of...

Taiwan increases targets for offshore wind
13 November 2019 The Taiwan government has outlined new targets for offshore wind capacity.

Masdar pens deal for Uzbek solar
13 November 2019 Masdar has signed a deal to build a 100 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm...

AES signs Son My 2 MOU
13 November 2019 US energy firm AES has signed an agreement with the Vietnamese government...

'Climate goals at risk' – Capgemini report
06 November 2019 Capgemini’s latest World Energy Markets Observatory (WEMO) report has...

First use of HVDC for offshore WTG link
06 November 2019 ABB is to supply its HVDC Light converter systems to connect what will be...

Shell buys into offshore wind
06 November 2019 Oil giant Shell has signed an agreement to buy 100 % of Eolfi, a...

EDF acquires Pivot
06 November 2019 EDF Group has accelerated its development of battery storage and...

RWE buys Polish wind pipeline
05 November 2019 RWE has purchased a 1.5 GW offshore wind project pipeline in Poland.

Massachusetts opts for Mayflower
05 November 2019 The US state of Massachusetts has selected a bid from Mayflower Wind...

Kvaerner and Siemens win Hywind contracts
05 November 2019 Equinor has signed contracts worth a total NOK3.3 billion for the...

October 2019

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Offshore wind 'set for growth' – IEA
30 October 2019 Offshore wind is set to play a major role in the world’s energy mix...

WindFloat Atlantic sets sail
30 October 2019 The largest and most powerful wind turbine to be used in a floating...

Seagreen picks out MHI Vestas
30 October 2019 Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd has selected MHI Vestas as its preferred...

Military blocks Taggen wind farm
30 October 2019 Plans for a 300 MW wind farm off the coast of Sweden have been...

Multi-turbine floater completes tests
30 October 2019 The W2Power prototype, the first multi-turbine floating wind platform,...

South Africa to boost renewables
30 October 2019 South Africa's government has outlined its strategy to build over 22 GW...

1200 MW Park City Wind proposal
23 October 2019 Vineyard Wind has submitted proposals for a 1200 MW offshore wind project...

GE expands its SF6-free HV portfolio
23 October 2019 GE has announced plans to invest heavily in expanding by 2025 its range...

Asia set for wind energy growth
23 October 2019 Wind energy capacity in Asia could grow from 230 GW to over 2600 GW by...

Sembcorp powers up UK storage sites
23 October 2019 Sembcorp’s UK business has powered up its first 60 MW of “ultra-fast”...

PG&E cuts power to avoid possibility of wildfires
23 October 2019 California’s largest power utility cut power to hundreds of thousands of...

Irsching 4 and 5 to be decommissioned – again
23 October 2019 The owners of the Irsching 4 and 5 gas-fired power plants have notified...

EBRD reviews Quadran loans
23 October 2019 The EBRD is considering lending its support for the development,...

Engie wins Guam solar-storage deal
23 October 2019 Guam’s state electricity company has hired Engie to build two...

Goodbye to Reuter Unit C
16 October 2019 After 50 years of operation, the Reuter CHP plant Unit C in Berlin is...

Queensland OKs 180 MW wind farm
16 October 2019 Plans for a 180 MW wind farm in Australia’s Queensland state have been...

Renewables grow in Ukraine
15 October 2019 Rapid renewable energy growth will help to boost energy security in...

UK universities clinch PPA deal
15 October 2019 Twenty UK universities have joined together to agree a £50 million...

French floater selects MHI Vestas
15 October 2019 The developers behind the Groix & Belle-Ile pilot floating offshore wind...

Drax gas plans permitted
15 October 2019 The UK government has approved plans by Drax to convert two of its...

Cubico sets its sights on Colombian solar
15 October 2019 Cubico is to develop a 400 MW solar photovoltaic platform in Colombia...

More certainty needed to ensure wind industry growth
15 October 2019 WindEurope has called for more action from governments to secure...

Fortum to acquire majority stake in Uniper
09 October 2019 Fortum has entered into agreements to acquire a new stake in Uniper in...

Cottam closes down after 50 years
09 October 2019 The Cottam coal fired power station has switched off its generating plant...

Belchatow met with legal challenge
09 October 2019 Environmental group Client Earth has launched a legal challenge...

Dominion files grid application for 2.6 GW project
09 October 2019 US utility Dominion Energy has filed an application with a...

Eskom embarks on energy storage tender
09 October 2019 Eskom has started a process to procure up to 1.4 GWh of energy storage,...

Macquarie lays out 20 GW GIG investment plan
09 October 2019 The Green Investment Group has outlined plans to develop 20 GW of...

RWE promises fossil fuel phase-out
09 October 2019 Major German utility RWE has outlined plans to invest €1.5 billion per...

September 2019

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Aggreko 'teed off' at 2019 Solheim Cup
25 September 2019 Aggreko, the mobile modular power provider, was contracted to provide on...

Orsted to merge large offshore projects
20 September 2019 Orsted has announced that it intends to merge some of its wind farm...

Ofgem approves new Scottish island interconnector
20 September 2019 A proposed 220 MW transmission link connecting the Orkney Islands and...

KCE brings NY storage plant on-line
20 September 2019 The largest battery energy storage system in New York has been...

Ovo seals SSE retail deal
20 September 2019 Ovo Energy is set to become the second-largest energy supplier in the...

Commission approves RWE-E.On deal
20 September 2019 German utility E.On says that it will “swiftly” integrate Innogy into...

Final report on UK power blackouts
16 September 2019 The TSO's final report into the UK's power blackout on 9 August has...

German government calls wind sector crisis meeting
15 September 2019 Germany’s federal government has pledged to make reforms to boost...

Onshore wind ready for upgrade
15 September 2019 Some 65 GW of onshore wind turbine capacity in Europe will reach...

Neoen plans hybrid mega-plant in Australia
15 September 2019 Renewable energy developer Neoen is developing plans for a...

Lumcloon Energy starts work on Irish storage plant
15 September 2019 An Irish-South Korean partnership has started building the largest...

Lithuania outlines auction plans
15 September 2019 Lithuania’s government has outlined plans to hold renewable energy...

Orbital Marine wins funding
04 September 2019 The Scottish government has awarded £3.4 million to Orbital Marine Power...

Coal fired generation in the UK at a new low
04 September 2019 The proportion of power generated by coal fired plant in the UK hit a...

World’s largest offshore windfarm project opens new base
04 September 2019 Ørsted has officially opening its Hornsea Two Offshore Construction Base...

Pondera wins Korean offshore wind project
04 September 2019 Dutch based engineering consultancy Pondera and Korean engineering...

Oman outlines hybrid tender
04 September 2019 Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company has launched a tender to procure...

Port Dickson plant reaches COD
04 September 2019 The first of two new 1000 MW coal-fired power plants in Port...

Victoria legislates for renewables
04 September 2019 Australia’s Victoria state is set to enshrine ambitious renewable...

August 2019

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Carbon Trust launches new stage of ORJIP Offshore Wind
28 August 2019 The Carbon Trust has launched Stage 2 of its Offshore Renewable...

GE completes GT upgrade at Songas Ubungo PP
28 August 2019 Upgrades to the GE fleet of four gas turbines at the Songas Ubungo...

Ansaldo wins Irsching contract
28 August 2019 Ansaldo Energia has been awarded an EPC contract for the design, supply...

Legal challenge delays UK auction
27 August 2019 The UK’s latest renewable energy auction has been delayed by a...

Energy Vaults closes $110 million funding
27 August 2019 Switzerland-based Energy Vault has closed a $110 million funding round...

Castle Wind signs MOU for I GW floating wind farm
27 August 2019 US offshore wind developer Castle Wind has signed a memorandum...

Fingrid strengthens its grid ties
27 August 2019 Fingrid has announced plans to strengthen the electricity...

Ofgem launches investigation into UK power blackouts
21 August 2019 Ofgem, the UK’s electricity industry regulator, has launched an...

EIA ruling delays Vineyard wind scheme
21 August 2019 The shareholders in the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm project...

India issues 1.2 GW tender
21 August 2019 India has invited renewable energy project developers to submit bids in a...

Vattenfall adds solar and storage at Haringvliet
21 August 2019 Vattenfall is to develop its first hybrid wind-solar-storage energy park...

Oman's first large wind farm comes on-line
21 August 2019 Oman’s first utility-scale wind farm has started supplying electricity to...

Lightsource wins in Brazil auction
21 August 2019 Lightsource BP has won a concession to build 200 MW of solar power...

Larne CAES plans withdrawn
21 August 2019 The bankrupt firm behind plans for a large-scale compressed air...

Ireland’s renewables investment to boom
14 August 2019 Ireland is expected to attract huge investment as the country is set to...

Blackout "lessons to be learned"
14 August 2019 At about 17:00 BST on Friday, 9 August the UK suffered power blackouts...

Orbital Marine Power awards O2 contract
14 August 2019 Orbital Marine Power has awarded the main manufacturing contract for...

ABB delivers for China’s solar energy programme
14 August 2019 ABB has been awarded the contract to deliver an integrated...

Siemens – two new wind contracts in India
14 August 2019 Siemens Gamesa has secured its first order in India with Alfanar for...

UK market revival is “crucial for E.ON”
14 August 2019 E.ON SE has reported a steep fall in its adjusted Earnings Before...

Renewables "will comprise 50% of Chile’s power mix by 2030"
09 August 2019 Renewable energy is expected to comprise 50% of Chile’s power mix by...

MAN builds hydrogen energy storage team
09 August 2019

Mainstream installs first Taiba N’Diaye turbine
09 August 2019 Mainstream Renewable Power has completed installation of the first turbine...

Irish planners reject Shannonbridge biomass plan
09 August 2019 The developers of an ESB power plant in Offaly, Ireland, has been...

French court clears offshore wind farm
09 August 2019 French offshore wind energy developer Ailes Marines is on track to...

Argentina contracts renewables in mini-auction
08 August 2019 The Argentinian government has awarded 128 MW of wind energy capacity and...

Prysmian’s Viking link contract confirmed
08 August 2019 Following the letter of award sent two weeks ago, National Grid Viking...

Storage investments boom
05 August 2019 Energy storage installations around the world will multiply...

UK government considers investment in SMR
05 August 2019 The UK government is considering investing up to £18 million to help...

Poland paves the way for onshore wind
05 August 2019 Poland's government is set to hold auctions for up to 2.5 GW of onshore...

Ncondezi Energy signs up CMEC and GE
05 August 2019 Plans for the construction of an integrated thermal coal power plant and...

RWE closes Aberthaw coal fired PP
05 August 2019 RWE has announced plans to close the 1560 MW Aberthaw B coal fired...

Senvion accelerates business review
05 August 2019 WTG maker Senvion reports that discussions with potential bidders for...

WSP appointed on first Saudi Arabia wind farm
02 August 2019 Engineering consultancy WSP has been appointed as owner’s engineer for...

July 2019

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EIB to cut all funding for fossil fuel projects
30 July 2019 The European Investment Bank has undertaken to end its multibillion...

Europe adds 4.9 GW of wind in H1 2019
30 July 2019 Europe added 4.9 GW of new wind energy capacity in the first half of...

DNV GL launches new LIDAR based project
30 July 2019 DNV GL is calling on wind energy stakeholders to join a new Joint...

Australia OKs CAES
30 July 2019 Plans for a 5 MW/10 MWh compressed air energy storage facility in...

NY seals offshore wind deals
30 July 2019 The US state of New York has signed landmark agreements to procure 1700 MW...

EDF and Masdar close finance on Dumat Al Jandal
30 July 2019 A consortium of EDF and Masdar has closed financing on the Dumat Al...

Australia backs solar-storage plan
30 July 2019 Australia’s Northern Territory government has given major project status to...

2.1 GW floating solar plant in the mix for Korea
30 July 2019 South Korea’s government has given its approval to plans for a 2.1...

Prysmian to develop Viking
24 July 2019 Prysmian Group has received a letter of award from TSOs National Grid...

Siemens awarded largest US offshore wind power order
24 July 2019 Siemens Gamesa has received, conditionally, a record WTG order for 1714...

SP Energy steps up net zero pressure
24 July 2019 SP Energy Networks has revealed major plans to help cities, towns and...

Asian renewables hub expands
23 July 2019

Simec launches Uskmouth tender
23 July 2019 Simec Atlantis Energy is on track to complete the conversion of its...

Hohe See generates first power
23 July 2019 EnBW's Hohe See 609 MW offshore wind farm has generated first power.

Saipem targets floating wind expansion
23 July 2019 Italian engineering firm Saipem has joined forces with Plambeck Emirates...

Vestas books 415 MW Saudi order
23 July 2019 Vestas is to supply 415 MW of wind turbines for Saudi Arabia’s...

ABB sells off its solar inverter business
15 July 2019 ABB has signed an agreement for the sale of its solar inverter division...

Siemens wins largest repowering order in North America
15 July 2019 Siemens Gamesa has been selected by MidAmerican Energy Company to repower...

North Sea Hub a feasible concept, say partners
12 July 2019 An initial study of proposals to develop an offshore wind ‘hub’ in the...

E.ON acquires Coromatic
12 July 2019 E.ON has acquired a 100 % stake in the Swedish company Coromatic, a...

Naval forges floating offshore wind project links
12 July 2019 Naval Energies has inked a co-operation agreement with Hitachi...

Masen opens Noor Midelt II tender
12 July 2019 Morocco’s Agency for Sustainable Development (MASEN) has launched the...

Equinor forms consortium for Korean offshore wind venture
12 July 2019 Equinor has announced plans to build the world’s largest floating...

More success for Vattenfall going Dutch
12 July 2019 Vattenfall is to build a second subsidy-free offshore wind farm in...

DNV GL to advise SE Asia’s largest floating solar project
05 July 2019 DNV GL has been contracted by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency,...

Court revokes Lamu coal firing permit
05 July 2019 A court in Kenya has halted plans to build the country’s first...

UK funds CCS acceleration
05 July 2019 The UK government has awarded a total of £26 million of funding to...

Vestas secures first EnVentus order
05 July 2019 Vestas has secured the first firm order for wind turbines from its...

AES breaks ground on California storage
05 July 2019 AES has started construction of a 400 MWh battery-based energy storage...

Glennmont, TRIG expand their wind portfolios
05 July 2019 Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has sold its stake in the 330 MW...

EPA finalises Affordable Clean Energy Rule
02 July 2019 The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalised three separate...

June 2019

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Renewables cover 44 % of Germany’s electricity consumption
28 June 2019 In the first half of 2019, solar, wind and other renewable sources...

Highview power unveils high capacity CRYOBattery
28 June 2019 ​​​​​​​Highview Power, has developed a world first – a modular...

DTEK secures loans for Primorskaya phase 2
28 June 2019 DTEK Renewables has reached financial close on €90 million to build phase...

Offshore wind has 200 GW potential globally
28 June 2019 The global offshore wind energy sector has the potential to reach 200 GW...

Kitka secures EBRD backing
28 June 2019 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is supporting...

Glennmont starts up 40 MW biomass plant
28 June 2019 Glennmont Partners has announced the commercial start-up of its 40...

Businesses call for net-zero clarity
28 June 2019 A group of UK businesses has called on the government to give more clarity...

Argentina’s power failure blacks out 44 million
21 June 2019 On  Sunday16 June a catastrophic blackout cut power to all of...

Siemens gains offshore wind preferred supplier nomination in Japan
21 June 2019 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has received its first preferred...

RWE and Innogy explore hydrogen options
21 June 2019 German utilities RWE and Innogy have embarked on a study investigating...

Prysmian secures DolWin5 grid connection
21 June 2019 Dutch-German grid operator TenneT has awarded Prysmian a contract valued...

Scotland OKs new Inch Cape design
21 June 2019 Design changes to the proposed 700 MW Inch Cape offshore wind farm have...

Statkraft and Statera strike VPP deal
21 June 2019 Statkraft and Statera Energy have formed a partnership to create 1 GW...

Dominican PV project gets the nod
21 June 2019 A 100 MW solar photovoltaic park will be built in the Dominican...

Dunkirk auction result boosts offshore wind volumes in France 
17 June 2019 Bids to build a 600 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Dunkirk came in...

Getting back to the stone age
16 June 2019 In a world first on 13 June, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy began...

Saint-Nazaire clears legal hurdle
16 June 2019 EDF Renewables says it has secured all the permits required for...

Enercon and Enerjisa win huge wind contracts in Turkey
13 June 2019 Enercon and Enerjisa are to build 1000 MW of onshore wind energy capacity...

Whitelee wind farm to get 50 MW battery boost
13 June 2019 The Scottish government has granted consent for the UK’s largest onshore...

E.On to eliminate its use of SF6
12 June 2019 E.On has announced plans to eliminate greenhouse gases from its gas...

GIG kicks off Ulsan campaign
12 June 2019 The Green Investment Group (GIG) has embarked on development of the...

Total completes second PV in Japan
07 June 2019 Total has completed construction of a 25 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant...

Massachusetts looks to double its offshore wind tally
06 June 2019 The US state of Massachusetts could double its offshore wind energy...

NKT completes Kriegers Flak milestone
06 June 2019 NKT has completed commissioning of the 170 kV HVAC cable system for the...

Minesto wins EU funding
06 June 2019 The Welsh government has announced its continued support of marine...

Wpd achieves financial close on Yunlin
06 June 2019 The 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind farm project, the first large...

UK is making ‘major climate progress’ – IEA review
06 June 2019 The UK has made major progress in reducing emissions, according to the...

Big Moon joins Anglesey tidal scheme
05 June 2019 Canadian technology firm Big Moon Power is to participate in a tidal...

Senvion restructures Borkum II deal
03 June 2019 Troubled turbine maker Senvion has successfully restructured a deal to...

Drax, Equinor and National Grid partner for zero carbon
03 June 2019 Drax, Equinor and National Grid have announced plans to explore...

Masdar and EDF to build 800 MW Morocco solar plant 
02 June 2019 Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has won a contract for the design,...

Revolution Wind contract approved
02 June 2019 Plans for construction of a 400 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of...

DOE announces new round of funding for hydropower
01 June 2019 Funding totalling $6.6 million is up for grabs for hydropower...

May 2019

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BELCO 10 MW ESS is unveiled
31 May 2019 Saft has delivered and installed a turnkey energy storage system...

Nuclear power decline “threatens energy security and climate goals” - IEA report
29 May 2019 The world risks a steep decline in the deployment of nuclear power...

Pilot plant synthesises methanol from carbon dioxide
29 May 2019 A new pilot plant built by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe is...

The world’s most advanced network control system?
23 May 2019 UK Power Networks has unveiled plans to create what it believes will be...

New offshore wind task force
23 May 2019 The UK's Offshore Wind Industry Council reports that a major programme...

Fortum to build its first Finnish large scale wind park
23 May 2019 Fortum has made the investment decision to start the construction of the...

Global efforts on SDG energy targets fall short
23 May 2019 A new report from a multi-agency group says that a greater effort must...

Acciona will test solar panels on WTG towers
23 May 2019 Acciona has embarked on a pioneering project testing the use of...

Alpiq offloads Czech coal plants
23 May 2019 Swiss energy firm Alpiq has sold two coal-fired power plants in the...

Abengoa selected for Chilean transmission project
23 May 2019 Arauco has selected Abengoa for the construction of a new 220 kV...

Drones are checking Vestas blades
23 May 2019 Vestas has selected a drone-based solution for a large-scale...

Prysmian secures offshore wind cabling contract
17 May 2019 Prysmian Group has been awarded the contract to provide a submarine...

Saft doubles duration and capacity with its new Li-ion battery
17 May 2019 Saft has extended its ESS range with the Intensium Max 20 High Energy...

ABB wins major order for offshore wind power transmission
17 May 2019 ABB has been awarded a triple digit million-euro order to supply the...

Strong outlook for global solar
17 May 2019 SolarPower Europe has forecast an “optimistic outlook” for the global...

Vineyard Wind secures grid permit
17 May 2019 Offshore wind energy developer Vineyard Wind has secured the permits...

Pangea Energy signs up CellCube for 50 MW flow battery
17 May 2019 Energy storage technology company CellCube has signed a letter of intent...

Gupta PV project approved
17 May 2019 Plans for a 280 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the industrial town...

CIP targets Asia and South America
17 May 2019 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has established a new fund to...

Exelon to close Three Mile Island NPP
09 May 2019 Exelon is planning to shut down the last reactor at the Three Mile...

Siemens to spin off power and gas businesses
09 May 2019 Global energy giant Siemens is to undergo a fundamental transformation...

Renewables growth stalls – IEA report
09 May 2019 An unexpected flattening of growth in the renewables energy sector has...

Nordex wins new order for Syvash wind farm
09 May 2019 Nordex has received a follow-up order for the second phase of the Syvash...

Wood wins on Vineyard Wind
09 May 2019 Wood has been awarded the role of technical advisor on Vineyard Wind,...

EBRD returns to Poland’s wind sector
09 May 2019 The EBRD has signed a loan agreement for a 220 MW wind farm in Poland,...

Vattenfall signs Netherlands wind farm PPA
09 May 2019 Vattenfall has signed an agreement to purchase the energy generated by...

CCC recommends UK target of net-zero emissions by 2050
02 May 2019 The UK must vigorously pursue a stiff new climate change target to...

Global battery energy storage market to grow by 7% to 2023
02 May 2019 The global battery energy storage market is forecast to grow to...

SGRE consolidates leading position in offshore wind – GlobalData assessment
02 May 2019 Siemens Gamesa will supply turbines for two French offshore wind...

RWE cancels plans for new coal plants
02 May 2019 RWE says it will not make any further investments in coal-fired...

Orsted moves forward on Changhua projects, Taiwan
02 May 2019 Orsted says it is to move ahead with development of two offshore wind...

Sener consortium completes Empalme I CC plant
02 May 2019 Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and the Sener-OHL have...

€100 million loan rescues Senvion
02 May 2019 Wind turbine maker Senvion has secured €100 million in funding to help...

APS investigates battery fire
02 May 2019 Arizona Public Service has launched an investigation to determine the...

April 2019

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‘100% renewables cheaper than current energy system’ – new study
25 April 2019 A new study by the LUT university in Berlin indicates that a 100%...

New IEA report addresses Iraq’s current electricity shortfall
25 April 2019 Iraq can address its current electricity shortfall and growing power...

Wärtsilä launches automated hybrid energy package
25 April 2019 Wärtsilä has launched its “Engine+Hybrid Energy” solution, which pairs...

Europe invests €27 billion in new wind farms
25 April 2019 Europe invested a total of €27 billion in the construction of new wind...

E.ON signs deal for Japanese offshore wind projects
25 April 2019 E.ON has signed a co-operation agreement with Kyuden Mirai Energy to...

Massachusetts approves offshore wind deal
25 April 2019 The US state of Massachusetts has approved the long-term offtake...

JBIC backs Van Phong coal plant
25 April 2019 A consortium of banks led by the Japan Bank for International...

AES sells its Jordan and UK plants
25 April 2019 AES has signed agreements to sell its interests in six power plants in...

Solar PV reaches 500 GW installed
18 April 2019 The IEA has published its new ‘Snapshot of Global Photovoltaic Markets...

Eurowind chooses Siemens Gamesa for Denmark’s largest onshore wind project
18 April 2019 Siemens Gamesa has signed an order with Eurowind Energy for...

Wärtsilä providing seed funding to Soletair Power Oy
18 April 2019 Wärtsilä has agreed to provide Euros 500 000 in seed funding to...

Negev CSP comes online
18 April 2019 Negev Energy has completed its 121 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant...

Japanese firms form offshore wind JV
18 April 2019 Japanese firms Hitachi Zosen Corporation and Eco Power Co Ltd...

Terna announces new US investment
18 April 2019 Greek renewable energy developer Terna Energy has paid $310 million for a...

Engie, Tokyo Gas create renewables JV
18 April 2019 Engie and Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd Have announced plans to create a new...

E.On boosts its Texas portfolio
18 April 2019 E.On has started the construction of a new 220 MW wind farm in Texas, USA.

ABB reinvents the LV DC circuit breaker
11 April 2019 ABB has developed what it describes as a revolutionary solid-state...

Tata to build Europe’s largest waste-to-energy plant
11 April 2019 Tata Chemicals Europe intends to operate a new energy from waste plant at...

Canadian CNSC receives first application for an SMR
11 April 2019 The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has received its first...

Saft and Tianneng join forces
11 April 2019 Saft has signed an agreement with Tianneng Energy Technology (TET),...

DNV studies Tampen proposal
11 April 2019 DNV GL is to carry out a verification study of Equinor’s proposed...

EGP buys 13 GW Tradewind pipeline
11 April 2019 Enel Green Power (EGP) says it has closed a deal to purchase...

Consent for 1700 MW gas plant
11 April 2019 Plans for a large-scale combined cycle gas fired power plant in...

US Congress considers energy storage tax credits
11 April 2019 Lawmakers in the USA will consider plans to include energy...

MHI Vestas booked for Kincardine wind array
11 April 2019 MHI Vestas has confirmed it will supply five turbines for the...

Siemens launches new onshore WTGs
04 April 2019 The Siemens Gamesa onshore portfolio has been enlarged with the launch of...

Vestas returns to the top of the WTG rankings
04 April 2019 Vestas Wind Systems has re-established itself as the leading manufacturer...

EU carbon market emissions fell 4.2 % in 2018
04 April 2019 Greenhouse gas emissions from stationary installations regulated under...

Rolls-Royce and ABB announce global microgrid co-operation
04 April 2019 Rolls-Royce and ABB have announced a global partnership on...

Global energy demand rising at an increased rate
04 April 2019 Energy demand worldwide grew by 2.3 % last year, its fastest pace this decade.

Climate plans insufficient, says WindEurope
04 April 2019 Draft National Energy & Climate Plans drawn up by European governments...

2018 continues growth trend in renewables
04 April 2019 The decade-long trend of strong growth in the global renewable energy...

Australian developer OEPL to investigate offshore wind prospects
04 April 2019 Offshore Energy Pty Ltd (OEPL) has been granted permission to investigate...

Enercon breaks ground on Markbygden II
04 April 2019 Construction has started on the second phase of the giant Markbygden...

MHPS to equip Sharjah CCGT
04 April 2019 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received a turnkey contract to build...

March 2019

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GE targets GT26 fleet with major upgrade
28 March 2019 GE has launched a major upgrade for the GT26 gas turbine, with...

Wind sector needs to take action on PPAs
28 March 2019 Europe’s wind energy sector needs to take the initiative on...

OPRA in new partnership with AFGlobal
28 March 2019 OPRA Turbines has entered into an agreement with AFGobal for the...

Ansaldo Energia wins Bengang contract
28 March 2019 Ansaldo Energia has signed a contract to supply a AE94.2K gas turbine...

Van Oord and Siemens win Fryslân contract
28 March 2019 The developers of the Fryslân wind farm have awarded a contract to build...

EKZ brings battery on-line
28 March 2019 The country’s largest battery-based energy storage system has been...

Equinor proposes floating wind farm in the Argean
28 March 2019 Equinor has made a proposal to the Greek government for the construction of...

RES breaks ground on largest bifacial PV farm
28 March 2019 RES has started construction on the largest solar farm in the USA to...

GE to modernise Rajasthan’s transmission grid
21 March 2019 GE has been awarded a technology-driven grid modernisation project,...

PG&E to escape prosecution for 2017 wildfires
21 March 2019 Pacific Gas & Electric Co will not face criminal charges for power...

Highview Power and TSK in joint venture
21 March 2019 ​​​​​​​Highview Power and TSK, have entered into an agreement to...

Power fleet faults leads to Eskom load shedding
21 March 2019 Eskom has been forced to implement more round of load shedding this month...

GIG launches new solar vehicle
21 March 2019 Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Spanish-Japanese...

Bosnia secures EBRD finance
21 March 2019 Air quality in the Bosnian city of Zenica will improve “significantly”...

PPC receives bids in bailout sale
21 March 2019 A tender for the sale of three coal-fired power plants in Greece...

Landmark PV farm commissioned in Zambia
21 March 2019 Zambia’s first utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) farm has...

Tesla to acquire Maxwell Technologies
18 March 2019 Tesla has agreed to acquire Maxwell Technologies, an ultra-capacitor...

Voith to deliver turbines and generators for Pakal Dul hydropower plant
18 March 2019 Chenab Valley Power Projects (CVPPPL) and Voith Hydro have signed a...

EU sued over biomass climate impacts
18 March 2019 A group of environmental organisations are claiming that the use of...

Thailand plans world’s largest floating solar pipeline
18 March 2019 Thailand has revealed plans to build almost 3 GW of floating...

Greece prepares for 600 MW renewables round
18 March 2019 Greece’s regulator has announced details of the country’s next...

Gazprom starts on Serbian CCGT
18 March 2019 Gazprom has started the construction of a 200 MW combined cycle gas...

Senvion lands Med offshore order
18 March 2019 German wind turbine firm Senvion has been awarded a contract to supply...

Quinbrook to build 690 MW solar park in Nevada 
07 March 2019 Quinbrook has announced plans to construct the 690 MW Gemini Solar...

Fortum wins 250 MW solar power project in India
07 March 2019 Fortum has won the right from Solar Energy Corporation of India to build...

Ansaldo and Edison agreement to upgrade Marghera Levante
07 March 2019 The 300 million euros contract is expected to make the Marghera Levante...

Consortium promises leap in storage technology
07 March 2019 A global battery consortium charged with advancing lead battery...

E.On forges Dunkirk partnership
07 March 2019 E.On has signed an agreement to join Engie and EDPR in the...

ScottishPower updates investment plans
07 March 2019 ScottishPower has updated its investment strategy following the sale of...

Race Bank seals 10-year PPA
07 March 2019 Wind farm developer Orsted has sealed a 10-year deal to sell energy from...

World Bank aids Armenian power project
07 March 2019 The IFC and MIGA have arranged a $202 million debt finance and...

Fall in CO2 emissions from developed economies
01 March 2019 Efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and tackle climate change...

Annual global wind capacity installations stabilise at around 50 GW
01 March 2019 Data released by the Global Wind Energy Council shows that the wind...

Wind energy in Europe is on steep upward curve
01 March 2019 Wind energy provided 14 % of electricity in the European Union (EU) in...

Shell acquires Sonnen
01 March 2019 Shell has sealed a deal to acquire Sonnen, a Germany-based manufacturer...

APS plans 850 MW battery programme
01 March 2019 Arizona Public Service says it will be able to maximise its use of...

Senvion plan to combat weak financial results
01 March 2019 Senvion says it will implement a new transformation plan to stabilise...

Ministers approve Inch Cape onshore plans
01 March 2019 The Scottish government has granted planning permission for the...

February 2019

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MHPS starts construction on one of the world's largest FGD systems
22 February 2019 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has started construction work on what...

Swansea tidal lagoon may go ahead with private funding
22 February 2019 Tidal Power Ltd says it is planning to go ahead with its £1.3 billion...

Onerous permitting process hits German onshore wind
22 February 2019 Problems with Germany’s permitting process for onshore wind farms...

EBRD backs Ukraine solar
21 February 2019 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is backing one of...

Nordex books Ukraine order
21 February 2019 Nordex has won its first order in Ukraine, booking a 133 MW contract for...

Equinor eyes Korean wind opportunities
21 February 2019 Equinor and Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) have signed an MOU...

Hornsea One powers up
21 February 2019 The first turbine at the world’s biggest offshore wind farm has...

Drax sets up CO2 capture from biofuel
15 February 2019 Drax has become the first in power plant in the world to capture...

Europe adds 2.6 GW of offshore wind
15 February 2019 Europe added 2.6 GW of new offshore wind capacity in 2018, according to...

New wind energy generation record for the UK
15 February 2019 Wind energy generation in the UK hit a new high of 15.32 GW on Friday...

EDF plans to close Cottam coal fired plant
15 February 2019 EDF says it will close its 2 GW Cottam coal-fired power plant...

Lahmeyer rebranded as Tractebel
15 February 2019 German engineering and consulting company Lahmeyer International is...

Orsted strengthens Eversource partnership
15 February 2019 Orsted has sold a 50 per cent stake in some of its recently-acquired...

Sener commissions Kathu solar park
15 February 2019 The 100 MW Kathu solar park in South Africa has been commissioned.

Power sector faces extensive skill shortages – new report
05 February 2019 The third annual Global Energy Talent Index shows that power companies face...

Siemens  to supply 567 MW to ReNew Power for two wind projects in India
05 February 2019 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has secured a new order in India from...

11.9 GW of wind capacity installed in the Americas in 2018
05 February 2019 The latest GWEC data shows that North, Central and South America...

Thirteen groups interested in Polish offshore stakes
05 February 2019 Thirteen groups have responded to a call by Polish energy group PGE...

ABB signs microgrid partnership
05 February 2019 ABB has signed a framework agreement with SUSI to promote the deployment...

Japanese partners cancel coal plant plans
05 February 2019 Idemitsu Kosan, Kyushu Electric Power and Tokyo Gas Co have brought an end...

China switches on 650 MW multi-tech power site
05 February 2019 China has commissioned its largest battery energy storage system (BESS)...

UK launches storage competition
05 February 2019 The UK government is hoping to drive the development of long-duration...

January 2019

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Solar installations will reach 100 GW this year – Wood Mackenzie report
29 January 2019 Global solar installations will reach 100 GW for the first time this...

Haliade-X 12 MW prototype to be installed in Rotterdam
29 January 2019 GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind have signed an agreement to install...

EIB supports Greek network upgrade
29 January 2019 The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced one of its largest...

Siemens secures large wind projects in USA and Brazil
29 January 2019 Siemens Gamesa has been awarded the 242 MW Scioto Ridge onshore wind...

WorleyParsons awarded microgrid project by the University of Toronto
29 January 2019 This project will see an entirely direct current microgrid system...

EDF-Masdar consortium wins Saudi wind tender
29 January 2019 A consortium led by EDF Renewables and Masdar has won the tender to build...

Cubico expands with solar acquisitions
29 January 2019 Cubico Sustainable Investments has agreed to acquire five solar projects...

Parkwind and ESB forge offshore alliance
29 January 2019 Renewable energy developer Parkwind and ESB have signed an agreement...

Siemens launches 10 MW offshore WTG
21 January 2019 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has launched the company’s first 10+...

Hitachi suspends UK NPP construction
21 January 2019 As expected, Hitachi announced on 17 January that it has decided to...

Orsted halts the sale of its distribution business
21 January 2019 Orsted has discontinued the sale of its Danish Power distribution...

Renewables 'competitive in GCC'
21 January 2019 Renewable energy is now the most competitive form of power generation in...

UK seeks views on energy storage
21 January 2019 The UK government is considering plans that will make it easier...

Masdar and Taaleri launch joint venture
21 January 2019 Masdar and Taaleri are aiming to explore opportunities in the central...

Nemo link gears up for operation
21 January 2019 The first electricity link between Belgium and the UK will start operating...

Volkswagen to become an electricity supplier
11 January 2019 Volkswagen is establishing a new group company to sell energy offerings...

Rolls-Royce in nuclear collaboration with OT Industries
11 January 2019 R-R is to explore areas of joint work for the provision of emergency...

Nexans completes HV cable project to connect Kype Muir wind farm
11 January 2019 Nexans has completed a project to provide a 16 km, 132 kV underground...

Orsted is preferred bidder in Connecticut tender
11 January 2019 Orsted has been given the go-ahead to start negotiations for the sale...

Wärtsilä starts work in El Salvador
11 January 2019 Power technology company Wärtsilä has started work at the site of a new...

Equinor increases its stake in Poland’s offshore wind development
11 January 2019 Equinor has exercised an option to buy a 50 per cent stake in Poland’s...

GE to supply landmark Kenyan wind farm
11 January 2019 GE Renewable Energy is to supply the turbines for the 102 MW Kipeto wind...

Lithuania and Poland in harmony on new link
04 January 2019 Lithuania’s and Poland’s transmission system operators have signed...

Orsted reconsiders its Taiwan position
04 January 2019 Orsted says that it will “pause and revisit” all of its project activities...

Vortex sells its European wind portfolio
04 January 2019 Vortex Energy has sold its 49 per cent stake in a 998 MW European...

Greece awards 222 MW of renewables
04 January 2019 Greece has awarded contracts for 222 MW of renewable energy capacity in...

Lightsource BP seals AB InBev PPA
04 January 2019 Lightsource BP has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 100...

Engie signs deal on French offshore wind farms
04 January 2019 French utility Engie and Spanish partner EDP Renovaveis (EDPR) have formed...

900 MW Yarrabee solar farm gets the green light
04 January 2019 Australia’s New South Wales government has issued a permit for the...

December 2018

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Global coal demand set to remain stable to 2023
24 December 2018 While global coal demand looks set to rise for the second year in a row...

First Siemens H-class turbine for the GCC
24 December 2018 Siemens has signed a contract to build what is expected to be the...

Hitachi to  acquire ABB's power grids business
22 December 2018 Hitachi is to acquire ABB’s power grids business for an...

Europe drives wind growth
22 December 2018 New analysis by Wood Mackenzie shows that More than 680 GW of new wind...

Solar reaching parity in UK market
22 December 2018 The UK’s Solar Trade Association (STA) says that a “significant...

Clarke Creek gains final approval
22 December 2018 One of Australia’s largest renewable energy projects is one step closer...

Smith Brothers selected for 1 GW build-out
22 December 2018 Arlington Infrastructure has appointed Smith Brothers as its preferred...

Enterprize outlines Vietnamese offshore wind farm plans
22 December 2018 Enterprize Energy has unveiled plans for a 3.4 GW offshore wind farm in Vietnam.

EPA proposes Clean Air Act revisions that sideline carbon capture
14 December 2018 The US EPA is proposing to revise its Clean Air Act determination of the...

Emissions curbs do not harm business, says OECD
14 December 2018 A new report from the OECD indicates that the EU’s Emissions Trading...

Nexans qualifies its 525 kV HVDC underground cable
14 December 2018 Nexans has successfully qualified its HVDC cable systems for the German...

Rampion completed
14 December 2018 E.On has officially opened the Rampion offshore wind project, it has announced.

Ilanga-1 completed
14 December 2018 Engineering group Sener has completed construction of the Ilanga-1 CSP...

Orbital brings O2 to Wales
14 December 2018 Orbital Marine Power has signed an agreement with Menter Môn to...

Bosnia seeks wind bids
14 December 2018 Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic is seeking developers for a 50 MW wind farm.

Carbon emissions set to rise in 2018
05 December 2018 Analysis by the International Energy Agency points to a setback for...

Teesside CCGT+CCUS plan progresses
05 December 2018 Carbon capture has taken an important step forward in the UK with...

Polish auction awards onshore wind contracts
05 December 2018 Poland has revived its onshore wind energy sector with an auction awarding...

Orsted sets out new green goals
05 December 2018 Danish energy giant Orsted has set out new, ambitious goals for its...

Nexans wins Greek island interconnection contract
05 December 2018 Nexans has won the contract for the installation of submarine cable...

Carlyle buys Emera plants
05 December 2018 Carlyle Power Partners has sealed a deal with Canadian firm Emera to...

Cleve Hill seeks 350 MW consent
05 December 2018 Developers of a 350 MW solar and energy storage project in the UK...

November 2018

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Is CCUS still in the energy mix?
27 November 2018 In a new report, the Energy Technologies Institute asks if carbon...

Australian agency boosts energy storage funds
26 November 2018 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has signed an agreement with the...

Orbital unveils new tidal turbine
26 November 2018 Orbital Marine Power has revealed the design of its upcoming...

Rice returns
26 November 2018 GE has announced a new senior management team for its power segment, which...

Smart solar plan announced for coal site
26 November 2018 Energy group Engie has announced plans to convert the site of a retired...

Blue Circle and AC Energy plan Vietnam wind venture
26 November 2018 Renewable energy developer The Blue Circle has signed a strategic...

Mitsubishi wins order for energy storage system in Japan
26 November 2018 Mitsubishi Electric has won an order to supply the energy management...

Energy trends show mixed signals – IEA report
19 November 2018 The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that there are “mixed...

EU parliament gives green light to new targets
19 November 2018 The European Parliament has given its approval to a set of new targets...

UK Capacity Market is on hold
19 November 2018 The General EU Court of Justice has annulled the Commission’s decision not...

ABB to enable world’s first HVDC grid
19 November 2018 The Zhangbei propsed HVDC grid in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area of China...

'Market conditions' halt Tilbury project
19 November 2018 RWE says it has decided to freeze the development of the 2500 MW...

ADB supports Mongolian renewables
19 November 2018 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to support...

Hive joins Shanghai Electric for Cuban PV
19 November 2018 Solar power project developer Hive Energy has joined forces with SE...

Global nuclear capacity reaches 400 GWe
10 November 2018 Global operable nuclear capacity exceeded 400 GWe for the first time on...

Germany’s renewables cover attains new record
10 November 2018 Renewable energy sources met 38 % of Germany¹s gross power requirement in...

WEMO report indicates climate aims challenged by economic growth
10 November 2018 Capgemini's latest world energy market report underlines China’s role as...

South Korea plans 4 GW renewables complex
10 November 2018 The Korean government has announced plans for the construction of a 3...

French offshore wind farms approved
10 November 2018 Offshore wind development company Eoliennes en Mer Iles d’Yeu et...

Senvion and Toshiba form strategic alliance
10 November 2018 Toshiba Energy Systems and Senvion have finalised a strategic alliance...

Akuo reaches financial close on Kita
10 November 2018 Renewable energy developer Akuo Energy has reached financial close for...

Floating wind farm achieves first power
10 November 2018 The developers of the Kincardine offshore wind farm say the project...

Canada invests in fusion technology
01 November 2018 The Canadian government has announced a US$37.5m investment in...

Innogy and Shell collaborate on floating technology
01 November 2018 Innogy and Shell have signed an agreement with Stiesdal Offshore...

GWEC creates new offshore wind taskforce
01 November 2018 The Global Wind Energy Council has created a taskforce dedicated...

Lake Turkana up and running
01 November 2018 The Lake Turkana wind farm in Kenya is expected to be fully operational...

Arkona offshore wind farm completed
01 November 2018 E.On and Equinor have completed installation of turbines at the...

First power from Europe’s largest onshore wind farm
01 November 2018 Owner’s engineer Wood Group has announced that the Markbygden ETT...

Pöyry wins contract for CCGT project
01 November 2018 Gulf Energy Development Co (GED) and Mitsui & Co have awarded Pöyry...

First Kincardine floating WTG starts operations
01 November 2018 Power has started arriving on the coast of Scotland from what will be...

Siemens secures 176.8 MW order for wind projects in India
01 November 2018 Siemens Gamesa has secured two wind orders from ReNew Power, India’s...

October 2018

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IPCC report issues stark warning on global temperature rise
23 October 2018 A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Global gas turbine market set to decline over the next four years
23 October 2018 The global gas turbines market value is estimated to be $6.84bn in...

Siemens Gamesa is preferred supplier for  900 MW Greater Changhua offshore wind project
23 October 2018 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been named preferred...

ScottishPower goes 100% green
23 October 2018 UK utility ScottishPower has announced plans for the complete shut down...

World Bank pulls out of Kosovo coal project
23 October 2018 The future of a planned 500 MW coal-fired power plant is in doubt after...

Start up of China's first CSP array
23 October 2018 The 50 MW Delingha 50 MW solar thermal power plant has been put...

The Colorado Bend saga – latest from GE
16 October 2018 GE has issued an announcement about the latest position regarding...

World Bank unveils energy storage investment drive
16 October 2018 he World Bank is to invest $1 billion in a new programme to...

Orsted acquires Deepwater Wind
16 October 2018 Orsted has signed an agreement with D. E. Shaw Group to buy the...

Statkraft acquires Element Power Group
16 October 2018 Statkraft has boosted its position in Ireland’s and the UK’s renewable...

Rolls Royce invests in storage start-up
16 October 2018 Rolls-Royce is investing in Berlin-based start-up company Qinous GmbH,...

Innogy starts Limondale build
16 October 2018 Innogy has started construction of Australia’s largest solar photovoltaic plant.

Macquarie backs giant renewables project
16 October 2018 Macquarie has announced plans to invest in a proposed 11 GW wind and...

UKPR expands Fluence deal
16 October 2018 UK Power Reserve (UKPR) has awarded a contract for the construction of...

Vineyard reaches community deal
16 October 2018 Developers of the USA’s first large-scale offshore wind farm have reached...

Hub coal plant on track
16 October 2018 Construction of a 1320 MW coal fired power plant in Hub, Pakistan is on...

Encavis invests in Spanish solar
16 October 2018 Encavis has sealed a deal to buy a 300 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power...

First synchronization at Noor Ouarzazate III
08 October 2018 Sener has announced that it is ready to start final tests at the...

SSE ups offshore wind ambition
08 October 2018 SSE has taken full ownership of Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, developer of...

ADB supports Mongolian distributed energy system
08 October 2018 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $40 million loan for a...

Statkraft sets out renewable targets
08 October 2018 Statkraft says it will invest around NOK10 billion ($1.2 billion, €1...

Renault launches storage programme
08 October 2018 Car maker Renault has announced plans to build a large-scale energy...

September 2018

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Global energy investment set to fall – DNV
21 September 2018 Global spending on energy as a proportion of economic output is set to...

Rolls-Royce launches new range of medium speed V-engines
21 September 2018 Rolls-Royce has launched a V-line version of its new B33:45 liquid fuel...

Oyster Creek NPP closes down
21 September 2018 After over 49 years in service the single unit  Oyster Creek...

GIP buys Hornsea stake
21 September 2018 Orsted has signed an agreement to sell a 50 % stake in the...

Marubeni to cut coal-fired capacity
21 September 2018 Marubeni has pledged to cut its portfolio of coal-fired power plants in...

Enel expands Cremzow storage
21 September 2018 Enel Green Power has started construction on a project to expand the...

Eskom is running low on coal
21 September 2018 South African utility Eskom has asked consumers to conserve energy...

UK fossil fuel generation records tumble
14 September 2018 UK fossil fuel generation fell to record lows in August for the...

Wind sector growth “on track” – WindEurope
14 September 2018 Wind energy capacity in Europe is on track to grow at an average of...

California's Clean Energy bill “a major step forward”
14 September 2018 On 10 September, governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 100, a bill...

Scotland’s first utility-scale battery inaugurated
14 September 2018 The modernisation of Scotland’s energy network has taken a  big step...

Sharp expands its PV business into Africa
14 September 2018 Sharp has announced the expansion of its solar energy solutions business...

Waratah proposes new coal plant
14 September 2018 Australian coal mining firm Waratah Coal has put forward proposals for...

Eolus expands into the USA
14 September 2018 Swedish renewable energy developer Eolus has made its first move into the...

Acciona wins Mortlake bid
14 September 2018 Acciona says it will start construction in 2019 of a 157 MW wind farm...

Bolivia's largest solar farm opened
14 September 2018 Bolivia has officially inaugurated its largest solar farm, a 60...

EU flagship tidal energy project gets green light
06 September 2018 The €20 million flagship EU tidal energy project, Enabling Future Arrays...

RenewableUK warns of threat to onshore investment
06 September 2018 Industry body RenewableUK has warned that the future growth of the...

ORE Catapult awarded 10-year R&D extension
06 September 2018 The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has been awarded a consent...

Irish grid gives renewables go-ahead
06 September 2018 Over 1400 MW of renewables and energy storage capacity has been approved...

Construction of new US gas plant gets under way
06 September 2018 US energy company DTE Energy has started construction of a new $1...

First phase bid process complete for Kosovo e Re
06 September 2018 ContourGlobal and the government of Kosovo have completed the initial...

Ørsted opens Walney Extension
06 September 2018 Ørsted has officially opened its Walney Extension project, the...

Innogy confirms Triton Knoll milestone
06 September 2018 nnogy has announced financial close for its 860 MW Triton Knoll offshore...

August 2018

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California assembly votes for decarbonisation
31 August 2018 The California State Assembly passed on 28 August a historic bill that...

ABB to enable the world’s largest digital substation
31 August 2018 ABB is to enable the world’s largest digital substation with the upgrade...

Equinor is considering offshore wind for oil platforms
31 August 2018 Equinor says it is considering the possibility of powering oil and...

Macquarie buys solar portfolio in Mexico
31 August 2018 Macquarie Infrastructure and real Assets has acquired a 90 % stake in a...

German banks back Primorskaya project
31 August 2018 DTEK Renewables has raised €90 million in debt financing for the...

Sumitomo buys Northwester 2 stake
31 August 2018 The Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a 30 % stake in Northwester 2,...

Orsted signs Changhua contracts
31 August 2018 Orsted is building its supply chain in Taiwan in preparation for...

MAN Diesel & Turbo realigns itself
22 August 2018 MAN Diesel & Turbo has renamed itself MAN Energy Solutions in a move that...

Wärtsilä is making significant investment in Finland
22 August 2018 Wärtsilä is building a new centre of research, product development...

Sempra moves to wrap up Oncor acquisition
22 August 2018 Sempra is making a public stock offering of $1.6 billion to help wrap up...

SECI has cancelled 2 GW wind tender
22 August 2018 The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has cancelled a tender for 2...

MHPS completes Jawa 2
22 August 2018 MHPS has completed the construction of Unit 2 at the Tanjung Priok...

Senvion signs Cabo Leones II deal
22 August 2018 Senvion has signed a deal to deliver 204.7 MW of wind turbines for the...

UK offshore wind capacity set to double
14 August 2018 The UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy...

Heatwave hits European wind energy but boosts solar
14 August 2018 The same meteorological conditions behind the current heatwave in...

Siemens supply one of Norway's largest wind parks
14 August 2018 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) will supply the Tonstad Wind Farm...

Ørsted acquires Lincoln
14 August 2018 Ørsted has gained a foothold in the US onshore wind energy sector with...

EDF seeks Nautilus approval
14 August 2018 EDF Renewables North America and Fishermen’s Energy have announced...

Mercedes makes first deal with Polish PPA
14 August 2018 Mercedes-Benz has signed the first corporate renewable power...

Senegal wind farm reaches financial close
14 August 2018 Construction will start shortly at the Taiba N’Diaye wind farm in...

Vinh Tan fires up
14 August 2018 China’s State Power Investment Corp has started commercial operations at...

Sener starts salt melting at Kathu
14 August 2018 Sener and Acciona have started the salt melting process at the...

Spain signs deal on new interconnector with France
07 August 2018 Spain and France have signed a grant agreement to help fund a new...

Preferred contractor for Fryslân wind farm named
07 August 2018 A consortium of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Van Oord has...

Westinghouse sale to Brookfield completed
07 August 2018 Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the completion of its...

Europe on target for 13 GW of wind installations in 2018
07 August 2018 Europe’s wind energy markets are on target to install just over 13 GW...

RedT signs 700 MWh deal
07 August 2018 Energy storage specialist has signed an exclusive deal with Energy...

BioTherm closes renewables projects in South Africa
07 August 2018 BioTherm Energy has reached financial close on a 284 MW portfolio of wind...

Brewing giants sets sights on renewables
07 August 2018 San Miguel Corporation has confirmed plans to build up to 10 GW of...

Lightsource looks to Egyptian market
07 August 2018 Solar energy developer Lightsource BP has formed a joint venture with...

Eskom registers large year on year loss
01 August 2018 The release of Eskom's 2017/2018 financial results has revealed a net loss...

Welding fault to delay Flamanville by a year
01 August 2018 Developer EDF has announced fresh delays in the construction of its...

July 2018

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Ontario cancels renewables contracts
31 July 2018 The government of Ontario has announced plans to cancel contracts...

Statkraft updates its renewables strategy
31 July 2018 Norwegian energy major Statkraft has announced plans to ramp up...

Go-ahead given for 300 MW solar farm
31 July 2018 Australian renewable energy company Renew Estate has been granted...

GIG seals Swedish wind farm deal
31 July 2018 UK-based Green Investment Group (GIG) has announced a £240 million deal...

Central Energy Fund backs CSP project
31 July 2018

Global energy investment in 2017 failed to keep up with targets
18 July 2018 Global energy investment totalled USD 1.8 trillion in 2017, a 2% decline...

GE to build Poland’s next power plant
18 July 2018 Elektrownia Ostrołęka and GE Power have signed the contract to...

ABB wins $150 m order to grid-connect Hornsea
18 July 2018 ABB has won orders worth over $150 million from Ørsted to supply a range...

Solar investment is falling
18 July 2018 Investment in solar energy around the world is likely to fall in...

Total completes Direct Energie purchase
18 July 2018 French energy group Total has made a move to take full ownership of...

Moray West seeks approval
18 July 2018 EDP Renewables has submitted an application to Scottish Ministers for...

Nordex wins 595 MW order
18 July 2018 Nordex has won the largest single contract in its history, a 595 MW...

BSR fires up 50 MW battery
18 July 2018 British Solar Renewables (BSR) has completed the construction of the...

‘Cool down nuclear plan’ UK ministers told
11 July 2018 UK government advisers The National Infrastructure Commission have...

China's first commercial CSP plant is connected
11 July 2018 The Delingha 50 MWp thermal power plant constructed by CGN New Energy,...

Siemens to supply two wind farms in South Africa
11 July 2018 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has contracted to supply two onshore...

Green Investment Group launches North American business
10 July 2018 The Green Investment Group is continuing its global expansion with the...

Arizona seeks storage bids
10 July 2018 US utility Arizona Public Service (APS) is aiming to add 500 MW of...

Greece runs its first wind auction
10 July 2018 Seven onshore wind energy projects have been awarded licences by...

Minesto starts sea trials
10 July 2018 Marine energy developer Minesto has started sea trials of its first...

Armenia 55 MW solar plant contract awarded
10 July 2018 Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), part of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy,...

Advent acquires GE’s distributed power business
03 July 2018 GE has signed an agreement to sell its Distributed Power business unit...

European storage market grew by 49% in 2017
03 July 2018 The latest edition of the EMMES 2.0 shows that the electrical energy...

Langage power plant sold to EPH
03 July 2018 Langage power station in Devon, UK, has been sold as part of a £318million deal.

UK government rejects lagoon scheme
03 July 2018 The British government has rejected the possibility of awarding a...

International developers target Indian offshore wind tender
03 July 2018 A tender launched in April for India’s first offshore wind farm has...

Wärtsilä, Hyundai sign battery storage deal
03 July 2018 Wärtsilä and Hyundai have embarked on a new partnership that will...

Orsted initiates sale of Danish retail unit
03 July 2018 Orsted has announced plans to sell its power distribution and retail...

French Guiana hosts innovative solar-storage hybrid
03 July 2018 French firm HDF Energy has announced plans to construct a solar...

June 2018

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Towards a 100% renewable energy future
25 June 2018 The technology group Wärtsilä hopes to lead the way in the power...

New kind of wind turbine generator
25 June 2018 UK based GreenSpur Renewables has developed a new type of direct...

Energy storage demonstrator launched
25 June 2018 Siemens is about to launch its Green Ammonia Energy Storage Demonstrator,...

Taiwan awards offshore capacity
25 June 2018 Orsted has announced that it has won 920 MW of capacity in Taiwan’s...

New York announces storage roadmap
25 June 2018 New York state has unveiled a roadmap for the development of 1.5 GW of...

Turkey embarks on offshore odyssey
25 June 2018 Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has launched the...

Lightsource BP completes PV farm in India
25 June 2018 Solar power developer Lightsource has completed the construction of its...

Vestas wins 442 MW order
25 June 2018 Xcel Energy has placed an order with Vestas for 442 MW of wind...

New EU renewables target
15 June 2018 EU Energy ministers have agreed a binding renewable energy target of 32%...

US solar market adds 2.5 GW of PV in Q1 2018
15 June 2018 The USA’s solar market added 2.5 GW of solar PV in the first quarter of...

Maritime Link completed
15 June 2018 ABB has officially completed the Maritime Link, formally handing over...

EnBW makes plans for US offshore wind
15 June 2018 Germany’s EnBW has formed a joint venture with Trident Winds to develop...

Orsted secures Formosa finance
15 June 2018 Orsted has completed the first project financing in the Taiwanese...

UK fires up LAES plant
15 June 2018 Energy storage start-up Highview Power has officially launched the...

UKPR partners with Fluence
15 June 2018 UK Power Reserve is partnering with Fluence to deliver a large-scale...

E.On targets solar in Texas
15 June 2018 E.On has announced plans to build a 100 MW solar farm in Texas, USA.

Zero-emissions power cycle achieves first fire
08 June 2018 A significant milestone has been achieved at NET Power’s...

GE’s Haliade 150-6MW nacelle arrives at UK test site
08 June 2018 The first GE offshore wind turbine nacelle to be tested in the UK under...

UK government about turn on nuclear deal
08 June 2018 The UK government has confirmed that it is considering investing in a...

Shift needed in electrification for EU goals
08 June 2018 European trade body Eurelectric says that a “major shift” in...

Banks back Sahel green energy scheme
08 June 2018 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has joined forces with the Green...

Sembcorp swoops on UKPR
08 June 2018 Singaporean industrial firm Sembcorp has reached an agreement to acquire...

Queensland approves 800 MW wind project
08 June 2018 Renewable energy developer Lacour Energy is set to start construction of...

Projects selected to lead Massachusetts wind march
08 June 2018 Two major offshore wind energy projects have been selected by...

UK government 'to take stake in Wylfa NPP'
01 June 2018 It seems likely that the UK government is about to agree an investment...

Final turbine successfully installed at EOWDC
01 June 2018 The final turbine for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, a...

State utility buys Estonian wind developer
01 June 2018 Estonian state utility Eesti Energia has sealed a deal to buy Nelja...

Elgin gets Milltown go-ahead
01 June 2018 An abandoned airfield in Scotland is set to become the country’s...

Assela lands Danish finance
01 June 2018 A proposed 100 MW wind farm on the edge of Africa’s Rift Valley will be...

AGL looks to coal mine for new hydro resource
01 June 2018

JERA signs up Fluence for storage projects
01 June 2018 Japanese energy firm JERA is to work with Fluence Energy and Lyon Group...

May 2018

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Air conditioning will drive growth of electricity demand
21 May 2018 The growing use of air conditioners in homes and offices will be one of...

Siemens Gamesa secures new large order in Japan
21 May 2018 Siemens Gamesa has made its first agreement with Tokyu Land Corporation,...

Rolls-Royce to supply gensets for CHP in Slovakia
21 May 2018 Rolls-Royce has signed a contract with EPC contractor Energyco for the...

EBRD backs Mongolian solar
21 May 2018 Dutch development bank FMO has joined forces with the EBRD and...

Anesco storage target on track
21 May 2018 UK firm Anesco says it is on track to more than quadruple its...

China Three Gorges makes EDP bid
21 May 2018 Energias de Portugal has rejected a takeover bid for its outstanding...

Doosan expansion into storage starts paying off
21 May 2018 Doosan has received several domestic and international orders for...

LOC's MWS breakthrough in China
21 May 2018 LOC is to carry out marine warranty services for the second phase of...

Tidal stream and wave energy can pass UK government’s ‘Triple Test’
11 May 2018 The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has published a...

Alstom and GE to implement joint venture options
11 May 2018 Alstom and GE have signed an agreement relating to the implementation...

Ecotricity unveils tidal schemes
11 May 2018 K energy provider Ecotricity has unveiled plans for two tidal energy...

Allianz shifts away from coal
11 May 2018 Allianz has announced plans to eliminate its exposure to...

E.On expands onshore activities in Germany
11 May 2018 E.On reports that it has taken over the activities of Vortex Energy in...

Plan for giant solar farm in Queensland
11 May 2018 Sunshine Energy Australia has submitted plans for the construction of a...

Senvion unveils new 4 MW platform
11 May 2018 Wind turbine manufacturer Senvion has launched a new 4.2 MW generator...

Hitachi seeks shared stake in Wylfa NPP
04 May 2018 Hitachi wants the government to take a direct stake in the company that is...

Siemens Gamesa continues to grow 
04 May 2018 After three consecutive quarters of growth in order intake, the...

Greece plans renewables auctions
04 May 2018 Greece’s government has announced details of the country’s first...

Germany awards 1610 MW offshore
04 May 2018 Six new offshore wind farms will be built in Germany following the...

Taiwan awards 1900 MW of offshore capacity
04 May 2018 Taiwan’s Ministry of Economy has awarded 1900 MW of offshore wind...

Irish developer Lumcloon plans 200 MW storage capacity
04 May 2018 Lumcloon Energy has signed a deal with Hanwha Group to deliver 200 MW...

Vattenfall seeks PPA offers for UK wind farm
04 May 2018 Vattenfall has launched a tender offering UK businesses the chance...

April 2018

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Competitive wind power is leading the transition
27 April 2018 The Global Wind Energy Council has released its 'Global Wind Report:...

GE and ORE Catapult sign five-year R&D agreement 
27 April 2018 GE Renewable Energy and the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE)...

Global solar PV inverters market in decline 
27 April 2018 The global market for solar photovoltaic inverters will decline from...

Orsted plans UK battery storage plant
27 April 2018 Orsted has announced plans for its first venture into large-scale...

Acciona plans $600 investment in Chilean renewables
27 April 2018 Acciona Energia has announced plans to build two new photovoltaic plants...

Invenergy files lawsuit against Polish government
27 April 2018 US energy company Invenergy has filed a lawsuit in an...

Belgian windfarm first to feature 9.5 MW turbine
27 April 2018 Belgium’s Northwester 2 project will be the first offshore wind farm in...

Wärtsilä to add 130 MW to Senegal grid
27 April 2018 Wärtsilä has signed a contract to engineer, manufacture and deliver a 130...

HSBC abandons tar sands projects
23 April 2018 HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, has announced that it will no longer...

MAN D & T supply the ‘island in the jungle’
23 April 2018 MAN Diesel & Turbo has commissioned seven 32/44CR diesel engines for...

New SF6-free MV GIS switchgear
23 April 2018 Siemens has developed a medium-voltage switchgear that doesn’t...

India kick-starts offshore procurement
23 April 2018 India’s government has moved a step closer to harnessing the...

Statkraft signs PPA for 170 MW Spanish PV plant
23 April 2018 Statkraft and BayWa r.e. have announced plans for the “swift construction”...

New wind farms attracted €22 billion investment in 2017
23 April 2018 Europe invested a total of 51.2 billion in wind energy in 2017,...

Lightsource launches India infrastructure fund
23 April 2018 Lightsource BP has teamed up with Everstone Group to invest in green...

DTEK plans 200 MW Ukraine solar farm
23 April 2018 DTEK and China Machinery Engineering Company (CMEC) have signed an...

Clean energy investment fell 10% in Q1
16 April 2018 Clean energy investment amounted to $61.1 billion in the first quarter...

Enel wins Indian wind tender
16 April 2018 Enel has won a 25-year supply contract for a 285 MW wind farm in India.

Senegal sets solar benchmark
16 April 2018 The World Bank says that its Scaling Solar programme has set a new low...

Tanzania inaugurates Kinyerezi II
16 April 2018 Tanzania has formally inaugurated the Kinyerezi II combined cycle power...

Alpha Ventus investigates fault
16 April 2018 The operators of the Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm are investigating...

Oman issues Duqm tender
16 April 2018 The Oman Power and Water Procurement Company has issued a request...

Saudi Arabia plans $200 bn PV project
06 April 2018 Saudi Arabia and Japanese financial bank SoftBank have agreed an MoU...

Final section of Beatrice shore cable on its way
06 April 2018 Nexans has reached two key milestones in its major contract to create...

NY Regulators open storm damage probe
06 April 2018 New York State utility regulators have told the management of the...

European TSOs have restored the norm
06 April 2018 Following frequency deviations that affected the Continental Europe...

EDF reveals storage plan
06 April 2018 EDF has unveiled plans to invest €8 billion to develop 10 GW of new...

MHI Vestas builds business in Taiwan
06 April 2018 MHI Vestas has signed agreements with four companies to develop its...

March 2018

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Fossil fuels being left behind by falling renewables costs
29 March 2018 The latest assessment by Bloomberg New Energy Finance of comparative...

Unconventional fossil fuel investments wordwide are surging – new report
29 March 2018 A sharp rise globally in the ‘dirtiest’ fossil fuel investments is...

New world record for GE’s HA GT
29 March 2018 GE’s 7HA gas turbine, has eens recognised as the world’s most...

Construction of world’s largest solar park gets under way
29 March 2018 ACWA Power has broken ground on the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin...

Dutch wind tender awarded to Vattenfall
29 March 2018 The world’s first offshore wind farms to be developed without the support...

Peru's largest solar project is commissioned
29 March 2018 Enel has commissioned its 180 MW Rubi solar photovoltaic (PV) plant,...

Aquila targets energy transition with new fund
29 March 2018 Investment firm Aquila Capital has launched a new investment fund...

Bay State seeks energy storage solution
29 March 2018 Bay State Wind has announced plans to collaborate with NEC Energy...

Global energy demand grew by 2.1% in 2017
23 March 2018 Global energy demand rose by 2.1% in 2017, more than twice the...

The world’s first formic acid-based fuel cell
23 March 2018 Scientists at EPFL and GRT Group have built the world’s first...

Prysmian signs framework agreement to upgrade Italian grid
23 March 2018 Prysmian Group, the prominent energy and telecom cable systems company,...

New York signs agreements on renewables
22 March 2018 The US state of New York has signed agreements for the construction of...

Statoil proposes name change
22 March 2018 Norwegian oil major Statoil has proposed changing its name to Equinor...

MPC and Martifer partner for renewables in Colombia
22 March 2018 MPC Capital and Martifer Renewables are to form a strategic partnership...

Swindon gets battery green light
22 March 2018 A local council in England is set to build one of the country’s...

Senvion starts on Murra Warra
22 March 2018 Construction on the first phase of the 429 MW Murra Warra wind farm...

GE announces ‘Reservoir’ energy storage platform
19 March 2018 GE has launched its ‘GE Reservoir’, an energy storage platform that offers...

RWE and E.ON reorganise amid huge mutual asset swap
18 March 2018 As part of a far reaching exchange of assets and businesses E.ON and...

European frequency disruption traced to Balkan states
18 March 2018 ENTSO-E, the association of European TSOs, has reported a severe...

US energy storage market set to triple in 2018
18 March 2018 Supportive policies and falling costs will help the deployment of...

Statoil makes Poland play
18 March 2018 Statoil says it will play a key role in the development of Poland’s...

Hawaii kicks off renewable energy search
18 March 2018 Hawaiian Electric has launched the procurement process for new,...

Skyline targets 3 GW in North America
18 March 2018 Ardian Infrastructure and Transatlantic Power Holdings (TPH) have...

Vattenfall plans expansion of its solar portfolio
18 March 2018 Vattenfall is to invest around €100 million in large-scale solar energy...

GE plans to develop the world's largest offshore WTG
08 March 2018 On 1 March GE Renewable Energy unveiled its plan to develop the largest,...

Georgia Power closing down its ash pond legacy
08 March 2018 Georgia Power Company says it is in the process of completely excavating...

Vattenfall forms alliance in French wind market
08 March 2018 Vattenfall is taking a further step into the European wind energy market...

Highview Power and SNC-Lavalin to collaborate on storage
07 March 2018 Energy storage firm Highview Power has announced plans to collaborate...

50 MW solar scheme approved in UK
07 March 2018 Local councillors in the UK have approved plans for a 50 MW solar energy scheme.

New opportunities seen in new Irish market
07 March 2018 New analysis of Ireland’s planned new single electricity market shows that...

Denham and Themis join forces for investment
07 March 2018 Denham International Power and Themis have joined forces to create a...

Kathu CSP comes on line
07 March 2018 Sener and Acciona Industrial say that they have connected the...

Vestas keeps narrow lead in onshore wind
01 March 2018 Developers commissioned 47 GW of onshore wind turbines globally in 2017,...

Siemens Gamesa to supply up to 1 GW in Turkey
01 March 2018 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed an agreement securing the right...

Board changes at Ansaldo following resignation of the CEO
01 March 2018 Filippo Abba’ has resigned as CEO of Ansaldo Energia, resulting in a...

February 2018

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Engie expands US portfolio with Infinity acquisition
28 February 2018 Engie North America has expanded its presence in the USA with the...

Iberdrola plans to invest in clean energy
28 February 2018 Iberdrola has announced plans to invest €32 billion over the next four...

Senvion has won its first contract in India
28 February 2018 Senvion has won its first contract in India with a 102 MW order from...

Exergy signs Turkey contract
28 February 2018 Italian geothermal technology firm Exergy has signed a contract with...

EU ‘can double renewables by 2030’
23 February 2018 The European Union can increase the share of renewable energy in its...

Germany awards 700 MW of onshore wind contracts
23 February 2018 Germany’s federal network agency has awarded just over 700 MW of onshore...

South Australia backs hydrogen demonstration
23 February 2018 A 15 MW hydrogen electrolyser power plant is to be built in South...

PPIB approves coal plant plans
23 February 2018 Oracle Power has moved forward with plans for a 1400 MW coal-fired...

APS plans solar-battery peaking plant
23 February 2018 Arizona Public Service (APS) and First Solar are to install Arizona’s...

MHPS wins 5.3 GW Thailand order
23 February 2018 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) is to supply turbines and...

EnBW makes move in Taiwan
23 February 2018 EnBW has made its first move into international growth markets with...

IEA commends Australia's commitment to clean goals
15 February 2018 Australia should rely on long-term policy and energy market responses...

The Great Energy Transition gathers momentum – GWEC report
15 February 2018 The Global Wind Energy Council released its annual market statistics on...

ib vogt breaks ground on Benban solar
15 February 2018 At the end of January, ib vogt commenced construction of a portfolio of...

Europe marks offshore wind records
14 February 2018 2017 was a record year for offshore wind in Europe according to...

Commission approves capacity mechanisms
14 February 2018 The European Commission has given its approval for the setting up of...

Wello given the nod in China
14 February 2018 Finnish wave energy technology company Wello has signed an agreement...

Orsted plans Taiwan ESS
14 February 2018 Orsted has announced plans to establish a MW-scale pilot energy...

Bangladesh addresses power shortages
14 February 2018 Hubei Electric Power Survey & Design Institute has placed an order...

Possibly the largest virtual power plant in the world
08 February 2018 The South Australian government plans to roll out solar panels and...

GE and Arenko to build huge UK storage facility
08 February 2018 GE and Arenko Group have announce a strategic alliance to build grid...

EEX Group unveils ‘innovative solutions’ for energy markets
08 February 2018 EEX Group has outlined ‘a programme of innovations for the energy...

Arizona pushes ambitious energy plan
07 February 2018 The US state of Arizona has proposed implementing a target of 3000 MW...

E.ON commissions 20 MW of storage in USA
07 February 2018 E.ON has put the Texas Waves energy storage project in the USA...

Total Eren plans giant battery for Australia
07 February 2018 Renewable energy group Total Eren has been given approval for...

Orsted begins construction of Hornsea One
07 February 2018 Construction work has started on what will be the world’s largest...

Pöyry selected for Thai power project
07 February 2018 Thai firm Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has...

Coal plant loses out in UK capacity auction
07 February 2018 The owner of the UK’s 2000 MW Eggborough power plant says that it will...

Siemens’ first quarter profits fall 14%
02 February 2018 Siemens has posted a 14 % decline in Q1 2017 industrial profit, dragged...

GE to build HVDC ‘highway’ in S Korea
02 February 2018 GE has signed a $320 million contract with KEPCO to build an HVDC...

Phu Yen wind farm receives investment go-ahead
02 February 2018 A project to build a 300 MW wind farm, to be named HBRE-Phu Yen Wind...

FORESEA supports new deployments at SmartBay
02 February 2018 The EU’s Foresea programme has approved funding for six developers...

Strong performance from Ørsted/Dong
02 February 2018 Ørsted, formerly Dong Energy, the international renewable energy company...

Statoil seals pact with Masdar
01 February 2018 Statoil and Masdar have signed a collaborative agreement to analyse data...

Capital Stage to finance solar portfolio in Ireland
01 February 2018 Germany-based renewable energy developer Capital Stage has announced plans...

Fluence to supply 10 MW battery in Delhi
01 February 2018 AES India and Mitsubishi Corporation have started construction of a 10...

Masdar, Cleanergy partner in thermal storage
01 February 2018 The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) and Sweden’s...

January 2018

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Chile's RE potential ‘promises multiple benefits’ – IEA
26 January 2018 Chile has emerged as a world-class destination for solar and wind...

US solar tariff decision ‘is a loss for America’
26 January 2018 The national trade association for the US solar industry has expressed...

New York City takes on Big Oil in the courts
26 January 2018 The New York City government is suing the world’s five largest...

174 Power Global breaks ground on 236 MW PV project
26 January 2018 The largest solar project in Texas broke ground this month when 174...

Nexans completes Canada’s Maritime link contract
25 January 2018 Canada’s Maritime Link project is on schedule to start commercial...

Siemens and AES launch Fluence storage venture
25 January 2018 Siemens and AES have officially launched a new joint venture, Fluence...

BESS secures Santander finance
25 January 2018 Battery Energy Storage Solutions Ltd (BESS) has secured £28.5 million...

Masdar joins forces with Cepsa
25 January 2018 Global energy firm Cepsa and Abu Dhabi-based Masdar have signed an...

PPC seeks biomass partner
25 January 2018 Greece’s PPC Renewables is seeking a strategic investor to help it develop...

SSE to build 2 GW CCGT plant at Ferrybridge
19 January 2018 SSE has announced plans to build a 2GW gas fired power plant on the site...

Voith signs contract for Henan Tianchi pumped storage
19 January 2018 Henan Tianchi Pumped Storage Co. and Voith Hydro Shanghai Co. have signed...

End game for coal in the UK
17 January 2018 The UK government has published* further details of how it intends to...

Ineos challenges Scotland’s shale ban
17 January 2018 Industrial giant Ineos has launched a legal challenge against a decision...

Welsh minister boosts tidal lagoon prospects
17 January 2018 Wales’ First Minister Carwyn Jones has pledged financial support for...

120 MW solar farm proposed for UK
17 January 2018 Developer INRG is proposing the construction of a 120 MW subsidy-free...

Aurora CSP approved
17 January 2018 The government of South Australia has given the go-ahead for the...

UK coal fleet set for 2025 closure
17 January 2018 The UK government has confirmed plans to phase out the use of unabated...

Westinghouse acquired by Brookfield
10 January 2018 Toshiba subsidiary Westinghouse Electric, which filed for chapter...

EP Holding adds to its lignite/coal portfolio
10 January 2018 RWE Power and EnBW are selling their interests in the Hungarian...

Major reorganisation at RWE
10 January 2018 For RWE the recently announced sale of its Hungarian assets forms part of...

Stormy weather creates UK renewables record
10 January 2018 Windy conditions saw UK renewable power generation hit record levels in...

EPCG cancels coal plant deal
10 January 2018 Montenegro power utility EPCG has terminated a deal with Skoda Praha for...

Brazil changes tack on large dam construction
10 January 2018 Brazil’s government has said it will no longer support the development...

Dominion, Scana agree merger
10 January 2018 Dominion Energy has agreed an all-stock deal to buy fellow US utility...

Tocardo files for bankruptcy protection
10 January 2018 Dutch tidal energy technology firm Tocardo has filed for...

NY governor backs offshore wind
10 January 2018 New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has outlined plans to boost clean...

China announces national ETS
03 January 2018 China has formally announced the launch of its national emissions...

Global DER to reach 530 GW by 2026
03 January 2018 A new report finds that global DER capacity is expected to grow from 132.4...

Swansea Bay tidal power may be stranded
03 January 2018 The future of the 320 MW, £1.3 billion Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project is...

Hanwha breaks ground on YEKA solar facility
03 January 2018 Plans for the construction of a 1000 MW solar farm in Turkey took a...

Scotland targets green growth
03 January 2018 Scotland has confirmed its intentions to put low carbon growth at the...

BP returns to solar
03 January 2018 BP has made a $200 million investment in Lightsource in a bid to return...

Solarcentury plans 300 MW plant in Spain
03 January 2018 Solarcentury has announced plans to develop a 300 MWp solar power plant...

Wärtsilä strikes gold
03 January 2018 Wärtsilä has sealed a deal to supply a 60 MW power plant to provide energy...

December 2017

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Coal demand to remain flat – IEA report
20 December 2017 Global demand for coal will remain nearly flat between 2017 and...

Japanese court has ordered shutdown of a vulnerable nuke
20 December 2017 A Hiroshima court has ruled that a nuclear reactor in southwestern...

Aquila Capital achieves Valhalla deal
20 December 2017 Aquila Capital has acquired Project Valhalla, one of the largest wind...

Siemens wins CC contract from Tatarstan
20 December 2017 Siemens has received an order to build a combined cycle power plant...

Egypt intends to build solar ‘pipeline’
20 December 2017 Egyptian firm EETC has started the process of inviting companies to bid...

Finnish cities looking at SMRs for large scale CHP
20 December 2017 Three cities in Finland are launching a study to investigate the...

EDF launches new solar investment drive
20 December 2017 EDF has unveiled plans to invest around €25 billion in solar energy in a...

Kosovo government contracts for new coal plant
20 December 2017 Construction of the Kosovo C coal fired power plant will start in 2018...

Jordan boosts solar capacity
20 December 2017 Jordan’s solar power programme is receiving a $22 million loan from...

GE to ‘reduce its global head count’
13 December 2017 GE Power has announced that it plans to reduce its global head count...

Fast-track legislation to speed up UK compliance with 2018 EU-ETS
13 December 2017 The UK government is introducing fast-track legislation to bring forward...

Wake effect investigation underway
13 December 2017 The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator has announced a new €2.3...

ABB achieves 1100 kV DC breakthrough
13 December 2017 Transformers and other key equipment to be supplied by ABB for the...

CIP to join Star of the South venture
13 December 2017 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is to partner with Offshore Energy in...

Neart na Gaoithe seeks equity partner
13 December 2017 Mainstream Renewable Power has started the selection process for an...

UK backs SMR technology
13 December 2017 The UK government has announced £56 million of funding for research...

Unit 4 on line at Medupi
13 December 2017 Eskom has started commercial operations at Unit 4 of the Medupi power...

Abraaj invests in Mexico gas plant
13 December 2017 Abraaj Group has invested in a gas-fired power plant project in Mexico...

USA’s first offshore wind farm is dead in the water
07 December 2017 Cape Wind, the offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, is...

Opra Turbines acquired by Dalian Energas
07 December 2017 China's Dalian Energas Group has completed its acquisition of gas...

Rotterdam joins North Sea Hub
07 December 2017 The Port of Rotterdam has joined the North Sea Wind Power Hub...

Pöyry appointed to Beyhan II hydro plant
07 December 2017 Kalehan Murat Enerji Üretim AS has awarded Pöyry the basic design...

Australian proposal to export renewable power to Indonesia
05 December 2017 A group of renewable energy developers have proposed the construction of 6...

Tesla completes 129 MWh grid connected battery
05 December 2017 Tesla has completed the construction of what is believed to be the...

GE says 64%+ efficiency “now available”
05 December 2017 GE has announced that its 9HA.02 turbine “is now available” at more than...

Indian government announces new 2 GW wind tender
05 December 2017 India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has unveiled plans for a 2...

Younicos wins Hywind battery contract
05 December 2017 Statoil has placed an order with battery firm Younicos for the delivery of...

MOU signed for Jeonnam Wando
05 December 2017 Korea South East Power Corp is planning the development of a 600 MW...

November 2017

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Solar capacity in the developing world jumps by more than half
29 November 2017 Despite a ‘down’ year for clean energy investment in 2016 new...

Senvion plans to develop 10 MW+ WTG
29 November 2017 Senvion, in collaboration with partners in the offshore wind energy...

Launch of higher productivity onshore and offshore WTGs
29 November 2017 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), building on the merger that...

Centrica revives prospect of nuclear sell-off
29 November 2017 Centrica CEO Iain Conn has reiterated his June statement that the company...

Engie sells its stake in Loy Yang power plant
29 November 2017 Engie and Mitsui have reached an agreement with China’s Alinta Energy to...

Storage technology set for major global expansion
29 November 2017 An estimated $103 billion will be invested in the energy storage...

Dudgeon 402MW windfarm handed over
29 November 2017 Statoil, Masdar and Statkraft, developers of the Dudgeon offshore wind...

Comet solar farm approved
29 November 2017 UK-based Hadstone Energy has received consent for a proposed 309 MWp...

Energy fund invests in Greatcell future
29 November 2017 Greatcell Solar has received a A$4 million strategic investment from...

Siemens restructuring will involve extensive job losses
22 November 2017 Siemens is responding to what it sees as rapidly accelerating...

GE results ‘unacceptable’
22 November 2017 GE’s power business has been underperforming recently, with John...

EPH acquires Mehrum
22 November 2017 The Czech energy group EPH has completed its purchase of Kraftwerk...

Plans for 350 MW UK solar park revealed
22 November 2017 Hive Energy and Wirsol have announced plans to build a 350 MW solar farm...

Victoria opens 650 MW renewables auction
22 November 2017 The Australian state of Victoria has kicked off a renewable energy...

Iberdrola advances clean energy plans
22 November 2017 Iberdrola has announced it will complete the process of phasing out all...

Centrica reveals plans for storage in Ireland
22 November 2017 Centrica is to build a 100 MW battery energy storage system in Ireland.

Galway wind farm starts up
22 November 2017 Ireland’s largest wind farm has officially started commercial operations.

Britain enters top ten low carbon league
16 November 2017 The UK has moved up 13 places in the global rankings to number 7 among...

US groups line up to defy Trump
15 November 2017 At the UN conference on climate change in Bonn, US states, cities...

‘A world in transformation’ – WEO 2017
15 November 2017 The IEA’s ‘World Energy Outlook 2017’ reports on an energy world in...

Loy Yang B coal plant ‘shifted $1 billion offshore’
15 November 2017 According to information revealed by The Paradise Papers the owner of one...

Death toll from explosion at coal plant rises
15 November 2017 Thirty-six people have died as the result of an explosion at a...

Ørsted divests Walney Extension
15 November 2017 Ørsted – formerly Dong Energy – has sold a 50 per cent stake in the...

Mainstream clear on NNG
15 November 2017 Mainstream Renewable Power has been given the all-clear to start...

GE and Green Investment Group partner on Markbygden
15 November 2017 GE and the Green Investment Group have sealed a deal to buy and develop...

SSE and Innogy agree on retail merger
15 November 2017 Energy firms SSE and Innogy have agreed to merge their retail businesses...

Investment is lagging behind climate needs – Bloomberg report
07 November 2017 Two years after the signing of the Paris climate agreement and eight...

‘Digitalisation set to transform global energy system’ – IEA
07 November 2017 Digital technologies are set to transform the global energy system in...

US wind industry booming – AWEA report
07 November 2017 The USA’s wind industry reports that 29 634 MW of generation capacity...

Centrica acquires demand response aggregator
07 November 2017 UK power company Centrica has acquired REstore NV, Europe’s leading...

TTCL plans coal plant in Myanmar
06 November 2017 Thai construction firm TTCL plc has announced plans to build a 1280...

Lightsource and Macquarie to fund India assets
06 November 2017 Lightsource Renewable Energy and UK Climate Investments have created...

ADB to support Sri Lankan wind farm
06 November 2017 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the construction of a 100...

GIP buys Equis Energy
06 November 2017 Global Infrastructure Partners has teamed up with Public Sector...

OGCI makes first climate investments
06 November 2017 The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has made its first...

October 2017

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GE’s reduced profits blamed on power business
31 October 2017 Profits in GE’s power division have fallen 51% overall, a result...

Map of renewable curtailment and coal asset risk in China
31 October 2017 Bloomberg New Energy Finance is predicting that China’s power system...

ETI project to identify nuclear cost drivers
31 October 2017 The Energy Technologies Institute has launched a new project to...

Fortum-RUSNANO wind investment fund starts first project
31 October 2017 The Fortum-RUSNANO wind investment fund, first announced in April this...

Siemens Gamesa to supply 780 MW of WTGs in USA
31 October 2017 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced that the company will...

Statoil names new project "Empire Wind"
31 October 2017 Empire Wind is the project name selected by Statoil for the...

PV with storage 'cost competitive by 2020'
31 October 2017 Falling costs and rising solar penetration could see the economics of PV...

Energy access targets within reach, says IEA
20 October 2017 Universal energy access is now within reach for the billions of people...

Hybrid hydro/energy storage project
20 October 2017 Greensmith Energy and American Electric Power are to install a 4 MW...

Invenergy launches arbitration process over wind farm dispute
20 October 2017 Invenergy has written to the Polish government to notify it of its...

E.ON and Fortum meet more resistance over sale of Uniper
20 October 2017 Fortum’s plan to acquire Uniper from E.ON has raised concerns among...

Hywind floating wind farm starts production
20 October 2017 A 30 MW floating wind farm of the coast of Scotland has started...

Xina Solar One up and running
20 October 2017 The $800 million Xina Solar One concentrated solar power plant in...

Cibuk 1 attracts IFC finance
20 October 2017 The EBRD and IFC have agreed on a €215 million lending package to...

Further boost for UK renewables prospects
17 October 2017 UK Energy minister Richard Harrington has confirmed that up to £557...

ABB signs grid research MOU with Imperial College
17 October 2017 The ABB Group has signed an MOU with Imperial College London to...

Siemens inaugurates the first blade plant in the MENA region
17 October 2017 Siemens Gamesa has officially inaugurated its new rotor blade factory...

EDF Polish sale approved
16 October 2017 Authorities in Poland have approved the purchase of EDF’s Polish assets...

Wind megaprojects boost global clean energy investment
16 October 2017 Global clean energy investment in 2017 is likely to rise over levels seen...

Enel and E.On test blockchain trading
16 October 2017 European utilities Enel and E.On say they have traded electricity for...

Tundra partners embark on CCS studies
16 October 2017 A group of industry partners has embarked on a carbon capture and...

Bungala construction kicks off
16 October 2017 Enel and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) have started construction...

USA to abandon Clean Coal Plan – it’s official
11 October 2017 The administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency has...

New Dutch government to phase out coal by 2030
11 October 2017 The incoming government of the Netherlands will put in place an...

NuGen expects to sell Moorside nuclear project by early 2018
11 October 2017 Toshiba’s NuGen nuclear project in Britain expects to secure a new...

Colbun plans 607 MW wind farm
11 October 2017 Energy firm Colbun has been awarded the rights to build a large-scale...

Scotland bans fracking
11 October 2017 The Scottish government has effectively banned fracking in the country...

Statoil, Shell and Total in CO2 storage partnership
11 October 2017 Shell and Total are joining Statoil in a project to mature the development...

Grand Coulee units set for upgrade
11 October 2017 Wärtsilä and its subsidiary American Hydro are to upgrade two units at...

Another record year for renewables, led by solar
04 October 2017 Renewables accounted for almost two-thirds of net new power capacity...

Exit Dong Energy, enter Ørsted
04 October 2017 Dong Energy plans to change its company name to Ørsted, following...

Suez acquires GE’s water treatment business
04 October 2017 SUEZ has completed the acquisition of GE Water & Process Technologies...

EPEX SPOT power trading shows steep increase
04 October 2017 The European Power Exchange EPEX reports that trading volumes grew by 9.5%...

Fortum bid ‘not in line with our strategy’ – Uniper
02 October 2017 Fortum has launched a €8 billion takeover bid for Uniper after reaching...

DOE to continue CCS research funding
02 October 2017 The US Department of Energy has issued a funding opportunity for...

Statkraft and Norfund swap hydro shares
02 October 2017 Statkraft says that it will strengthen its presence in South America...

Anesco opens subsidy-free solar farm
02 October 2017 Anesco has celebrated the formal opening of the first subsidy-free solar...

Manjung 5 starts up
02 October 2017 Malaysia’s TNB says that the Manjung 5 coal-fired power plant has...

September 2017

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ABB to acquire GE Industrial Solutions
27 September 2017 ABB is to acquire GE Industrial Solutions, GE’s global...

GE to manufacture largest generator transformer
27 September 2017 GE will manufacture the largest generator transformer ever made in Turkey...

Total expands its renewables business
27 September 2017 Total has acquired an indirect 23 % interest in EREN RE in a bid to grow...

Scotland unveils £60m low carbon plan
27 September 2017 First minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a £60 million Innovation Fund...

Turkey joins the nuclear power club
27 September 2017 General construction work has begun at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant site...

Innogy opts for 9.5 MW hardware for Triton Knoll
27 September 2017 Triton Knoll has revealed that it has selected MHI Vestas as its...

Wärtsilä reaps rewards in Bangladesh
27 September 2017 Wärtsilä has added to a recent string of orders for power plants...

Engie seals new wind partnership
27 September 2017 Engie has created a partnership with the Abraaj Group to build a pipeline...

UK waste feeds CHP plant in Denmark
27 September 2017 A CHP plant in Denmark will be taking delivery of refuse-derived fuel...

Solar eclipsed all other new power generation in 2016
20 September 2017 Solar became the world’s favourite new type of electricity generation...

E.ON is close to selling its stake in Uniper
20 September 2017 E.ON is reported to be in advanced negotiations regarding an agreement...

Siemens Gamesa reinforces its presence in China
20 September 2017 Siemens Gamesa has secured an agreement for the supply of 300 MW worth...

New 600 MW solar project for Iran
20 September 2017 Quercus has announced the launch of a project to build 600 MW...

Drax considers gas and storage options
20 September 2017 Drax is considering options for repowering existing coal-fired...

Adani embarks on Moranbah
20 September 2017 Adani has announced that it is ready to start work on the construction of...

Wärtsilä adds wave power
20 September 2017 Finnish technology firm Wärtsilä is adding wave energy devices to...

Gasunie joins North Sea hub
20 September 2017 The North Sea Wind Power Hub has welcomed Dutch gas grid operator Gasunie...

EMEC tides generate hydrogen
20 September 2017 The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has claimed a world first...

Giant solar plan for the Sahara is revived
13 September 2017 Plans for the Sahara region to export solar power to Europe have been...

EU lawmakers back 40% energy efficiency target for 2030
13 September 2017 A committee of the European Parliament has decided to raise the EU’s...

GGA adopts the Florence Declaration
13 September 2017 Government representatives of national members of the Global...

UK offshore wind price drops over 50% in 2 years
13 September 2017 UK government figures published on 11 September show that the price paid...

Saudi Arabian government seeks wind bids
13 September 2017 Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy has issued a request for proposals for...

UK announces CFD auction results
13 September 2017 The UK’s government has confirmed that over 3 GW of new renewable...

MHPS delivers Kusile boiler
13 September 2017 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has completed delivery of the first...

UK and China join forces on offshore wind
13 September 2017 Researchers from the UK and China are to join forces on the development...

Japanese consortium wins contract for Bangladesh coal plant
13 September 2017 A consortium of Japanese firms IHI, Toshiba and Sumitomo has won a...

‘World energy demand to plateau from 2030’ – DNV GL report
06 September 2017 ‘The world is approaching a watershed moment as energy demand is set...

ENTSO-E specs for power data exchange recognised internationally
06 September 2017 The ENTSO-E Common Grid Model Exchange Specification has now been adopted...

ABB to install solar inverters at 750 railway stations
06 September 2017 ABB has contracted to provide inverters for solar systems at 750...

$6 bn investment in Argentina's RE sector in prospect
06 September 2017 New market rules that will allow large power users to directly meet...

Sainshand wind park achieves financial close
06 September 2017 MPC Renewable Energies has achieved financial close amounting to...

Nexans orders new cable-laying vessel
06 September 2017 Nexans has ordered a new state-of-the-art cable laying vessel with a...

Siemens and ISA form global security partnership
06 September 2017 Siemens and the International Society of Automation have entered into...

August 2017

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Wärtsilä awarded 220 MW power plant contract
30 August 2017 Wärtsilä will supply the engines for a new 220 MW baseload power plant to...

Burbo Bank to get 2MW storage facility
30 August 2017 ABB is to deliver a 2 MW battery energy storage system to support...

Japan’s nuke restart programme faces new challenges
27 August 2017 The governor of Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture has stated that he will...

Coal contribution drops to 135 year low in UK
27 August 2017 In July the UK’s remaining coal-fired power plants made their...

Greek court halts Evia construction
26 August 2017 A Greek court has placed a temporary halt on the construction of a wind...

Cuadrilla begins UK drilling operations
26 August 2017 Oil and gas firm Cuadrilla has started exploration activities at a...

US agency to fund Zambia wind farm study
26 August 2017 The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a $1.05 million...

Engie plans £50 million investment in Ffestiniog
26 August 2017 Engie has announced plans to refurbish the Ffestiniog pumped...

New kids on the block
21 August 2017 Building fabrics could soon be converting solar energy directly...

Wärtsilä to supply 300 MW plant to Summit Group
21 August 2017 Wärtsilä has signed a contract with Bangladesh-based Summit Group to...

RSPB revives legal battle over wind farms
21 August 2017 UK-based environmental group the RSPB has launched a new legal action...

Acciona secures 424 MW Mexico project
21 August 2017 Zuma Energia has awarded Acciona the engineering, procurement...

East Anglia Three approved
21 August 2017 ScottishPower Renewables says that it will use next-generation wind...

DTE plans new CCGT
21 August 2017 DTE Energy is making plans for the construction of a 1.1 GW natural gas...

Plans emerge for subsidy-free solar in Scotland
21 August 2017 A UK developer has revealed plans to build a large-scale solar farm...

Chinese coal giants may merge
14 August 2017 China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd and China Coal Energy Co Ltd, China's...

Senvion installs first prototype of 3.4M140 EBC low noise WTG
14 August 2017 Senvion has successfully completed the installation of the first 3MW...

New solar plant ‘will operate like a conventional power plant’
14 August 2017 A 150 MW solar thermal power plant is to built in South Australia...

Dong divests 50% of Borkum Riffgrund 2
14 August 2017 Dong Energy is to sell 50% of Borkum Riffgrund 2, a 450 MW German...

Spanish capacity market faces legal challenge
13 August 2017 Two Spanish non-governmental organizations have submitted a complaint to...

1 GW solar farm gets green light
13 August 2017 Local government in Queensland, Australia, has given the go-ahead for...

PV developer plans 70 MW project in Ireland
13 August 2017 Lightsource Renewable Energy has applied for consent for the construction...

EIB supports Alliander upgrade
13 August 2017 Dutch network firm Alliander has signed a €300 million loan agreement...

Blyth foundation on track
13 August 2017 The Blyth offshore wind farm is on track to start generating energy at...

Siemens starts field tests of high efficiency GT technology
08 August 2017 Siemens has started field trials of its next generation gas...

Deepwater Wind proposes offshore wind-storage combo
08 August 2017 Deepwater Wind has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest offshore...

UK independent energy review announced
08 August 2017 An independent energy review has been announced by the UK Business and...

Demand pushes Spanish auction to 5 GW
08 August 2017 Some 5 GW of renewable energy capacity will be built in Spain following...

Itochu wins contract to expand Kalselteng
08 August 2017 Indonesia’s PLN has awarded a contract to expand the Kalselteng...

Crowdfunding backs French PV projects
08 August 2017 The most recent auction in France for large-scale solar PV has awarded...

‘Innovative energy’ competition announced
08 August 2017 The Carbon Trust will be running the new £9.2 million Industrial...

Australian state government makes wave funding call
08 August 2017 The government of Western Australia has opened a tender for the...

July 2017

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‘Accident tolerant’ nuclear fuel to be launched
28 July 2017 General Atomics is collaborating with Westinghouse on a new...

Shake-up of UK electricity supply industry
28 July 2017 UK Business secretary Greg Clark has published a revised electricity...

Tanzania wins geothermal funding
28 July 2017 Tanzania is aiming to expand its geothermal energy sector after being...

Jinko investigates perovskite technology
28 July 2017 JinkoSolar and Greatcell Solar have signed an agreement that will...

Lightsource and Blackrock partner for UK solar assets
28 July 2017 Solar energy company Lightsource Renewable Energy and asset manager...

Marubeni consortium wins Indonesia contract
27 July 2017 A consortium of Marubeni, GE and PT Hutama Karya has been awarded a...

RWE plans 2.5 GW CCGT in UK
27 July 2017 RWE says it is preparing to start the planning process for the...

‘Waste contractor is diverting recyclable waste to WTE incinerator’ – GMB disclosure
24 July 2017 UK trade union GMB reports that it has been shown an email indicating...

Innovative traction power solution for UK rail network
24 July 2017 ABB has won a $20 million contract from Network Rail to provide a...

UK developer plans subsidy-free solar park
24 July 2017 Plans for the construction of a utility-scale solar farm that...

Wirsol teams with Renew Estate for Oz solar pipeline
24 July 2017 Wirsol Energy and Renew Estate have announced a partnership to develop...

Saudi Arabia plans 400 MW wind farm
24 July 2017 Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources has...

Hywind turbine sets sail for Scotland
24 July 2017 The first turbine for the Hywind floating offshore wind farm is making...

Feasibility of converting Magnum plant to hydrogen to be studied
20 July 2017 Statoil, Vattenfall and Gasunie have signed an MoU that they will...

Hackers threaten UK networks
20 July 2017 A leaked document from a UK intelligence agency suggests that the...

IEA sees global gas demand rising to 2022
14 July 2017 The global natural gas market is undergoing a major transformation, driven...

Siemens and AES JV to create new energy storage company
14 July 2017 Siemens and AES Corp have signed an agreement to form a new global...

UK government determined to quit Euratom
14 July 2017 The UK’s department responsible for overseeing the UK’s exit from...

Karpowership places large engine order
14 July 2017 Turkish energy company Karpowership has placed an order with MAN Diesel...

Multinationals add weight to renewables initiative
13 July 2017 An increasing number of global multinational brands are ‘realising...

Engie buys into UK offshore wind
13 July 2017 Engie has entered the UK’s offshore wind energy market with a deal to buy...

Rampal gets all-clear
13 July 2017 The government of Bangladesh says that it will go ahead with the...

Wärtsilä strikes “breakthrough” Iran deal
13 July 2017 Wärtsilä has struck a deal to supply two decentralised gas-fired power...

Dominion signs up Dong for offshore project
13 July 2017 Dominion Energy and Dong are to build 12 MW of offshore wind energy...

Tesla to build world’s largest Li-ion battery
07 July 2017 Tesla has contracted to build the world’s biggest lithium ion battery....

‘RE will be cheapest power in G20 countries’ – Greenpeace
07 July 2017 Wind energy and solar power will be the cheapest forms of power generation...

A2SEA acquired by GeoSea
07 July 2017 Dong Energy and Siemens have signed an agreement with Belgium based...

Aggreko moves into the storage business
07 July 2017 Power rental business Aggreko has announced a £40 million deal to...

Korean firms win Guam solar projects
07 July 2017 Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) and Hanwha Energy Corp have been...

Major progress on Turkana transmission line
07 July 2017 A power transmission line linking a large-scale wind farm in Kenya with...

Construction underway at Vietman WTE plant
07 July 2017 Construction has started on Vietnam’s first waste-to-energy plant,...

Southern Power mulls gas plant options
07 July 2017 Southern Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with Wärtsilä...

June 2017

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‘The oceans are warming rapidly’ – new study
30 June 2017 A new analyusis confirms that although there is some uncertainty in...

Approval for largest solar farm in Western Australia
30 June 2017 Stellata Energy and Ingenious have announced the securing of...

Dong inaugurates Gode 1 and 2
30 June 2017 Dong Energy has officially inaugurated its Gode 1 and 2 offshore wind...

PLN plans new 240 MW peaking plant
30 June 2017 Indonesian utility PT PLN has signed a contract with a consortium of PT...

STEG signs EPC contract
30 June 2017 Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz (STEG) has signed an...

Sterling & Wilson wins Sweihan contracts
30 June 2017 The Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) has awarded...

Eesti Energia trades in Poland
30 June 2017 Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office has issued Enefit, a subsidiary of...

Global O&M market ‘will hit $27.4 billion by 2025’
23 June 2017 The global wind operations and maintenance market is set to grow from...

GE’s Jeff Immelt to step down
23 June 2017 GE CEO and president Jeff Immelt is stepping down from his executive post...

Synthetic natural gas ‘could be carbon neutral’
23 June 2017 The discovery of a catalyst that makes it possible to use sunlight to...

US coalition proposes consensus climate solution
23 June 2017 A broad coalition of industrial firms, opinion leaders and...

Lyon Group launches tender for battery services
23 June 2017 Australian infrastructure firm Lyon Group has launched a tender for...

Centrica sells UK gas firing assets
23 June 2017 Energy firm Centrica is selling two gas-fired power plants in the UK and...

Vattenfall expands in UK
23 June 2017 Vattenfall has expanded its business operations in the UK by acquiring...

UK sector to work collectively on low carbon
23 June 2017 The UK’s Carbon Trust has brought together key energy companies in...

Energy transition is ‘unstoppable’ – Bloomberg latest report
16 June 2017 The just published New Energy Outlook from Bloomberg reveals a slew...

IRENA and SGCC to increase co-operation on energy transition
16 June 2017 IRENA and the State Grid Corporation of China have agreed to...

2 MW gas engine launched by Siemens
16 June 2017 Siemens has launched its new 2 MW gas engine, the E-series.

ABB hands over DolWin2 wind connection
16 June 2017 ABB has commissioned and handed over the DolWin2 offshore wind...

Pöyry maps hydro potential in W Africa
16 June 2017 Consulting firm Pöyry says that it has used groundbreaking data to map...

Access Power secures funding for Zambia wind project
16 June 2017 Renewable energy developer Access Power has secured grant funding from the...

Enbridge buys Albatros stake
16 June 2017 Canadian energy firm Enbridge has bought a 49.9 % stake in the...

AGL plans new power capacity
16 June 2017 Australia’s AGL Energy is to start construction later this year on a 210...

Global access to electricity has increased significantly in recent years
09 June 2017 The US Energy Information Administration’s reports that an examination of...

The US power sector is going green – ‘despite Trump’
09 June 2017 Energy consultant Arthur D Little argues that president Trump’s...

Floating offshore wind is on the brink of a European breakthrough
09 June 2017 Floating offshore wind is now a viable technology ready to be rolled out...

EIB to finance NordLink
09 June 2017 The European Investment Bank has signed a EUR 300 million loan agreement...

Plan for first Australian offshore wind farm welcomed
09 June 2017 The government of the Australian state of Victoria has welcomed plans for...

MHI Vestas launches 9.5 MW turbine
09 June 2017 MHI Vestas has officially launched an upgraded version of its V164...

Offshore wind leaders sign join statement
09 June 2017 Energy ministers and industry captains from Germany, Belgium and Denmark...

Ministers back carbon capture
09 June 2017 The IEA plans to carry out an analysis of current carbon capture,...

USA to pull out of Paris climate change agreement
02 June 2017 US president Donald Trump has announced that the USA is to withdraw from...

Three Mile Island to close down in 2019
02 June 2017 The Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania, USA, will close in...

Launch of world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2 from air
02 June 2017 Climeworks has launched the world’s first commercial plant that...

Norway has key role in global energy security – IEA
02 June 2017 The IEA’s latest analysis of Norway’s energy market has concluded that...

Mainstream, GE finalise Phu Cuong deal
02 June 2017 The developers behind the 800 MW Phu Cuong wind farm in Vietnam are aiming...

Onshore wind costs 'will continue to decline'
02 June 2017 A new study of the costs of onshore wind energy predicts that the...

Construction starts at Sweihan
02 June 2017 Construction of a 1177 MW solar power plant in Abu Dhabi has started...

Sri Lanka approves solar-wind hybrid plant
02 June 2017 The Sri Lankan government has approved a proposal to develop a...

May 2017

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Dong Energy sells off oil and gas division
26 May 2017 As part of the process of transforming the company into an...

World's largest floating PV plant is connected to the grid
26 May 2017 The Chinese firm Sungrow, a supplier of photovoltaic inverter systems,...

RE now employs 9.8 million people worldwide – IRENA report
26 May 2017 More than 9.8 million people were employed in the renewable energy sector...

Tesla launches local storage solution
26 May 2017 Tesla has launched a new idea, called ‘aggregation,’ which is aimed...

Brussels approves state aid for new gas plant
26 May 2017 The French government has been given permission by the European Commission...

Vattenfall plans construction of “biggest battery to date”
26 May 2017 Vattenfall has started detailed planning for the construction of a 22...

Guernsey offshore wind report is positive
26 May 2017 A feasibility study examining the potential for the development of...

Pacifico appoints Mott MacDonald
26 May 2017 Mott MacDonald will be owner’s engineer on the 258 MW Sakuto...

Community wind farms make their mark in German auction
26 May 2017 Strong competition in Germany’s first auction for onshore wind energy...

European emitters question the relevance of emissions trading
19 May 2017 The Thomson Reuters ‘Carbon Market Survey 2017’ finds that support...

New hope for onshore wind in the UK
19 May 2017 The governing Conservative party manifesto for the upcoming UK...

National Grid halts construction of Moorside connection
19 May 2017 Construction of a power line designed to serve a proposed new nuclear...

Coal plants in Korea face complete shut-down
19 May 2017 South Korea’s new president says he will force coal-fired power plants in...

RSPB challenge decision overruled
19 May 2017 A court in Scotland has overturned a ruling blocking consent for...

WPD seeks views on storage
19 May 2017 UK network operator Western Power Distribution (WPD) has launched...

Dong completes Burbo Bank
19 May 2017 Dong Energy has completed the installation of all 32 wind turbines at...

The European Commission is investigating EDF-Areva deal 
12 May 2017 The EU’s antitrust (monopolies) regulator, the Commission for Competition,...

Wind power investment is rising
12 May 2017 Wind energy companies raised a total of €43 billion in 2016 to finance...

Nova granted consent for new gas plant
12 May 2017 Regulators in New Zealand have granted consent for the construction of a...

Bhikki PP reaches completion in 18 months
12 May 2017 The second GE 9HA gas turbine to be installed in Pakistan has achieved...

Mobile substations to be deployed in Saudi Arabia
12 May 2017 Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply two mobile substations...

Feasibility study underway for tidal bridge
12 May 2017 Tidal Bridge BV, a joint venture of Strukton International and DEC,...

Ansaldo’s GT36 shows its paces in validation test
12 May 2017 Ansaldo Energia’s GT36 H-Class gas turbine has successfully completed...

Vattenfall starts up 230 MW wind farm in Wales
12 May 2017 Vattenfall has started full operations at its Pen y Cymoedd wind farm.

Barakah 1 completes construction phase
12 May 2017 The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has completed...

EU clears tighter pollution control
05 May 2017 The European Union has approved a set of regulations aimed at...

Moorside nuclear plant 'on hold' 
05 May 2017 The plan to build a nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK, has been put...

India aims at 'all-electric car fleet by 2030' 
05 May 2017 The Indian government wants to entirely eliminate oil derivative fuelled...

EU network codes conference gets under way
05 May 2017 The various bodies involved in running Europe’s electricity grid are...

GE’s 9EMax GT upgrade achieves first fire
05 May 2017 GE’s Power Services 9EMax upgrade has completed initial validation...

California adds more storage
05 May 2017 San Diego Gas & Electric has placed orders for additional energy...

Toshiba starts up Mikawa biomass
05 May 2017 Toshiba has started commercial operation of its first ever biomass...

Northland completes Gemini ahead of schedule
05 May 2017 Northland Power has announced the completion of the Gemini offshore wind...

Wärtsilä has won contract to expand Turkish IPP
05 May 2017 Wärtsilä has signed a deal with a Turkish independent power producer (IPP)...

April 2017

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Toshiba to split into four subsidiaries
28 April 2017 Toshiba Corp, parent of Westinghouse Electric, is to split itself into...

Strong outlook for wind power
28 April 2017 The Global Wind Energy Council has released its flagship publication...

UK’s first day without coal fired generation
28 April 2017 The Electricity Control Room at the UK’s National Grid has announced...

Siemens wins order for four industrial power plants
28 April 2017 Siemens has secured orders to supply a total of four turnkey industrial...

Solar PV is driving renewable energy growth
28 April 2017 Growth in the solar photovoltaics (PV) sector will help to drive...

GE completes LM acquisition
28 April 2017 GE has completed the acquisition of Danish wind turbine blade supplier...

Indonesian coal plant licence revoked
28 April 2017 An Indonesian court has ruled that the environmental permit granted for...

Larne CAES wins EU funding
28 April 2017 A proposed large-scale energy storage project in Northern Ireland has...

Polenergia’s Baltic 2 wind farm granted offshore permit
28 April 2017 A regional environmental permit has been awarded to Polenergia for the...

Proposal to investigate deep geothermal in Iceland announced
24 April 2017 Researchers will study the possibility of producing, for the first...

Sale of GIB to Macquarie is confirmed
24 April 2017 UK Climate Change and Industry minister Nick Hurd confirmed on 20 April...

Aquila acquires six hydro plants in Norway
24 April 2017 Alternative investment company Aquila Capital has acquired six...

South Australia gas plant plan attracts international interest
23 April 2017

EnBW wins offshore tender with zero-subsidy bid
23 April 2017 The He Dreiht offshore wind farm is to become the world’s first offshore...

Toshiba wins Tanjung Jati B expansion deal
23 April 2017 Toshiba has been awarded a major equipment supply contract for the...

Solarcentury boost LatAm pipeline
23 April 2017 Solarcentury has boosted its global solar power project pipeline with...

France sets floating wind tariff
19 April 2017 The first four floating offshore wind farms constructed off the coast...

Peabody emerges from Chapter 11
19 April 2017 Coal firm Peabody has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings...

 MAN Diesel & Turbo invests in 3D printing process
19 April 2017 MAN Diesel & Turbo is currently investing some €2.6 million ‘in order...

Toshiba ‘may not continue as a going concern’
19 April 2017 On 11 April, as it filed delayed financial results without auditor...

Total joins Mongstad CCS
19 April 2017 Oil giant Total has signed an agreement to participate in Norway’s...

Karot achieves financial close
19 April 2017 China Three Gorges has achieved financial close on its Karot...

E.ON makes second kite investment
19 April 2017 E.ON has committed to invest in the development of a demonstration site...

Lemur – getting bigger in Madagascar
19 April 2017 Lemur Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with...

TenneT to trial first ‘super cable’
13 April 2017 TenneT is planning to install a trial run of between two and four km...

Siemens launches 44 MW aeroderivative in mobile configuration
13 April 2017 A mobile 44MW unit designated SGT-A45 TR has been added to the Siemens...

World’s first digital distribution transformer launched by ABB
13 April 2017 ABB has launched what it says is the world’s first digital...

Direct drive WTG order for Siemens
13 April 2017 EDF Luminus has ordered nine direct drive wind turbines from Siemens for...

Tepco invests in Moixa Energy
13 April 2017 Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings is to make a £500 000 equity...

Connected array of contracts for Prysmian
13 April 2017 Prysmian Group has been awarded two new contracts for offshore wind...

GE & HEI fire up second H class GT at Bhikki 
13 April 2017 An important, and rapid, milestone has been achieved with the first fire...

EU carbon market shows some GHG emissions success
05 April 2017 Greenhouse gas emissions from stationary installations regulated under...

Duke Energy sues for coal ash cleanup costs
05 April 2017 Duke Energy is attempting to recover some of the costs associated with...

Engie to sell NuGen Moorside stake
05 April 2017 Toshiba Corp has announced its intention to buy French power utility...

EU clears Kriegers Flak state aid
05 April 2017 The European Commission has granted Denmark permission to provide...

Mainstream wins CFD dispute
05 April 2017 Mainstream Renewable Power has won its appeal against the UK’s Low...

Joint venture plans 900 MW of wind energy for Norway
05 April 2017 Three Scandinavian firms have joined forces to develop a large pipeline...

Wärtsilä to supply PV hybrid in Burkina Faso
05 April 2017 Finnish company Wärtsilä has announced plans to supply a 15 MW...

Hanwha preps for 1 GW project in Turkey
05 April 2017 A consortium of Hanwha Q Cells and Kalyon Enerji Yatirimlari is to build a...

Siemens tests high-yield WTG
05 April 2017 Siemens' new direct-drive low wind turbine has reached the prototype...

March 2017

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Westinghouse files for bankruptcy protection
30 March 2017 Troubled American nuclear company Westnghouse has filed for Chapter...

2016 ‘a record year for renewables’
30 March 2017 Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 GW in...

Trump starts process of cancelling US Clean Power Plan
30 March 2017 On 28 March president Trump signed the Energy Independence Executive...

South Australia takes back control of energy market
30 March 2017 The government of South Australia has announced a radical plan that it...

Construction worker dies at wind farm site
30 March 2017 Construction of a 239 wind farm in Scotland has been halted while...

WElink signs EPC for 220 MW PV farm
30 March 2017 Construction of a 220 MW solar farm in Portugal is set to get under...

BOEM selects Avangrid for Kitty Hawk offshore wind farm
30 March 2017 Avangrid Renewables says that it is “very excited” to be playing a...

Thailand government determined to proceed with Krabi
30 March 2017 The Thai government has said that it will strengthen efforts to reduce...

Westinghouse calls in US bankruptcy lawyers
22 March 2017 Westinghouse Electric, the US nuclear power plant developer owned...

Huge losses at E.ON are ‘springboard for the future’
22 March 2017 German utility E.ON, has recorded a net loss of €16bn for 2016 — the...

TenneT and Energinet.dk plan Power Link Island
22 March 2017 TenneT TSO BV, Energinet.dk and TenneT TSO GmbH are to sign a...

Wood Group makes takeover offer for Amec FW
22 March 2017 Wood Group has agreed a £2.2 billion all-share offer for rival Amec...

CoGen and Peel plan EfW portfolio
22 March 2017 Peel Environmental and CoGen are exploring opportunities to develop...

Scottish government approves another floating wind farm
22 March 2017 The Scottish government has given the green light to a proposed...

Statoil, PNE propose new offshore wind developments
22 March 2017 Both Statoil and PNE Wind have proposed the construction of...

New UK pumped hydro scheme approved
22 March 2017 Construction of a new pumped storage hydropower scheme in the UK could...

GE & Caithness make $1bn H-class deal
09 March 2017

Major milestone for Siemens’ Egypt megaproject
09 March 2017 On 2 March German chancellor Angela Merkel and Egyptian president...

Asian banks back Indonesian coal plant
09 March 2017 A consortium of Asian banks is to provide the finance for the expansion...

‘Odds are against a US coal comeback’ – Duke CEO
09 March 2017 Lynn Good, CEO of Duke Energy, considers that “the economics [of...

E.ON boosts US energy storage business
09 March 2017 E.ON has announced plans to build two utility-scale battery projects in the USA.

Engie, EDPR submit wind bid
09 March 2017 Engie and EDP Renewables (EDPR) have submitted a joint pre-qualification...

UK shortlists transmission link bidders
09 March 2017 UK energy regulator Ofgem has announced the shortlist of bidders competing...

E.ON introduces digital prosumer innovation
09 March 2017 E.ON has announced plans to introduce a “solar cloud” service that will...

China's fossil fuel emissions 'have stabilised'
02 March 2017 For the third consecutive year China is forecasting a significant drop in...

Green Bank sale hit by legal challenge
02 March 2017 Investment firm Sustainable Development Capital has launched a...

EU agrees €10 million package for NorthConnect
02 March 2017

Floating wind project gains first stage approval
02 March 2017 The Highland Council has given ipso facto approval to an application...

AES delivers Advancion BESS project
02 March 2017 AES Energy Storage has commissioned the world’s largest lithium ion...

EnergyAustralia considers seawater storage solution
02 March 2017 A major Australian energy retailer is investigating the feasibility...

Engie finds global partner to optimise assets
02 March 2017 Engie and Schneider Electric have signed an MOU to explore digital...

February 2017

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Vestas reclaims top spot
27 February 2017 Danish wind power specialist Vestas has reclaimed the top spot in the...

SPP breaks the 50% wind barrier
27 February 2017 The Southwest Power Pool reports that a large swathe of central USA set...

IEA applauds New Zealand reforms
24 February 2017 New Zealand serves as a model for effective energy markets and secure...

Europe’s wind sector hits new record
24 February 2017 Investment in wind energy in Europe last year hit a record level of...

Enbridge joins EnBW for Hohe See
24 February 2017 Canadian energy giant Enbridge is to partner Germany’s EnBW in...

Wärtsilä signs landmark deal in China
24 February 2017 Wärtsilä has inked a deal to supply its first gas-fired medium-speed...

Tidal project appoints Mott MacDonald
24 February 2017 The developer of a proposed large-scale tidal barrier scheme in...

Toshiba chairman resigns
24 February 2017 Toshiba chairman Shigenori Shiga has resigned, following the...

EU ‘must shut all coal plants by 2030’ to meet climate pledges – new study
15 February 2017 The European Union will overshoot its Paris climate change...

US solar market grew 95% in 2016
15 February 2017 In its biggest year to date, the United States solar market nearly...

Converting sunlight into fuel
15 February 2017 A technology being developed in South Australia holds out the prospect...

Dong Energy sets coal-free goal
15 February 2017 Dong Energy has strengthened its commitment to climate goal with a pledge...

France announces onshore tender
15 February 2017 The French government has announced plans to launch a 3 GW onshore...

Atlantis signs up to Wyre tidal project
15 February 2017 Development of a tidal energy project on the west coast of England is...

Deutsche Bank amends coal guidelines
15 February 2017 Deutsche Bank says it will reduce its exposure to thermal coal mining...

Enel commissions South Africa solar plants
15 February 2017 Italian utility Enel has brought two large-scale solar power plants...

Gas turbine blades – fresh off the printer
08 February 2017 Siemens has achieved a manufacturing breakthrough with the successful...

Fracking firm INEOS accused of bullying landowners
08 February 2017 INEOS, the UK’s leading fracking company, has been accused by Greenpeace...

European solar market 'is slowing down'
08 February 2017 Analysis of the European solar energy market shows that 1.56 GW of...

First Siemens 8 MW WTG is under test
08 February 2017 Siemens Wind Power has installed the latest version of its offshore...

MHI Vestas unveils uprated WTG platform
08 February 2017 Offshore wind tech firm MHI Vestas says that the uprated version of its 8...

EDF chooses supplier for 49 MW UK storage project
08 February 2017 EDF Energy Renewables has selected Nidec ASI to provide a 49 MW...

Equis expands into Australia
08 February 2017 Singapore-based Equis Energy has announced plans to invest A$400 million...

Greensmith delivers on AltaGas BESS
08 February 2017 Construction and commissioning of a 20 MW battery energy storage...

Vattenfall awards EOWDC contract
08 February 2017 Vattenfall has awarded a contract for assembling pioneering suction...

Global PV expansion will slow in 2017
01 February 2017 Analysis by the Germany-based market and economic research company...

MHPS Europe to reduce its workforce
01 February 2017 What is described as the challenging market situation for power...

Münster government issues Datteln 4 permit
01 February 2017 The Münster district government in Germay has issued the...

Toshiba may sell Westinghouse
01 February 2017 Electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp is considering selling its...

Offshore wind capacity in Europe grows to 12 GW
01 February 2017 2016 was a record year for investment in Europe’s offshore wind...

Enel moves in on storage firm
01 February 2017 Enel Green Power has purchased Demand Energy Networks, a USA-based...

Korea Midland will finance Gunsan biomass plant
01 February 2017 Construction of a 200 MW biomass plant in Korea is set to start after...

Emerson wins Lynemouth contract
01 February 2017 EPH Lynemouth Power has selected Emerson to help convert its coal-fired...

Apple plans 200 MW solar farm
01 February 2017 Apple and NV Energy have signed an agreement to build 200 MW of solar...

January 2017

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IEA urges Poland to clean up its energy sector
25 January 2017 Poland's new energy strategy should put the country on a pathway towards...

New study shows that parts of USA are overheating
25 January 2017 A recent study published by scientists from the University of...

First order in China for Siemens largest GT
25 January 2017 Siemens has received its first order from China for the delivery of its...

China cancels 104 coal projects
25 January 2017 China’s National Energy Administration has issued an order suspending...

EGP plans US expansion
25 January 2017 Enel Green Power says it will almost double its operating capacity in the...

Masdar buys 25% stake in Hywind
25 January 2017 Masdar has bought a 25 per cent share of Hywind, a floating offshore...

NRG completes Petra Nova
25 January 2017 NRG says it has completed the construction of Petra Nova, the world’s...

Sembcorp secures Myanmar BOT
25 January 2017 Sembcorp Industries has reached a milestone in the development of a...

Ukraine power grid outage was caused by hacking
18 January 2017 An investigation into a December 2016 power outage in Ukraine has found...

Successful test of intelligent combustion system
18 January 2017 A newly developed system from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems which aims...

Hendry report endorses Swansea Bay tidal energy scheme
18 January 2017 An independent review of the scheme to generate tidal energy from...

DNV GL certifies 8 MW offshore prototype
18 January 2017 DNV GL has assessed Siemens’ new offshore turbine in development and...

Atlantis expands beyond tidal
18 January 2017 Atlantis Resources has announced plans to establish a new internal...

Global Energy wins Hexicon contract
18 January 2017 Dounreay Tri Ltd has awarded the contract for the construction of a...

SunEdison yieldco sells UK solar projects
18 January 2017 TerraForm Power, a subsidiary of bankrupt solar firm SunEdison, has sold...

Vattenfall plans Thanet 2
18 January 2017 Vattenfall has unveiled plans to extend its existing Thanet offshore...

ABB completes HVDC link upgrade for Hydro-Québec
18 January 2017 ABB has completed a major upgrade of the 350 MW Madawaska high-voltage...

ABB wins $640 m transmission mega-deal
11 January 2017 ABB has teamed up with India’s national electricity grid operator...

Evidence of Russian hacking found in Vermont power utility computer
11 January 2017 Computer code connected to Russian cyberattacks by US intelligence...

Hendry review ‘will support Swansea Bay scheme’
11 January 2017 Plans for a pioneering tidal power lagoon in Swansea Bay, Wales, are...

MHPS unveils 'the world's most efficient GT'
11 January 2017 MHPS says that the release of its M501JAC, a new J-series air-cooled...

Dong Energy divests 50% of Race Bank
11 January 2017 Dong Energy has entered into an agreement to sell 50% of Race Bank, a 573...

GE announces launch of new LM6000
11 January 2017 GE has launched the latest version of its aeroderivative gas turbine,...

Macquarie ‘could be poised to asset strip UK Green Investment Bank’
11 January 2017 Greenpeace says that it has uncovered evidence of a potential preparation...

World’s first power electronic fault current limiter to be deployed in London
05 January 2017 ABB is partnering with UK Power Networks in the PowerFul-CB project that...

Tesla and Panasonic co-operate to manufacture PV cells
05 January 2017 Tesla and Panasonic have finalised an agreement to begin the manufacturing...

Cape Wind hits new hitch
05 January 2017 The firm developing an offshore wind farm off the coast of...

EDF buys into China's wind sector
05 January 2017 EDF has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in UPC Asia...

Fluor gets the nod for Greensville CC plant
05 January 2017 Fluor Corporation is to build a new combined cycle power plant in Virginia, USA.

Nova Olinda build is under way
05 January 2017 Construction of its 292 MW solar farm in Brazil has started, Enel Green...

Wave energy converter reaches final validation stage
05 January 2017 Ocean Power Technologies is one step closer to the commercial launch of...

December 2016

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Trump team hints at energy department witch-hunt
21 December 2016 Advisers to US president-elect Donald Trump are reported to be...

Japan to provide $8.7 bn towards UK nuke build
21 December 2016 The Japanese government has made an arrangement with the UK government...

€438 m loan for renewable energy in Belgium
21 December 2016 The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to support construction of the...

Mount Coffee hydropower plant restarts
21 December 2016 Following extensive upgrades, the Mount Coffee run-of-river hydro plant...

Shell consortium wins Borssele wind contract
20 December 2016 A consortium led by Shell is to build the second wind farm in the...

NY State seeks offshore expertise
20 December 2016 The US state of New York is seeking experts and consultants to help...

Bill Gates unveils clean investment plan
20 December 2016 Microsoft founder Bill Gates has brought together a group of...

Centrica plans new UK capacity
20 December 2016 Centrica plc has announced plans to build several new power...

Kite secures £5 million wind technology investment
20 December 2016 UK firm Kite Power Solutions (KPS) has secured £5 million of new...

Coal demand growth will stagnate for 5 years – IEA report
13 December 2016 Growth in global coal demand will stall over the next five years as...

Trump picks climate change denier to lead EPA
13 December 2016 US president-elect Donald Trump has chosen Scott Pruitt, the...

Uncertainty over the future of the Culham tokamak
13 December 2016 The future of the world's largest fusion tokamak experiment is in...

Commission releases details of energy package
12 December 2016 The European Commission has released the text of its long-awaited...

German utilities win nuclear case
12 December 2016 Germany’s energy utilities will be able to claim compensation from...

Hendry completes tidal lagoon review
12 December 2016 A former UK energy minister has completed a review of tidal lagoon...

South Africa switches on to landfill gas
12 December 2016 Energy Systems has begun operations at the first of five...

Google ahead on its renewables targets
12 December 2016 Google will reach 100 per cent renewable energy in its global operations...

Samruk Energy to auction electricity assets
06 December 2016 Kazakhstan's Samruk Energy is planning a two-stage tender for the sale...

Storm damage may cause UK capacity shortfall
06 December 2016 Storm Angus, which struck the southern UK in the last week of November,...

Turbine, generator and boiler markets set to decline
06 December 2016 The global market for boilers, turbines, and generators will decrease...

Chinese government backs fuel cell development
05 December 2016 Air quality concerns and environmental commitments are leading China to...

AMEC FW wins ITER contracts
05 December 2016 AMEC Foster Wheeler is to lead a study to discover how best to...

Active Energy marks CoalSwitch milestone
05 December 2016 Active Energy has started construction of a new production facility in...

Japanese authorities approve offshore wind design
05 December 2016 Principle Power’s floating offshore wind turbine design has been approved...

China maintains its lead in PV sector
05 December 2016 Global solar photovoltaic capacity will reach almost 295 GW in 2016,...

November 2016

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Cape Sharp tidal turbine generates first power
29 November 2016 North America’s most powerful tidal turbine, an OpenHydro 2MW machine, is...

Siemens and LO3 Energy to collaborate on blockchain microgrids
29 November 2016 Siemens and LO3 Energy are collaborating in the field of...

Construction under way at Germany’s 'most flexible power plant'
29 November 2016 Stadtwerke Kiel’s management board has given the go-ahead for a...

SNC-Lavalon wins Altucha NPP pre-contract
29 November 2016 SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a pre-project contract from...

Commercial thermal storage for wind energy under development
29 November 2016 Aong with several partners Siemens is researching an energy storage...

40 die in China power plant disaster
29 November 2016 It has been confirmed that at least 40 people have died after a platform at...

Canada accelerates coal phase-out
29 November 2016 Canada’s environment ministry says that the country will phase out...

France expands its offshore wind tender
29 November 2016 France has expanded its offshore wind tender to include an area off...

Adani plans expansion in Australia
29 November 2016 Indian infrastructure giant Adani is to develop solar power plants...

Aquila expands in Sweden
29 November 2016 Aquila Capital has announced its second wind energy investment in Sweden...

FERC proposes new rule to increase participation of storage
23 November 2016 The USA’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed a new rule...

Flatlining carbon emissions highlight slowdown in power demand – GlobalData report
23 November 2016 Global carbon emissions caused by energy production remained steady in...

IEA calls for new LNG rules
23 November 2016 The IEA sees LNG demand picking up but it also believes that for this...

Wärtsilä to supply a 101 MW power plant to Argentina
23 November 2016 Wärtsilä has won a €75 million contract to supply a 101 MW ‘Smart...

Paris climate pledges will not be enough – IEA
23 November 2016 The IEA believes that the pledges made under the Paris climate agreement...

Germany’s demand response scheme approved
22 November 2016 The European Commission has approved a scheme in Germany that aims to...

Rampion array is taking shape
22 November 2016 All 116 foundations at the Rampion offshore wind farm have been installed...

Atlantis marks MeyGen milestone
22 November 2016 First power has been produced from the MeyGen tidal energy project site...

PPC sells grid stake
22 November 2016 Greece’s Public Power Corporation has agreed to sell a minority stake in...

WEO 2016 sees ‘broad transformations in the energy landscape’
16 November 2016 The IEA's latest 'World Energy Outlook' predicts a transformation of...

First combination of wind and pumped storage
16 November 2016 Voith is to deliver the pump turbines for this special project - the...

OAS and ORE Catapult join forces
16 November 2016 Ocean Array Systems is to use the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s 7...

UK sets out plans for renewables support
15 November 2016 The UK government has announced plans to support a range of...

Vattenfall wins Kriegers Flak bid
15 November 2016 Vattenfall has won the tender to build the Kriegers Flak offshore wind...

Dong to exit oil and gas
15 November 2016 Dong Energy has confirmed plans to exit from the oil and gas sector and...

NTPC adds solar field to Dadri coal plant
15 November 2016 India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has announced plans to...

UK, India ink solar partnership
15 November 2016 The prime ministers of India and the UK have unveiled plans to develop...

China's NEA reduces its 2020 solar target
08 November 2016 China’s National Energy Administration has announced a solar energy target...

Large part of French nuclear fleet shut down
08 November 2016 A large proportion of France’s nuclear fleet has been shut down...

Tajikistan suffers major blackout
08 November 2016 Most of Tajikistan was hit by a blackout on October 28, following...

ABB wins $40 million TX order in China
08 November 2016 ABB has won an order worth over $40 million to provide power equipment...

Mainstream sets up finance arm
07 November 2016 Mainstream Renewable Power has established a new business unit to help...

Oil companies plan clean energy fund
07 November 2016 A group of seven oil majors has announced plans to establish a clean...

Intra Energy signs deal for Tanzania project
07 November 2016 Intra Energy Corporation (IEC) has signed a memorandum of understanding...

EBRD will finance Jordan wind plant
07 November 2016 One of the first wind power plants to be developed in Jordan will...

Panda commissions shale gas power plant
07 November 2016 The first power plant designed to take advantage of natural gas...

Substantial fall in offshore wind generating costs
01 November 2016 Auction programmes in The Netherlands and Denmark have added major impetus...

Offshore wind power boom expected
01 November 2016 Offshore wind power has the potential to grow from only 13 GW in 2015 to...

The IEA raises its five-year renewables growth forecast
01 November 2016 The International Energy Agency has significantly increased its...

Dresser-Rand to supply turbo-gensets for Zohr gas field
01 November 2016 Siemens’ Dresser-Rand business has received an order from Egypt-based...

Wärtsilä contracts for 92 MW power plant in Argentina
01 November 2016 Wärtsilä is to supply a 92 MW gas-fired baseload power plant to...

October 2016

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UNESCO calls for Rampal relocation
31 October 2016 UNESCO has joined a campaign calling for the government of Bangladesh...

Nepal, Bangladesh sign hydropower deal
31 October 2016 The governments of Nepal and Bangladesh have announced a deal to...

Tidal Energy goes into administration
31 October 2016 A buyer is being sought for Wales-based Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) after...

300 MW PV project proposed
31 October 2016 Reach Solar Energy has put forward plans for the construction of...

Dyesol signs LOI on perovskite technology
31 October 2016 Australian solar tech firm Dyesol has signed a letter of intent with...

Russia signs nuclear agreement with Paraguay
25 October 2016 Russia and Paraguay have signed a memorandum of understanding on...

Transformers market will be worth $16.6 billion by 2020
25 October 2016 The global distribution transformers market is set to rise from...

Oxford PV attracts finance for perovskite technology
25 October 2016 Oxford Photovoltaics has closed a £21 million funding round that will help...

ETI to investigate use of salt caverns for gas storage
25 October 2016 The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched a project to examine...

Japanese firms agree deal for IGCC plants
25 October 2016 Tepco and Mitsubishi have established two joint venture companies...

Construction of 2000 MW gas plant will go ahead
25 October 2016 Development of a 2000 MW gas-fired power plant in India’s Gujurat state...

E.ON strengthens its renewables position in USA
25 October 2016 E.ON has started the construction of a 278 MW wind farm in Illinois,...

China Three Gorges buys Duke Energy’s Brazilian operations
20 October 2016 China Three Gorges Corporation is paying US$1.2 billion to buy Duke...

Collaborative research is 'advancing wind energy' – IEA
20 October 2016 More than 85% of lworldwide wind capacity resides in the...

Boosting renewables in cities ‘is vital’
20 October 2016 Boosting renewables in cities is vital to achieving climate and...

World’s most powerful tidal turbine installed
20 October 2016 The world’s most powerful tidal turbine has been installed at the...

Tepco plans a digital transformation
20 October 2016 GE Power and Tepco Fuel & Power have signed a memorandum of...

First Solar commissions Shams Ma'an project
19 October 2016 First Solar has completed construction of the Middle East’s largest...

JFE wins CFB order
19 October 2016 JFE Engineering Corp. is to build a 75 MWe biomass power plant in Japan...

Cubico wins Mexico PPAs
19 October 2016 Cubico Sustainable Investments has won power purchase agreements for 540...

European firms call for an end to MIPs
19 October 2016 Over 400 companies have signed a letter to the European Commission...

WEC issues decarbonisation warning
12 October 2016 Ahead of the 23rd World Energy Congress the World Energy Council has issued...

New report indicates 1300 GW of coal firing in 2040
12 October 2016 A new report from consultants Pöyry ('Pöyry Point of View') suggests...

South Australia blackout was caused by storms
11 October 2016 A preliminary report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)...

Rentel wind farm reaches financial close
11 October 2016 The 309 MW Rentel offshore wind farm has reached financial close,...

South Africa details LNG-to- power programme
11 October 2016 South Africa’s Department of Energy (DOE) has released long-awaited...

BNDES shifts its focus to renewables
11 October 2016 Brazil’s development bank says it will no longer fund new coal or oil...

UK gives OK to shale gas extraction
11 October 2016 The UK government has given the go-ahead for four exploratory shale gas...

EDF's credit rating downgraded
05 October 2016 Standard & Poor (S&P Global) has downgraded the credit rating of...

Swansea Bay turbine tender launched
05 October 2016 The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project has launched a tender for the design...

ABB and Fluor in substation partnership
05 October 2016 ABB and Fluor have formed a global strategic partnership for the execution...

Schaeffler and IBM enter strategic partnership
05 October 2016 As part of its "Mobility for tomorrow" strategy, Schaeffler is digitising...

Pöyry awarded consultancy for ultra-supercritical in Indonesia
05 October 2016 PT Bhumi Jati Power has awarded Pöyry a technical consulting...

ETI assesses small modular reactors
05 October 2016 Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could be operating in the UK by 2030 with...

Mainstream partnership targets Vietnam
05 October 2016 Mainstream Renewable Power and GE are teaming up to develop large-scale...

Mexico confirms renewables winners
05 October 2016 Authorities in Mexico have awarded contracts for the construction of...

Ohio consents new CCGT
05 October 2016 Regulators in Ohio, USA, have approved plans for the construction of a...

SheerWind licenses wind technology
05 October 2016 A novel wind turbine technology is set to be deployed in South Dakota,...

September 2016

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ABB to sell its cable business to NKT
27 September 2016 NKT Cables is to acquire ABB’s global high-voltage cable system business...

Nexans claims ‘triple milestone’ in HVDC
27 September 2016 Nexans' XPLE HVDC design has now fully qualified for 320 kV...

Siemens starts transfer of F-class know-how
27 September 2016 Siemens has entered the first phase of a bilateral contract with...

Megawatt-scale fuel cell commissioned in Mannheim
26 September 2016 E.On and FuelCell Energy Solutions have successfully commissioned a 1.4...

IEA urges Japan to act on emissions
26 September 2016 The IEA judges that Japan’s energy system has shown “great resilience”...

Total sees a future in AutoGrid
26 September 2016 Total Energy Ventures has acquired an interest in AutoGrid, a smart grid...

Vestas gains ground in Indonesian deal
26 September 2016 Vestas wind turbines will be used in a 60 MW Indonesian wind power...

CFB order for Tees Renewable
26 September 2016 The Tees Renewable energy plant will be equipped with the world’s...

USA wins solar trade case
20 September 2016 The World Trade Organisation appeals body has issued a report affirming a...

Heysham 2 completes record breaking continuous run
20 September 2016 Heysham 2 nuclear power station’s record-breaking reactor has been taken...

Nexans to supply cables for first 66 kV offshore array
20 September 2016 Nexans cable technology has been selected by VBMS for Blyth...

USA outlines ambitious offshore goals
20 September 2016 The US government has published a National Offshore Wind Strategy...

GE and EDL sign hydropower MoU
20 September 2016 GE and Electricite du Laos (EDL) have signed an MoU to launch joint...

Five shortlisted for Burbo Bank link
20 September 2016 UK energy regulator Ofgem has shortlisted five bidders in a tender for...

CFB order for Amec-FW
20 September 2016 JGC Corporation has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to design...

Lewis Wind buys Uisenis wind farm
20 September 2016 Lewis Wind Power – a joint venture of Amec Foster Wheeler and EDF...

Hinkley Point C NPP will go ahead
19 September 2016 The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is to proceed after the UK...

First multi-megawatt tidal array unveiled
13 September 2016 Europe’s tidal energy industry reached an important milestone on 12...

US solar expanded by over 2 GW in Q2 2016
13 September 2016 The USA’s solar installation businesses added 2051 MW of PV capacity in...

Philippines government reconsiders the nuclear option
13 September 2016 The Philippines government is considering the possibility of taking out...

Australian government seeds clean energy investment
13 September 2016 Australia's government has announced the creation of a A$20 million...

MidAmerican gets approval for Wind XI
13 September 2016 MidAmerican Energy is finalising plans to start the construction of a 2000...

New solar tool 'reduces developer risks'
13 September 2016 Vaisala has launched a new tool aimed at helping developers and operators...

Octopus backs smart grid firm
12 September 2016 UK-based fund manager Octopus Investments has invested in...

Valmet secures HOFOR contract
12 September 2016 Valmet has won a €150 million order for the delivery of a...

USA and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal
06 September 2016 The United States and China, the two biggest emitters of greenhouse...

Hinkley Point deal ‘out of date and too expensive’
06 September 2016 The head of energy major ScottishPower has emphatically joined the...

Brush with a world record
06 September 2016 Brush Group has reached a major milestone in its power generation history...

US DOE funds EGS research
05 September 2016 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $29 million of funding...

Innogy buys Belectric
05 September 2016 RWE’s Innogy SE unit says it will “instantly” become an international...

Eggborough plans new combined cycle gas plant
05 September 2016 Eggborough Power has put forward plans to demolish the Eggborough...

Nova Innovation connects first commercial tidal array
05 September 2016 Nova Innovation has started operating the world’s first...

First turbine installed at Galway
05 September 2016 SSE has marked a key milestone in the development of the Galway wind...

August 2016

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Huge offshore wind research programme launched
26 August 2016 Vattenfall has launched a €3mn scientific research programme aimed...

Hinkley Point – UK ‘is looking for a way out’
26 August 2016 A UK newspaper reports that Whitehall officials reviewing the Hinkley...

Significant upgrade of Buenos Aires CCGT
26 August 2016 GE has signed an extension of its multi-year maintenance agreement...

Establishment of marine energy centre in SE Asia
26 August 2016 Researchers at Robert Gordon University have won £166k in funding to...

Chilean auction selects winners
26 August 2016 Chile’s National Energy Commission (CNE) has awarded contracts for...

Vattenfall is going more renewable
26 August 2016 Vattenfall has purchased an offshore wind development project in the...

Tees bio-plant completes financing
26 August 2016 The developers of the world’s largest new-build biomass plant have...

Brazilian government consents 482 MW wind farm
26 August 2016 Brazil’s Institute of the Environment (Ibama) has awarded planning consent...

E.ON starts construction of Arkona
26 August 2016 The Arkona offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea has moved from...

World’s largest windfarm receives planning consent
21 August 2016 The world’s largest offshore windfarm, the 1800 MW Hornsea Project Two,...

Catapult delivers first blade erosion measurement campaign
21 August 2016 The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has successfully delivered...

Two new partners for Teesside CCS project
21 August 2016 Teesside Collective, an industrial CCS project based in the northeast of...

Water recycling technology for coal-fired power plant
21 August 2016 GE is to supply its zero discharge wastewater treatment equipment for...

Senvion acquires Kenersys assets in India
21 August 2016 Senvion has signed definitive agreements to acquire the wind turbine...

HV switchgear for world’s highest dam
21 August 2016 Siemens is supplying two gas-insulated high-voltage switchgear sets for...

Vestas receives 100 MW order in Michigan
21 August 2016 Vestas has received an order from Sempra US Gas & Power for 29 V126-3.45...

Australian government moves to block a national asset sale
12 August 2016 The Australian government in the form of its recently appointed...

MHPS combines EMEA power businesses
12 August 2016 Thermal power plant constructor Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has...

E.ON adds Colbeck's Corner to its renewables portfolio
12 August 2016 With Colbeck's Corner, E.ON is putting a new industrial-scale onshore...

First Solar wins 160 MW in module contracts in Turkey
12 August 2016 First Solar has announced that the booking of 160 MW of photovoltaic...

Modules for first HRSG are on the way to Egypt
12 August 2016 The modules for the first HRSG for installation at the giant Beni Suef...

Senvion aiming for €2.3 bn revenues in 2016
12 August 2016 With Q2 revenues up 7% wind turbine manufacturer Senvion says its growth...

Ansaldo-Siemens dispute is settled in Ansaldo’s favour
08 August 2016 The International Chamber of Commerce Arbitral Tribunal has issued a...

UK renewables rise to record high
08 August 2016 The latest DUKES report shows that the renewables component in the UK's...

The Hinkley saga rages on
08 August 2016 Claims and counter claim concerning EDF’s advance knowledge or otherwise...

Australia's RE agency to road test wind-solar hybrid
07 August 2016 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) hopes that the construction...

Brazil’s environment agency rejects plans for Tapajos dam
07 August 2016 Brazil’s Federal Environmental Agency (IBAMA) has officially announced...

UK plans new offshore transmission tender
07 August 2016 UK energy market regulator Ofgem says it will hold the next...

Sumitomo joins Macquarie in Galloper project
07 August 2016 Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has signed a contract to invest in the...

Lightsource connects CFD project
07 August 2016 Lightsource Renewable Energy has started operations at the 12 MW Charity...

July 2016

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Hinkley – now you see it, now you don’t
29 July 2016 Despite expectations, the Hinkley Point NPP on-off saga continues.

FORESEA first call for support package applications
29 July 2016 The €11m FORESEA programme opened its first call for support...

Ansaldo Energia awarded Euro 80 m contracts in Indonesia
29 July 2016 Ansaldo Energia has received Notices to Proceed on two contracts signed...

Record investment in European offshore wind
29 July 2016 A record €14 billion was invested in Europe’s offshore wind energy sector...

Vattenfall commits to EOWDC
29 July 2016 Vattenfall has announced it will invest £300 million in the construction...

Forum calls for CCS funding
29 July 2016 Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) deployment must be progressed as an...

France awards floating wind tenders
29 July 2016 The French government has awarded contracts for the country’s first...

Malaysian combine wins bid for Bangladesh coal plant
29 July 2016 Development of a $2.5 billion coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh has...

Hottest June on record marks accelerated global warming
22 July 2016 US agencies Nasa and Noaa report that the average global temperature in...

Hinkley Point C – final decision on 28 July
22 July 2016 EDF's board of directors will meet on 28 July and make the final...

Legal challenge could scupper offshore wind plans
22 July 2016 The future of four major offshore wind projects in Scotland is in doubt...

UK parliament to investigate market failures
22 July 2016 Lawmakers in the UK have launched a new inquiry into the country’s...

ABB wins $300 m orders to supply first UHVDC link
22 July 2016 Contracts worth $300 million to supply equipment for a record breaking...

Total completes Saft acquisition
22 July 2016 Total has completed its 'friendly' takeover of battery maker Saft after...

AfDB loan boosts Ethiopian power sector
22 July 2016 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $104 million loan to...

Enel wins Indonesian geothermal tender
22 July 2016 Enel is to invest up to $30 million in the exploration phase of a...

UK scraps its Climate Change department
18 July 2016 The newly appointed UK prime minister Theresa May has sent a clear...

Major shifts in global gas trade expected
18 July 2016 The next five years will bring a reshaping of the global gas trade,...

ABB wins two grid strengthening contracts
18 July 2016 ABB has won an order worth more than $30million from Norway’s...

Siemens signs co-operation agreement with UNE
18 July 2016 Siemens has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cuban...

EDF targets Chinese wind sector
18 July 2016 EDF has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in UPC Asia...

Cape Wind project delayed over bird strike fears
18 July 2016 The firm developing an offshore wind farm off the coast of...

OPT wave energy converter reaches final validation stage
18 July 2016 Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) says it is one step closer to the...

Fluor gets go ahead for Greensville
17 July 2016 Fluor Corporation is to build a new combined cycle power plant in...

Nova Olinda build starts
17 July 2016 Construction of a 292 MW solar farm in Brazil has started, Enel Green...

Hinkley cost to taxpayer ‘will rise sharply’
11 July 2016 According to a UK government advisory published on 7 July the total...

Hassyan signs major clean coal contract with Harbin and GE
10 July 2016 Hassyan Energy Co, a joint venture of DEWA and ACWA Power Harbin Holding...

Multi-rotor wind turbine produces first kWh
10 July 2016 Vestas has announced that its multi-rotor wind turbine demonstration...

State Grid confirms CPFL deal
10 July 2016 China's State Grid Corporation says it is to buy a majority stake in...

Dong wins Borssele concessions
10 July 2016 Dong Energy has set a new record low for the price of offshore wind energy...

India's MNRE to study prospects for floating solar plants
10 July 2016 India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched a study...

Carrington rapid response plant nears completion
10 July 2016 UK Power Reserve's Carrington gas fired power station is nearing...

Wärtsilä awarded Argentine contracts
10 July 2016 Wärtsilä has signed deals to develop 382 MW of capacity in Argentina as...

North American governments make clean energy pledge
01 July 2016 The political leaders of the USA, Canada and Mexico have announced a...

PGCIL will have largest Statcom in India
01 July 2016 Siemens has received an order to deliver Statcom reactive power...

60 MW wind contract for Senvion
01 July 2016 Senvion has secured a contract for the delivery and installation of 30...

MHPS to supply STs for 120 MW waste-to-energy plant
01 July 2016 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received an order for two steam...

MAN strengthens its foothold in China
01 July 2016 From 2017, two MAN Diesel & Turbo combined heat and power packages...

UK commits to fifth carbon budget
01 July 2016 The UK government has approved an ambitious carbon budget for...

Dong will build Borkum Riffgrund 2
01 July 2016 Dong Energy is to go ahead with the construction of the Borkum Riffgrund...

Masdar consortium wins 800 MW solar project
01 July 2016 A consortium led by Masdar has won a contract to build a giant 800 MW...

Wärtsilä acquires Weir unit
01 July 2016 Wärtsilä has acquired Weir American Hydro from the Weir Group in a bid...

June 2016

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Siemens and Gamesa to merge their wind businesses
24 June 2016 Siemens and Gamesa have signed binding agreements to merge Siemens'...

Final energy market reforms for the UK published
24 June 2016 The UK's Competitions and Markets Authority has concluded its energy...

Vietnam investigates offshore potential
23 June 2016 Phu Cuong Group (PCG) has started investigating the feasibility...

PSEG breaks ground on new gas plant
23 June 2016 Construction has started on a new natural gas fired combined cycle...

Hive secures Cuba contract
23 June 2016 British solar firm Hive has won a contract to deliver Cuba's...

GE invests in residential storage firm
23 June 2016 GE Ventures has announced an investment in sonnen, a...

AES sells Brazilian distributor
23 June 2016 CPFL Energia has agreed to buy a power distributor based in southern...

Bouchain CC plant clocks up new world record efficiency
20 June 2016 EDF's Bouchain combined cycle plant - the first commercial application...

Areva details its $9 billion restructuring plan
17 June 2016 Loss-making French nuclear engineering group Areva has announced details of...

Sweden abolishes nuclear tax
17 June 2016 On 10 June the Swedish parliament voted to abolish its tax on nuclear...

Carbon dioxide levels are forecast to exceed the 400 ppm limit
17 June 2016 Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will break through the...

Australia and India will 'fall short on Paris deal' - IChemE report
16 June 2016 Several countries that are considered key emitters of greenhouse gases...

TenneT proposes North Sea "hub and spoke" concept
16 June 2016 TenneT says that development of energy infrastructure in the North Sea...

Zambia sets new benchmark for solar bid price
16 June 2016 Zambia has set a new benchmark for low cost solar energy in Africa,...

Bokpoort sets solar record
16 June 2016 A thermal solar power plant in South Africa has set a new record...

CarbFix demonstrates CO2 storage success
16 June 2016 A team of scientists from Iceland has demonstrated a new technique...

PPA signed for Dubai's first coal plant
13 June 2016

Dong IPO is largest of the year to date
13 June 2016 Shares in Dong Energy rose 10% on 9 June as the state-owned Danish...

Weak demand prompts trading shift in gas trading
13 June 2016 Patterns in global natural gas trade will see a major shift in the next...

An 8.3 MW giant awakens
13 June 2016 By 2018 there will be a new holder of the title 'heavyweight champion of...

Enel, PLN seek opportunities in Indonesia
13 June 2016 Enel says it will develop an operational presence in Indonesia after...

EDF embarks on Blyth construction
13 June 2016 EDF Energy Renewables has started construction work on Blyth, an...

EU states pledge offshore support
13 June 2016 Energy ministers from ten EU states have signed an agreement...

Access shortlists prize projects
12 June 2016 Access Power has drawn up a shortlist of five renewable energy projects...

Nexans achieves two deep sea cable records
06 June 2016 Nexans has completed installation of the world's longest and deepest 420...

Prysmian hands over 'cable of records'
06 June 2016 On 31 May Prysmian Group announced that the EHV power cable link...

Vattenfall to build Denmark´s largest offshore wind farm
06 June 2016 Vattenfall is about to start construction of the offshore wind farm Horns...

ABB wins contract to strengthen Indonesia's power infrastructure
06 June 2016 ABB has won an $11 million order from PLN Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN)...

Rosenergoatom has expansion plans
06 June 2016 Russian nuclear utility Rosenergoatom, a subsidiary of state...

Posco Pohang steam generation to be significantly uprated
06 June 2016 GE has signed an agreement with Toshiba to retrofit four of its...

US Army goes solar
06 June 2016 The first of June marked the start of operations of a new 30 MW solar...

UK review of tidal lagoons: call for evidence
06 June 2016 The UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has initiated...

May 2016

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Donald Trump 'would end Paris climate deal'
27 May 2016 Presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential race Donald Trump...

Prysmian sets two new high voltage records for DC cable
27 May 2016 Prysmian Group reports that it has successfully developed and tested its...

La Nina could cause UK price spikes
27 May 2016 Analysis by Bloomberg News suggests that the incoming weather system...

Fire reported at Ivanpah
26 May 2016 A generating tower at the Ivanpah solar thermal array was shut down in...

Nordic utilities call for stronger ETS
26 May 2016 Three Nordic region utilities have called for action to strengthen the...

Beatrice partners achieve financial close
26 May 2016 SSE, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and SDIC Power have given...

Renesola plans Turkish solar pipeline
26 May 2016 Renesola has formed a partnership with UCK Group that will see the...

Mott MacDonald advises on Scaling Solar initiative
26 May 2016 Mott MacDonald has been advising the International Finance Corporation on...

2016 likely to be the hottest year on record
20 May 2016 The latest monthly report from NASA shows that April 2016 was the...

Milestone reached for world's largest CCGT plant
20 May 2016 On 19 May Siemens marked with a special ceremony the arrival of four...

ETI identifies cost effective CCS sites off the UK coast
20 May 2016 A new report produced for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI)...

UK government MPs support Swansea tidal lagoon project
20 May 2016 Recent research shows very strong backing for the Swansea Bay Tidal...

IEA urges Belgian government to act on energy policy
20 May 2016 The International Energy Agency has urged Belgium to adopt a national...

Mainstream to fight CFD contract termination
20 May 2016 Mainstream has opted to dispute a decision by the UK's Low Carbon...

Dudgeon secures financial close
20 May 2016 The developers of one of the world's largest offshore wind farms...

Wärtsilä wins Bangladesh contracts
20 May 2016 Wärtsilä has won two contracts to supply new power plants to Bangladesh.

HeliosAltas to deliver small hydro technology to the Philippines
19 May 2016 HeliosAltas Corporation has secured an exclusive distribution and...

GE acquires Doosan's HRSG business
13 May 2016 GE Power has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the heat recovery...

Dong Energy launches share offering
13 May 2016 Dong Energy, one of the most prominent companies in offshore wind power,...

Paris Agreement injects optimism into carbon markets despite falling prices
13 May 2016 Thomson Reuters 2016 Point Carbon Market Survey suggests that the...

Primary energy consumption continues to rise
13 May 2016 The US Energy Information Administration's International Energy Outlook...

Europe slips down the renewables investment rankings
13 May 2016 European markets have lost ground in EY's latest Renewable Energy...

Exxon and FuelCell Energy to pursue carbon capture solutions
13 May 2016 ExxonMobil and FuelCell Energy have announced plans to collaborate in...

South Australia shuts its last coal plant
13 May 2016 Energy firm Alinta has ceased operations at its Northern power station...

Total to acquire Saft
13 May 2016 Total has agreed to buy battery maker Saft in a bid to boost its...

Mainstream gains Cerro Tigre consent
13 May 2016 Mainstream Renewable Power has obtained environmental approval for its 264...

Europe needs regionalised transmission policy
05 May 2016 ENTSO-E has produced a new report which concludes that a new kind of...

Selling the state silverware?
05 May 2016 The French government is considering selling shares in some of the...

New catalyst produces sulphur-free carbon dioxide
05 May 2016 Icelandic geothermal power company HS Orka hf has signed a contract...

France introduces carbon floor price
05 May 2016 The French government has announced plans to introduce a carbon price...

Data update reveals coal's part in GHG emissions
04 May 2016 One-quarter of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is produced by...

Dulas and Innovatec partner in post-subsidy renewables
04 May 2016 Innovatec, an Italian energy efficiency services business, has formed...

Malakoff commissions 1 GW plant
04 May 2016 Malaysian IPP Malakoff has started commercial operations at a...

New share index highlights divest-invest drive
04 May 2016 FTSE Russell has launched an innovative new index, listing companies...

April 2016

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SunEdison files for Chapter 11 protection
28 April 2016 Solar company SunEdison announced on 21 April that it has filed...

New member for the IEA Clean Coal Centre
28 April 2016 The IEA Clean Coal Centre has confirmed that the Dubai Electricity and...

Hinkley C decision delayed again
28 April 2016 EDF has delayed the final investment decision for its Hinkley Point...

Huge wind order for Siemens 7 MW WTG
28 April 2016 Siemens has received two major orders for its offshore wind power...

Power crisis forces two-day week in Venezuela
28 April 2016 Venezuela's government has implemented rolling blackouts and imposed...

Wärtsilä gets into the solar business
28 April 2016 Wärtsilä has announcedthat it is to start offering utility-scale...

ETI seeks partners for hydrogen storage project
27 April 2016 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute has embarked on a project...

E.ON, Statoil to build Arkona
27 April 2016 E.ON has announced that it has made a final investment decision on the 385...

Senvion wins its first supply contracts in Chile
27 April 2016 Senvion has won its first contracts in Chile, signing a supply deal...

Prysmian claims new T&D technology milestone
21 April 2016 Prysmian Group is launching what it describes as a new breakthrough...

Arup appointed to undertake CCS study
21 April 2016 Engineering consultancy Arup has been appointed by Summit Power to...

Large tidal power project receives approval
21 April 2016 The Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has received the go-ahead to...

ABB wins $300m contract to strengthen China's grid
21 April 2016

Greenpeace demands international companies 'step away from' Tapajós hydro project
21 April 2016 Greenpeace wants the large international companies that it believes...

Vattenfall sells German lignite operations
20 April 2016 Vattenfall has signed an agreement worth SEK33 billion to sell its...

France to launch new offshore tender
20 April 2016 The French government is preparing to launch its third tender for...

Final investment decision on Solberg wind farm
20 April 2016 Fortum says it will start building a 75 MW wind farm in Sweden this...

Enel extends its Brazilian wind portfolio
20 April 2016 Enel has started construction of a 90 MW wind farm in Brazil.

Engie divests Polish assets
20 April 2016 Energy firm Engie is planning to sell a coal fired power plant in...

European spot prices edged higher in March
14 April 2016 European power prices rebounded in March from the lows seen in February,...

Volvo aiming for the heights of Stage 5
14 April 2016 Volvo Penta is looking to move into new territory, to evolve new...

Peabody seeks bankruptcy protection
14 April 2016 Coal company Peabody Energy said it would start laying "the foundation...

IEA endorses greater Iberian interconnection
14 April 2016 The International Energy Agency has urged Portugal to continue its efforts...

Kenya taps Rift Valley geothermal resource
14 April 2016 Kenya has received approval from the Climate Investment Funds'...

ESB plans solar investments
14 April 2016 Irish electricity utility ESB is planning to invest heavily in solar...

World Bank supports Bangladesh upgrade
14 April 2016 Bangladesh has signed a $217 million financing agreement with the...

SPIE and Dura Vermeer will build new 380 kV interconnector
14 April 2016 SPIE and Dura Vermeer are joining forces to build the major section of...

Coal near-term still gloomy, but there are signs of recovery
07 April 2016 The steam-coal market is expected to remain challenging for the next...

Human impact is creating 'striking new pattern' in global energy flow
07 April 2016 The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and...

Power industry deal value continues to decline
07 April 2016 The global power industry saw 2855 deals worth just over $610 billion...

Siemens to supply power island for 940MW gas plant
07 April 2016 Siemens has been chosen by Clean Energy Future as the turnkey supplier...

Mega-solar power plant to be built in Kenya
07 April 2016 The Kenyan government has approved a mega-solar power plant to be funded...

ABB to provide first digital substation in the United Kingdom
07 April 2016 ABB is to participate in the FITNESS ("Future Intelligent...

Li-ion batteries aid renewable energy generation in Puerto Rico 
07 April 2016 Saft has been awarded a contract with Windmar to provide three Intensium...

Way cleared for Batang plant construction
07 April 2016 Construction of a 2000 MW coal-fired power plant in Indonesia is set to...

March 2016

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Global carbon emissions stay flat for second year running
31 March 2016 Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions stayed flat for the...

2015 marks new record for renewables investment
31 March 2016 Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for investment and capacity...

China tackles its coal glut
31 March 2016 Authorities in China have ordered 13 provincial governments to stop...

Amec FW secures biomass deal
31 March 2016 Finnish utility Seinäjoen Energia Oy has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler...

Longannet closure signals end for Scotland's coal power
31 March 2016 The Longannet coal-fired power plant in Scotland has switched off its...

GE to deploy robotic inspection at Alinta plants
31 March 2016 GE's Power Services business has signed an agreement to deploy its DIRIS...

EDF offered state support for Hinkley C
31 March 2016 EDF is reported to have been promised a state bailout worth billions of...

1000 MW ultrasupercritical power plant starts up in Malaysia
31 March 2016 Malakoff Corporation Berhad's 1000 MW Tanjung Bin Energy Power Plant (T4)...

German nuke hits production record
31 March 2016 Platts reports that Germany's 1.4 GW Grohnde reactor has now generated...

Siemens to build rotor factory in Morocco
31 March 2016 Siemens is to build a factory in Tangier to manufacture rotor blades...

Basslink repair delayed
24 March 2016 Repair of the Basslink cable linking Tasmania across the Bass strait...

UK's SMR competition attracting widespread interest
24 March 2016 The UK government has published a policy paper outlining the first phase of...

TransCanada sells US power plants
24 March 2016 TransCanada has announced the sale of its power generation assets in the...

Predicted global water shortfall 'will impact power generation'
24 March 2016 Water scarcity could have a detrimental impact on energy supplies in...

Construction of Kinyerezi gets under way
24 March 2016 Construction of Tanzania's first natural gas fired combined cycle power...

AfDB approves Rwanda loan
24 March 2016 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $24 million loan...

Bokpoort CSP inaugurated
24 March 2016 Sener, Acciona, TSK and Crowie have inaugurated a 55 MW concentrated...

Primrose energises 50 MW solar farm
24 March 2016 The Eveley solar farm in Hampshire, southern England, has been connected...

February temperature rise exceeds previous records by a huge margin
17 March 2016 Global temperatures in February exceeded previous monthly records by...

Peabody 'on the verge of bankruptcy'
17 March 2016 American mining giant Peabody Energy, the world's largest private...

Offshore wind costs 'falling fast'
17 March 2016 A new report has provided strong evidence that the cost of energy...

ABB to enable UK's first digital substation
17 March 2016 SP Energy Networks has selected ABB to participate in the Future...

Solar plant with battery storage proposed for Wales
17 March 2016 Countryside Renewables is proposing the construction of a large-scale...

HRS plans new biomass plant
17 March 2016 Plans for the construction of a new biomass fired power plant in...

Engie boosts Maïa Eolis stake
17 March 2016 Engie has strengthened its position in the French wind energy market with...

Roatan opts for propane power plant
17 March 2016 A Honduran electric utility has placed an order with Wärtsilä for...

US solar set for record growth in 2016
10 March 2016 The US solar market is set to grow a by record-breaking 119 % this...

European spot power price plunged in February
10 March 2016 Cheap fuel, plentiful wind and weak demand combined to deflate...

Engie disposes of US assets
10 March 2016 Engie has signed definitive agreements to sell its interests in 10 GW...

AMSC forms superconductor partnership
10 March 2016 AMSC and BASF Corporation have announced plans to jointly develop an...

Duke to replace Asheville coal-fired plant with gas unit
10 March 2016 Duke Energy has secured approval to replace a coal-fired power plant in...

GE to build biomass plant in Belgium
10 March 2016 Belgian Eco Energy (BEE) has selected GE to build a 215 MW...

Battery makers outline Na-ion technology partnership
10 March 2016 Battery firm Faradion is partnering with Moixa Technology and WMG to...

New high court action to block the EPA's Mercury Rule
03 March 2016 A coalition of 20 states has asked the USA's high court to stay the...

Delivery of Siemens' largest GT order gets under way
03 March 2016 Two H class gas turbines, the first consignment of the largest order...

Dong Energy to construct 'waste to gas to power' plant in Cheshire
03 March 2016 Construction work is about to start on a 5 MWe waste-to-power plant...

UK sets out capacity market reforms
03 March 2016 The UK government hopes that planned reforms to the country's capacity...

E.ON to partner Solarwatt in solar storage venture
03 March 2016 E.ON has announced plans to develop a solar energy storage solution...

SEAI awards €4.3 million for marine energy projects
03 March 2016 The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has made grants...

Altitec signs South African JV
03 March 2016 Inspection specialist Altitec has announced a five-year agreement...

Uganda solar farm build imminent
03 March 2016 Access Energy Group and EREN RE are preparing to start the construction...

UK builds floating solar farm
03 March 2016 Construction of Europe's largest floating solar farm has started,...

February 2016

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Didcot boiler house collapse - four feared dead
25 February 2016 One person has died and three people are missing following the collapse of...

Wind farm investors may have to repay federal subsidies
25 February 2016 Investors in the giant Alta Wind facility in California's San Joaquin...

1000 MW of wind capacity planned for central Norway
25 February 2016 Statkraft, TrønderEnergi and the European investor consortium Nordic...

Prysmian to build the COBRAcable interconnector
25 February 2016 Prysmian Group has won the €250 million contract to lay the COBRAcable...

Dong divests Burbo Bank stake
25 February 2016 Dong Energy has completed an agreement to sell 50 % of the Burbo...

New wind farm proposed for Scotland
25 February 2016 Developers have outlined to the Scottish government plans for...

Wroughton PV farm construction underway
25 February 2016 Public Power Solutions (PPS) and the Science Museum Group have...

Palm Paper CCGT given green light
25 February 2016 Plans for the construction of a new gas-fired combined cycle power plant...

US Supreme Court puts Clean Power Plan on hold
17 February 2016 On 9 February the US Supreme Court stayed enforcement of president...

UK report warns of financial costs of CCS cancellation
17 February 2016 A report by the carbon capture and storage industry in the UK has...

French auditors assess cost of nuclear industry upgrade
17 February 2016 France's official court of auditors, the Cour des Comptes, said in its...

China looks at offshore nuclear power options
17 February 2016 China is considering the construction of offshore nuclear power plants...

Breakthrough in fusion technology reported
17 February 2016 China's Institute of Plasma Physics has reported that experiments on...

Centrica sells three of its wind farms
17 February 2016 Centrica and its joint venture partner EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG)...

E.On puts Amrumbank West into operation
17 February 2016 E.On has officially started operations at the 302 MW Amrumbank West...

Aurium bets on renewables investment
17 February 2016 Specialist finance house Aurium Capital Markets has warned that UK...

Phase 1 of giant solar project is connected
11 February 2016 On 3 February the first phase of North Africa's largest solar...

Wind leads capacity additions in Europe as offshore investment doubles
11 February 2016 Wind energy added more new capacity than any other form of power in Europe...

Solar firms challenge UK policy decisions
11 February 2016 Two of the UK's leading solar energy firms are mounting a legal challenge...

Total invests in off-grid solar
11 February 2016 Total Energy Ventures (TEV) has acquired interests in two firms...

France plans biomass tender
11 February 2016 The Energy Ministry in France is planning to launch a tender for...

ABB to upgrade HVDC link in the USA
11 February 2016

Siemens goes large in Finnish and US wind
11 February 2016 Two large wind turbine orders, one in the USA, the other in Finland,...

Combined food and power parks win investment
11 February 2016 A Chinese investment firm has agreed to plough £2 billion into two...

LitPol handover closes Baltic Ring
04 February 2016 ABB has commissioned and handed over the LitPol Link to Litgrid. The...

Fortuna GT sets three records
04 February 2016 Siemens has handed over the Fortuna CCGT plant to customer and...

Nexans to supply cables for the world's first floating wind farm
04 February 2016 Statoil has awarded Nexans the contract to supply static and dynamic...

GE to upgrade Iraqi grid
04 February 2016 GE has signed up to a 'power up' plan with the Iraqi Ministry of...

Dong makes Hornsea One investment decision
03 February 2016 Dong Energy is to move forward with construction of the 1.2 GW...

E.On reaches new investment milestone
03 February 2016 E.On has invested more in renewable energy than any other Germany...

Kyocera begins construction of floating PV plant
03 February 2016 Construction of the world's largest floating solar power plant has...

Worker dies in Cigeo tunnel collapse
03 February 2016 Authorities in France have opened an investigation following the death of...

SSE sells Beatrice stake
03 February 2016 SSE has confirmed the sale of a 10 % stake in the Beatrice offshore wind...

January 2016

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UK 'heading for a 40% supply gap by 2025'
28 January 2016 The UK government's policy of closing all coal-fired power stations by...

EDF signs six-reactor agreement with India
28 January 2016 On 26 January Electricite de France announced that it had signed...

Hinkley C investment decision delayed
28 January 2016 The 27 January EDF board meeting to decide whether to invest in Hinkley...

GE signs €40 million modernisation agreement with PGE
28 January 2016 GE's Power Services business has secured orders valued at approximately...

Eternal Sun acquires Spire's sun simulator business
28 January 2016 Dutch solar company Eternal Sun has announced the purchase of...

GE to deliver 2.6 GW to Chinese power plants
28 January 2016 GE has entered into under contracts with Huaneng Power International...

High altitude wind power generation is now 'on the map'
28 January 2016 New analysis in its TechVision series from Frost & Sullivan 'High...

GE to cut jobs in Europe
21 January 2016 General Electric plans to cut 6500 jobs in Europe over the next two...

New record-breaking year for Danish wind power generation
21 January 2016 In 2015 Danish wind turbines generated a quantity of electricity...

MHPS to supply power components for Lamma extension
21 January 2016 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received an order for...

IFC supports giant solar project in India
20 January 2016 The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is working with the...

Amec Foster Wheeler wins Bruce Power contract
20 January 2016 Amec Foster Wheeler is to expand its relationship with Bruce Power with...

AES completes Kilroot storage project
20 January 2016 AES has completed work on a 10 MW energy storage facility at its...

United Utilities to build AD plant in Scottish distillery
20 January 2016 The Glenmorangie Company has appointed United Utilities to build an...

World Bank approves Nigeria IPP
20 January 2016 A 459 MW independent power project (IPP) in Nigeria has achieved...

Arch Coal files for Chapter 11 protection
14 January 2016 Arch Coal, the USA's second largest coal producer, has filed for Chapter...

Major order for 280 MW wind project goes to Siemens
14 January 2016 Westar Energy has contracted with Siemens to supply, support the...

ORE Catapult announces testing of next generation tidal turbine
14 January 2016 ORE's next generation 1.5 MW tidal turbine, the AR1500, will undergo a...

Siemens receives follow up order to supply Empalme II
14 January 2016 An order to supply two SGT6-8000H gas turbines and two SGen6-2000H...

Cheaper, greener energy trends set to continue
13 January 2016 The uptake of green energy around the world is set to continue growing...

San Buenaventura project reaches financial close
13 January 2016 Construction of a 455 MW coal-fired power plant in the Philippines is set...

NextEnergy boosts its UK portfolio
13 January 2016 NextEnergy Solar Fund has increased its operating solar power plant base...

RWE sells UK power plant
13 January 2016 RWE has reached an agreement to sell a coal-fired power plant in the UK...

Wärtsilä wins Monterrey O&M contract
13 January 2016 Central Generadora Electrica Huinala, S. De R.L. De C.V. has awarded...

GE to become key technology partner to Sewind
07 January 2016 GE Power Conversion, in partnership with one of China's biggest...

MHPS to build 800 MW CCGT for Jakarta
07 January 2016 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received a turnkey order for an 880...

Major win for South Australian wind farm
07 January 2016 South Australia has strengthened its reputation as a renewable...

Chile adopts new energy goals
07 January 2016 Chile has formally adopted a new energy plan aimed at improving...

E.ON and Uniper go their separate ways
07 January 2016 E.ON reports that it has successfully completed the planned separation of...

European Commission opens Drax conversion probe
07 January 2016 The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether...

UK wind generation sets new records
07 January 2016 Official data from National Grid shows that generation from renewable...

Ukraine investigates cyber attack
07 January 2016 Ukraine's energy ministry is launching an investigation after a...

December 2015

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Statkraft ends offshore wind investments
24 December 2015 Statkraft is to alter its investment plans following changes by the...

European power prices plunge
24 December 2015 Continental European power prices fell dramatically November, caused by...

ORE Catapult acquires Samsung's 7MW demo WTG
24 December 2015 The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has completed the acquisition...

ABB to power advanced materials research facility
24 December 2015 ABB has contracted to supply a complete distribution substation solution...

Posco wins Botswana bid
24 December 2015 Posco Energy has been selected as preferred bidder for the construction of...

Gamesa seals first Enbridge order
24 December 2015 Gamesa is to supply wind turbines with a capacity of 103 MW to a new...

E.On, RWE sell Enovos stakes
24 December 2015 Luxembourg and investment company Ardian have signed an agreement with...

Doosan inks new coal plant contract
24 December 2015 Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed a contract to...

Areva acquisition delayed
17 December 2015 News agency Reuters reports that disagreements over valuation and...

Trina exits EU pricing programme
17 December 2015 Trina Solar has announced its withdrawal from the EU's minimum price...

Afghanistan awarded $1.2 billion grant to boost security
17 December 2015 The Asian Development Bank has approved $1.2 billion in grants to...

Amec FW wins Valle de Mexico II HRSG contract
17 December 2015 Amec Foster Wheeler is to design and supply two heat recovery...

Engie wins large solar contracts
17 December 2015 French electric utility Engie has won tenders to build 95.5 MW of...

Samsung, E.ON sign storage MOU
17 December 2015 Samsung and E.ON have laid out plans to collaborate on developing...

'Historic' global climate deal is agreed
15 December 2015 What is being hailed as 'a historic new global climate agreement' has...

Saudi Arabia accused of trying to obstruct Paris climate agreement
09 December 2015 There are complaints among delegates that Saudi Arabia is trying to...

New draft agreement is formulated in Paris
09 December 2015 Delegates at the UN climate conference in Paris have approved a draft...

Schneider launches new storage solution
09 December 2015 Schneider Electric has launched a new energy storage system for...

European Commission extends solar import tariffs
09 December 2015 The European Commission is to continue imposing import tariffs and...

Foresight Group expands with new bioenergy fund
09 December 2015 Fund manager Foresight Group has launched a bioenergy fund in Australia...

New Zealand joins geothermal alliance
09 December 2015 New Zealand has become the newest member of the Global Geothermal Alliance.

Tecnoturbines wins European backing
09 December 2015 The European Commission has awarded a grant of €1 million to...

DONG to invest £6 billion in UK's northeast region
02 December 2015 Dong Energy, one of the leading utilities in offshore wind power, plans...

ABB to install innovative DC circuit breaker in China
02 December 2015 ABB is to supply a 363 kV disconnecting circuit breaker with FOCS for...

Siemens to supply 126 MW to onshore wind plants in Scotland
02 December 2015 Contracts for the supply of turbines for three onshore wind projects...

India and France launch international solar initiative
01 December 2015 Indian prime minister Narendera Modi and French president Francois...

EDF wins 117 MW in Brazil auction
01 December 2015 EDF Energies Nouvelles has won a long term power purchase agreement for...

India needs $140 billion energy investment
01 December 2015 Energy demand in India has almost doubled since 2000 and the country is...

National Grid awarded innovation funds
01 December 2015 UK energy regulator Ofgem has awarded National Grid £22.8 million to...

November 2015

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UK DECC cancels CCS competition amid department cuts
26 November 2015 The UK government's Dept of Energy and Climate Change has cancelled its...

RWE may sell loss-making npower unit
26 November 2015 RWE is considering selling off its UK arm npower if it cannot find a way...

Abengoa starts insolvency proceedings
26 November 2015 Abengoa has announced it is working with creditors to ensure its...

VTT is developing fuel cell 'with competitive edge'
26 November 2015 Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre is developing a next-generation...

PLN appoints B&V for Lontar extension
26 November 2015 Indonesian utility PLN has selected Black & Veatch to build the 315 MW...

Schneider signs new wind partner
26 November 2015 Schneider Electric hopes to improve the quality of its wind power...

Toshiba wins Cirebon expansion contract
26 November 2015 Toshiba is to provide a 1000 MW ultra-supercritical steam turbine...

MHPS receives order for 1GW coal fired boiler
26 November 2015 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received an order for a 1000 MW...

UK to close its coal plants by 2025
19 November 2015 On 18 November UK energy secretary Amber Rudd set out the country's...

Areva bale-out has stalled
18 November 2015 Negotiations to bale out French engineering company Areva have hit...

ETI seeks SMR partners
18 November 2015 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute is seeking partners for a...

WEC downgrades states in new Trilemma index
18 November 2015 In the latest version of its Trilemma Index, which scores countries on...

Moody's rates its first offshore wind farm
18 November 2015 Ratings firm Moody's has made its first public rating of an offshore...

Aquila acquires hydro company
18 November 2015 Aquila Capital has signed a deal to buy Småkraft AS, Norway's...

Nobelwind achieves financial close
18 November 2015 The €655 million Nobelwind offshore wind farm has achieved financial...

Fortum to build more wind power in Sweden
18 November 2015 Finnish utility Fortum and Skellefteå Kraft, a Swedish energy company,...

'Low prices no cause for complacency' - IEA
10 November 2015 The latest 'World Energy Outlook' reports clear signs that the...

World Business Council calls for action on climate change
10 November 2015 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has called...

UK will add CCS retrofit to subsidy support regime
10 November 2015 The UK government proposes to add carbon capture and storage retrofitted...

Macquarie buys into Philippines solar
10 November 2015 An investment fund led by banking group Macquarie has invested in two...

Enbridge joins Rampion project
10 November 2015 E.ON has announced that Canadian Energy company Enbridge has joined...

Energy storage added to microgrid in arctic Alaska
10 November 2015

Quest CCS starts operations
10 November 2015 The Quest carbon capture and storage project in Alberta, Canada,...

GE completes acquisition of Alstom power and grid businesses
09 November 2015 The completion on 2 November of GE's acquisition of Alstom's power and...

Smart grid solution for the distribution network goes into operation
02 November 2015 In October Siemens and Netze BW brought their joint project...

10 GW of offshore wind secured in UK waters
02 November 2015 Recent investment decisions will bring the total of UK offshore wind...

Proposal for Capacity Calculation Regions
02 November 2015 European TSO representatives decided in October on a proposal on...

October 2015

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COP 21 pledges will slow emissions growth - IEA
23 October 2015 Analysis of climate pledges submitted ahead of the December...

Ecotricity plans hybrid energy parks
23 October 2015 Ecotricity has announced plans to build three new renewable energy parks...

Nordex buys Acciona wind business
23 October 2015 German wind turbine maker Nordex has agreed to buy Acciona Windpower in...

EDF to sell assets to finance UK nuke deals
21 October 2015 News reports suggest that EDF plans to sell as much as €10bn of assets...

'Revolutionary' grid connection for offshore wind farms
21 October 2015 A new more efficient method for connecting offshore wind turbines to the...

'Renewables bring down the wholesale cost of energy' - new study
21 October 2015 A new report published by Good Energy suggests that renewable power...

Amec Foster Wheeler to conduct Fukushima radioactive waste study
21 October 2015 Amec Foster Wheeler has been selected to carry out a major study...

Power Africa initiative taking shape in Mozambique
21 October 2015 Pöyry is to carry out an investigation into the building of a 200 km...

E.ON to shut down two Swedish reactors 'for economic reasons'
21 October 2015 The shareholders of OKG have voted to close Oskarshamn 1 and 2 early,...

Improved bed material for CFBs increases efficiency
21 October 2015 Researchers at Chalmers Uuiversity have discovered that a newly developed...

Clyde onshore wind farm to be extended by 173 MW
21 October 2015 Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and...

UK Green Investment Bank raises UK's largest renewables fund
14 October 2015 UK Green Investment Bank has announced that it has executed a Second...

Battery technology discovery could overturn decades of false assumptions
14 October 2015 New findings at Oregon State University have overturned a scientific...

European emissions targets 'out of reach'
14 October 2015 The targets for lower emissions of carbon dioxide from Europe's...

G20 energy ministers affirm commitment to sustainable energy
13 October 2015 Energy ministers of the G20 countries have endorsed an 11-point...

Swansea Bay scheme delayed over funding
13 October 2015 Plans for a £1 billion tidal energy lagoon in South Wales have been...

Southeast Asia risks continued shift to coal
13 October 2015 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has expressed concern that demand...

AMEC Foster Wheeler selected to lead nuclear research project
13 October 2015 Amec Foster Wheeler has been selected to lead a new project to set up...

Indonesia plans centre of excellence for clean energy
13 October 2015 The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the...

NuScale Power has high hopes for its SMR in UK nuke market
06 October 2015 NuScale Power has set out an ambitious programme in its newly published...

Renewables lead world power market growth
06 October 2015 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called on governments to...

Eco2 sells biomass project to Glenmont
06 October 2015 Eco2 has sold a 40 MW biomass power plant project in the UK to...

Mining firm plans new coal plant
06 October 2015 A London-based mining company has outlined plans to build a new...

Solar farm to power Amazon data centre
06 October 2015 Community Energy Solar is to build the largest solar photovoltaic facility...

Financial close for Cramlington
06 October 2015 The £138 million Cramlington biomass power project in the UK has...

GE launches its new optimisation concept, the virtual power plant model
02 October 2015 GE has launched its latest Big Data initiative, a deep control solution...

September 2015

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Siemens launches lightweight RB211 on offshore market
28 September 2015 Siemens has launched a lightweight aero-derivative gas turbine...

GE to move gas engine production to Canada
28 September 2015 GE Power & Water is to stop manufacturing gas engines in Waukesha,...

Dong outlines plans for public offering
28 September 2015 Dong Energy says it will launch an initial public offering (IPO) within...

Scottish government seeks to keep solar on track
28 September 2015 The Scottish government has announced that it will retain...

K-Electric signs Qasim deal
28 September 2015 Pakistan's K-Electric has signed a binding joint development agreement...

400 firms pledge divestment from fossil fuels
28 September 2015 Over 400 companies globally have pledged to divest from fossil fuels...

GeoSea, EWE in charge of Gemini O&M
28 September 2015 Offshore maintenance contractors Offshore & Wind Assistance (OWA) and...

Drax pulls out of White Rose CCS project
25 September 2015 Drax Group, which owns and operates the 4 GW coal and biomass Drax...

Renewables 'could replace fossil fuels by 2050'  
23 September 2015

Mountainview upgrade will help balance the grid
23 September 2015 GE has signed a multi-year services agreement with Southern California...

UK-China nuke deal could expand via Bradwell site
22 September 2015 A deal is expected to be struck during UK chancellor George Osborne's...

Microchannel technology could boost CSP
22 September 2015 Researchers in the USA have demonstrated how microchannel technology...

AfDB unveils new energy initiative
22 September 2015 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled a new initiative aimed...

Statkraft opens Peru HPP
22 September 2015 Statkraft reports that it has formally opened the Cheves hydropower plant...

Wind energy can be 'backbone of Europe'
22 September 2015 The European Wind Energy Association says that wind power could...

PV module production slows
22 September 2015 A slowdown in photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing rates is...

ABB to supply longest 'power from shore' cable
16 September 2015 ABB has won an order worth around $90 million from Norwegian energy...

Alstom wins Italy-Montenegro interconnection contracts
16 September 2015 Alstom has been selected by Toshiba T&D Europe to supply its high...

DEWA launches EOI for 800 MW solar PV
16 September 2015 DEWA (Dubai Electricity & Water Authority) has officially launched...

Enel Green Power is clear winner in Brazil auction
15 September 2015 Brazil's latest solar auction has awarded over 800 MW of capacity at...

Yokogawa wins control system contract
15 September 2015 Areva Renewables Brazil has placed an order with Yokogawa for the delivery...

GCube insures "complex" Chilean project
15 September 2015 GCube Underwriting has signed a three-year contract to cover the...

Bangladesh signs deal for new power plant
15 September 2015 The Coal Power Generation Company of Bangladesh (CPGCB) has signed...

Solarcentury building Holland's largest PV farm
15 September 2015 Solarcentury has announced that it is to build a 6 MWp solar farm in Holland,.

Ansaldo to acquire GT26/GT36 as condition of GE/Alstom deal
11 September 2015 Ansaldo's position in the heavy duty gas turbine market will be...

Hinkley Point finance decision put back
09 September 2015 EDF has warned that a final investment decision for the Hinkley Point...

More delays for Flamanville NPP
09 September 2015 Technical problems and tightened safety rules have further...

Eggborough's closure 'widens the capacity gap'
09 September 2015 Britain will face an energy shortage owing to the lack of incentives...

E.On strengthens US solar pipeline
09 September 2015 E.On says that it is to expand its development pipeline of renewable...

Tariff review shocks UK renewables sector
09 September 2015 The UK's government has launched a review of subsidies in the...

Dong acquires Hornsea zone
09 September 2015 Dong Energy has acquired one of the world's largest offshore wind...

Southern expands solar portfolio
09 September 2015 US utility Southern Power has expanded its renewable energy portfolio...

Sendai restart set for 10 September
07 September 2015 Kyushu Electric Power hopes to begin commercial operations at unit 1 of...

Most extensive ever testing of wind turbine piling
02 September 2015 Dong Energy and ESG have announced the completion of one of the...

First switchgear installation with eco-efficient gas
02 September 2015

Siemens sells 18 industrial GTs to Thailand
02 September 2015 Siemens has signed a contract for the delivery of 18 model SGT-800...

First order for GE’s LM6000-PF+ aeroderivative
02 September 2015 GE has launched its latest aeroderivative gas turbine, the LM6000-PF+,...

Dong divests Duddon transmission assets
01 September 2015 Dong Energy and ScottishPower Renewables have sold the transmission assets...

US Navy adds solar power
01 September 2015 The US Navy has signed an agreement with Sempra to build a 210 MW solar...

Hanwha Energy orders CFB
01 September 2015 Hanwha has placed an order with Amec Foster Wheeler for the design and...

France doubles solar tender to 800 MW
01 September 2015 The French government is to double the amount of solar photovoltaic...

August 2015

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Sendai restart stalls
26 August 2015 Kyushu Electric Power Company has delayed the full restart of its...

Chile grants consent for large CSP array
26 August 2015 The Chilean government has granted environmental consent for what will be...

Latest approval brings Dogger Bank to 4.8 GW
26 August 2015 The granting on 5 August of planning consent for Forewind's Teesside...

GE's 2.75-120 WTG to make French debut
26 August 2015 GE has contracted to supply five of its 2.75-120 wind turbines for a new...

E.ON divests Italian hydro plants
25 August 2015 E.ON has agreed to sell its Italian hydropower complex in Terni to ERG...

UK fast tracks shale gas exploration
25 August 2015 The British government has awarded 27 licences for the exploration of...

Australian wind farm gains approval
25 August 2015 Construction of a 270 MW wind farm in South Australia will start in...

Vattenfall halts Nant Bach wind project
19 August 2015 Vattenfall has halted the development of its 11 turbine Nant Bach wind...

Siemens to upgrade five city grids in India
19 August 2015 Siemens has been contracted to modernise the power distribution grids of...

Energy storage to support RWE grid
19 August 2015 German utility RWE is planning to use lithium-ion battery technology to...

Oceade tidal turbine passes DNV GL feasibility test
19 August 2015 DNV GL is supporting Alstom through the process of achieving...

Aquila Capital expands its PV portfolio in the UK
19 August 2015 Aquila Capital, one of Europe's leading independent alternative...

SGS acquires 75% stake in Shenzhen Firstrank
19 August 2015 SGS has announced the acquisition of a 75 % stake in Shenzhen...

DOE selects wave devices for funding competition
19 August 2015 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen 20 teams to participate in...

Sendai 1 nuclear plant restarts
12 August 2015 On 6 August Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority approved Kyushu...

World's first modular offshore WTG blade set for testing
12 August 2015 An innovative kind of offshore wind turbine rotor blade has arrived at...

ABB to strengthen transmission grid in New Mexico
12 August 2015 ABB has been contracted by Xcel Energy to deliver two static VAr...

Offshore wind sets new record
12 August 2015 In the first six months of 2015, more new offshore capacity was installed...

Zimbabwe IPP signs agreement with CSCEC
12 August 2015 Zimbabwean independent power producer PER Lusulu Power has signed...

Wave Energy Scotland awards £2 million funding
12 August 2015 A project to develop a standardised generator for wave energy devices...

France passes Green energy law
04 August 2015 On 22 July France's National Assembly passed a new Energy Law, one that...

Canada's hydro capacity will be 85 GW by 2025 - GlobalData report
04 August 2015 Canada's installed hydropower capacity is forecast to increase from...

ABB hands over DolWin1 offshore wind energy link
04 August 2015 ABB has successfully commissioned and handed over the DolWin1 offshore...

E.ON and FRIATEC collaborate in fuel cell power plant
04 August 2015 E.ON's energy solutions business E.ON Connecting Energieshas entered into...

US government introduces its Clean Power Plan
04 August 2015 On 3 August president Obama announced the US government's latest Clean...

Foundations laid for first US offshore wind farm
04 August 2015 In July the foundations for the first offshore wind farm in US waters...

MHPS launches re-organised precipitator business
04 August 2015 MHPS, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems and Hitachi...

Flagship Flextra for Kiel
04 August 2015 Stadtwerke Kiel, Kraftanlagen München and GE are building what is said to...

July 2015

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UK cuts renewables spend
28 July 2015 The UK government is proposing new changes to its renewable energy...

SunEdison expands in UK
28 July 2015 SunEdison has acquired Mark Group, a UK-based energy solutions provider, in...

RWE offers wind services
28 July 2015 RWE Innogy says that its UK wind control centre will soon start...

Kineticor orders flare gas microturbine
28 July 2015 Capstone Turbine Corporation has received an order for a C1000...

Areva wins US nuclear contracts
28 July 2015 Areva has been awarded a three-year, multi-million dollar contract to...

The UK's margin 'will be further reduced next winter' - National Grid
17 July 2015 The UK's principal TSO National Grid has warned that its capacity to...

Orders for GE LMS100 GTs to support renewables
17 July 2015 GE has secured orders for ten of its LMS100 aeroderivative gas turbine...

Prysmian to provide link to Channel Islands
17 July 2015 Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract by Jersey Electricity plc...

SoCalEd orders 50 MW storage system
17 July 2015 SunEdison is to team up with Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) to...

Li-S firm targets 2016 release date
17 July 2015 Lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery firm Oxis Energy is collaborating with...

Senseye launches solar asset management trial
17 July 2015 A UK firm says that technology used in the aerospace and defence...

Yingli to supply Chile hybrid plants
17 July 2015 Yingli Solar has won a contract to supply solar photovoltaic (PV) panels...

Major NSN contracts awarded
14 July 2015 Three major contracts for the creation of the UK-Norway NSN...

Germany reaches deal on coal plant closures
14 July 2015 Germany is to close around five of its largest brown coal fired power...

Mainz hydrogen plant inaugurated
14 July 2015 A €17 million flagship project in Germany to produce hydrogen from...

EWEA calls for "root and branch" ETS reform
14 July 2015 The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has called on the...

Terraform boosts wind portfolio
14 July 2015 Terraform Power Inc has signed a deal to acquire net ownership of 930 MW...

Solar fund buys 50 MW UK farm
14 July 2015 Bluefield Solar Income Fund has purchased the UK's largest solar farm, a...

Emissions gap 'can be closed' - GCEC report
07 July 2015 A new report by the Global Commission on the Economy and the Climate...

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises completes spin off
06 July 2015 Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has completed its spin-off from parent group...

Senvion connects its 6000th WTG to the grid
06 July 2015 In May Senvion connected its 6000th wind turbine to the public power grid.

TNB buys 1MDB project
06 July 2015 Malaysia's TNB has announced a plan to buy a 2000 MW coal-fired power...

Amec FW selected for RWE plant
06 July 2015 RWE Power AG has selected Amec Foster Wheeler to carry out the first stage...

Engie acquires Solairedirect
06 July 2015 Engie (formerly GDF Suez ) has become France's leading solar energy...

WEC calls for European co-operation
06 July 2015 The German chapter of the World Energy Council (WEC) says that...

Offshore wind benchmark goes live
06 July 2015 Offshore wind farm operators in the UK have given their backing to a...

US Supreme Court strikes down EPA mercury legislation
01 July 2015 In a US Supreme Court judgement on 29 June MATS (Mercury and Air...

Dutch court orders GHG cuts
01 July 2015 Campaigners in the Netherlands have won a legal bid to force the...

Alstom-Saft BESS goes live
01 July 2015 Alstom and Saft have commissioned a smart battery energy storage...

Dong gives Race Bank go-ahead
01 July 2015 Dong Energy says that it will move forward with construction of a 580 MW...

BHEL commissions 250 MW coal unit
01 July 2015 Bharat Heavy ELectricals has successfully commissioned the first of three...

First Solar wins Dubai contract
01 July 2015 First Solar is to supply the solar modules for the 200 MW second phase of...

June 2015

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Alstom to supply major components for Chile's first electric highway
23 June 2015 Alstom has won an order from Transmisión Eléctrica del Norte (TEN) to...

UK confirms early end for wind support
23 June 2015 The UK's RO subsidies for onshore wind projects will com to an end from...

Pakistan PPI Board approves 1400 MW coal plant
23 June 2015 Pakistan's Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) has given...

ABB launches line voltage regulator
23 June 2015 ABB has formally launched its line voltage regulator product family...

Amazon backs Virginia solar farm
23 June 2015 Amazon has signed an agreement to support the construction and operation...

100 MW wind farm on-line in South Africa
23 June 2015 Eskom has added 100 MW of capacity to its grid with the commissioning of...

New thin film efficiency record set
23 June 2015 First Solar says it has set another world record for cadmium-telluride...

Floating wind farm update
23 June 2015 MHI reports that phase two of its experimental offshore floating wind...

Nemo Link contracts announced
15 June 2015 Nemo Link has awarded contracts worth €500 million for the construction...

Minimum-oil steam turbine handed over
15 June 2015 Siemens has delivered for the first time in the 10 MW class a steam...

Mainstream wins SA tender
15 June 2015 A consortium led by global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable...

Inpex buys into Sarulla
15 June 2015 Japan's Inpex Corp. has reached an agreement to participate indirectly in...

40 GW solar connected worldwide in 2014
15 June 2015 2014 was another record year for solar energy, according to SolarPower Europe.

Powerstar secures €1.65m EU funding
13 June 2015 Powerstar, a UK company specialising in voltage optimisation technology,...

Swansea Bay lagoon project is consented
12 June 2015 Planning consent has been granted for construction of the world's...

Siemens awarded record €8 billion energy order in Egypt
10 June 2015 Siemens has signed contracts worth €8 billion for high-efficiency...

Germany's nuclear tax is legal
08 June 2015 Europe's highest court has ruled that a German tax on nuclear fuel is legal.

Norway joins the coal divestment movement
08 June 2015 Norway's $900 billion government pension fund is to sell off many of...

Humber Gateway "in final phase"
08 June 2015 E.ON expects to complete construction of the Humber Gateway offshore...

Ikea commits to renewable investments
08 June 2015 Ikea says it will spend $1.13 billion on renewable energy as part of plans...

Aquamarine to share wave energy IP
08 June 2015 Wave energy company Aquamarine Power has secured a three month contract...

Statkraft halts wind projects
08 June 2015 Low power and electricity certificate prices in the Nordic region have...

Energy costs rising as National Debts grow
03 June 2015 According to the Worldwatch Institute's 'State of the World 2015' the...

EIB boost for Polish grid
02 June 2015 The European Investment Bank is lending up to PLN 946m (around €231m) to...

Vattenfall and E.ON in decommissioning partnership
02 June 2015 European utilities Vattenfall and E.ON have agreed to co-operate in...

First H-class in Latin America
02 June 2015 Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply two SGT6-8000H gas turbines...

Environmental approval for Atacama 2
02 June 2015 Abengoa has obtained a favourable environmental rating for Atacama 2, a...

Dong Energy reaches 3 GW offshore milestone
02 June 2015 Dong Energy has reached a new milestone, having installed 3000 MW of...

New lidar technology 'to replace met masts'
02 June 2015 Natural Power has released what it describes as a ground-breaking study...

'Cross-border flow will safeguard supply' - Entso-E
01 June 2015 Cross-border import and export capacities will have an important role to...

Crown Estate publishes offshore data
01 June 2015 Masses of data collected during surveys carried out by offshore wind...

May 2015

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Sener begins construction of Noor solar plants
31 May 2015 Technology and engineering group Sener has started construction of the...

E.On confirms Rampion investment decision
31 May 2015 E.On has made the investment decision and construction of a 400 MW,...

Fukushima pressure relief system failed at no 2 reactor
27 May 2015 On 20 May Tepco published its latest progress report on the 2011...

ETI appoints consortium to a new CCS storage appraisal project
27 May 2015 The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has selected a consortium led...

Centerbridge completes acquisition of Senvion
27 May 2015 Centerbridge Partners has successfully completed the acquisition...

Siemens installs prototype of its 7 MW WTG 
27 May 2015 A few months after its sales launch the new Siemens offshore flagship...

Germany relaxes demands on coal plant emissions performance
26 May 2015 The German government has bowed to pressure from big industry and will...

Welsh government invests in kite technology
26 May 2015 Marine energy company Minesto has secured €13 million of EU funds to...

Grand Ridge storage project marks commercial start up
26 May 2015 Invenergy has started commercial operation of a 31.5 MW energy...

Bladeless wind turbine design unveiled
26 May 2015 A Spanish start-up company has unveiled an innovative bladeless wind...

Micro-CHP 'can help meet policy goals'
26 May 2015 Micro-CHP technologies could help the EU to meet energy, climate...

China's emissions fall with decline in coal burn
18 May 2015 The decline in coal use in China is accelerating, according to new analysis.

Russia accused of Nordbalt cable disruption
18 May 2015 Russian naval ships have been obstructing construction work on the...

Hawaii sets 100 per cent renewable target
18 May 2015 Hawaii could become the first US state to set a 100 per cent renewable...

Amec FW will supply handling system for ITER
18 May 2015 Fusion for Energy (F4E) has awarded a seven-year contract for the...

UK sees renewables growth
18 May 2015 Electricity generated from renewable energy has increased by 20 per cent...

Skoda chosen for Pljevlja power plant
18 May 2015 Montenegro's power utility EPCG has selected Czech engineering group...

Church of England shuns fossil fuel investments
18 May 2015 The Church of England says that it is to drastically cut its investments...

India invites solar EPC bids
18 May 2015 India's Solar Energy Corporation (SECI) has issued an expression of...

Thermal generators win in Brazil auction  
18 May 2015 Brazil will add 1627 MW of new thermal capacity following its latest...

Areva announces 6000 jobs are at risk
13 May 2015 French nuclear firm AREVA has launched negotiations with labour...

US capacity additions on downward trend
13 May 2015 In the coming decades, additions to US electricity generation capacity...

€17 million for wave power research from Horizon 2020
13 May 2015 The European Commission's research and innovation programme Horizon 2020...

Mott MacDonald appointed to Peterhead CCS
13 May 2015 Mott MacDonald has been appointed to provide project management...

Iran allocates $3.5 billion to CCGT conversions
13 May 2015 The current Iranian fiscal year national budget includes 100 trillion...

MHPS receives turbine order for CHP plant
13 May 2015 MHPS has received a turnkey order through its subsidiary in India for...

Tesla launches domestic storage
13 May 2015 The US electric car manufacturer Tesla Energy has launched a range of...

Fluor chosen as EPC for Greensville CCGT
01 May 2015 Fluor has been awarded the EPCC contract by Dominion Virginia Power to...

Siemens reaches 1 GW of installed offshore power
01 May 2015 Inauguration of the Dan Tysk offshore wind farm brings to over 1 GW the...

Voith to modernise hydro plant in Sri Lanka
01 May 2015 Sri Lanka's largest energy provider, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB),...

GDF Suez disappears, ENGIE emerges
01 May 2015 French major GDF Suez is changing its name to ENGIE.

New method for cracking water shows promise
01 May 2015 Researchers from the University of Bath in the UK and Yale University in...

IFC buys stake in Three Gorges
01 May 2015 The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World...

Jordan inaugurates world's largest ICE based plant
01 May 2015 The Amman Asia Electric Power Company (AAEPC) has formally marked...

NextEra Energy brings Hanwha on board
01 May 2015 Hanwha Q Cells has signed a major solar module supply agreement with...

Greensolver negotiates two wind turbine deals
01 May 2015 Greensolver, an independent asset manager, has recently launched a 65...

April 2015

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AMSC vs Sinovel to be heard on 11 May
27 April 2015 The first substantive hearing of AMSC's $450 million trade secret...

World's largest offshore grid connection handed over
27 April 2015 Siemens has handed over SylWin1, its third North Sea grid connection...

Renewables investors 'face growing risks'
27 April 2015 The evolution of traditional renewable energy support mechanisms and...

WWF calls for action on Australian emissions
27 April 2015 Australia could rapidly cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by...

UK solar farms face bust after boom
27 April 2015 Solar energy developers in the UK worked 'around the clock' in March to...

Manjung 4 comes on line
27 April 2015 Malaysia's TNB has added 1000 MW of capacity to its grid with the start-up...

Amec FW wins CFB contract
27 April 2015 Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract...

Wärtsilä to deliver two power plants for distributed generation in Oman
27 April 2015 Wärtsilä has received orders to supply two 'Smart Power' generation...

Dong enters US offshore wind market
20 April 2015 Dong Energy is set to develop up to 1000 MW of offshore wind capacity in...

Strike disrupts work on Medupi construction
20 April 2015 Construction work at a coal fired power project in South Africa has ground...

Japan orders solar modules for 231 MW plant
20 April 2015 Toyo Engineering has placed an order with Trina Solar for the supply of...

KaXu Solar One enters operation
20 April 2015 An $860 million concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in South Africa...

Coal plant expansion sparks protest
20 April 2015 Plans by Shenzhen Energy to expand an existing coal-fired power plant...

184 MW power plant inaugurated in Cuba
20 April 2015 The 184 MW power plant in Moa, Cuba, one of the largest projects designed...

First polycrystalline bifacial solar cell in production
20 April 2015 The Italian company MegaCell has succeeded in producing the...

First reconnectable converter transformer installed
20 April 2015 ABB has commissioned the refurbished Songo high voltage direct...

Anomalies found in Flamanville 3 reactor vessel
13 April 2015 The Flamanville 3 EPR nuclear plant under construction in France will...

German industry developing DC GIL
13 April 2015 Siemens is developing a gas-insulated transmission line designed to...

Shell to take over BG Group
13 April 2015 Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy a long standing target, gas...

Sierra Club gets $30m boost from Bloomberg
13 April 2015 Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced that it will invest an additional...

Mitsubishi winning the 'power from space' race
13 April 2015 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has successfully completed a...

Alstom to supply EEB's first 500 kV substation
13 April 2015 Alstom Grid has been awarded a €23 million contract to supply the first...

New National Grid pylon unveiled
13 April 2015 National Grid has constructed working versions of the new...

Wärtsilä wins €120 million power order
13 April 2015 Wärtsilä has signed a major contract to supply power generation capacity...

New benchmark for PV in Dubai
03 April 2015 Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a landmark PV...

Irsching CCGTs to be shut down
02 April 2015 The owners of Irsching 4 and 5 have notified the German Federal...

Commission opens investigation into GE's acquisition of Alstom's energy businesses
02 April 2015 The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to...

Siemens wins order for 300 MW wind project in Oklahoma
02 April 2015 Siemens has been awarded a contract by Apex Clean Energy to supply,...

Prysmian wins € 230 m grid connection contract
02 April 2015 Prysmian Group has secured a new award from 50Hertz Offshore GmbH -...

Green Bank raises £463 million for offshore wind
02 April 2015 The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced first close on a...

Conergy expands into Turkey
02 April 2015 Solar firm Conergy is expanding into the Turkish energy market with...

Zesco appoints Mott MacDonald for project in Zambia
02 April 2015 Zesco has appointed Mott MacDonald to act as project manager to improve...

Brazil exploits reservoirs' solar potential
02 April 2015 Brazil is to investigate the potential of using floating solar panels at...

March 2015

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The offshore wind industry 'can compete within a decade'
27 March 2015 The European offshore wind industry can reach cost-competitiveness...

Europe's solar market falls by 30 %
27 March 2015 The global solar market grew slightly in 2014 to about 40 GW, while...

UK carbon dioxide emissions fall by 10%
27 March 2015 The UK's net carbon emissions fell almost 10 % below 2013 levels in 2014,...

Global CO2 emissions level off
27 March 2015 The International Energy Agency has released data showing that there was...

Green bank targets overseas investment
27 March 2015 The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is to target east Africa, South...

Tharwa to build 6 GW coal plant
27 March 2015 Tharwa Investments has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with...

TSOs stepped up co-operation during eclipse
27 March 2015 European transmission system operators (TSOs) successfully managed to...

UK planning process eased for rooftop solar
27 March 2015 The UK government is hoping to stimulate investment in the commercial...

Kiyú wind farm construction starts
27 March 2015 Spanish firm Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios has started construction of...

UK tidal lagoon project attracts government support
20 March 2015 Chancellor George Osborne's UK Budget statement on 18 March included...

ABB wins $900 million Nordlink order
20 March 2015 ABB has won orders from a consortium of utilities led by Statnett and...

RWE invests in solar firm
20 March 2015 RWE Supply & Trading has made an equity investment in Conergy, one of...

UK biomass projects select STs
20 March 2015 Danish power plant firm Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC)...

Canada's Shepard Energy Centre commissioned
20 March 2015 Enmax Corporation and Capital Power Corporation say that the Shepard...

EEHC targets 4 GW of development
20 March 2015 Masdar, ACWA Power and the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC)...

UK warned of cyber threat
20 March 2015 The electricity system's increasing reliance on IT will heighten the risk...

Solar eclipse - a testing time for Europe
19 March 2015 The solar eclipse due at 9.30 am over most of northern and central Europe...

New MOF material shows promise for CCS costs
13 March 2015 Scientists from the University of California believe they could...

New, cheaper, more compact AC grid access solution
13 March 2015 Siemens has launched a new AC grid access solution designed for...

Wind turbine shipments reach record level
13 March 2015 The global wind energy market attained record levels of turbine shipments...

Block Island offshore wind farm completes financing
13 March 2015 Deepwater Wind says that it has secured all debt and equity funding needed...

Eskom launches investigation into 'poor performance'
13 March 2015 Eskom's board has suspended four senior executives and commissioned...

Abengoa awarded significant TX contract in Canada  
13 March 2015 Abengoa has been selected by NSP Maritime Link Inc, a subsidiary of...

Cable rating 'game-changer'
13 March 2015 RES Offshore has designed what it calls a 'game-changing' new rating...

Australian first for floating solar
13 March 2015 The first floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Australia is due...

France-Spain interconnector inaugurated
06 March 2015 Prysmian Group has announced that the milestone HVDC underground cable...

India 'will add 100 GW of clean coal capacity by 2025'
06 March 2015 India's clean coal capacity is expected to increase by approximately 103...

Batteries to power a small island
06 March 2015 Saft has been awarded its first contract for an energy storage system...

Tidal lagoon plans unveiled in the UK
06 March 2015 Plans for a large-scale tidal lagoon project in Wales took a significant...

Medupi produces first power
06 March 2015 The first six units of South Africa's Medupi power station have...

Elia, National Grid sign Nemo deal
06 March 2015 Engineering and design work on the first electricity interconnector...

Statkraft buys Chilean hydro firm
06 March 2015 Norwegian utility Statkraft has signed an agreement to buy a majority...

National Grid issues new balancing reserve tender
06 March 2015 National Grid has issued a tender for power generators and demand...

February 2015

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ENTSO-E policy paper on cross-border participation
27 February 2015 As a follow-up to its paper 'Market Design Policy', the European...

Commission launches plan for Energy Union
27 February 2015 The European Commission has announced the adoption of a strategy designed...

Solar energy emerging as cheapest power source - new study
27 February 2015 By 2025, the cost of producing power in central and southern Europe will...

Industry project to improve tidal turbine powertrain reliability
27 February 2015 The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched the first phase...

Cummins opens alternator factory in UK
27 February 2015 Cummins has opened a new purpose built production facility dedicated to...

Smart grid demonstration project in Poland
27 February 2015 Four major Japanese organisations have announced that they have been...

ABB to strengthen Stockholm's power network
27 February 2015 ABB has won an order worth around $11 million from the Swedish...

World's largest offshore wind farm gains consent
20 February 2015 The giant Dogger Bank Creyke Beck offshore wind farm has been granted...

Public hearings for UK CCS project
20 February 2015 National Grid's CCS Project to build a new pipeline in the north of...

'Need for new renewables integration policies' - study
20 February 2015 A study by engineers Mott MacDonald has concluded that new policies...

GE to replace TVA coal units with H-class GTs
20 February 2015 The Tennessee Valley Authority is moving ahead with plans to replace...

First power generated from Borkum Riffgrund 1
20 February 2015 Dong Energy has produced power for the first time at the 312 MW...

Siemens commissions GT burner test centre
20 February 2015 Siemens has commissioned its Clean Energy Centre, a new gas turbine...

8 MW WTGs chosen for Walney extension
20 February 2015 MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been chosen by Dong Energy as preferred...

Siemens to provide WTGs for three large projects in SA
20 February 2015 Siemens has secured a large wind power contract in South Africa with an...

Trina Solar overtakes Yingli Green Energy
20 February 2015 Trina Solar has overtaken Yingli Green Energy as the world's...

Accountability row over nuclear waste fines
13 February 2015 In an extraordinary row over responsibility for fines levied by New Mexico...

NordLink HVDC interconnector will use Nexans' cables
13 February 2015 The Nordlink project, the first power interconnector to link Norway...

£51m EIB backing for Gwynt y Mor offshore transmission link
13 February 2015 The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide £51 m in backing for...

Plug pulled on FutureGen project
13 February 2015 The USA's coal lobby has accused the country's government of hypocrisy...

GE-Andritz preferred for tidal lagoon
13 February 2015 The developers of a proposed tidal lagoon power plant in the UK have...

2 GW solar farm approved
13 February 2015 A regional council in Queensland, Australia, has given approval for...

Apple buys stake in California solar farm
13 February 2015 Apple is to invest $848 million in a solar project that will power...

Panama builds spot market for solar
13 February 2015 A new solar farm planned for construction in Panama will become one of only...

Obama proposes GHG reward fund
06 February 2015 The US administration is proposing a $4 billion fund to reward states...

Expert EU team to assess acceleration of offshore wind approvals
06 February 2015 A team of European experts is to look at ways of accelerating...

ENTSO-E launches tender for frequency restoration products
06 February 2015 ENTSO-E is launching a call for tender to assess automatic...

MAN D&T to deliver new power station for Gibraltar
06 February 2015 MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed a contract to deliver three 14V51/60G gas...

K-Electric signs accord on new capacity
05 February 2015 Pakistan's K-Electric has signed an agreement with China...

Dong buys out Smart Wind's Hornsea interest
05 February 2015 Dong Energy has acquired a 66.66 per cent stake in the Hornsea Project...

Tenaska clears hurdle on Texas power plant
05 February 2015 Tenaska has been given the green light to build a $500 million...

UK launches waste-to-energy fund
05 February 2015 The UK government has announced the creation of a new fund aimed...

Glennmont buys French wind farms
05 February 2015 Investment firm Glennmont Partners has closed the acquisition of...

January 2015

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Areva launches novel corrosion prevention technique
30 January 2015 Areva has developed what it says is a ground-breaking, innovative...

UK government makes limited fracking concession
30 January 2015 The UK government has agreed to a ban on fracking but only in the...

Siemens receives order for 48 MW Alexander wind project
30 January 2015 Siemens has received an order to supply 21 wind turbines for the 48...

Scotland calls moratorium on fracking
30 January 2015 The Scottish government has imposed a moratorium on unconventional oil...

Consultancy warns of UXO risk for offshore wind
30 January 2015 A specialist offshore risk consultancy is warning the wind industry...

Supercritical boiler ordered for Duyen Hai 3
30 January 2015 Sumitomo Corporation has placed an order with Babcock & Wilcox for the...

Gamesa wins 84 MW Brazil contract
30 January 2015 Iberdrola and Neoenergia have awarded Gamesa a contract to supply 42...

Glennmont fund buys UK biomass scheme
30 January 2015 Glennmont Partners says that its clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean...

'Large scale sector investment is at risk' - WEF
23 January 2015 Diminishing financial returns for utilities have put at risk the ability...

Doosan Babcock commits to strategic partnership with EDF
23 January 2015 UK based engineering specialist Doosan Babcock has signed the EDF...

Legal challenge to Hinkley C is confirmed
23 January 2015 Austria's government has confirmed that it is to launch a legal...

Alstom to supply the power island for Kirikkale CC plant
23 January 2015 Alstom has been awarded two contracts worth in total over €220 million...

CHPA relaunches as Association for Decentralised Energy
23 January 2015 The UK's Combined Heat and Power Association had been renamed the...

Four utilities drop ZEP membership
22 January 2015 Four European utilities that have vacated their membership of the...

Maintenance backlog strains SA system
22 January 2015 Rolling blackouts are likely to be a daily occurrence in South Africa...

GDF Suez is preferred bidder for CSP
22 January 2015 South Africa's Department of Energy has awarded preferred bidder status...

Renewable costs plummeting, says IRENA
22 January 2015 The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached...

Saudi Arabia to build integrated solar and CC plant
16 January 2015 Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has selected GE for a project that...

Obama targets methane emissions
16 January 2015 US president Barack Obama has announced a plan to cut methane emissions...

NMR loses £9bn nuclear clean-up contract
16 January 2015 The UK government has cancelled the contract held by private...

ABB wins $40 million grid strengthening contract in Sri Lanka
16 January 2015 ABB has won an order worth about $40 million from Ceylon Electricity...

Clean energy investment rebounds
16 January 2015 Growth in solar photovoltaics (PV) and the offshore wind sector has helped...

ACWA consortium wins 350 MW solar contract
16 January 2015 A consortium led by Saudia Arabia's ACWA Power International has won...

ADB will support solar development in India
16 January 2015 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to support the development of 200 MW...

E.On sells Italian assets
16 January 2015 E.On has sold its thermal generating assets in Italy to Czech...

Macquarie buys Baltic 2 stake
16 January 2015 Macquarie Capital is to partner with EnBW in the Baltic 2 offshore windfarm.

Alstom hit with largest foreign bribery fine in US legal history
09 January 2015 Alstom has been fined a record $772.3 m by the US Department of Justice...

Bechtel and Westinghouse form decommissioning partnership in the USA
09 January 2015 Bechtel has formed a partnership with Westinghouse Electric Company...

Longest subsea cable deal is close
09 January 2015 National Grid and Statnett, which are developing a 1400 MW, ±525 kV...

Dong firms up on Burbo Bank extension
09 January 2015 Dong Energy says it will go ahead with the construction of a 258 MW...

Juwi seals South African deal
09 January 2015 Solar energy firm Sonnedix says that it has closed all contracts on a...

Wärtsilä supports Eurocement modernisation
09 January 2015 Wärtsilä has signed a contract with Eurocement Group for the supply of...

More floating solar planned for Japan
09 January 2015 Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has announced plans to build the world's...

Vietnam close to Duyen Hai 2 agreement
09 January 2015 Vietnam has reached a preliminary agreement with Malaysian firm Janakuasa...

December 2014

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Climate concerns rise, fuelled by growing coal consumption  
22 December 2014 The Worldwatch Institute says that the continued increase in coal...

UK energy policies come under heavy fire
22 December 2014 Think tank The Institute for Public Policy Research has branded...

ABB and Hitachi to form strategic power grid partnership
18 December 2014 ABB and Hitachi have signed an agreement to form a joint venture for...

Global energy and carbon intensity rates continue to decline
18 December 2014 Global energy intensity, defined as worldwide total energy...

Abengoa secures financing of Xina Solar One
18 December 2014 Abengoa and South Africa's Department of Energy have signed a power...

Oil price fall 'will boost gas turbine sales'
18 December 2014 According to analysts The McIlvane Company the lower prices for oil...

Highview signs licence and investment deal with Advanced Emissions Solutions
18 December 2014 Highview Power Storage, a UK based designer and developer of liquid...

EDF buys stake in Sinop dam
16 December 2014 EDF has purchased a 51 per cent stake in Sinop Energy Company, the firm...

Funding sought to develop solar 'cloth'
16 December 2014 A firm is seeking funding to further develop a lightweight...

Sumitomo wins geothermal bid
16 December 2014 Sumitomo Corp has won a contract to construct two geothermal units...

South Africa wants to build new coal plant  
16 December 2014 South Africa's government has issued a tender requesting bidders to...

Canada narrows down options for nuclear repository sites
11 December 2014 Two sites in Bruce County, Ontario have 'strong potential' to meet the...

First 7F.05s reach full power in Saudi Arabia
11 December 2014 The first four GE 7F.05 gas turbines in the field have successfully...

Three UK wind farms get the go-ahead
11 December 2014 An offshore wind project that is expected to bring up to 2500 local jobs...

GE launches two GT technologies
11 December 2014 GE has introduced two new technologies for its 7F gas turbine...

Upgrade for Western Australia's largest gas-fired power station
11 December 2014 Alstom has been awarded a contract worth over €20 million (A$30 million)...

African Development Bank grants Ouarzazate loans
10 December 2014 Morocco's Ouarzazate solar complex has won a second round of funding from...

E.On's Eneva seeks credit protection
10 December 2014 Brazilian power producer Eneva has filed for bankruptcy protection in a...

Fluor inks MOU with CNNC
10 December 2014 Fluor Corporation and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) are to...

Wärtsilä wins Oman contract
10 December 2014 Musandam Power Company has placed an order with Wärtsilä for the supply of...

Amec Foster Wheeler wins UK contract
10 December 2014 Nugeneration Ltd. (NuGen) has placed an order with Amec Foster Wheeler...

TÜV SÜD to conduct wide area plant assessment in India
02 December 2014 Indian energy provider MP Power Generation Company Ltd (MPPGENCO)...

Researchers find way to turn sawdust into gasoline
02 December 2014 Researchers at KU Leuven's Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis,...

50MW storage extension planned for Wales
02 December 2014 Snowdonia Pumped Hydro, which intends to build a 600 MWh pumped...

Siemens to sell its tidal power business
02 December 2014 Siemens has blamed the slow development of the tidal energy market for...

New solar world record
02 December 2014 A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity...

Fishermen's Energy seeks TÜV expertise
01 December 2014 Fishermen's Energy has awarded a contract for independent engineering...

Topaz PV plant comes on-line
01 December 2014 A 550 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant has started operations...

SunEdison plans 1 GW solar for Brazil
01 December 2014 SunEdison has announced plans to develop, own and operate 1 GW of solar...

E.On to spin off its fossil fuel generation business
01 December 2014 E.On is to spin off the major portion of its electricity generating...

November 2014

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Flamanville 3 delayed until 2017
24 November 2014 French utility EDF has announced a further one-year delay in the...

Siemens and LG Chem to collaborate on ESS systems
24 November 2014 Siemens and LG Chem have agreed to collaborate more closely on...

Aggreko expands UK footprint
24 November 2014 Aggreko, the prominent supplier of temporary power and temperature...

First order for Siemens H class GTs in Japan
24 November 2014 Siemens has received its first order from Japan for the delivery of...

Ineos plans shale gas investment
24 November 2014 Ineos is planning to invest up to £640 million in the UK's shale gas...

WavePod prototype success
24 November 2014 Aquamarine Power says that it has reached a significant milestone with...

Study of future of GB electricity distribution
24 November 2014 Parsons Brinckerhoff is to lead a consortium to carry out a detailed...

Isle of Man wind selects Dong
24 November 2014 The Isle of Man government has selected Dong Energy as its preferred...

Total steps up energy storage investment
24 November 2014 Total Energy Ventures, the French oil firm's venture capital arm, has made...

Test runs have started for the BorWin2 link
17 November 2014

ABB solution to supply automation for Ain Djasser III
17 November 2014 ABB has won orders from Ansaldo Energia to supply a plant automation...

USA and China finalise climate deal
17 November 2014 The USA and China have agreed a set of new joint actions on climate...

AMEC completes Foster Wheeler takeover
17 November 2014 AMEC has announced the successful completion of its offer for...

Iran wants to build eight nuclear reactors
17 November 2014 Russia has signed a co-operation agreement with Iran that could lead to...

Synergy investigating collapse of cooling tower wall
17 November 2014 Lawmakers in Western Australia have called for a full safety audit of...

Philippines starts up largest wind farm
17 November 2014 The Philippines' 150 MW Burgos wind farm has started operations and...

Construction starts at Lake Turkana
17 November 2014 Construction of the €625 million Lake Turkana wind power project in Kenya...

Vattenfall is selling its lignite plants in Germany
07 November 2014 Vattenfall has announced plans to sell its German lignite mining...

Silo collapse strains Eskom's power system
07 November 2014 Eskom says that its power system is likely to come under severe...

US 'heading for energy independence'
07 November 2014 High levels of energy production and falling energy demand will help the...

Successful test for Searaser
06 November 2014 Energy firm Ecotricity has announced the successful completion of first...

MW-scale battery heads for Bolivian hybrid plant
06 November 2014 Saft's energy storage business has made an important breakthrough in...

Risen Energy signs Mexico deal
06 November 2014 Chinese firm Risen Energy says it will invest $600 million in...

Moroccan strategy on target, says IEA
06 November 2014 Morocco has made considerable advances in renewable energy deployment...

Solar sees success in Brazil
06 November 2014 Solar energy companies have hailed Brazil's latest renewable energy...

Michigan improves its grid stability
06 November 2014 ABB has commissioned the world's first HVDC back-to-back system...

Siemens set to acquire Dresser-Rand
06 November 2014 Siemens has entered into an agreement with Dresser-Rand to acquire all...

Longest submarine cable yet goes to sea
06 November 2014 Nexans' cable laying ship C/S Nexans Skagerrak has left Halden,...

October 2014

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HVDC superconductor cable energised in Korea
30 October 2014 Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), LS Cable & System, and AMSC...

GE, Synova and MakinoPartner to develop advanced GT manufacturing machines
30 October 2014 GE has announced an innovative manufacturing machine designed to produce...

ABB to provide cable solution for offshore wind connection in German North Sea
30 October 2014 ABB has won a significant order from the transmission grid operator TenneT...

MHPS to supply steam sets in the Philippines
30 October 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has received an order for two steam...

Siemens to supply Armow and Cedar Point II wind projects
30 October 2014 Siemens' Wind Power and Renewables Division has received two new orders...

European 2030 climate targets agreed
30 October 2014 The European Council has agreed to the goals of the 2030 Climate and...

Alstom wins GB grid reinforcement contract
30 October 2014 Alstom has been awarded a contract by ScottishPower Transmission to provide...

ElecLink capacity auction - expressions of interest invited
30 October 2014 The owners of ElecLink, the Channel Tunnel interconnector project...

Caterpillar to supply 100 MW of power for Boa Vista
30 October 2014 Caterpillar and Oliveira Energia have signed an agreement for the...

SuperGrid Institute will get €86.6m in funding from the French state
24 October 2014 The European Commission has approved grant of €86.6 million proposed by...

New UK wind record
24 October 2014 The UK's wind farms generated a record amount of power on Saturday...

ABB to upgrade Kontek HVDC link
24 October 2014 ABB has won the contract to upgrade the 600 MW Kontek HVDC transmission...

MHPS completes new test facility for power boilers
22 October 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has completed the construction of...

First Solar marks Luz del Norte milestone
22 October 2014 First Solar has held a ceremony to mark the installation of the first...

DNV GL commissioned to assess UK gas scenarios
22 October 2014 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has awarded DNV GL a contract...

Blaze at Didcot cuts UK capacity
22 October 2014 A fire at the Didcot B gas-fired power plant in England has reduced...

FlexiCycle chosen for cross-border project in N America
22 October 2014 Wärtsilä is to build a combined cycle power plant based on its...

Low Carbon and Nur Energie move TuNur forward
22 October 2014 Construction of a 2000 MW renewable energy project in Tunisia could start...

New power boosters for the LM6000
16 October 2014 GE's has launched a suite of data-driven solutions that uses the...

Nexans predicts slower market growth
16 October 2014 Although it considers that the long-term outlook for the cable industry...

Installation of new style conductors in UK
16 October 2014 Balfour Beatty has been awarded two new overhead line projects to install...

GE wins the Bazyan gas turbine contract
16 October 2014 GE has signed a contract with ENKA to supply power generation equipment...

Marubeni to assess Myanmar coal project
16 October 2014 Marubeni has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government...

Sub-Saharan Africa can unlock energy potential, says IEA
16 October 2014 Under-development of sub-Saharan Africa's considerable energy resources...

ADB under pressure over dam loan
16 October 2014 Environmental and human rights groups from Malaysia and around the world...

Scottish government approves four offshore wind projects
16 October 2014 The Scottish government has given planning consent to four major...

IFC to assess 1 GW Sounda hydro prospects
16 October 2014 The feasibility of developing a 1000 MW hydropower project at the...

Hinkley C deal is waved through
09 October 2014 The European Commission has approved the deal between the UK government...

New busbar system to reduce WTG losses
08 October 2014 Siemens has developed a new air-insulated busbar trunking system that it...

Voith to undertake Priest Rapids upgrade
08 October 2014 Voith Hydro has been awarded the contract to rehabilitate and upgrade...

The Cyclades to be joined to ENTSO-E
08 October 2014 Alstom has been awarded a contract for the turnkey supply of...

EFG Hermes acquires French wind stake
08 October 2014 Egypt-based investment bank EFG Hermes has made its first investment...

SunEdison closes finance for Jordan PV
08 October 2014 SunEdison has successfully closed a $50 million debt financing facility...

Al Nowais signs coal plant MOU
08 October 2014 Egypt's state-run power company EEHC and Al Nowais Investments have signed...

Mott MacDonald to supervise Kuni-Umi
08 October 2014 Construction of a 230 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Japan will...

WEC analyses energy investment risks
08 October 2014 The World Energy Council (WEC) has joined forces with Swiss Re and Marsh...

Opening of world's first commercial scale CCS project
02 October 2014 The CCS industry moves into a new phase this week with the inauguration on...

Exelon is first US adopter of GE H class
02 October 2014 Exelon has become the first US utility to opt for GE's new H...

US firms propose landmark clean energy project
01 October 2014 Four US energy firms are proposing to build a compressed air energy...

Demand side response adds security for UK
01 October 2014 Tata Steel and Flexitricity will help the UK's National Grid to...

UK grants Burbo Bank 2 consent
01 October 2014 Dong Energy is preparing to make a final investment decision on...

Heart-shaped PV plant to show 'the beauty of solar'
01 October 2014 Conergy has been commissioned to build a unique heart-shaped...

New laboratory test for smart grid systems
01 October 2014 Newcastle University and Siemens Energy Automation Division have opened...

September 2014

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Poyry wins 130 MW solar engineering contract
25 September 2014 Pöyry has been awarded contracts to assist with the construction of a 130 MW...

Chile approves solar expansion
25 September 2014 Chile's government approves the build of almost 700 MW of solar power capacity.

Sleaford biomass plant handed over
25 September 2014 Glennmont Partners has announced the start of operations at its 38 MW...

India's Supreme Court cancels coal licences
24 September 2014 India's Supreme Court has cancelled 214 of the 218 coal mining...

Amec-Iberdrola JV wins ITER contracts
24 September 2014 Fusion for Energy (F4E) has awarded a joint venture of Amec, Iberdrola...

Wind industry looks to new heights
24 September 2014 Two US firms are looking to harness energy from strong winds at...

Trina to supply modules for project in Chile
20 September 2014 Trina Solar has secured its second order this year for the supply of...

Alaska opts for flywheel storage system
20 September 2014 ABB is to install an integrated commercial flywheel system on Kodiak...

Foster Wheeler wins Hail contract
19 September 2014 Al-Toukhi Company has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract for the design...

Westermost Rough generates first power
19 September 2014 Electricity has been generated for the first time at the Westermost...

Callide demo passes 7500 hours
18 September 2014 The Callide oxyfuel demonstration project is leading the way in...

US regulator certifies ESBWR reactor design
17 September 2014 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor...

Emerson takes control at troubled Longview
16 September 2014 Emerson Process Management has been named main automation contractor for...

Carlton opts for GE H gas turbines
15 September 2014 Carlton Power will employ three GE 9HA.01 gas turbines at its Trafford...

National Grid seeks additional reserves
12 September 2014 Britain's National Grid has issued a tender for the supply of...

Actis commits to Mexican venture
12 September 2014 Actis says that its new energy platform in Mexico, Zuma Energía,...

Falkenhagen P2G completes first year
12 September 2014 The Falkenhagen power to gas (P2G) pilot plant has injected more than...

Financial close for Westermeerwind
12 September 2014 Construction of the 144 MW Westermeerwind wind farm in the Netherlands...

Samoa's first wind farm inaugurated
12 September 2014 Samoa's government says it has made a "significant step forward" in...

Kenyan-Chinese consortium wins Lamu tender
12 September 2014 The government of Kenya wants to build a 960 MW coal-fired power plant...

AES plans expansion in Dominican Republic
12 September 2014 AES has announced a strategic partnership with the Estrella-Linda Group...

GCube to analyse wind turbine blade breakage history
12 September 2014 Specialist renewable energy underwriter GCube Underwriting Ltd has drawn...

Toshiba consortium to build Malaysian coal project
12 September 2014 A joint venture company created by Mitsui and 1Malaysia Development...

ABB aims for the Next Level
11 September 2014 A key element of ABB's new business strategy, unveiled as part of...

US DOE funds six microgrid projects
11 September 2014 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $8 million...

Final approval for Dutch-Danish interconnector
10 September 2014 The Dutch transmission system operator TenneT and its Danish...

UK review of ABWR reactor design progresses
10 September 2014 A pre-construction design review of the Hitachi-GE ABWR in the UK...

Floating solar plant set for Japan
10 September 2014 Construction of two utility-scale floating solar platforms, including...

Alstom, Petrofac win Galloper electrical work
09 September 2014 RWE Innogy has appointed Alstom and Petrofac to begin the detailed design...

Voith to equip Los Cóndores hydro project
09 September 2014 Chile's largest electric utility Endesa Chile has signed a contract...

ABB and BYD team up on energy storage
08 September 2014 ABB and China-based BYD Co., Ltd, have announced a 'strategic...

Alstom to refurbish Norwegian hydro
08 September 2014 Energiselskapet Buskerud has awarded Alstom a €4 million contract to...

Siemens hands over Shuweihat S3 in Abu Dhabi
05 September 2014 Siemens, together with its Korean consortium partner Daewoo Engineering...

Siemens H ordered for Dangjin 4, South Korea
03 September 2014 Siemens has received an order to supply its H-class gas turbine...

First order for GE's new 616 diesel engine
03 September 2014 GE's Distributed Power business has announced that UK based Clarke Energy...

Alstom sells steam auxiliary components business
02 September 2014 Alstom has completed the sale of its steam auxiliary components business...

Fortum acquires stake in wave developer Wello
02 September 2014 Fortum has acquired a minority share of 13.6 per cent in the Finnish...

Compact GIS switchgear promises to reduce offshore wind costs
02 September 2014 Siemens has launched what it describes as the "first compact...

Olkiluoto 3 start-up expected in 2018
01 September 2014 The third unit at TVO's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland is...

ABB completes HVDC link in Brazil
01 September 2014 ABB has successfully commissioned what it claims is the longest...

August 2014

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US approves new nuclear waste rule
29 August 2014 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a final rule addressing...

Renewable growth under threat, says IEA report
28 August 2014 The expansion of renewable energy will slow over the next five years...

Peaking power plant for Western Australia
28 August 2014 APR Energy has signed a contract with state-owned utility Horizon Power...

Verizon invests in solar
27 August 2014 US communications firm Verizon has pledged to invest nearly $40 million in...

Alstom wins HVDC trio worth €800M
27 August 2014 Alstom Grid announced it has been awarded three major high voltage...

ABB launches 525 kV underground and subsea cable system
27 August 2014 ABB has developed and tested a 525 kilovolt (kV) extruded high-voltage...

Loan for Laos hydro project
26 August 2014 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed a $217 million financing...

Funding agreed for MeyGen tidal
26 August 2014 MeyGen has agreed terms for a funding package to finance the construction...

TVA approves Memphis combined cycle plant
26 August 2014 The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors has approved plans...

Siemens receives Dudgeon order
22 August 2014 Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy...

AP1000s under consideration for Utah
21 August 2014 Westinghouse Electric Company and Blue Castle Holdings have signed...

UK's first site for two-bladed offshore wind turbines
21 August 2014 The Crown Estate has entered into an Agreement for Lease with Forthwind...

Voith to modernise German pumped storage plant
20 August 2014 Voith has won a contract from E.ON Kraftwerke to modernise one of...

ABB achieves breakthrough in green switchgear technology
20 August 2014 ABB says it has achieved a significant breakthrough in gas...

Belgian reactor forced offline after tampering
20 August 2014 Unit 4 of Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant will stay offline for...

Siemens 6MW erected at Westermost Rough
20 August 2014 The first Siemens 6MW turbine has been successfully erected at the...

ABB to connect MeyGen tidal
19 August 2014 ABB has announced that it will provide the onshore grid connection for...

Atkins selected for Swansea Bay
18 August 2014 Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc has appointed Atkins to act as client's...

Foster Wheeler HRSGs destined for Asia
18 August 2014 Foster Wheeler's licensee, BHI, has received contracts to supply...

RWE to shut 1GW of coal plant
14 August 2014 RWE Generation plans to shut down a further three coal-fired power plants...

ABB to supply shore connection for Burbo Bank extension
13 August 2014 ABB has won an order worth around $30 million to supply an HV export...

North America's largest wind farm changes hands
13 August 2014 NRG Yield has acquired the 947 MW Alta Wind farm in Tehachapi,...

German renewables record for first half of 2014
13 August 2014 Germany produced 81 TWh of electricity from renewable sources in the...

Giant coal mine 'encroaching on source of Yellow River'
13 August 2014 Greenpeace has reported the existence of a giant coal mine that it says...

Ferrybridge 3 and 4 will be out of commission for months
13 August 2014 Experts have begun assessing the damage at the 2 GW Ferrybridge C coal...

Drax project does not appeal
13 August 2014 The court of appeal has ruled that biomass conversion of unit 3 at the 6...

Patriot combined-cycle plant starts construction
12 August 2014 Panda Power Funds has started construction on the 829MW...

First Solar breaks CdTe efficiency record - again
12 August 2014 US-based First Solar has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride...

Boiler inspections shut four UK reactors
11 August 2014 UK nuclear power plant operator, EDF Energy, has announced that it will...

Vattenfall moves ahead with Sandbank
11 August 2014 Vattenfall has announced that it will build the €1.2 billion...

Westinghouse moves on with Kozloduy 7
07 August 2014 Bulgaria's Council of Ministers has approved a plan in which...

France presents renewable energy plan
07 August 2014 A long-delayed energy bill outlining the French government's plans to...

GE wins distributed power orders in Africa
07 August 2014 GE's Distributed Power business has received orders for eight...

World Bank finances Senegal power project
07 August 2014 The World Bank has signed agreements to finance a new power plant in...

Statkraft gains new partner in UK wind farms
07 August 2014 Statkraft has sold a 49 per cent stake in its UK onshore wind power...

Superconductor-based grid system to be developed
07 August 2014 AMSC and ComEd are to develop and build a superconducting cable system...

UK's nuclear waste plan
07 August 2014 The UK government has launched a new long-term plan 'to deal permanently...

China sets PV target
07 August 2014 China's National Energy Administration (NEA) says that the country...

Singapore targets low carbon growth
07 August 2014 The government of Singapore has outlined plans to boost research into...

Scotland opens FloWave ocean research facility
06 August 2014 Edinburgh University has officially opened a new £10.5 million ocean...

EU clears Siemens, Rolls-Royce gas turbine deal
06 August 2014 Siemens has received approval from the European Commission for its...

Inventys captures additional funding for "breakthrough" gas phase CCS technology
01 August 2014 Inventys Thermal Technologies, a Canada based team of gas...

July 2014

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ETI launches search for bioenergy project partners
31 July 2014 The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched a new project in...

Uruguay PV reaches financial close
31 July 2014 Construction of a 65 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Uruguay is set to...

UK opens new onshore licensing round
30 July 2014 The UK came a step closer to commercial-scale shale gas extraction with...

Innovative loan taps geothermal potential
30 July 2014 The Asian Development bank says that a $50 million loan for a...

Batteries to stabilise Kauai grid
30 July 2014 Saft had been awarded a contract to provide a lithium-ion (Li-ion)...

Chinese firms win approval for coal plant in Bosnia
30 July 2014 A consortium of Chinese firms is set to build a 450 MW coal-fired power...

MHPS to merge with Babcock-Hitachi
30 July 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has announced that from...

ETI launches search for partners in new Bioenergy project
30 July 2014 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute has launched a new project in...

Alstom to equip combined cycle plant in Mexico
29 July 2014 Alstom is to supply the power island (KA24) for the fifth unit at...

Rwanda to unveil first utility-scale solar PV plant in East Africa
25 July 2014 The government of Rwanda is preparing to commission in early August the...

Drax funding decision reconsidered
25 July 2014 The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has informed Drax...

EU approves the UK's capacity market
24 July 2014 The European Commission has concluded that the UK's proposed capacity...

Myanmar outlines growth plans
24 July 2014 Myanmar is planning the construction of seven new power plants to...

EGCO buys Masinloc stake
24 July 2014 Thai independent power producer EGCO has completed the acquisition of a...

MHI to build world's largest carbon capture system
24 July 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has received an order for what will be...

GE to install H class turbine in Kazan
24 July 2014 The IPP TGK-16 has been contracted to supply a power generation system...

Ashalim partners secure finance
23 July 2014 Alstom, BrightSource and the NOY Infrastructure & Energy Investment Fund...

Dong divests Gode stake
23 July 2014 A consortium of Danish pension funds has bought a 50 per cent stake in...

Doosan orders Vinh Tan 4 STGs
23 July 2014 Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction of Korea and Mitsubishi...

SylWin1 success for Siemens
23 July 2014 Siemens has installed what it believes is the largest offshore...

Gamesa gains orders in Brazil
22 July 2014 Spanish wind company Gamesa has signed two contracts for the supply of...

Zimbabwe coal miner plans new plant
22 July 2014 Zimbabwean coal mining firm Makomo Resources has announced plans to build...

Abengoa wins its first TX project concession in India
18 July 2014

ABB commissions Skagerrak HVDC control upgrade
18 July 2014 Power and automation technology group ABB has commissioned an upgrade of...

AFC Energy signs Korean fuel cell agreements
18 July 2014 Alkali fuel cell developer AFC Energy has announced two...

First post-Fukushima reactor safety approval
17 July 2014 Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority has issued a draft decision to...

ABB wins Maritime link order
17 July 2014 NSP Maritime Link Inc. has awarded ABB a $400 million contract to supply...

Offshore innovation could drive down costs
17 July 2014 The cost of offshore wind energy could fall to below £85/MWh by the...

Lumicity sells its PV portfolio
17 July 2014 Renewable energy firm Lumicity is reducing its role in the UK's...

Partners dedicate Blackspring Ridge
17 July 2014 Alberta has marked the official start-up of western Canada's...

WTO rules against US solar duties
16 July 2014 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says that the USA violated global...

High court says Drax unit 3 conversion is eligible for FID enabling, after all
16 July 2014 A UK high court judgement has found that conversion to biomass of unit 3...

Butendiek worker injured
10 July 2014 A worker constructing the Butendiek offshore wind farm has been...

Alstom wins Brazil wind contract
10 July 2014 Tractebel Energia Brasil has selected Alstom's ECO 122 wind turbine model...

NER-300 second-call funding
10 July 2014 As well as up to 300 million euro to the proposed 426 MWe White Rose...

Maine grid to be strengthened
10 July 2014 Two major electric utilities in the US state of Maine have agreed to...

White Rose captures European funding
09 July 2014 The UK's proposed White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project...

EIB agrees loan for Austrian hydro
08 July 2014 Illwerke is receiving a €280 million loan from the European Investment...

Areva and Gamesa agree to offshore wind JV
07 July 2014 Seven months after starting negotiations, Gamsea and Areva have...

Siemens wins first wind order in Belgium
07 July 2014 Siemens Energy has secured a 33 MW wind turbine order for the first phase...

Qatar Solar Energy secures silicon deal
03 July 2014 Qatar Solar Energy anticipates that a landmark deal with...

Finland launches energy storage research
03 July 2014 Finland has launched a major programme aimed at developing technologies...

BHEL commissions 250 MW unit
03 July 2014 India's Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has brought the output of...

Statkraft, Statoil make Dudgeon decision
03 July 2014 The Dudgeon offshore wind farm is expected to start generating energy...

Another step closer to capacity market in the UK
02 July 2014 The UK government intends to procure 53.3 GW by auction for delivery...

UK plans 2 MW battery storage
02 July 2014 Toshiba will provide the battery for the UK's first 2 MW...

June 2014

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Toshiba and GDF SUEZ complete NuGen nuke deal
30 June 2014 Toshiba Corp and GDF Suez have completed a deal that will result in...

Aggreko expands in Mozambique
30 June 2014 Aggreko has expanded its presence in Mozambique with a contract to...

EPC award for Pakistan solar
27 June 2014 A Chinese firm has been awarded the contracts for the...

Minergy building new coal plant
26 June 2014 A new 110 MW coal fired power plant under construction in Mindanao will...

GHG challenge to EPA results in a draw
26 June 2014 On 23 June the US Supreme Court partially upheld and partially...

Green bank plans offshore wind investments
25 June 2014 The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced plans to invest...

ACWA Power aims for Vietnam IPP
25 June 2014 ACWA Power has made its first foray into the power sector of South East Asia.

Cleanergy launches CHP system for older landfills
24 June 2014 Sweden-based Cleanergy has launched a new Stirling engine-based genset,...

High Court rules in favour of Lark's PV plan
24 June 2014 In what could prove to be an important judgement for PV project developers...

Alstom Board votes to accept GE offer
23 June 2014 The Alstom Board of Directors has voted unanimously to accept an...

Order from Petronas, Malaysia, takes Siemens H total to 32
23 June 2014 Siemens, in consortium with MMC Engineering Services Sdn Bhd (MMCES)...

B&V wins Grand River engineering services contract
21 June 2014 Black & Veatch has been selected by Grand River Dam Authority,...

Wärtsilä wins captive plant order
20 June 2014 A cement firm in Saudi Arabia has placed a fast-track order with Wärtsilä...

Rame Energy finances Chilean wind projects
20 June 2014 Rame Energy says that a financing deal it has signed with Santander will...

Globeleq buys Cameroon assets
19 June 2014 Independent power producer Globeleq has boosted its presence in...

AMEC awarded UAE contract
19 June 2014 ENEC has awarded engineering firm AMEC a strategic framework contract...

Green light for 1200 MW East Anglia One
18 June 2014 The British government has given consent for the construction of a 1200...

UK-China nuke deal to go ahead
18 June 2014 The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced the signing...

MHI/Siemens table offer for Alstom
17 June 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) and Siemens AG have joined forces...

Bilfinger to test foundations for Wikinger
17 June 2014 German engineering group Bilfinger has been selected to manufacture,...

Siemens to equip Poland's Jaworzno III
16 June 2014 Siemens has secured an order worth €208 million to supply the turbine...

Blast at Kosovo A coal plant
13 June 2014 The government of Kosovo is investigating the cause of an explosion at...

Ministers reject HidroAysén
13 June 2014 Plans for the construction of five hydroelectric dams on two rivers in...

Rapid build for Provence PV
12 June 2014 Martifer Solar says that it took just 10 weeks to build an 11 MW...

Seacat Ranger embarks on new charters
12 June 2014 One of the latest offshore energy support vessels is on its way to...

Alstom, Saft and EDF collaborate in new storage demo
12 June 2014 A consortium of Alstom and Saft, formed in 2013 in response to a call...

DNV GL: integrated approach can reduce offshore wind costs by 10%
12 June 2014 The DNV GL 'FORCE' manifesto identifies potential cost savings for...

MHI joins with Siemens for Alstom bid
11 June 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Siemens AG announced that they...

Iberdrola and CFE to collaborate in Mexico
11 June 2014 Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and Iberdrola have agreed...

Wind capacity to near 680GW by 2020
11 June 2014 Despite an overall slump in installations in 2013, the global cumulative...

MHPS wins combined-cycle order in Korea
09 June 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) is to supply two M501J...

Amanecer Solar completed in Chile
09 June 2014 SunEdison's 100 MW Amanecer Solar CAP has been inaugurated by...

Finland launches biorefinery competition
06 June 2014 Finland's Ministry of Employment and the Economy is organising...

EPA to seek deep cuts in carbon emissions from power plants
05 June 2014 The USA's Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposed new rule...

EBRD agrees loan for Romanian wind farm
05 June 2014 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has arranged...

Asia closes the gap in renewable indices
05 June 2014 Power markets in Asia are becoming increasingly attractive for...

Australians win European wave power grant
04 June 2014 Perpetuwave Power says that a £63 000 grant from the European...

BT signs £440m UK wind PPAs
04 June 2014 Telecoms firm BT has signed long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs)...

MHI to establish distributed power business
04 June 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has announced that it will...

IEA: $48 trillion of energy investment needed by 2035
03 June 2014 Meeting the world's growing need for energy will require more than...

Alstom to upgrade Harjavalta hydro
03 June 2014 Alstom has signed a €10 million contract with Länsi-Suomen Voima Oy...

MHPS, Daelim to build 420MW coal plant in the Philippines
02 June 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS), working jointly with...

Vestas to supply Guatemala's first wind project
02 June 2014 Vestas has signed an order to supply 16 of its V112-3.3 MW wind turbines...

May 2014

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New power distribution technology from ABB
30 May 2014 ABB has announced the launch of its latest compact secondary...

ORE puts Blyth wind demo site up for sale
30 May 2014 The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult intends to sell its stake in the...

AES to convert Harding Street to gas
27 May 2014 AES has been granted permission by the Indiana authorities build a...

Enel GP secures IFC finance
26 May 2014 The International Finance Corporation (IFC) says that a $200 million...

JV sealed for Pagbilao power plant
26 May 2014 Subsidiaries of Aboitiz Power Corp. and TeaM Energy Corp. have signed a...

Philippines connects first PV plant
25 May 2014 The initial phase of the first solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in...

Mott MacDonald to advise on Mexico CCGT
25 May 2014 United M&E Investment has appointed Mott MacDonald as its technical...

US wood pellet exports to Europe: a fast growing business
23 May 2014 The US Energy Information Administrations reports that wood pellet...

Parsons Brinckerhoff and Watt Power develop gas-fired peakers for the UK
23 May 2014 Engineering consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff says it is working with...

Russia and China sign 30-year gas deal
22 May 2014 Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom management committee and Zhou...

Mount Signal PV plant completed
22 May 2014 Abengoa has completed construction of Mount Signal Solar, the $US...

UK MPs call for CCS to be fast-tracked after 'lost decade'
21 May 2014 An influential cross-party committee of MPs have urged the UK government...

Fortum fires Areva-Siemens from Loviisa modernisation project
21 May 2014 Finnish utility Fortum has terminated a contract with a consortium of...

Prysmian secures €730m West of Adlergrund contract
21 May 2014 Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract to design, produce and install...

TVO asks to delay Olkiluoto 4
21 May 2014 Teollisuuden Voima Oy has asked the Finnish government to extend its...

EPA finalises cooling water intake rule
20 May 2014 The US Environmental Protection Agency's long awaited and much...

Siemens bags €1.5bn Gemini wind order
20 May 2014 Siemens has secured an €1.5 billion order to supply 150 wind turbines for...

Sea Challenger gets ready for Westermost Rough
20 May 2014 A2SEA's new Chinese-built installation vessel, Sea Challenger, arrived at...

Vestas wins 148 MW order from First Wind
20 May 2014 Dutch firm Vestas has received an order to supply 48 of its V112-3.0...

NEC acquires A123 Energy Solutions
19 May 2014 NEC Corporation has announced completion of the acquisition of A123...

Germany sets new RE record
16 May 2014 The supply of renewable energy available on the system reached a new...

Second US Siemens H-class GT enters operation
15 May 2014 Three Siemens 274 MW SGT6-8000H gas turbines have started...

New foundation design selected for Fécamp
15 May 2014 A new "float out and sink" offshore wind turbine foundation design will...

Martifer completes grid parity solar project
15 May 2014 Martifer Solar says that the completion of one of the first non-subsidised...

US city opts for fast-response gas plant
15 May 2014 The US city of Alexandria has contracted Wärtsilä to supply a gas-fired...

Chevron begins shale drilling in Romania
15 May 2014 Chevron has started drilling its first exploratory well in search of...

Agua Caliente solar PV plant completed
14 May 2014 NRG Energy and MidAmerican Renewables say that they have...

Duke to build $1.5bn combined-cycle plant in Florida
14 May 2014 US utility Duke Energy has announced plans to invest a total of $1.86...

GDF Suez team wins French offshore wind tender
14 May 2014 The French government has selected a team comprising GDF Suez,...

E.ON results allow continued focus on renewables
13 May 2014 E.ON has reported a 13% fall in net income to €1.2 billion in the...

Second Siemens H class plant goes commercial in the USA
13 May 2014 Siemens reports that a second H class combined cycle plant, with an...

World premiere in Essen for a superconductor
13 May 2014 On 30 April RWE integrated the world's longest superconductor cable...

Shanghai Electric to buy 40% stake in Ansaldo Energia
12 May 2014 Shanghai Electric has agreed to acquire a 40% stake in Italian firm...

Power-to-gas storage plant commissioned in Germany
12 May 2014 ITM Power, the energy storage company, has officially inaugurated the...

US DOE funds offshore wind demos
08 May 2014 The US Department of Energy has selected three offshore wind...

Rolls-Royce sells gas turbine business to Siemens
08 May 2014 Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement to sell its energy gas turbine...

Scotland supports quayside development
08 May 2014 The Scottish government is hoping to boost the development of the...

Alstom profits fall as it considers GE bid
07 May 2014 French engineering group Alstom has reported a 28% fall in net profits...

FW closes SESS purchase
07 May 2014 Foster Wheeler has started to integrate the assets of Siemens...

RWE plans Littlebrook closure
07 May 2014 RWE's 1140 MW Littlebrook power plant in the UK is set to close at the end...

UK and Japan make pledge on energy, climate change
06 May 2014 The UK and Japan say they will work together to tackle climate change...

Vestas wins WTG order in Philippines
06 May 2014 Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received an order for 21...

Areva molten salt storage demo begins operations
06 May 2014 Areva has started operation of a molten salt energy storage...

Jinko signs 100 MW for Chile
06 May 2014 JinkoSolar is to supply 100 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to...

Mars partners on 200 MW Texas wind farm
02 May 2014 confectionery company Mars Incorporated is to partner with...

Alstom board endorses GE bid
01 May 2014 The Alstom board of directors has confirmed (Wednesday 30 April) that it...

US could double hydropower capacity by 2030
01 May 2014 There is potential for over 65 GW of new hydropower development -...

Trina supplies Chile project
01 May 2014 Trina Solar is to supply 36 MW of its high efficiency solar modules to...

GE targets India's solar sector
01 May 2014 The financial arm of GE has made its first investment in India's solar...

April 2014

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6 Alpha to help TenneT navigate North Sea minefield
30 April 2014 Offshore risk management firm 6 Alpha Associates is to help TenneT reduce...

GDF Suez inaugurates Uch II combined cycle plant
30 April 2014 GDF Suez has officially inaugurated the Uch II combined cycle power plant...

Banks shore up Brazilian utilities
29 April 2014 A group of 13 banks have pledged a loan of BR11.2 billion ($5.1 billion)...

US could face 4% emissions rise by 2040 with accelerated nuclear retirements
29 April 2014 Carbon dioxide emissions could be 4% higher in 2040 if all US nuclear...

Alstom considers two rescue deals
28 April 2014 Troubled French engineering giant Alstom, which recently put its...

Foundations complete at Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm
28 April 2014 RWE Innogy says it has successfully installed all 160 foundations for the...

Obama boosts US solar sector
24 April 2014 The US government has promised to support the deployment of solar energy in...

UK wind cut-backs threatened
24 April 2014 The UK's Conservative party, which is in government in coalition with...

Ontario eliminates coal generation
24 April 2014 The Canadian province of Ontario has fulfilled its commitment to end...

Support for offshore wind and biomass under the UK's new CfD scheme
24 April 2014 Eight projects have been awarded investment contracts under what is...

Google signs up to its largest renewable energy commitment
24 April 2014 Google has signed its seventh, and largest commitment to date, to...

RWE announces first UK solar farm
24 April 2014 RWE has made is first foray into the UK's rapidly-growing solar energy sector.

Energos moves waste plant project to next stage
24 April 2014 Energos has appointed Mott MacDonald to provide engineering, procurement...

Japan energises mega solar project
24 April 2014 Japan's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant has started operating.

Doosan opens centre to analyse power plant operation data
22 April 2014 Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has begun a drive to expand its...

Major suppliers fined over cable cartel
15 April 2014 Goldman Sachs Group, which owned Prysmian between 2005 and 2010, and a...

BorWin3 grid connection contracts awarded
15 April 2014 The main contracts for the BorWin3 offshore wind platform grid...

Clean coal IPP for Dubai?
15 April 2014 DEWA has announced a competitive tender to select a developer (or...

GE Distributed Power goes to Latin America
15 April 2014 GE's is to supply four LM2500+G4 aeroderivative gas turbine generators to...

Tawau marks progress on geothermal project
15 April 2014 Tawau Green Energy has signed two separate memoranda of understanding...

E.ON welcomes fuel tax refund decision
15 April 2014 E.ON has welcomed a decision by the Hamburg Finance Court to uphold...

Enel signs MOU in China
15 April 2014 Enel is aiming to take advantage of growth opportunities in China's...

Deep disappointment over Temelin cancellation
14 April 2014 Westinghouse describes itself as "deeply disappointed" by the cancellation...

Foster Wheeler awarded Thai Binh contract
14 April 2014 Marubeni Corporation has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract to design...

Alpiq acquires UK demand response leader Flexitricity
10 April 2014 With the acquisition of Flexitricity, said to be UK's leader in...

GE launches new low-wind speed turbine in India
10 April 2014 GE has introduced a new advanced low-wind speed turbine, the 1.7-103,...

Alstom to supply gas turbines to CC plant in Chile
10 April 2014 Alstom is to supply two GT13E2 gas turbines and long-term services for...

TCM reports carbon capture R&D is thriving
10 April 2014 A comprehensive report analysing the next generation of carbon...

Norway boosts renewables investment
10 April 2014 Norway has mandated its sovereign wealth fund to increase investments...

Siemens wins $590m order to equip Saudi CC plant
09 April 2014 Siemens Energy has received an order to equip the three-unit Rabigh...

ABB to invest $300 million in China expansion
09 April 2014 ABB has announced that it will invest $300 million over the next five...

UK unveils rooftop solar strategy
08 April 2014 The UK government has published the second part of its solar strategy,...

ABB and Prysmian to supply cable for Danish wind farm
08 April 2014 ABB has won a $40 million order from Danish transmission system...

NEC commissions energy storage system for Enel
03 April 2014 NEC Corporation has commissioned an Energy Storage System (ESS) for...

UK National Renewable Energy Centre and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult merge
03 April 2014 The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and the National Renewable...

GSE Systems deploys CCGT simulator in UK
02 April 2014 A full scope combined cycle power plant simulator supplied by GSE...

MHI and Vestas' offshore wind JV starts-up
02 April 2014 Vestas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have officially launched a new...

IEA's PV snapshot: Asia takes the lead
01 April 2014 After two years of market and industry consolidation, the PV market...

Alstom wins €400 million contract to build gas plant in Iraq
01 April 2014 Alstom has secured a turnkey contract worth close to €400 million with...

IPCC report warns world is 'ill prepared' for changing climate
01 April 2014 In its latest report Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel...

March 2014

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GE's new H class turbine is all-air-cooled
31 March 2014 GE has introduced a new all-air-cooled version of its H class gas...

Yangjiang nuclear plant enters commercial operation
31 March 2014 Unit 1 at China General Nuclear Power's Yangjiang nuclear plant has...

GDF Suez acquires UK wind developer West Coast Energy
28 March 2014 GDF Suez has announced the acquisition West Coast Energy, a...

Bechtel-led team to build 695 MW Canadian hydro project
27 March 2014 A Bechtel-led consortium has won a contract worth around CAD$1.4...

Alstom to supply 3x660 MW supercritical boilers for Indian coal plant
27 March 2014 Alstom has been awarded a contract worth close to €40 million by Bharat...

FOSG report recommends path to European Supergrid
27 March 2014 Supergrid is the only way to optimise the energy mix in Europe,...

Siemens to construct offshore wind factory in UK
26 March 2014 Siemens is investing more than €190 million (GBP160 million) in new...

Atkins, Seaway Heavy Lifting win contracts for Dudgeon offshore wind farm
25 March 2014 UK-based Atkins has been awarded the monopile engineering contract for...

$870m finance agreed for Lake Turkana wind project, Kenya
24 March 2014 Financing agreements worth over US$870 million have been signed for the...

ABB wins Swedish grid orders worth $45m
24 March 2014 ABB has won contracts worth $45 million for the design and supply of...

Cahill to invest in WTE plant in Barbados
24 March 2014 Cahill Energy has signed a 30-year contract with the Government of...

K-Electric plans 660 MW coal plant
21 March 2014 Planning of Pakistan's first coal-fired power plant built on...

Nordsee Ost foundations installed
21 March 2014 RWE reports that it has installed all 49 foundations for the Nordsee...

Gestamp Solar and 8minutenergy sign PPA
20 March 2014 Building of a 50 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in California is set...

Financial aid for Brazilian utilities
20 March 2014 The Brazilian government has agreed a $5 billion package to shield...

India OKs new coal plant
20 March 2014 India's Ministry of Environment has given its approval to the development...

GE introduces uprated WTG
20 March 2014 GE has announced the availability of its 2.75-120 wind turbine, an...

GE and Highview sign collaboration agreement on storage
19 March 2014

RES pulls the plug on North Blyth biomass
19 March 2014

Offshore cost reduction technologies get support
18 March 2014 Four offshore wind technology projects have been awarded grants under...

ETI to research new build siting constraints
18 March 2014 The UK Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners to undertake...

Californian utilities directed to replace SONGS output
17 March 2014 The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has directed...

RWE agrees sale of O&G business
17 March 2014 German utility RWE has agreed terms for the sale of its oil and...

Areva offers Novinium cable life-extension tech to nuclear industry
17 March 2014 French company Areva has signed an exclusive agreement with Novinium to...

React Energy looks to biomass acquisitions
14 March 2014 Clean energy developer React Energy has announced the acquisition of...

Bids opened for Kotli hydropower project
14 March 2014 The government of Pakistan is currently evaluating the bids it received...

Blackouts in South Africa caused by heavy rainfall
13 March 2014 South Africa has endured power emergencies and rolling blackouts after...

155 MW PV project finalised in Ghana
13 March 2014 Ghana is set to have the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in...

Vestas back on top in wind turbine market
13 March 2014 Thanks to a large number of installations in the USA, Vestas has regained...

AMEC teams with Exelon to explore new energy market opportunities
13 March 2014 International engineering and project management company AMEC is teaming...

New report warns of massive amount of water used by traditional power plants
12 March 2014 A report published by the European Wind Energy Association highlights...

Alstom aims for higher towers and introduces new 3 MW onshore wind turbine
12 March 2014 Alstom has signed a partnership agreement with Freyssinet with the aim...

Areva and Schneider Electric partner for French offshore wind
12 March 2014 Areva has chosen Schneider Electric as its preferred supplier of...

Voith to modernise Serbian hydro plant
12 March 2014 Voith Hydro is starting work to replace four generators and four...

Fukushima evacuees can return to Tamura City in April
11 March 2014 Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced that the evacuation...

EVN starts Vinh Tan 4 construction
11 March 2014 Construction has started on a 1200 MW coal-fired power plant in central Vietnam.

GE launches new space frame tower for wind turbines
11 March 2014 GE has announced the introduction of a new "space frame tower"...

Fortum, UPM and Valmet take next step on CHP-integrated pyrolysis
11 March 2014 Fortum, UPM and Valmet (formerly Metso) are continuing their collaboration...

Alstom to provide FACTS for Karben initiative
10 March 2014 Alstom has been awarded a contract by transmission grid operator TenneT...

Wood Group GTS reports upgrade and service contracts
07 March 2014 Wood Group GTS has been awarded a contract by the City of Austin to...

MH signs LTSA for Damhead Creek
07 March 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and ScottishPower have signed...

Keeping it simple in Siberia
07 March 2014 Commissioning has begun at the largest installation of gas turbine...

Fennovoima amends its application for Finnish reactor
07 March 2014 Finnish nuclear developer Fennovoima has submitted an application to...

LADWP goes for GE F-class/LMS100 hybrid
07 March 2014 For its Scattergood repowering project the Los Angeles Department of...

Swansea Bay tidal plan accepted by UK government
06 March 2014 The 320 MW Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon,to be located off the coast of Wales,...

Bluesphere and Alfa Eco sign global agreement
05 March 2014 Bluesphere Corp. and Alfa Eco have signed a joint venture agreement to...

First Solar sets new PV record
05 March 2014 First Solar has broken a record held by GE for cadmium-telluride...

UK solar sector sees rapid growth
04 March 2014 Solar energy developers in the UK are racing to complete new...

Bosnia launches coal plant tender
04 March 2014 The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina is seeking a strategic investor...

GDF-Suez in huge asset write-down
03 March 2014 Despite 'meeting all its 2013 targets' GDF-Suez wrote down €14.9 billion...

RWE expected to declare €3bn net loss
03 March 2014 RWE, Germany's second biggest utility, is expected to declare a net loss...

Once through HRSGs for Shell’s Carmon Creek
03 March 2014 Siemens-owned NEM has started fabrication of the first major components...

February 2014

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High renewables penetration can be achieved in every country - IEA study
28 February 2014 A landmark study released on 26 February by the International Energy...

First Siemens WTG order for output-enhanced 3 MW class
28 February 2014 Siemens Energy has been awarded a major order by Minnesota Power for 64...

FEED funding for Peterhead CCGT CCS project
28 February 2014 Shell has signed an agreement with the UK government to take the...

GE's new distributed power business offers gas turbines and recips
28 February 2014 GE has launched a new business, Distributed Power, combining three...

'Europe needs a network not a patchwork' - FOSG
27 February 2014 At their inaugural Summit on 25 and 26 February in Edinburgh, the CEOs of...

Nexans to build Maritime Link
26 February 2014 NSP Maritime Link Inc. has awarded Nexans a €175 million contract to build...

SaskPower CCS project delayed
26 February 2014 SaskPower's Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage project will not be...

London Array puts the brakes on Phase 2
25 February 2014 The companies behind the London Array offshore wind farm say that they...

Alstom wins fourth FGD contract in India
24 February 2014 Alstom is to undertake its fourth flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) project...

Fukushima decontamination is in the hands of a robot
23 February 2014 MHI has begun full demonstration testing of its "MEISTeR" remote...

Construction begins on East Africa's first utility-scale PV plant
23 February 2014 Dutch solar developer Gigawatt Global Coöperatief has closed $23.7 million...

New pumped storage for Austria
23 February 2014 Voith Hydro has received new orders to equip two pumped-storage plants...

Trianel wind farm halfway to completion
21 February 2014 Areva has installed 20 of the contracted 40 wind turbines at the Trianel...

Doosan Babcock to support EDF Energy reactor fleet
20 February 2014 Doosan Babcock is to provide operational support and lifetime...

World’s largest CSP inaugurated
20 February 2014 The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station, the world’s...

Vestas' 8.0 MW WTG to be deployed at Burbo Bank
19 February 2014 Following a competitive tender by Dong Energy, Vestas has been chosen as...

EU reports 8% fall in energy consumption from 2006
19 February 2014 Energy consumption in the EU28 has fallen from a peak of 1830 million...

First EPR containment tests completed at OL3
18 February 2014 Finnish utility TVO has announced that containment pressure and...

Argentina starts construction of CAREM reactor
18 February 2014 Argentina has poured first nuclear concrete for a domestically-designed...

USA's first floating wind farm
17 February 2014 A Seattle energy company has received initial regulatory approval to...

Burgeoning market for gas gensets
17 February 2014 In the last three years, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan,...

ABB wins Dudgeon power cable contract
17 February 2014 ABB has won an order worth around $55 million to supply a submarine AC...

Liquid air storage gets R&D funding
13 February 2014 Funding has been awarded to Viridor Waste Management and Highview...

E.ON's Aachen storage system to combine three battery types
13 February 2014 E.ON, Exide, beta-motion, and SMA Solar Technology plan to build a 5...

Alstom seeks to repair cash flow hole
13 February 2014 Cash-strapped engineering giant Alstom may use a stock market listing to...

Alstom offshore wind turbines for Deepwater
12 February 2014 Alstom has signed a contract to supply five 6 MW wind turbines, of...

8 MW wind turbine start operations
10 February 2014 A prototype 8 MW offshore wind turbine is up and running, making it...

EU Parliament votes against dropping renewables targets
10 February 2014 In a vote on 5 February the European Parliament set its face against...

Vestas completes two-year turnaround
10 February 2014 Vestas says that it has delivered on the main focus areas of the...

Bank postpones Inga 3 loan decision
10 February 2014 The World Bank has postponed a board-level discussion of its support for...

Siemens and Zolo expand joint activities
10 February 2014 Siemens Energy and the US-based company Zolo Technologies have expanded...

Cuadrilla proposes new UK fracking sites
10 February 2014 Shale gas firm Cuadrilla has announced two new exploration sites in the UK.

Areva and Schneider partner in energy storage
06 February 2014 Areva and Schneider Electric have signed a strategic partnership...

Global wind capacity grew 'only' 12.5% in 2013
06 February 2014 The latest statistics from the Global Wind Energy Council show...

Mixed reactions to Commission's 2030 Framework
05 February 2014 The European Commission's new Framework for Climate and Energy,...

MHI and Hitachi launch their merged power business
05 February 2014 Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS), a thermal power...

Alstom to provide two 900 MW units for Poland's largest coal-fired plant
04 February 2014 Alstom has signed contracts worth approximately €1.25 billion with...

First MHI J-Series GT for the USA
04 February 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is to supply an M501J gas turbine for...

Poland to build its first nuclear plant
03 February 2014 Poland's government has adopted a revised nuclear programme which...

DoE formalises $1 billion CCS grant
03 February 2014 The US DoE has announced that FutureGen 2.0, the government-backed...

US opens new solar investigation
03 February 2014 The US Department of Commerce has started a new investigation into imports...

Iberdrola connects West of Duddon Sands wind farm
03 February 2014 The first offshore wind turbines at the West of Duddon Sands wind farm...

UK offshore wind farm safety questioned
03 February 2014 Many wind farm service vessel (WFSV) operators are failing to comply with...

Dong plans new WTG foundation demo
03 February 2014 Offshore wind farms featuring suction bucket-style foundations could...

Cummins upgrades its lean burn offering
01 February 2014 Cummins Power Generation has launched a new lean-burn gas generator...

Green light for 6 MW Mainz PEM electrolysis plant
01 February 2014

January 2014

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First MXL2 upgrade package in the Middle East
28 January 2014 Alstom has secured a key contract in the United Arab Emirates with...

EU sets binding carbon emissions targets
28 January 2014 A new EU framework on climate and energy for 2030 was presented on 22...

Google signs new wind PPA in Sweden
28 January 2014 Google has reaffirmed its commitment to powering its datacentres...

Indonesian power plant granted Finnish export credit financing
28 January 2014 Indonesia's national electric utility PT PLN has signed two 12-year term...

Iberdrola wins Mexico CCGT
28 January 2014 Iberdrola has won an international tender for the construction of a...

MHI, Hitachi to collaborate in China
28 January 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Hitachi have signed an agreement...

Flow battery breakthrough
27 January 2014 A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type...

New internal leak found at Fukushima 3
27 January 2014 It has been discovered that contaminated water has been flowing into...

Gamesa accelerates offshore wind development with Areva joint venture
27 January 2014 Gamesa and Areva are to combine their offshore wind business units in...

MHI CCS demo takes significant step forward
20 January 2014 A demonstration test for capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide...

Enel signs Mexico agreement
20 January 2014 Enel is planning to exchange information and experiences in the fields...

Google buys into home automation
20 January 2014 Google has announced that it is to buy Nest Labs, Inc., a US-based...

Abengoa to build new solar plant in Chile
20 January 2014

First UK AP1000 may be online 'by 2024'
19 January 2014 Westinghouse plans to build three AP1000s amounting to 3.4 GWe at...

Canada's nuclear sector requires long term strategy
19 January 2014 Canada's nuclear energy sector could have a strong future both...

South Korea cuts nuclear target
19 January 2014 The South Korean government says that its nuclear industry will continue...

AMEC proposes Foster Wheeler takeover
19 January 2014

Solar energy contracts awarded in Brazil
13 January 2014 Up to 123 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is to be built in...

ABB wins power orders worth $60 million in Saudi Arabia
13 January 2014 ABB has won orders worth over $60 million for substations that will...

Israel's first pumped storage power station
13 January 2014 Alstom has signed contracts totalling around €120 million for the supply...

RWE reduces wind farm capacity
13 January 2014 RWE has announced plans to scale back the size of a major proposed...

UK starts up £8m nuclear research programme
12 January 2014 Ten UK universities will collaborate with the nuclear industry in a new...

MEPs back 2030 targets
12 January 2014 Two key committees of the European Parliament have indicated their...

Greek plant tests EIB policy
12 January 2014 The European Investment Bank (EIB) will not provide financial support to...

RWE to close 7 UK plants
12 January 2014 RWE npower has made public its decisions regarding the future of its...

Pension fund sells Tepco stake
12 January 2014 One of the world's biggest pension funds has sold its stake in Tokyo...

Contract signed for USA's first commercial offshore wind farm
03 January 2014 Siemens and Cape Wind have signed a contract for the construction of...

New company set up to handle Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning
03 January 2014 Site operator Tepco is setting up a new internal company for...

MHI to install power island for DS Power's Osan plant
03 January 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd has received an order from Kepco for...

Statkraft, Norfund restructure SN Power deal
03 January 2014 Statkraft and Norfund have announced plans to create a leading...

SITA UK signs 30-year waste to energy contract
03 January 2014 SITA UK and its consortium partners have signed a 30 year PPP contract...

Toshiba offer for Iberdrola's NNB share
03 January 2014 Spanish utility Iberdrola has decided to sell its part ownership of the...

UK backs shale gas
03 January 2014 The British government says that large-scale shale gas production would...

Setting of AP1000 shielding at Sanmen 1 and Haiyang 1
03 January 2014 Westinghouse has announced the successful erection of the shield...

December 2013

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UK acts to encourage investment in power generation
20 December 2013 The UK Energy Bill designed to help unlock the "up to £110 billion"...

TEPCO to decommission Fukushima 5 and 6
20 December 2013 Plant operator TEPCO has decided to decommission the two undamaged reactors...

Areva-Siemens to cut staff at Olkiluoto 3 site
20 December 2013 French-German consortium Areva-Siemens plans to reduce the number of...

Fortum sells Finnish grid assets
20 December 2013 Fortum has sold its electricity network assets in Finland following...

Very Long Blade Project moves to prototype phase
20 December 2013 Blade Dynamics has announced that the design phase of its Very Long...

Mainstream aims for capital access
20 December 2013 Mainstream Renewable Power is aiming to overcome the barriers to...

Enel Green Power builds 100 MW in Mexico
20 December 2013 Enel Green Power is adding to its portfolio of power plants in Mexico...

Chu joins board of CCS firm
20 December 2013 Inventys Thermal Technologies has announced that former US Energy...

Ex-Im Bank approves $45 m export finance
20 December 2013 The Ex-Im Bank is to guarantee a $44.8 million loan extended by...

French court orders dismantling of two wind farms
13 December 2013 A French court has ordered La Compagnie du Vent (part of the GDF Suez...

UK parliament votes on coal firing future
13 December 2013 The House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament, has voted...

Beijing aims to cut coal
13 December 2013 The Beijing government has announced details of a plan to remove...

Dong divests UK power plant
13 December 2013 Dong Energy has signed an agreement with a consortium of investors for...

White Rose CCS awarded funding
13 December 2013 The UK's Energy and Climate Change secretary Edward Davey has announced...

IRENA launches cost analysis portal
13 December 2013 The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is aiming to improve...

European parliament approves backloading
13 December 2013 Plans to boost Europe's ailing emissions trading scheme (ETS) by...

Global steam turbine market set for steady growth
13 December 2013 The global steam turbine market is forecast to grow at a steady but...

Areva signs new agreements with its Chinese partners
13 December 2013 French nuclear company Areva has signed a series of major agreements...

Brussels to investigate UK nuclear aid
06 December 2013 Europe's competition authorities are to investigate the UK's offer of...

Nuclear generation fell 5% in 2012
06 December 2013 The amount of nuclear-generated electricity in the OECD area declined by...

UK subsidy shake-up boosts offshore wind
06 December 2013 Fiscal support for offshore wind projects in the UK is set to rise at...

Energy experts call for major rethink of GB power grid
06 December 2013 A group of energy experts set up by the Institution of Engineering...

Horizon signs agreements for Wylfa Newydd nuke
06 December 2013 Hitachi-owned Horizon Nuclear Power has signed an agreement with the...

Enel Green Power wins in Chile tender
06 December 2013 Enel Green Power is to invest millions of euros in the construction of...

Tasmania sets 100 per cent renewables target
06 December 2013 The government of Tasmania has released details of a new energy...

EU accord ends trade dispute with China
06 December 2013 The European Council has backed measures proposed by the European...

November 2013

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RWE to cut workforce by 10%
22 November 2013 German energy major RWE has announced plans to cut nearly 10 % of...

EU carbon policy 'needs new oversight organisation'
22 November 2013 An organisation that is above political interference is needed to restore...

ITER needs to make an "immediate plan" to address delays
22 November 2013 The international project to build the ITER experimental fusion reactor...

First offshore installation of Alstom's Haliade 150
22 November 2013 Alstom has completed the first coastally located installation of...

Suzlon Group launches new offshore turbine
22 November 2013 Suzlon Group has unveiled its new offshore wind turbine, the Repower...

Belarus starts construction of its first nuclear plant
22 November 2013 Work has officially started on Belarus' first nuclear power plant, located...

ABB to supply transformers for cloud computing centre in China
22 November 2013 ABB has won an order to supply 54 very high efficiency10 kV...

Some Fukushima residents 'may never return home'
15 November 2013 Japanese officials have, for the first time, conceded that thousands...

The MPS innovation awards: recognising the best in power generation technology
15 November 2013 The Modern Power Systems fossil power innovation awards, now extended...

Canada and Kazakhstan agreement on nuclear co-operation
15 November 2013 The world's top two uranium producing countries, Canada and Kazakhstan...

CCS key to combating climate change, say ministers
15 November 2013 Energy and environment ministers from member nations of the CSLF say...

E.ON sells majority stake in Rödsand II
15 November 2013 SEAS-NVE has purchased a majority stake in the 207 MW Rödsand offshore...

Role for coal in Europe
15 November 2013 The European Commission's focus on natural gas and renewable energy will...

Renewables and efficiency key to emissions gap
15 November 2013 World Wildlife Fund has called for more action on renewable energy and...

Consent for UK's largest offshore wind demo site
15 November 2013 The development of the UK's largest offshore wind demonstration site has...

Siemens to supply 20 industrial GTs in Thailand
15 November 2013 Siemens Energy has received orders from IPPs in Thailand for a total of...

ABB opens two new manufacturing plants in India
15 November 2013 ABB has inaugurated two new facilities producing power products in India...

Oyster 800 steps up power production
15 November 2013 Aquamarine Power's Oyster 800 wave energy device deployed in...

Six die at Eskom construction site
08 November 2013 Six construction employees were killed and a further seven injured when...

European Commission warns on subsidies
08 November 2013 The European Commission has warned that state intervention in the...

Basemat at Summer 3 nuclear plant completed
08 November 2013

£5 m funding for storage innovation
08 November 2013 Two UK firms have been awarded a share of over £5 million in total to spur...

First trial of carbon fibre OH line
08 November 2013 Nexans and RTE are conducting a field trial of Nexans' Lo-Sag HV...

UK announces offshore wind and energy storage investments
08 November 2013 The drive to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy in the UK has...

Consultation starts on new giant wind farm
08 November 2013 Public consultation has begun for offshore wind consortium Forewind's...

Chevron inks shale gas deal with Ukraine
08 November 2013 Ukraine has signed its second major shale gas deal this year as it...

Alstom accelerates cost saving programme
08 November 2013 Alstom is to speed up the execution of it planned cost saving plan in...

US treasury issues new guidelines on coal plant funding
04 November 2013 On 29 October the US Treasury Department issued new guidance designed...

US consortium is seeking to buy PBMR company
04 November 2013 National Project Management Corporation (NPMC) is to meet with South...

Storage system for Californian Science Center
04 November 2013 GE Energy Storage is to participate in a load-shifting project at...

EBRI enhances bioenergy research activity
04 November 2013 The European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) has unveiled brand...

Further boost for solar and wind in SA
04 November 2013 Mainstream Renewable Power is planning the development of three...

Iberdrola commissions Algeria CCGT
04 November 2013 Iberdrola Ingeniería has completed commissioning of the 1200 MW...

October 2013

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California adopts energy storage targets
24 October 2013 The CPUC has set a target for California's investor-owned utilities...

Doosan and ADF join forces for Gardanne biomass project
24 October 2013 Doosan and Groupe ADF have entered an 18-month partnership following...

Global power transformer market to exceed $19 bn by 2020
24 October 2013 The global power transformer market is expected to increase from...

Renewables sector growing fast in South Africa
24 October 2013 South Africa's successful execution of its renewable energy programme...

Iberdrola Ingeniería to build Kenya wind farm
24 October 2013 Iberdrola Ingeniería has signed a turnkey contract to build a 61 MW wind...

Enel and Huaneng strengthen clean coal co-operation
24 October 2013 Italy's Enel is aiming to boost investment and research in clean...

6 MW Siemens WTG installed at SSE in the UK
24 October 2013 Siemens has installed a market-ready version of its new 6 MW gearless...

184 MW Arun peaking plant will stabilize Indonesian grid
24 October 2013 The firm building Indonesia's largest gas engine-based peaking power...

UK closes nuclear deal with EDF
22 October 2013 The UK government and the French state-owned EDF Group have...

Accenture and Siemens form joint venture
18 October 2013 IT company Accenture has entered into an agreement with Siemens to form...

UK government gives go ahead to Chinese nuke companies 
18 October 2013 The UK chancellor has announced that the government is to give the go...

CG inaugurates 1600 kV UHV research centre
18 October 2013 Avantha Group company CG has inaugurated a 1600 kV ultra high...

EPA rules face legal challenge
18 October 2013 The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear petitions opposing new EPA clean...

Greenpeace launches legal block to UK fracking
18 October 2013 Greenpeace has launched a legal challenge to fracking in England, in a...

German grid companies increase green surcharge
18 October 2013 Germany's four network operators have announced that they will increase...

Commission unveils PCI list
18 October 2013 Around 250 energy infrastructure projects in the EU are set to benefit...

Asia-Pacific must embrace cross-border exchanges, says ADB
18 October 2013 Countries in Asia-Pacific will account for more than half of the...

Statoil pulls out of Maine Hywind project
18 October 2013 Statoil has canned plans to develop a $120 million project off the coast...

UK nuke deal 'is imminent'
11 October 2013 A contract to build Britain's first new nuclear power station in almost...

Fracking firms demand compensation
11 October 2013

Galán calls for clear and stable energy policy
11 October 2013 Iberdrola Chairman Ignacio Galán has criticised European governments...

Construction of Javanese supercritical coal plant delayed
11 October 2013 Plans for the construction of a 2000 MW supercritical coal-fired power...

Myanmar planning first wind farms
11 October 2013 Companies from China and Thailand are surveying possible sites for...

REpower installs its 5000th WTG
11 October 2013 Suzlon Group subsidiary REpower Systems SE has announced the completion...

India prepares for shale gas drilling
11 October 2013 The Indian government is hoping that the exploitation of shale gas...

Plans for new geothermal plant in Indonesia
11 October 2013 Sumitomo has won the contract to build a 35 MW geothermal power plant...

Alstom and GDF Suez team up for tidal projects
03 October 2013 Alstom and GDF Suez are hoping to build a pilot tidal power plant in...

Vestas and Mitsubishi seal offshore JV
03 October 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Vestas have agreed to form a joint...

Tanzania poised for renewables shift
03 October 2013 Tanzania is planning to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and make...

Myanmar plans grid upgrade
03 October 2013 The government of Myanmar is to formulate a long term energy plan and...

Last EVAP D module delivered to Sellafield
03 October 2013 Costain has delivered the last major module to be installed at...

Ikea, Hanergy start PV partnership
03 October 2013 Furnishings giant Ikea has started selling solar photovoltaic (PV) systems...

US EPA issues new CO2 proposals
02 October 2013 On 20 September the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a new...

Mongstad CCS plant cancelled
02 October 2013 The Norwegian government has dropped plans for a full-scale carbon...

September 2013

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DNV GL merger approved by competition authorities
27 September 2013 The merger between DNV-Kema and GL Group (owner of Germanischer Lloyd)...

Ten-year wait predicted for carbon price rebound
27 September 2013 Carbon prices in Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS) will remain...

Severn Barrage tidal project rejected
27 September 2013 Plans for the construction of a £25 billion tidal energy barrage that...

World record solar cell efficiency reported
27 September 2013 The Fraunhofer Institute has announced the achievement of a new world...

DoE proposes new approach for Hanford nuclear cleanup
27 September 2013 The US Department of Energy has proposed a new phased approach for...

Ivanpah solar station reaches 'first sync' milestone
27 September 2013 On 24 September Unit 1 of the world's largest solar thermal project reached...

Estonian policies halve greenhouse gas emissions
27 September 2013 Recent energy policies in Estonia have helped to reduce the carbon...

Abengoa selected for Uruguay wind farm
27 September 2013 Uruguayan state electricity company, UTE, has selected Abengoa to build...

Vestas order has potential for 610 MW supply chain
27 September 2013 Vestas says that it could supply Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc...

FW to develop design for major energy projects in Peru
26 September 2013 Wood MacKenzie has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract to provide...

Billions in smart grid investment 'under threat' - Frost & Sullivan
20 September 2013 In August, Germany's Economy ministry published a report, carried out...

ABB commissions Thornton Bank connection
20 September 2013 The subsea transmission link connecting one of the largest offshore...

NRC approval for advanced logic safety system
20 September 2013

World Coal Association launches Warsaw Communiqué
20 September 2013 The World Coal Association has launched an initiative to support the use...

Alstom and Scottish Power sign MOU on tidal power
20 September 2013 Alstom and ScottishPower Renewables have signed an agreement to...

Geothermal market continues to expand
20 September 2013 The global geothermal market is steadily expanding with over 11 GW...

Taiwan orders J-Series GTs
20 September 2013 Taipower has placed an order with MHI for the construction of a...

Blue Transmission wins London Array link bid
20 September 2013 A joint venture between Mitsubishi Corp and Barclays Banks has paid...

Plan for world's largest offshore wind farm gets go ahead
13 September 2013 Triton Knoll, potentially the world's largest offshore wind farm, has...

USA installs 832 MW of solar PV in Q2 2013
13 September 2013 A new market update shows continued growth in the US solar market - 832...

China's new clean air plan will curb coal imports
13 September 2013 The Chinese government's new plan to improve air quality in the...

Planning permission sought for floating wind project
13 September 2013 A project to install a prototype floating wind turbine in UK waters has...

Nordic countries follow US lead on coal financing
13 September 2013 Five Nordic countries have followed in the footsteps of the US in...

Dominion wins offshore lease
13 September 2013

OPT wins DOE award
13 September 2013 Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) says that a $1 million funding award from...

Rosatom announces collaboration in UK nuclear new-build
08 September 2013 Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom has teamed up with...

Global market for solar PV modules to stabilise by 2020 
08 September 2013 Solar module installations enjoyed a significant increase from...

Tepco reports higher dose measurements at Fukushima site
08 September 2013 Radiation dose measurements taken near a tank storing contaminated water...

GE and XD Electric launch global T&D partnership
08 September 2013 GE and XD Electric Group have announced officially the formation of a...

Alstom to supply ECO 122 WTGs for project in Brazil
08 September 2013 Alstom has signed a contract worth around €25 million with Enerplan, a...

Samsung's 7MW offshore WTG goes to Narec for on-shore tests
08 September 2013 Samsung' prototype 7MW offshore wind turbine nacelle has been delivered...

UK government 'should provide more clarity for power sector beyond 2020'
08 September 2013 An independent report compiled by independent think tank Carbon...

Offshore wind costs could be cut by one-third
01 September 2013 The offshore wind energy sector has the potential to realise significant...

More H-class GTs going to the USA
01 September 2013 Siemens has received an order for the supply of two power plant units...

China's coal plant plans could stretch water resources
01 September 2013 China could further stress its water resources if it goes ahead with plans...

ADB to finance Indonesia-Malaysia power link
01 September 2013 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to provide a $49.5 million loan to...

Abengoa completes Khi One
01 September 2013 South Africa has marked a major milestone in the construction of...

EIB backs renewable energy in Central America
01 September 2013 The European Investment Bank plans to help unlock millions of dollars...

Siemens to supply direct-drive WTGs to France
01 September 2013 Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and...

Alstom and Lappeenranta university announce co-operation agreement
01 September 2013 Alstom is planning to gain a better understanding of how wind turbines...

DolWin alpha sets new record
01 September 2013 The world's highest capacity offshore wind connector has been installed...

August 2013

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RWE to mothball 3100 MW
27 August 2013 RWE has decided to take 3100 MW of generation capacity off-line in...

Mitsubishi buys into solar plants in France
27 August 2013 Mitsubishi Corp has increased its presence in the renewable energy...

E.On starts work on onshore base for Amrumbank
27 August 2013 E.On says that it is planning to be on the island of Helgoland "for the...

Fracking plans divide UK
27 August 2013 The debate in the UK over the pros and cons of exploiting reserves of...

Bloom Energy starts fuel cell leasing scheme
27 August 2013 A US fuel cell firm is helping its customers install its clean energy...

Brazil plans licence auction
27 August 2013 Brazilian energy research corporation EPE says that the country's...

Kegco orders Mitsubishi CCGT
27 August 2013 An independent power producer (IPP) in Thailand has placed a turnkey...

Voith's largest unit enters service in China
27 August 2013 The most powerful generator-turbine hydro unit ever built by Voith...

Incentives are boosting solar in Japan
27 August 2013 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry says that the government...

DoE backs university turbine research
27 August 2013 The US government has pledged around $5 million to help universities...

Vestas starts up 20 MW test bench
27 August 2013 Vestas says that its current and future product portfolio will benefit...

E.ON warns of more plant closures
16 August 2013 Declaring first half 2013 results, German utility E.ON blamed a decline...

UK smart meter preferred bidders announced
16 August 2013 The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change has selected Capita, CGI...

US DoE reports new records for wind energy
16 August 2013 New data from the US Department of Energy shows that over 13 GW of new...

Macquarie assets up for sale
16 August 2013 The government of New South Wales in Australia says that it is hoping...

Site preparation starts at Apas Kiri
16 August 2013 Malaysia's first geothermal energy plant is on schedule to start operating...

Vestas wins orders for Eastern Cape projects
16 August 2013 A consortium led by Innowind has placed an order with Vestas for...

EGCO expands Australian portfolio
16 August 2013 Thailand's EGCO Group says that it will use its first successful...

Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm enters operation as the world's second largest
12 August 2013 The 500 MW Greater Gabbard, located off the coast of Suffolk, cost...

Prysmian and Terna implement first HV grid with eco-sustainable cable   
12 August 2013

Pioneering European project produces first algae crops for bioenergy
12 August 2013 The EU-backed All-gas project reports that it has successfully grown...

Duke Energy cancels Levy County EPC contract
12 August 2013 Duke Energy has terminated the engineering, procurement and...

Rolls-Royce joins NuScale venture
12 August 2013 Rolls-Royce has decided to support the US-based NuScale Power in...

GA applies to DoE for small reactor funding
12 August 2013 General Atomics has applied to the US Department of Energy for funding...

ABB wins $32 million order to power Africa's biggest copper mine
12 August 2013 The order is from Kansanshi Mining plc, Zambia, for the construction of a...

Nexans to provide power umbilical for Julia project in Gulf of Mexico
12 August 2013 Nexans has been awarded a major contract by OneSubsea to supply an...

EDF to exit US nuclear business
05 August 2013 Électricité de France, the world's largest nuclear generator, began...

EU-China PV trade settlement endorsed by the European Commission
05 August 2013 On 2 August the European Commission endorsed the compromise arrived at in...

UK to invest £66 million in expansion of offshore wind business
05 August 2013 The UK government and business have announced a long-term strategy...

AP1000 takes 'significant step' in Canadian market
05 August 2013 The Westinghouse AP1000 pressurised water reactor has completed Phase 2...

Gehrlicher Solar rescue is on the cards
05 August 2013 Photovoltaics manufacturer Gehrlicher Solar AG, which recently filed...

Europe's largest energy storage trial launched
05 August 2013 S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos have signed a joint...

July 2013

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EU-China PV talks 'are stalled'
29 July 2013 Negotiations aimed at finding a solution to the current trade row...

£250 m Blyth biomass power plant gets the go-ahead
26 July 2013 The UK government has given planning consent for the £250 m 100 MW...

GE's superconducting generator takes a long step forward
26 July 2013 GE Power Conversion has been factory testing a pioneering form...

Marubeni to build $2 billion coal plant in Indonesia
26 July 2013 Japan's diversified Marubeni Corp plans to construct a 1000 MW...

Bulgaria's power distributors face bankruptcy
26 July 2013 CEZ, EVN and Energo Pro are reported to be facing de-facto bankruptcy...

China's SCADA market to hit $20 billion by 2020
26 July 2013 China's intense focus on national smart grid development will drive...

Coal accounted for 39% of UK electricity production in 2012
26 July 2013 Statistics released by the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change...

Star Group completes first phase of Ukraine's largest solar plant
26 July 2013 Slovakia's Star Group has finished building the first phase of the...

Alstom wins La Romaine hydro project
26 July 2013 Alstom has been awarded a contract worth more than $ 90 million CA (€...

Draft of UK energy plan published
20 July 2013 On 17 July energy minister Edward Davey published for public consultation...

Offshore wind set for €15 billion annual investment
20 July 2013 The UK and Germany are expected to drive growth in the global offshore...

Germany rebuffs nuclear subsidy speculation
20 July 2013 In advance of official publication, Germany's government has rebuffed...

Cryogenic energy storage grant for Birmingham University
20 July 2013 e University of Birmingham in the UK has been awarded a £6m grant to create...

Malzenice CCGT to be mothballed
20 July 2013 E.ON plans to close down its combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant...

Early switch for carbon trading in Australia
20 July 2013

PINAI fund finances Philippine wind project
20 July 2013 A new investment fund has selected a wind power project in the Philippines...

Ireland-France interconnector - feasibility study
19 July 2013 EirGrid and its French counterpart, RTE have signed a Memorandum...

Japanese nuclear operators apply for restart
15 July 2013 Several nuclear reactor operators in Japan have filed requests with...

High efficiency inductive ev charger developed
15 July 2013 Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE...

Africa's largest gas power plant inaugurated
15 July 2013 The largest power plant running exclusively on gas engines on the...

Green light for Triton Knoll
12 July 2013 The UK government has given the go-ahead for the development of a 1200...

E.On inaugurates world's largest offshore wind farm
12 July 2013 The developers of the world's largest offshore wind farm have...

Co-operation deal could diversify EU gas sources
12 July 2013 The European Commission is hoping that a draft agreement on...

Aquamarine Power releases Oyster performance data
12 July 2013 Aquamarine Power is to shut down its wave energy device operating in...

EWEA sounds warning on regulatory issues
12 July 2013 Wind industry group EWEA says that the offshore growth rate could start...

MEPs throw the ETS a lifeline
04 July 2013 The European parliament has thrown the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)...

UK government offers loan guarantee for Hinkley Point C nuke
04 July 2013 The UK government has stated that EDF's proposed EPR project at Hinkley...

Tilbury biomass development stalls
04 July 2013 RWE npower has decided to stop work on the development of its...

Tidal lagoon project takes major step forward
04 July 2013 Plans to build a 250MW tidal power plant off the coast of South Wales are...

India's PFBR is 'in advanced stages' of construction
04 July 2013 India's 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor is at 'an advanced stage'...

Industry responds to 2030 climate consultation
04 July 2013 Inefficient policies governing the electricity sector are leading...

GE and Nanjing Turbine to supply new cogen plant in China
04 July 2013 GE and NTC are to supply two 77 MW 6F 3-series gas turbines for the...

Alstom awarded Suratgarh power contract
04 July 2013 Alstom has been awarded a contract by Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL)...

June 2013

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Sinovel indicted in the USA for stealing AMSC trade secrets
28 June 2013 The indictment by the US Department of Justice of Chinese WTG...

Obama throws down the gauntlet on climate change
27 June 2013 US president Barack Obama has outlined a national action plan to...

Libya boosts summer capacity
27 June 2013 Libya is expanding its generating capacity with mobile power solutions.

Construction starts at the ITER complex
27 June 2013 Construction of the ITER fusion reactor in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France,...

DNV KEMA publishes standard for floating WTGs
27 June 2013 DNV KEMA has released its new standard for floating offshore wind...

RusHydro and Alstom cement their hydro joint venture
27 June 2013

Natural gas demand growth set to slow
27 June 2013 Persistent weak demand in European markets will slow the growth of...

OPT prepares for Australian sea bed survey
27 June 2013 Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) is moving forward with plans to build...

Dong divests wind and hydro businesses
27 June 2013 Dong Energy has signed an agreement to sell its onshore wind energy...

Carbon trading scheme launched in China
20 June 2013 China has reached a historic landmark in its efforts to reduce...

Revolutionary FCL under test
20 June 2013 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has installed and...

High levels of tritium found in groundwater near Fukushima Daiichi seawall
20 June 2013 Plant operator Tepco has discovered high levels of radioactive tritium...

G8 under pressure over fossil fuel subsidies
20 June 2013 World leaders meeting at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland in mid-June...

Commission proposes nuclear review law
20 June 2013 The European Commission has proposed a new directive that it says...

Siemens delivers Knapsack II ahead of schedule
20 June 2013 Siemens Energy has completed the 430 MWe Knapsack II combined-cycle...

Statkraft to build hydro plants in Albania
20 June 2013 Statkraft is to start construction in October of two new hydropower plants...

Danish pension funds invests in US offshore wind project
20 June 2013 The Cape Wind offshore wind project off the USA's eastern seaboard is...

MHI and Hitachi finalise integration of their power businesses
18 June 2013 MHI and Hitachi have announced the signing of a basic integration...

IEA attempts to keep climate goals alive
14 June 2013 On 10 June the International Energy Agency published its most recent...

MPs pour cold water on latest Severn barrage scheme
14 June 2013 Plans for a £25 bn hydro-electric barrage in the UK's Severn Estuary...

Edwardsport starts commercial operation
14 June 2013 Duke Energy's 618 MW Edwardsport integrated power and gasification...

US report on global shale gas resources
14 June 2013 The USA holds the world's fourth largest shale gas reserves after...

Centrica acquires shale gas interest
14 June 2013 Centrica has made a move into the UK's nascent shale gas sector with...

Iberdrola joins sustainable energy partnership
14 June 2013 Spanish energy firm Iberdrola says that its incorporation into the...

Lockheed Martin to develop protection systems for Chinese reactors
14 June 2013 Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with China's State Nuclear...

Rosatom ready to build nuclear power plants in Brazil
14 June 2013 Russia is "ready to build, operate and finance investments in nuclear...

Siemens develops new steam turbine for geothermal power plants
07 June 2013 Siemens Energy has developed a new steam turbine for geothermal power...

GE to build large nacelle testing facility in UK
07 June 2013 A £50 million testing facility based on leading-edge technology is now...

Commission imposes solar tariffs
07 June 2013 The European Commission has gone ahead with plans to impose...

GDF Suez enters South African market
07 June 2013 GDF Suez is to participate in South Africa's power generating market...

Construction milestone reached at Vogtle 3
07 June 2013

'Energy for all' benchmark published
07 June 2013 Global action on policy and investment is required if progress is to be...

Hitachi-GE and AREVA team up to supply venting systems for Japanese BWRs
07 June 2013 Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. and AREVA have announced that they intend...

New Dogger Bank wind zone contract
07 June 2013

Abengoa places Carty power plant order
07 June 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to supply the gas turbine combined...

AMSC stock rises before China hearing
03 June 2013 Stock in American Superconductor jumped 10 % on 28 May, in anticipation of...

May 2013

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EDF Energies Nouvelles and wpd offshore team up
31 May 2013 Wind farm developers EDF Energies Nouvelles and wpd offshore have signed...

First concrete poured at UAE's Barakah 2
31 May 2013 The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation gathered together senior ENEC,...

Nexans to supply EHV link for Coca Codo Sinclair hydro
31 May 2013 Nexans has been awarded a contract by China's Sinohydro Corp to supply...

504 MW Galloper wind farm consented
31 May 2013 Galloper Wind Farm Ltd has been granted permission by the UK government...

World's largest wave farm consented
31 May 2013 The Scottish government has given permission for the building of the...

E.ON lays groundwork for Amrumbank West
31 May 2013 In April E.ON started preparations for constructing the 288 MW, €1...

IAEA reviews Tepco's Fukushima road map
31 May 2013

UK public backs government subsidy for new nuclear build
31 May 2013 A new poll by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has found that 43%...

Grand Inga project to be launched in 2015
23 May 2013 The Democratic Republic of Congo has re-launched the process for...

EU Energy companies call for new energy policy
23 May 2013 CEOs of eight European energy companies have called on EU leaders to...

European power supplies 'at risk'
23 May 2013 The closure of natural gas-fired and coal-fired power plants in response...

Dong installs West Duddon substation
23 May 2013 The substation at the heart of the 389 MW West of Duddon Sands offshore...

National Grid and Statnett proceed to next stage in UK-Norway link
23 May 2013 The two companies have now signed a co-operation agreement to continue...

MHI completes P&W purchase
23 May 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed the acquisition of Pratt...

DECC report outlines huge renewables potential of Scottish Islands
23 May 2013 A report* just published by the UK's Department of Energy & Climate...

Chinese firms face PV tariffs in Europe
17 May 2013

'Innovation could unlock investment' - Eurelectric
17 May 2013 Technological and business model innovation in the power sector are...

Zambia plant awards O&M contract
17 May 2013 Ndola Energy Company (NECL) has awarded a ten year operations and...

Alstom to renovate the Kaprun Hauptstufe hydro plant
17 May 2013 Verbund Hydro Power AG has placed an order with Alstom for the renovation...

ABB wins Dungeness B upgrade contract
17 May 2013 ABB has won an important order to upgrade the steam turbine control...

UK shale gas prospects called into question
17 May 2013 The UK is "very unlikely" to reproduce the shale gas revolution seen in...

SSE to reinforce grid for renewables
17 May 2013 A consortium of ABB and Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has been...

'Europe can save € 45 billion in renewables development' - Siemens
17 May 2013 Siemens AG  has produced the first part of a study of European and...

Prysmian to install subsea power cables for Exxon
17 May 2013 The Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract worth more than $100...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches 400 ppm 'for the first time in 4 million years'
15 May 2013 According to a scientists at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory,...

Russia will spend USD 31 billion on nuclear development
10 May 2013 Mikhail Ulyanov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department...

Iberdrola and Gamesa sign deal for Mexico wind farm
10 May 2013 Iberdrola says that it is leading the development of renewable energy...

Power blackout hits Philippines
10 May 2013 Half of the largest island in the Philippines was affected in early May by...

LNG plant to host energy storage innovation
10 May 2013 A liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in the UK is to host...

PV market at turning point
10 May 2013 Europe is set to lose its dominant position in the global solar...

Nuke feasibility studies at Finland's Pyhäjoki site
10 May 2013 Fennovoima has announced that "several studies" will be conducted...

Iberdrola consortium to build 96 MW PV plant in S. Africa
10 May 2013 Jasper Power Company has selected a consortium formed by Iberdrola...

Duke Energy suspends Harris project
10 May 2013 Duke Energy has asked the US nuclear regulator to suspend its application...

Czech solar power support 'is robbery'
10 May 2013 Czech president Milos Zeman said in a speech to the country's parliament on...

Plant power is being harvested in Georgia
10 May 2013 Researchers at the University of Georgia have been looking at ways...

Irsching 4 and 5 shutdown averted
03 May 2013 The operators of the Irsching 4 and 5 power plants in Bavaria have made...

Indian renewable projects win ADB support
03 May 2013 NSL Renewable Power Private Limited (NRPPL) is to develop wind and...

Vestas marks offshore milestone
03 May 2013 Vestas says that the use of a pre-assembly concept for its offshore...

Alstom to supply 2x800 MW boilers to Gadarwara super thermal power plant
03 May 2013 Alstom has been awarded a contract by Bharat Heavy Electricals...

Nexans cables to reinforce Beijing's intra-city HV network
03 May 2013 Nexans has been awarded an 11 million Euro contract by the State...

Verizon opts for fuel cells and solar
03 May 2013 Verizon Communications has announced plans to invest $100 million in...

Record renewables output hits European power prices
03 May 2013

DOE research creates low-cost flow battery
03 May 2013 Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC...

April 2013

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IFPEN to study hydrogen mining potential
26 April 2013 IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) has become one of the earliest global...

EnBW under investigation in Germany and France
26 April 2013 State prosecutors and tax fraud investigators from Mannheim searched...

Uruguay to begin Brazil power imports in 2014
26 April 2013 Work on the new 500 MW transmission line connecting Uruguay and Brazil...

Japan's government relaxes its stance on new coal firing
26 April 2013 The Japanese government is preparing new environmental assessment...

Gamesa secures Brazil wind turbine contract
26 April 2013 Spanish wind company Gamesa has secured a contract to supply...

Turkish company wins contract to build hydro plant in Uganda
26 April 2013 Mapa Construction Company of Turkey has been awarded the contract to...

RWE commissions its sixth Polish wind farm
25 April 2013 RWE Innogy has put a 39 MW wind farm in Poland into operation, bringing...

ABB to supply components for the Xiluodu-Zhexi link
25 April 2013 ABB has won an order to supply key components for the world's...

Enel wins green power project in Chile
25 April 2013 The Chilean government has awarded Enel Green Power the exclusive right...

'Progress towards clean energy has stalled' - IEA
24 April 2013 The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few...

Global wind power growth sets new records
22 April 2013 Strong markets in China, India and Brazil, as well as in new markets in...

EPA proposal to reduce levels of toxic discharge into water courses
22 April 2013 The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a range of options...

Toshiba and SunEdison to collaborate on solar build
21 April 2013 Toshiba Corp. and SunEdison are to jointly build solar power plants in...

Japan's nuclear watchdog approves stricter safety standards
21 April 2013 New standards for the operation of nuclear power stations in Japan are...

Sener wins Mexico contract
21 April 2013 Pemex Refinación has awarded a contract for the construction of...

AEM to supply Ostrovets reactors
21 April 2013 AEM, a division of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, is...

Collapse of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme
18 April 2013 The European Parliament has rejected the Commission's claim to a legal...

Bio-battery breakthrough
15 April 2013 An important breakthrough has been made in the development of a process...

A blueprint for green hydrogen production from plants
15 April 2013 Scientists in the UK have managed to replicate for the first time the...

First 'smart' low-voltage breaker
15 April 2013 Emax 2 by ABB is said to be the first low-voltage circuit breaker...

Alstom's tidal turbine passes 1 MW mark
15 April 2013 Alstom's marine energy device has now achieved power generation at the...

Li-ion for Enel
15 April 2013 Saft is to provide a 2 MW energy storage battery for a new energy...

Another German gas-fired plant to close
15 April 2013 A Statkraft gas fired plant, the 510 MW Robert Frank gas-fired power plant...

Nuclear co-operation between Canada and India comes closer
15 April 2013 Full nuclear co-operation between India and Canada has come a step closer.

Workers scramble to cope with leaks in Fukushima tanks
15 April 2013 Workers employed by operator Tepco have discovered a leak in one of the...

Mundra 4 GW UMPP fully on line
08 April 2013 The last unit of India's first ultra-mega coal power plant has...

E.ON increases its stake in MPX to 36.1 %
08 April 2013

Rampion wind farm resubmitted
08 April 2013 The planning application for the 700 MW Rampion wind farm, which...

First Solar acquires Solar Gen 2
07 April 2013 The 150 MW Solar Gen 2 power project in California has been acquired by...

GE makes energy storage first sale in Europe
07 April 2013 Western Power Distribution (WPD), a distribution network operator in the...

Hitachi and Tepco in T&D joint venture
07 April 2013

Alstom Grid launches its P60 grid solution
06 April 2013 P60 Agile, Alstom's range of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) for...

Siemens acquires ORC technology
06 April 2013 Siemens Energy has acquired specialised organic Rankine cycle technology...

March 2013

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Adventurous rat sabotages cooling system at Fukushima
29 March 2013 Operator Tepco has restored cooling at the spent fuel pools affected by...

EC to consult on NER300 second round
29 March 2013 The European Commission, as part of the consultation process for round two...

Cornwall announces £2m marine energy fund
29 March 2013 £2m in new funding has been made available for marine renewables...

Voith to form joint venture with RusHydro
29 March 2013 Voith Hydro and RusHydro have signed a contract to establish a 50/50...

Record breaking day for UK wind power
29 March 2013 Over two days in March, wind energy in the UK generated over 5 GW...

UK's favoured carbon capture bids announced
26 March 2013 The two preferred bidders from the UK's £1bn CCS Commercialisation...

Alstom enters Canada's wind market
25 March 2013 Alstom and NaturEner Energy Canada Inc. have entered into an agreement...

Panasonic is testing 'power from heat' tubes
25 March 2013 Panasonic is developing 'thermoelectric tubes' that can generate...

UAE inaugurates world's largest CSP solar plant
25 March 2013 Shams 1, the largest concentrated solar power plant currently in...

Kentish Flats extension permitted
25 March 2013 Development consent has been awarded for an extension to the existing...

MHI ships 13 diesel generators to Myanmar
25 March 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has sent 13 sets of diesel engine...

Largest biomass plant inaugurated
25 March 2013 Vaskiluodon Voima Oy has inaugurated what is at 140 MWe the world's...

US PV market grew 76% in 2012
25 March 2013 The latest edition of the SEIA's analysis of solar power markets in the...

Japanese public increasingly opposed to nuclear
23 March 2013 A large majority of Japanese citizens now want the proportion of...

Power to the world's most elevated airport
19 March 2013 ABB has delivered six Resibloc dry-type transformers for the...

Advanced nacelle test facility
19 March 2013 GE is to construct and commission in Denmark a test facility that it says...

Wärtsilä to set up manufacturing plant in Brazil
19 March 2013 Wärtsilä is to set up a new manufacturing facility in Brazil to...

Hinkley Point wins planning approval
19 March 2013 Planning approval has been granted for the proposed Hinkley Point C...

First concrete poured at Vogtle and V C Summer
18 March 2013 First concrete stage has been reached at two US nuclear reactor sites,...

GE launches 'critical power' business
18 March 2013 Launch of a new company to supply the market for mission-critical...

Ivanpah solar achieves "first flux"
18 March 2013 The Ivanpah concentrating solar power project reached a major milestone...

Siemens wins wind power order from Japan
18 March 2013 A supply and install turbine order for the Akita Port onshore wind...

E.ON may close down Irsching 5
15 March 2013 The owners of the 840 MW Irsching 5 gas fired power plant in Bavaria -...

Shanghai MHI Engine JV begins operations
11 March 2013

Germany prepares fracking regulations
06 March 2013

£2.3 million shared for UK offshore wind development
06 March 2013 Three companies in the UK have been awarded funding under a £5 million...

Seven killed at site of geothermal plant
06 March 2013 A landslide has caused the death of seven construction workers at the site...

Uruguay plans solar development
06 March 2013 Uruguay is hoping to attract developers to build 200 MW of solar...

Drax to get new turbine upgrade
06 March 2013 Three of Drax power station's intermediate pressure (IP) turbines are to...

Iberdrola to sell Polish wind assets
05 March 2013

ADB backs Nepal hydro scheme
02 March 2013

Skerries tidal gets go ahead
01 March 2013 The Welsh Government has given its approval to the development of...

February 2013

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Investigative drilling starts at Fukushima site
28 February 2013 To prepare for investigations of the reactor torus, Tepco, operator of...

ETI awards energy system design contracts
24 February 2013 The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has awarded contracts...

PLN signs Sarulla contracts
24 February 2013 A major geothermal energy project in Indonesia has taken a step forward...

Dong Energy divests Polish wind business
24 February 2013 Dong Energy has decided to sell its onshore wind energy business in Poland...

Iran plans new nuclear plants
24 February 2013 Iran says that it has discovered new uranium deposits and plan to build...

European Committee supports backloading
24 February 2013 Policy makers in the European Union came a step closer to agreeing on a...

EU proposes oil and gas law
24 February 2013 The European Union is set to introduce legislation governing the...

Chevron bets on Australian shale gas
24 February 2013 US oil major Chevron has become the latest international energy company...

Australia investigates gas-solar hybrid plant prospects
24 February 2013 The Australian government is to investigate the feasibility of converting...

World PV capacity passes 100 GW mark
14 February 2013 More than 30 GW of solar photovoltaic capacity was connected to...

Dong to sell large stake in London Array
13 February 2013 Dong Energy is in talks to sell a £500 million stake in the London...

Romania, Lithuania give go-ahead for shale gas exploration
13 February 2013 Countries in Eastern Europe look set to reduce their dependence on Russia...

European wind industry faces challenges in 2013
13 February 2013 The wave of political uncertainty that has swept across Europe since...

Centrica pulls out of UK nuclear new-build
08 February 2013 Centrica has announced its 'decision not to participate in UK nuclear...

Alstom makes €1 bn wind deal in Brazil
07 February 2013 Alstom Renewable Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with...

January 2013

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Carbon price hits new low
24 January 2013 Low demand for emission allowances (EUAs) in the EU caused the price...

139 MW Campo Verde solar under way
17 January 2013 First Solar Inc. has started construction of the 139 MW Campo Verde...

Alstom to supply hydro equipment for Grand Renaissance dam
16 January 2013 Alstom has signed a €250 million contract with Metals &...

12% of UK electricity now from renewables - it's official
10 January 2013 Statistics newly published by the Department of Energy and Climate...

Agreement reached on sale of E.ON Energy from Waste
09 January 2013 E.ON has signed agreements to form a joint venture (JV) with...

New Zealand upgrades north-south link
01 January 2013 Prime minister John Key has officially opened the largest...

Nuclear is Europe's best bet for meeting climate targets, says new report
01 January 2013 A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan European Nuclear Power Sector finds...

Siemens tests 4 MW WTG prototype
01 January 2013 Siemens Energy has installed the prototype of a new 4 MW wind turbine...

December 2012

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November 2012

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GE is working on 'revolutionary' wind turbine blade
30 November 2012

UK's new energy bill – 'to power low-carbon economic growth'
30 November 2012

MHI and Hitachi to create powerful new joint company
30 November 2012

Wind power to ease India’s energy security problems
30 November 2012

UAE nuclear build 'ahead of schedule'
30 November 2012

Thanh Hoa's hydro plant to go ahead
30 November 2012

Permit for 7.8GW São Luiz do Tapajós hydro blocked
30 November 2012

UK's ONR grants nuclear licence for Hinkley C
29 November 2012

Storage system to be installed in Orkney Islands grid
26 November 2012

World’s first 'real' island smart grid
26 November 2012

Garabí-Panambí hydro study slated for 2013
26 November 2012

Brazil's nuclear industry reboots
26 November 2012

Mexico's first wave power generator to be launched
26 November 2012

European Commission announces ETS fix
26 November 2012

IRENA reports on renewable costs
26 November 2012

Fluor loses Gabbard legal battle
25 November 2012

B&W wins US DOE funding for small modular reactor development
23 November 2012

French government authorises ITER construction
22 November 2012

Grant for installation of largest fuel cell to date
22 November 2012

Passive safety systems to be installed at Krško
19 November 2012

EU grant awarded for fuel cell installation
19 November 2012

Gassnova and Statoil award Mongstad CCS continuation contracts
18 November 2012

China's CCS capability to be assessed by World Bank
18 November 2012

BHI places supercritical order for Buk-Pyeong
18 November 2012

Australia prepares for “unparalleled” renewables investment
18 November 2012

Mainstream reaches S Africa agreements
18 November 2012

IEA predicts shift in global energy sources
18 November 2012

Alstom Grid inaugurates the first 1200 kV disconnector
13 November 2012

Hitachi to acquire Horizon Nuclear Power
11 November 2012

ABB develops practical DC circuit breaker for grid power levels
11 November 2012

Largest fuel cell contract to date
11 November 2012

EPPSA calls for action on IP abuses
11 November 2012

Laos ready to build Xayaburi hydro plant
11 November 2012

China lodges solar complaint
11 November 2012

Finnish company buys first Vestas V126-3.0
11 November 2012

UK inaugurates offshore wind innovation competition
11 November 2012

Gas and renewable energy Coalition forged
11 November 2012

Wärtsilä to supply major dual-fuel plant in Mauritania
05 November 2012

Siemens wins engineering and supply order for Venezuelan PP
05 November 2012

Navetas and Texas Instruments in Smart technology deal
04 November 2012

'Biomass can make major contribution' – Deloitte report
04 November 2012

EU backed 2Co CCS scheme fails to win UK funding
04 November 2012

London Array generates first power
04 November 2012

Three US reactors shut down by hurricane Sandy
02 November 2012

US utilities scramble to restore power
02 November 2012

October 2012

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Alstom increases its shareholding in BrightSource Energy to over 20%
26 October 2012

Siemens looks to sell its solar business
26 October 2012

Statoil and Statkraft team up for UK offshore wind venture
24 October 2012

Globeleq to carry out Azito expansion
24 October 2012

First Solar wins Dubai solar park deal
24 October 2012

Hanwha completes Q-cells takeover
24 October 2012

UK launches energy storage funding programme
24 October 2012

New consortium to bid for UK nuke decommissioning
24 October 2012

Ukraine’s energy infrastructure needs reform and investment – IEA
23 October 2012

US sets aside land for solar development
19 October 2012

Rabobank predicts slowdown in renewables investment
19 October 2012

Vestas to cut a further 1400 jobs
19 October 2012

Alstom to set up wind tower factory in Brazil
19 October 2012

New poll shows support for nuclear energy is still low
19 October 2012

Toshiba to take on Shaw’s stake in Westinghouse
19 October 2012

Chilean power project approved
19 October 2012

UK has 100+ GW marine energy potential
19 October 2012

Fingrid, Elering start Estlink 2 cable laying
19 October 2012

Solyndra seeks compensation from Chinese firms
18 October 2012

SGS acquires radiation testing specialist ARS
11 October 2012

Shell's Alberta CCS project to go ahead
11 October 2012

DTEK commissions Ukraine's first wind farm
11 October 2012

Fluor wins Malampaya EPC
11 October 2012

World’s largest tri-fuel power plant ordered
11 October 2012

National Grid to drill offshore CCS site
11 October 2012

Successful JET experiment lays the ground for advances at ITER
11 October 2012

Aeroderivative upgrade from Rolls-Royce
11 October 2012

European NPP stress tests reveal deficiencies
11 October 2012

Agreements signed for further wind farm construction in Brazil
05 October 2012

EU reaches 100 GW wind power milestone
05 October 2012

UK opposition party wants to scrap regulator Ofgem
05 October 2012

Morocco awards Ourzazate contract
05 October 2012

India announces utility debt plan
05 October 2012

PowerBuoy deployment delayed
05 October 2012

APEM aims for US offshore sector
05 October 2012

US firms at ‘serious competitive disadvantage’ in global nuclear energy market
05 October 2012

ADB targets green projects in China
05 October 2012

Construction of Japan’s Ohma nuclear power station set to resume
05 October 2012

September 2012

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100th TM2500 rolls off the line
27 September 2012

Dongbu ultra-supercritical signs contract for turbogenerator sets
27 September 2012

F&S reports growth in service market
27 September 2012

Bruce 1 re-starts after fifteen years
27 September 2012

GLE wins licence for laser enrichment facility
27 September 2012

Alstom to acquire Tidal Generation Ltd
27 September 2012

Dong sells Walney 2 transmission assets
27 September 2012

Statkraft OKs two new wind farms
27 September 2012

Nigeria announces privatisation winners
27 September 2012

Japan aims at zero nuclear build by 2030s
21 September 2012

France commits to nuke reduction programme
21 September 2012

DNV KEMA joins the Energy & Utilities Alliance
21 September 2012

SSE’s Clyde wind farm officially opened
21 September 2012

"Unprecedented" boom in MENA region
21 September 2012

MEPs call for robust fracking rules
21 September 2012

Commission urges action on energy networks
21 September 2012

RWE closes 3 GW of UK capacity and opens new 2 GW plant
20 September 2012

Survey says the world is in favour of wind energy
16 September 2012

World's first integrated CCS plant starts operations
16 September 2012

Alstom to supply 68 wind turbines to Casa dos Ventos
16 September 2012

Westinghouse and Hutní montáže announce co-operation agreement
16 September 2012

MoU signed for 5GW Ireland-UK transmission system study
16 September 2012

RWE and EPS agree strategic collaboration
14 September 2012

Island leaders call for action
14 September 2012

California tests auction system
14 September 2012

Mainstream boosts its financing
14 September 2012

Nexans acquires Shandong Yanggu joint venture
11 September 2012

Democrats go into neutral on climate change
11 September 2012

L&T to build ITER cryostat
11 September 2012

Magnox contract goes to Costain and Balfour Beatty
11 September 2012

NRC blocks 'foreign owned' NPP application
11 September 2012

Unison Networks embarks on smart grid project
11 September 2012

ETI investigates hydrogen storage
11 September 2012

Chinese solar firms face EU investigation
10 September 2012

Siemens acquires Kaon
04 September 2012

REpower signs contract for Australian wind farm project
04 September 2012

Hitachi unit plans to export solar-powered desal plants
04 September 2012

Japan's METI to support installation of large-scale storage batteries
04 September 2012

NRC finalises post-Fukushima guidance
04 September 2012

Romania pushes back full grid connection to 2016
04 September 2012

Alstom and Toshiba sign 'smart grid' MOU
04 September 2012

Brazil debates biomass obligation
03 September 2012

UK's first offshore wind Round Three project enters planning
03 September 2012

August 2012

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Exelon scraps Texas reactor project
31 August 2012

Neurath F & G lignite units inaugurated – with a special demonstration of speed
28 August 2012

Buyer found for Q–Cells
28 August 2012

ABB awarded Texas grid support contract
28 August 2012

Kozloduy extension – feasibility study contract awarded
28 August 2012

F-W updates Don Valley FEED
28 August 2012

Wärtsilä wins 53 MW mining power contract
28 August 2012

Power-to-gas pilot plant starts to take shape
28 August 2012

Construction of Belo Monte resumes
28 August 2012

Appellate court strikes down EPA's new air pollution Rule
22 August 2012

Tepco revises official Fukushima-Daiichi report
22 August 2012

OL3 cooling plant fill completed
22 August 2012

AREVA wins UAE enriched uranium contract
22 August 2012

First major MATS-connected contract award
22 August 2012

EMEC to support development of S Korean marine energy
22 August 2012

Aviva buys into roof solar market
22 August 2012

OPT awarded first FERC licence
22 August 2012

Sener signs biomass EPC
22 August 2012

Tilbury to be back on line in August
15 August 2012

Hudson Energy to enter UK market
14 August 2012

Commission gives Hinkley Point its approval
14 August 2012

US suspends reactor licensing
14 August 2012

Siemens and Morgan Sindall sign infrastructure MoU
14 August 2012

DNV KEMA to develop power-testing labs in Brazil
14 August 2012

Dong acquires three German offshore wind projects
14 August 2012

Ukraine to privatise four largest gas power plants
13 August 2012

Mitsui and Tokio Marine to build 20 solar plants
13 August 2012

Getting Vasilikos back on line
07 August 2012

CB&I to acquire Shaw Group
07 August 2012

NRG and GenOn to merge
07 August 2012

Flex-Plant 30 for Panda plant
07 August 2012

UK government encourages biomass conversion ... and gas
07 August 2012

Indian blackouts: inter-regional links to blame?
07 August 2012

UK creates marine energy park
06 August 2012

Milestone for Mainstream wind farm
06 August 2012

Australia pulls funding for Dual Gas project
06 August 2012

July 2012

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Funding for virtual power plants in the UK
27 July 2012

Areva acquires biocoal technology
27 July 2012

Alstom wins contracts to reinforce Kurdistan network
26 July 2012

'UK should spend £22 billion on grid' – Regulator
25 July 2012

Akermin moves towards carbon capture field tests
25 July 2012

MAN Diesel sells its first combined cycle plant in Africa
25 July 2012

Siemens to supply three more H-class GTs to South Korea
25 July 2012

Gamesa to cut US workforce by 165
25 July 2012

OL3 will not be finished before 2015
20 July 2012

Rosatom and Areva in new nuclear co-operation
20 July 2012

Stay of execution for Q-Cells
19 July 2012

Dong-Siemens deal for bulk supply of 6 MW wind turbines
19 July 2012

NER300 list published at last
19 July 2012

Brazil starts up prototype wave energy converter
19 July 2012

Wärtsilä wins its largest single power plant order to date
19 July 2012

Tepco installs cooling plant at Fukushima
18 July 2012

NPT to double capacity of its transmission backbone
16 July 2012

OPT and Lockheed to develop wave energy project in Australia
15 July 2012

ABB develops million-volt plus DC converter transformer
15 July 2012

Chamera III hydro completed
15 July 2012

UK tops energy efficiency ratings
15 July 2012

Duke and Progress complete merger
12 July 2012

Judgment on OL3 dispute handed down
10 July 2012

IEA reports acceleration in renewable energy growth
10 July 2012

Sale of MW Power to Metso approved
09 July 2012

Erbil to upgrade to CCGT
09 July 2012

Habia Cable secures new nuclear contract in Korea
09 July 2012

First Medupi boiler passes pressure test
08 July 2012

MHI tests technology for Mongstad bid
06 July 2012

IEA applauds Swiss energy reforms
06 July 2012

Indonesia's PLN orders dual fuel plant
06 July 2012

Queensland withdraws support for Solar Dawn
06 July 2012

Vestas wins Northwind offshore order
06 July 2012

US grants to boost clean energy in Africa
06 July 2012

Irish wind park to solve UK supply problems
02 July 2012

The Zayed Future Energy Prize – entries invited
01 July 2012

LED lighting trial shows enormous energy savings
01 July 2012

Enel commissions PV plants in Greece
01 July 2012

Portuguese project pioneers floating turbine development
01 July 2012

GE targets shale gas water treatment
01 July 2012

Iraq reinforces transmission grid
01 July 2012

Hunterston CCS demo cancelled
01 July 2012

June 2012

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ITER fusion project is falling behind schedule
28 June 2012

Tilbury comes back on line
25 June 2012

Mellach combined cycle CHP plant opens
25 June 2012

Norway, Germany and UK agreement on new HVDC links
25 June 2012

Vestas scraps Sheerness production plans
25 June 2012

Japan approves renewable incentives
25 June 2012

EU efficiency targets watered down
24 June 2012

Iberdrola starts Wikinger engineering phase
24 June 2012

Fukushima slowed nuclear growth by 10% says NEA
23 June 2012

Siemens can return to nuclear industry in 2012 – EC ruling
23 June 2012

Fukushima surveys find radiation and more leaked water
22 June 2012

Europe’s emission lessons
19 June 2012 “If the EU ETS is to act as a credible emission reduction and low...

Only competition can secure a sustainable energy future
19 June 2012 “If the role of the market is diminished, then the value of competition...

Regulating biomass
19 June 2012 “There is currently no accurate and standardised procedure for...

Looking beyond Kyoto
19 June 2012 “The fury being expressed by some developing countries towards the...

ABB completes its first IEC 61850-9-2 compliant substation
18 June 2012

Honeywell forms Smart Grid Solutions unit
18 June 2012

Germany 'does not need new coal fired power plants'
18 June 2012

Datang Power to invest in IGCC project
18 June 2012

Korean government to spend $318 m on renewables R&D
18 June 2012

Abengoa to build 200 MW California PV plant
18 June 2012

Bank of America pledges environmental finance
18 June 2012

Offshore wind industry targets 30 per cent cost reduction
18 June 2012

Green groups call for ETS fix
18 June 2012

State Grid Corporation buys Brazil assets
17 June 2012

US EPR design certification re-scheduled for 2014
14 June 2012

Taishan 1 reactor vessel installed
10 June 2012

Vestas releases high-wind V112-3.0 MW turbine
10 June 2012

AMSC acquires fundamental HTS patent
10 June 2012

UK-Norway energy agreement
10 June 2012

Robot investigation of Fukushima units 1 and 3 gets under way
10 June 2012

Japan plans to step up marine energy development
10 June 2012

Small islands' renewable potential is 1.62 GW – report
10 June 2012

Chile to launch four NCRE tenders before year-end
10 June 2012

Wärtsilä sells its share in the MW Power joint venture to Metso
01 June 2012

Jiangsu Rudong offshore wind power comes online
01 June 2012

Striking new electricity market reform in the UK
01 June 2012

ABB to acquire Tropos Networks
01 June 2012

Germany sets solar world record
01 June 2012

MHI to develop fuel cell triple combined cycle system
01 June 2012

Survey of Akkuyu site to be completed this year
01 June 2012

Russia to join the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
01 June 2012

May 2012

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Alstom awarded three major Canadian hydro projects
27 May 2012

GE Sprints to Israel
27 May 2012

Companies invited to trade on new UK-Ireland link
27 May 2012

Talin upgrade contracts awarded
27 May 2012

JGC's coal-to-oil scheme
27 May 2012

UK sets new PV tariffs
27 May 2012

Enel starts up two green energy plants
27 May 2012

South Africa awards wind, solar concessions
27 May 2012

UK government publishes electricity reforms bill
27 May 2012

Moventas wins €80m Areva gearing supply contract
24 May 2012

GE and XD Electric form T&D partnership
17 May 2012

Sembcorp acquires wind power assets in China
17 May 2012

Oil price still a serious obstacle to global recovery says IEA
17 May 2012

GE and Shenhua start clean coal JV in China
17 May 2012

Strong interest in UK CCS competition
17 May 2012

Power sector M&A level falls
17 May 2012

E.On sells gas transmission company
17 May 2012

EDF Luminus commissions Trent turbines
17 May 2012

NY state's largest biomass plant starts up
16 May 2012

Wales’ largest onshore wind farm given consent
14 May 2012

Saudi Arabia ‘should aim for 41 GW solar by 2032’
14 May 2012

'Solar power is at the crossroads' – EPIA report
14 May 2012

Shoaiba III completed ahead of schedule
13 May 2012

Mongstad CCS testing starts
12 May 2012

Korea passes carbon pricing legislation
12 May 2012

HECA project resumes permitting process
12 May 2012

Gamesa selects Europe for offshore prototype
12 May 2012

GE, CH2M and UGL to provide power for $34 billion Ichthys project
12 May 2012

Government agrees $12.5 billion Tepco bail-out
11 May 2012

Bolivia seizes REE assets
03 May 2012

KDM Energia boosts landfill gas operations in Chile
03 May 2012

Ukraine's DTEK orders WTGs
03 May 2012

UK – Denmark interconnector proposed
03 May 2012

Australian government awards funding for CETO wave project
03 May 2012

Rurelec acquires Peruvian hydro project
03 May 2012

Decontamination of Fukushima D&D centre begins
03 May 2012

Alstom wins Castaic hydro rehab contract
03 May 2012

First order for Siemens 60 Hz SGT-750 industrial GT
03 May 2012

European nuclear plants pass post-Fukushima stress tests
01 May 2012

April 2012

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NWP partnership selected for US waste repository management
30 April 2012

DNV KEMA establishes Beijing HQ
29 April 2012

Q.CELLS completes Europe’s largest solar project
29 April 2012

Two RR Trents start up in Northern Territory
29 April 2012

Westinghouse signs up Ameren for 'small reactor' bid
29 April 2012

US-UK clean energy agreement
29 April 2012

£60 million fund to boost international CCS efforts
29 April 2012

Enel plans solar polygeneration plant
28 April 2012

TVO starts Olkiluoto 4 bidding
23 April 2012

GE 4MW offshore WTG passes its first test
20 April 2012

GE's workhorse WTG achieves landmark sales
20 April 2012

ABB to invest $50 million in its manufacturing base in India
20 April 2012

ABB to develop 1200 kV circuit breaker for India's grid
20 April 2012

UK-Iceland link under discussion
20 April 2012

China's PCC wins USD 2.4 billion power project in India
20 April 2012

Public Electricity of Yemen opens tender for major transmission line project
20 April 2012

Enel plans solar polygeneration plant
20 April 2012

Dong to test offshore WTGs in UK
20 April 2012

Favourable report on fracking published in UK
19 April 2012

China is still world wind power leader
11 April 2012

Bemco is frontrunner to build Saudi power plant
11 April 2012

Sinopec wins Kenya geothermal project
11 April 2012

Secretary Chu announces $30 m for storage R&D
11 April 2012

Major order for Voith in Turkey
11 April 2012

FACTS to boost Texas transmission
11 April 2012

Apple filing reveals fuel cell plans
11 April 2012

EDF wins offshore wind concessions
11 April 2012

RWE Innogy receives Nordsee 1 permit
11 April 2012

China cuts renewables to push nuclear, hydro
11 April 2012

Q-Cells, Solar Trust file for bankruptcy
11 April 2012

Mongolia prepares for its first wind farm
05 April 2012

Commissioning of Callide oxyfiring project starts
05 April 2012

Denmark legislates 100% green energy agenda
05 April 2012

TVO selects GEH for OL4 bidding
04 April 2012

EPA's new carbon dioxide standard "may prohibit new coal plant build"
04 April 2012

Viking Energy's Shetland wind farm consented
04 April 2012

Stadtwerke München and Siemens start up virtual power plant
04 April 2012

New UK CCS competition launched
04 April 2012

Siemen to supply its H class to Ansan
02 April 2012

UK nuclear third party liabilities to be increased sevenfold
02 April 2012

ABB wins $70 m substation order for Saudi Arabia
02 April 2012

Shotton CHP plant to close
02 April 2012

Suzlon and CGN Wind Energy to develop 800 MW of projects
02 April 2012

Bidding process begins for Olkiluoto 4
02 April 2012

IAEA and Foratom sign co-operation agreement
01 April 2012

Japan Nuclear Fuel may resume construction of MOX plant
01 April 2012

March 2012

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Bulgaria abandons Belene nuke project
30 March 2012

RWE and E.ON pull out of UK nuclear build
30 March 2012

Gamesa to invest £125m in UK wind
26 March 2012

UK government loses final FiT appeal
26 March 2012

Siemens installs storage pilot in Italy
26 March 2012

Centrica and DONG Energy establish joint venture to develop wind farms
26 March 2012

Alstom inaugurates world's largest WTG for offshore use
26 March 2012

UTC sells Clipper Windpower
26 March 2012

EGP commissions Guatemala power plant
26 March 2012

Nine bids submitted for climate technology centre
26 March 2012

US heightens solar trade war with new tariff
25 March 2012

Canada's regulator publishes post-Fukushima 'to do' list
24 March 2012

China to invest in Nepal's biggest hydro project
15 March 2012

Siemens wins Diamantina power island contract
15 March 2012

El Carpio CSP plants come on line
15 March 2012

FRV secures solar investment
15 March 2012

UK hopes to encourage CCS innovation with new scheme
14 March 2012

Shuweihat S2 comes on line
14 March 2012

Seabed sealing work at Fukushima is started
14 March 2012

Vestas boosts its Latin American business
14 March 2012

Scotland sets out decarbonisation plan
14 March 2012

Desertec promotes Asian supergrid
14 March 2012

'Sustainia' initiative launched in Geneva
12 March 2012

European Parliament wants action to increase carbon price
12 March 2012

Alstom launches GT13E2 upgrade
12 March 2012

ABB forms JV in offshore wind power integration
12 March 2012

ABB wins power contract in Iraq
12 March 2012

E.On confirms Kingsnorth closure
12 March 2012

Masdar to build the Seychelles' first wind farm
12 March 2012

Wärtsilä signs Brazil O&M contract
12 March 2012

UK re-assessment of offshore wind costs
03 March 2012

Fukushima unit 2 undergoes survey by robot
03 March 2012

Legal challenge to US clean air rules
02 March 2012

Pan-European grid would cost '1% of consumers' electricity bill'
01 March 2012

Green light for new company DNV KEMA
01 March 2012

Lego builds green investment
01 March 2012

Honduras inaugurates 100 MW wind farm
01 March 2012

German government announces drastic cuts in solar FiTs
01 March 2012

IFC invests in Indonesian IPP
01 March 2012

EPC awarded for Tanjung Bin
01 March 2012

February 2012

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Biomass fuel fire at Tilbury power station
27 February 2012

Bahrain scraps nuclear power plan
26 February 2012

India looks to 63 GW nuclear capacity by 2032
26 February 2012

Mitsubishi takes stake in large Mexican wind project
26 February 2012

Iran and Pakistan to launch USD 718 m power line project
26 February 2012

New plan to stabilise seabed at Fukushima's port
24 February 2012

UK government appeals FiT ruling
24 February 2012

IEA praises Danish long-term vision
24 February 2012

UK needs ‘visionary’ approach to marine energy
24 February 2012

Mainstream, Goldwind secure second Chile deal
24 February 2012

Crescent Dunes CSP reaches construction milestone
24 February 2012

Saft to supply to NYC smart grid project
24 February 2012

Turkey turns to coal and nuclear power
20 February 2012

UK-France nuke deal
20 February 2012

Siemens acquires Marine Current Turbines
20 February 2012

New UK interconnector will create HV record
20 February 2012

CarbonNet awarded A$100m funding for CCS project
20 February 2012

Consent granted for Oyster wave array
20 February 2012

E.On warns of delayed grid connections
20 February 2012

Fukushima unit 2 temperature ‘rise’ may have been caused by faulty equipment
16 February 2012

Siemens wins USD 1 bn Saudi power order
10 February 2012

Licence approval for new Vogtle nuclear units
10 February 2012

Davey appointed as UK energy minister
09 February 2012

Tepco starts surface dust clearance operations
09 February 2012

Sinohydro awards Itezhi-Tezhi equipment contract
09 February 2012

CASE study examines solar trade tariffs
09 February 2012

Foster Wheeler to lead Don Valley CCS development
09 February 2012

Co-operation will enhance Slovak security
09 February 2012

Renewables continue strong growth
09 February 2012

Semprius sets new PV record
09 February 2012

Bracknell pilot shows automated demand response can cut peak energy use
05 February 2012

European cogeneration market to pick up by 2018
02 February 2012

Smart grid energy reduction project in the UK
02 February 2012

Rosatom–Alstom JV will supply turbine island for Baltic NPP
02 February 2012

New report says US nuke waste policy "has completely broken down”
02 February 2012

Cat and Energyst agreement on power projects
02 February 2012

Gazprom and Renova confirm merger of power assets
02 February 2012

Tûranor completes its solar voyage
02 February 2012

Power sector to grow at fast pace in GCC
02 February 2012

IAEA review of Japanese nuclear stress tests
02 February 2012

BOC joins Drax CCS project
01 February 2012

Fukushima rehearses emergency cooling drill
01 February 2012

January 2012

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ABB sets new power cable record in New York Harbour
28 January 2012

Green groups challenge UK nuclear subsidies
26 January 2012

Areva inaugurates energy storage platform in Corsica
26 January 2012

New partner for Drax CCS scheme
26 January 2012

Ampacity superconductor cable project gets under way
26 January 2012

Pakistan plans 1500 MW of wind generation
26 January 2012

Sri Lanka to establish 500 MW coal power plant in its Eastern province
26 January 2012

Japanese manufacturers developing cheaper solar materials
26 January 2012

Bangladesh to tender for four more coal fired plants
26 January 2012

UK government loses solar FiT appeal
26 January 2012

Fukushima unit 2 residual water level and temperature stabilised
23 January 2012

Eletrobras working with EdM on Cesul project
22 January 2012

Harbin Electric to start hydro project in Ecuador
22 January 2012

Qatar forecast to spend $20bn on power and water to 2022
22 January 2012

Tepco to upgrade Chiba plant by 0.5 GW
22 January 2012

Stiff opposition expected to Japan's grid deregulation plan
22 January 2012

E.On moving into South America
22 January 2012

Valle 1 and 2 commissioned
22 January 2012

Energy giants battle for French offshore developments
22 January 2012

Alstom and SSE plan world’s largest wave farm
22 January 2012

Fukushima intake canal cleared
18 January 2012

Nexans commissions first superconducting FCL
15 January 2012

MHI ships first commercial M501J GT
15 January 2012

E.ON's bid for EDP stake rejected
15 January 2012

MPX and E.ON to form strategic partnership in S. America
15 January 2012

E.ON moves to phase two of Caithness wind farm construction
15 January 2012

Wind tower makers enter the trade war
15 January 2012

China completes major energy storage project
15 January 2012

Iberdrola, Gamesa sign new wind turbine deal
12 January 2012

Tepco publishes English language summary of its interim Fukushima investigation
10 January 2012

EPA issues final mercury and PM rule
10 January 2012

Washington court stays EPA’s cross-state air pollution rule
09 January 2012

Iranian consortium to invest USD 571 m in Armenian power industry
08 January 2012

Balfour Beatty secures major extension to National Grid agreement
08 January 2012

Enel Chile expands with new wind farm
07 January 2012

Hydro-Québec awards Robert-Bourassa contract
07 January 2012

Rurelec expands into Chile
07 January 2012

Dominican Republic doubles the size of its Quisqueya project
07 January 2012

BP calls time on its solar activities
07 January 2012

Tepco readies itself for a 40-year haul
04 January 2012

US certification for Westinghouse AP1000 design
04 January 2012

December 2011

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Belarus-Russia nuclear agreement ratified
23 December 2011

'Wind lens' magnifies turbine output
22 December 2011

J-Power Systems, Sumitomo, win largest undersea cable contract
22 December 2011

Man-made vault for OPG’s low-level nuclear waste
22 December 2011

RusHydro starts up fifth unit in Sayano-Shushenskaya reconstruction
22 December 2011

Alstom to build large gas plant in Iraq
22 December 2011

UK government could face legal action by Brussels over FIT plans
22 December 2011

DNV to take over KEMA
22 December 2011

Cold shutdown declared at Fukushima
20 December 2011

ABB acquires General Trafo
15 December 2011

Marubeni consortium is lowest bidder for Dubai project
15 December 2011

EDF to invest in Polish coal fired plant
15 December 2011

Rurelec expands into Peru
15 December 2011

MHI wins Nong Saeng CCGT order
15 December 2011

'Durban Platform' deal salvaged from climate talks
15 December 2011

South Africa starts renewables bidding
15 December 2011

ADB and Reliance plan India PV project
15 December 2011

Qurayyah power plant project gathers pace
15 December 2011

Mekong projects postponed
15 December 2011

Areva's shares suspended as its profits collapse
14 December 2011

Tepco reports desalination leak
13 December 2011

Gordonbush comes online
09 December 2011

Dresser-Rand receives green innovation grant
08 December 2011

March of the nanodots
08 December 2011

Jänschwalde CCS project abandoned
08 December 2011

EDF, GE to develop first commercial FlexEfficiency CC plant
08 December 2011

ABB to invest $400 million in new cable production
08 December 2011

UK government finalises new nuclear clean-up framework
08 December 2011

Hydro Tasmania places 168 MW wind order
07 December 2011

Durban stalemate cause for concern, says IEA
07 December 2011

Residual fuel in Fukushima reactors 'is draining away'
07 December 2011

First GE 4 MW offshore machine installed
05 December 2011

Siemens to build GT production in St. Petersburg
05 December 2011

Copper nanoparticle battery a realistic prospect
05 December 2011

Saudi Arabia plans first tender for nuclear plant for end-2012
05 December 2011

Indonesian government approves nuclear construction plan
05 December 2011

Alstom establishes new hydro centre
04 December 2011

BrightSource adds storage to SoCalEd deals
04 December 2011

FutureGen proposes Merodosia purchase
04 December 2011

RWE evaluates 6 MW offshore turbines
04 December 2011

November 2011

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EU to provide more funding to decommission Soviet-era reactors
29 November 2011

Fukushima core cooling survived earthquake, but not the tsunami - report
29 November 2011

Japanese majors in joint ocean power project
28 November 2011

Vietnam needs $1 bln per year for power transmission projects
28 November 2011

London smart meter trial launched
28 November 2011

Vattenfall wants to build ten biomass plants by 2020
28 November 2011

SSE plans two low carbon networks
28 November 2011

ENW gets funding for distribution initiative
28 November 2011

Kozloduy nuclear power plant to upsize by 120 MW
28 November 2011

Fukushima – major reports published
23 November 2011

Greater Gabbard foundations 'are defective'
21 November 2011

S Korea to Invest $9 bn in 2.5 GW offshore wind farm
20 November 2011

NTPC plans for 128 GW capacity by 2032
20 November 2011

Fingrid, Elering report progress on EstLink 2
20 November 2011

Mongstad CCS moves forward with supplier qualification
20 November 2011

ABB acquires Powercorp
20 November 2011

Energy ‘trilemma’ solutions urgently needed, says WEC
20 November 2011

Isle of Wight unveils sustainable ‘greenprint’
20 November 2011

Expansion of the first integrated FlexEfficiency plant announced
18 November 2011

Decontamination system at Fukushima unit 2 starts up
17 November 2011

MHI starts on Fukushima sludge treatment facility
16 November 2011

EU plant closures will create wide energy gap – PB report
15 November 2011

China's 2050 wind power plan published
14 November 2011

Suzlon completes REpower acquisition
14 November 2011

Biomass boom could 'worsen climate crisis'
14 November 2011

The world close to being locked in to a high carbon energy system, says IEA
14 November 2011

Australia passes Clean Energy Act
14 November 2011

Enel commissions Portoscuso wind farm
14 November 2011

E.ON to investigate gas grid storage
14 November 2011

EDF convicted on spying charges
10 November 2011

Fukushima units have been air-sealed
09 November 2011

Thorpe Marsh may be first UK Flexefficiency application
09 November 2011

Alstom plans new WTG factories
09 November 2011

Siemens increases stake in Marine Current Turbines
09 November 2011

GCC to spend 25 bn on new capacity
08 November 2011

New JV aims to generate power from MENA deserts
08 November 2011

IEA urges Greek reforms
08 November 2011

Alstom to develop UHV technology for China
08 November 2011

Vestas and Dong to test new 7 MW turbine
08 November 2011

Fission products detected in Fukushima unit 2 gas treatment
03 November 2011

Launch of SST-400 GEO steam turbine
01 November 2011

October 2011

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OPT initiative aims to reduce wave energy costs
31 October 2011

IFC supports landmark wind project
31 October 2011

India and ABB aim for 1200 kV
31 October 2011

R-R tidal prototype hits 100 MWh marker
31 October 2011

AMSC pulls The Switch deal
31 October 2011

Furukawa buys into the superconducting wire business
31 October 2011

Russia, Iceland sign geothermal energy accord
31 October 2011

Queensland to build two gas fired power stations
31 October 2011

Kerala and Orissa to build 2GW plant
31 October 2011

Fuel cells recommended for US military
31 October 2011

Fukushima survey robot fails
25 October 2011

New British ROC bands
21 October 2011

Saudi Electricity Co finalises $1.44bn power plant deal
20 October 2011

Russia signs up to build NPP in Belarus
20 October 2011

Siemens re-enters Japan's wind market
20 October 2011

UK's tidal map to be precisely modelled
20 October 2011

Wärtsilä strengthens its presence in Turkey
20 October 2011

Vestas acquires OCAS technology
20 October 2011

Cat takeover of MWM agreed by EC
20 October 2011

Longannet CCS project cancelled
20 October 2011

Globeleq signs power extension deal
20 October 2011

Enel unveils mini-windmill prototype
20 October 2011

Essar awards CFB contract to Foster Wheeler
20 October 2011

Progress at Fukushima unit 1
19 October 2011

Ansaldo Nucleare joins the Cammell Lair/Nuvia alliance
18 October 2011

New solar panel factory will be largest in US
14 October 2011

Olkiluoto 3 operation may be put back to 2014, says TVO
14 October 2011

IKEA to invest heavily in Polish wind power
13 October 2011

Kazakhstan 'may build a nuclear power plant in the next 10 years'
13 October 2011

WindMade technical standard published
13 October 2011

Emergency safety drill carried out at Fukushima
13 October 2011

Short course on optimisation of CC plants
13 October 2011

India's electrical sector maintains strong growth – but faces challenges
13 October 2011

IFC supports Thai PV projects
13 October 2011

Deepwater submits 1 GW offshore plans
13 October 2011

European TSOs warn of inadequate winter margins
13 October 2011

Reform of fossil-fuel subsidies recommended by OECD and IEA
07 October 2011

Rolls-Royce wins first gas engine order in Poland
07 October 2011

Fukushima clean up is gathering pace
07 October 2011

Irrawaddy dam project unilaterally suspended
07 October 2011

Gemasolar CSP inaugurated
07 October 2011

Brazilian court halts Belo Monte construction
07 October 2011

Gazprom raided in Commission probe
07 October 2011

Spanish CCGT to host CO2 fixing demo
07 October 2011

Solar Stirling engine firm folds
07 October 2011

Fukushima radiation isolation continues to improve
04 October 2011

Polygeneration helps CCS
01 October 2011

September 2011

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Sanmen reactor vessel installed
30 September 2011

New Indonesian coal law creates power company problems in India
30 September 2011

European energy storage association formed
30 September 2011

First superconductor cable energised on Korea's power grid
30 September 2011

SSE pulls out of nuke consortium
30 September 2011

Alstom launches new 2.7 MW turbine
30 September 2011

50 Hz F class GT upgrade from MHI
30 September 2011

Centrax jv to develop power barge
30 September 2011

SSE exits nuclear project
29 September 2011

RWE seeks new permits for Eemshaven
29 September 2011

Westinghouse, Areva to build 44 steam generators for EDF nukes
29 September 2011

Tepco predicts cold shutdown at Fukushima units 1, 2 and 3 by year-end
28 September 2011

UK report endorses offshore supergrid
22 September 2011

Statkraft boosts presence in Turkey
22 September 2011

Ocean Power Technologies secures Lockheed support
22 September 2011

Vestas doubles Chilean wind capacity
22 September 2011

Protesters highlight solar factory fears
22 September 2011

UK failing on climate targets
22 September 2011

Siemens to quit the nuclear power business
22 September 2011

Germany sets new PV record
22 September 2011

German nuclear tax falls at the first challenge
22 September 2011

UK may inherit a new gas bonus
22 September 2011

Fukushima radiation map published
20 September 2011

Saft starts production at new US lithium-ion battery plant
16 September 2011

Solar 'will be competitive by 2020'
15 September 2011

DOE announces funds for wind, solar
15 September 2011

AMSC sues its client Sinovel
15 September 2011

Explosion at French MOX plant Marcoule
15 September 2011

E.ON expands its PV portfolio
14 September 2011

GE announces breakthrough in gas turbine flexibility
14 September 2011

Tepco outlines plan for defuelling damaged Fukushima units
14 September 2011

US solar firm faces FBI investigation
13 September 2011

Fukushima Unit 1 cover frame completed
13 September 2011

UK organisations join US laser fusion effort
13 September 2011

Uruguay biomass tender attracts 96 MW in bids
09 September 2011

Belo Monte to be awarded operations license by 2015
09 September 2011

Tepco to re-open fossil fired units
09 September 2011

Maibara geo project reaches crucial landmark
09 September 2011

Helioenergy 1 starts commercial operation
09 September 2011

GCCSI opens first Asia office
08 September 2011

Wärtsilä goes for gold
08 September 2011

Aquamarine Power secures bank financing
08 September 2011

Hot salt water caused leak at Fukushima
08 September 2011

Shaw Group to sell Westinghouse stake back to Toshiba
07 September 2011

EuroSite to be launched in UK
02 September 2011

Marubeni buys share of Gunfleet Sands offshore wind
02 September 2011

MHI to build three supercrits in Taiwan
02 September 2011

NTPC and Indian Railways to build 1.3 GW power plant
01 September 2011

Japan's parliament passes Renewable Energy Law
01 September 2011

Candu wins $440M Argentina nuke deal
01 September 2011

New probe can see materials interactions in nuclear fusion reactors
01 September 2011

Tepco denies it failed to respond to tsunami prediction
01 September 2011

Fukushima units 1&2 radiation has dropped below legal limits
01 September 2011

Indonesia needs an outward approach to coal
01 September 2011 “The government [of Indonesia] cannot preach about environmental...

August 2011

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Flooding of Fukushima turbine halls 'to drop a half metre by mid-September'
27 August 2011

Japan’s PM Kan Naoto to resign
26 August 2011

Canada to back loans for Labrador hydro project
26 August 2011

Green partnership gains strength
24 August 2011

Enel wins projects in Brazilian green auction
24 August 2011

GDF Suez plans Jirau expansion
24 August 2011

Canada proposes coal plant performance standard
24 August 2011

Offshore wind farms 'provide haven for fauna'
24 August 2011

Iberdrola passes 8000 MW and reinforces its leadership in renewables
24 August 2011

So long, solar thermal – Blythe switches to PV
24 August 2011

Tepco to test Fukushima spent fuel pool desal system
21 August 2011

TVA board authorises completion of Bellefonte 1
21 August 2011

Metso, SAC, join forces in Chinese market
18 August 2011

Siemens to build two 800 MW CCGTs in Thailand
18 August 2011

Chromalloy sets up Korea operation
18 August 2011

Siemens gets Smart with Boeing
18 August 2011

Ling Ao unit 4 enters commercial operation
18 August 2011

AMSC forced to cut jobs and submit new Nasdaq plan
18 August 2011

Green Power to build wind farm in northern Japan
18 August 2011

Reliance Power to develop 200 MW wind power project in India
18 August 2011

Fukushima unit 1 spent fuel pool cooling under control
18 August 2011

China Power International looking for 20% stake in Energias de Portugal
14 August 2011

Siemens/Power Machines GT accord
14 August 2011

Largest offshore HVDC cable contract awarded
13 August 2011

CIC seals MOU with GDF Suez
13 August 2011

China taking action to limit power shortages
13 August 2011

Romania plans wind power expansion
13 August 2011

IFC backs biomass in India
13 August 2011

Drax gets consent for two large scale biomass plants
11 August 2011

E.On to lay off thousands following huge earnings drop
11 August 2011

EPA's new emissions rule open for scrutiny
11 August 2011

Vattenfall completes 5M installations at Ormonde
11 August 2011

First turbine commissioned at Sheringham Shoal
11 August 2011

Three Japanese ministers sacked over Fukushima
11 August 2011

Eneco plans 49 MW biomass plant
11 August 2011

E.On commissions two CCGTs in Russia
11 August 2011

Iberdrola and Gamesa end strategic agreement
11 August 2011

Essent units reach first fire
11 August 2011

RWE pulls out of Wavegen's Siadar project
11 August 2011

Tepco starts desalination of contaminated water
09 August 2011

Tepco completes work on unit 4 spent fuel pool
04 August 2011

Areas of high radiation detected at Fukushima site
04 August 2011

July 2011

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Nexans to build EHV cable plant in the USA
29 July 2011

World’s largest SVC Light installation in Chile
29 July 2011

Alstom completes upgrade retrofit of Dunamenti
29 July 2011

Siemens to acquire gas and steam component supplier NEM/NES
29 July 2011

Mitsui develops specialised crane for wind turbines
28 July 2011

ADB aid for Moragolla hydro project
28 July 2011

Vietnam approves a 10 year power development plan
28 July 2011

Pakistan government ups funding for key gasification project
28 July 2011

Ayrshire Power modifies its Hunterston CCS application
27 July 2011

Tepco: it will take three years to resolve mid-term Fukushima issues
24 July 2011

ABB acquires the Trasfor Group
21 July 2011

AMSC to revise its financial statements for Q2 and Q3 of fiscal 2010
21 July 2011

Gazprom and RWE to agree on joint European strategy
21 July 2011

Arup named lead planning consultant for new UK nuke
21 July 2011

Zimbabwe plans $1.3 bn power upgrade
21 July 2011

Japanese utilities to share nuclear compensation costs
21 July 2011

GDF Suez opens new 405MW CCGT plant in Hungary
21 July 2011

Second water treatment system installed at Fukushima
20 July 2011

RWE agrees Amprion sale
18 July 2011

Aquamarine Power unveils latest Oyster
18 July 2011

Compensation win over offshore leases
17 July 2011

Babcock gets oxy-coal funding
17 July 2011

First commercial wave generator inaugurated
17 July 2011

GE wins turbine order for Mekong Delta
17 July 2011

Widespread outages hit Chicago area
17 July 2011

Renova and Gazprom in power business merger
16 July 2011

Unit 3 reactor building stable, says Tepco
16 July 2011

Australia unveils vision of low carbon future
15 July 2011

ABB wins $80 million Itaipu order
15 July 2011

Tepco prepares alternative cooling installation at unit 4 spent fuel pool
13 July 2011

Plan to burn tsunami wreckage in power stations may be flawed
11 July 2011

Commission raises the stakes in power cable cartel investigation
11 July 2011

ETI supports offshore test facility
11 July 2011

Astoria Energy II starts up
11 July 2011

Power plant construction costs rising again
11 July 2011

High efficiency solar cell could be integrated in building materials
11 July 2011

Philippines may rechannel its nuclear budget
11 July 2011

New 10bn yen solar fund
11 July 2011

Siemens opens new manufacturing plant in Russia
10 July 2011

Atacama plans 50 MW of solar for 2012
08 July 2011

NTPC commissions new 660 MW supercrit
07 July 2011

Saudi Arabia-Argentina nuclear energy deal
06 July 2011

Tepco workers venture to the Fukushima Unit 4 refuelling deck
05 July 2011

E.ON secures 6 year jack up vessel charter
04 July 2011

Flexibility – the new battleground
02 July 2011

Energy Utopia risks
02 July 2011 “This Utopian vision of energy market development is being driven...

Fukushima water treatment schedule published
01 July 2011

June 2011

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Allendale wind farm blocked
30 June 2011

Hungary's most eco-friendly power plant opened
30 June 2011

Alstom ventures out to sea again
30 June 2011

Alstom and Norcem in carbon capture trial
30 June 2011

Thornton Bank wind farm celebrates first foundation
30 June 2011

Research heavyweights form CCS alliance
30 June 2011

Areva and Iberdrola form offshore wind partnership
30 June 2011

Elering orders reserve power plants
30 June 2011

Scheme to boost solar purchases in the UK
30 June 2011

ADB calls for “radical steps”
30 June 2011

Falbygdens Energi to trial battery storage
30 June 2011

Closed-loop cooling starts at Fukushima Daiichi
29 June 2011

Japanese government plans wood-burning plants
25 June 2011

GE wins its first WTG contract in Australia
24 June 2011

Statkraft, Nitto Denko, in osmotic power agreement
24 June 2011

Siemens to make precautionary repairs to 54 offshore wind turbines
24 June 2011

GE gets smart in Northern Ireland
24 June 2011

Marubeni, GDF Suez joining Indonesia geothermal project
23 June 2011

Tepco workers enter unit 2 at Fukushima
23 June 2011

Water treatment system at Fukushima shut down after only four hours
21 June 2011

Tepco starts on weatherproofing Fukushima unit 1
18 June 2011

USNRC reviews and discusses its Fukushima response
17 June 2011

Siemens starts trial of its first 6 MW WTG
16 June 2011

Peru cancels Inambari hydro project
16 June 2011

Partners will build Irish Sea wind farm
16 June 2011

CCS is cost competitive, says Alstom's Joubert
16 June 2011

Saudi firm buys stake in Jordan's largest power generator
16 June 2011

Poland, Russia look for nuclear partners
16 June 2011

Sinovel unveils its first 6 MW WTG
16 June 2011

Nevada projects win DOE backing
16 June 2011

Eight Fukushima staff have received radiation overdose
15 June 2011

Alstom offers 61% efficiency with upgraded GT26 and KA26
13 June 2011

GE has its first FlexEfficiency customer
13 June 2011

TEPCO pumps out more water from Fukushima unit 2&3
12 June 2011

Germany agrees nuclear phase-out (once again)
12 June 2011

Brazil's smart grid will start with Enel meters
12 June 2011

Ngatamariki geothermal contracts boost Ormat orders
10 June 2011

New world record solar cell efficiency
10 June 2011

Canadian Solar increases mono cell efficiency
10 June 2011

SCS Energy agrees HECA deal
10 June 2011

UK cuts subsidies for large-scale solar
10 June 2011

Market factors point to increasingly prominent role for gas
08 June 2011

Engine makers raided for cartel evidence
08 June 2011

Tepco releases contaminated water tank construction schedule
07 June 2011

Wärtsilä and Versa in fuel cell power production deal
06 June 2011

GE in 'FlexEfficiency' deal with Harbin
06 June 2011

GE to acquire FMC-Tech
06 June 2011

18 firms bidding for Dubai's first private power project
05 June 2011

Brazil plans heavy wind farm investment
05 June 2011

IAEA mission: Japan underestimated tsunami risk
04 June 2011

Despite explosions, Fukushima units 1 & 4 buildings 'are stable'
03 June 2011

New water circulation systems for Fukushima Daiichi
03 June 2011

'No radioactive contamination' north of Japan
01 June 2011

IAEA mission visits Fukushima Daiichi
01 June 2011

May 2011

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MAN Diesel & Turbo investigating sales irregularities
28 May 2011

Renewable energy can exceed global demand – UN report
28 May 2011

Poland will attempt to sell Enea stake this year
27 May 2011

Belenergo to sign credit agreement with China for hydro build
27 May 2011

Tepco reports limited damage at Fukushima units 2 and 3
27 May 2011

GE aims for 61% efficiency combined with record flexibility
27 May 2011

MHI also looking to 60%
27 May 2011

Tepco completes Fukushima Daiini emergency plan
26 May 2011

ABB commissions dynamic energy storage system in UK
25 May 2011

Toshiba takes over Landis+Gyr
25 May 2011

To 60% CCGT efficiency and beyond
20 May 2011

Sener research predicts sizeable CSP cost cuts
20 May 2011

China's drought is causing drinking water and power shortages
20 May 2011

Offshore developers start up porpoise protection initiative
20 May 2011

Ecuador adopts feed-in tariffs
20 May 2011

RWE clinches Borssele deal
20 May 2011

Italian court cancels Enel clean coal conversion
20 May 2011

E.On commissions CCGT in Slovakia
20 May 2011

Vestas plans UK manufacturing facility
20 May 2011

Focus of the Fukushima unit 1 plan is switched away from flooding
19 May 2011

Tepco confirms Fukushima unit 1 core melted, but remains in reactor vessel
18 May 2011

Radioactive leak at Fukuchima Daiichi found and plugged
14 May 2011

B&W signs supercrit MOM with Toshiba
13 May 2011

ENTSO-E launches public consultation on EU transmission roadmap
13 May 2011

Qatar cancels plans to build power plants in Syria
13 May 2011

Mainstream aiming at 2013 start for Ckani wind farm
13 May 2011

Russia – Turkey nuclear pact is signed
13 May 2011

Bangladesh sets up coal power company
13 May 2011

Banks back Spanish Fresnel solar project
13 May 2011

Québec launches “Plan Nord”
13 May 2011

Fukushima unit 1 airlock opened
11 May 2011

Tepco begins flooding Fukushima unit 1
07 May 2011

Tepco starts on Fukushima site works
05 May 2011

Fukushima fall out may cause dose rates exceeding legal limit
05 May 2011

Tepco begins preparations for Fukushima unit 1 stabilisation
04 May 2011

Total acquires PV panel maker
04 May 2011

Nanosolar set to deliver 1 GW to Europe
04 May 2011

Canadian CCS project approved
04 May 2011

Malaysia set for renewables feed-in tariff
04 May 2011

Belo Monte gets $1.5 billion investment boost
04 May 2011

Exelon and Constellation to merge
04 May 2011

Nexans to support initiatives in developing world
02 May 2011

April 2011

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Germany explores a new kind of power train
28 April 2011

Core damage at Fukushima less than believed – Tepco re-analysis
28 April 2011

Dust containment spraying begins at Fukushima
28 April 2011

EIA forecasts continuing growth in US CO2 emissions
28 April 2011

9E GT to be indonesian workhorse
28 April 2011

NEC, Enel, to collaborate on smart grids
28 April 2011

Egypt's ambitious wind energy programme gets under way
28 April 2011

Temperature rises at Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 spent fuel pond
27 April 2011

Tepco estimates extent of contamination from unit 2 trench leak
22 April 2011

Siemens breaks through the 60% CCGT efficiency barrier
21 April 2011

World’s largest fuel cell power plant
21 April 2011

Six months (at least) to get control of Fukushima Daiichi radioactivity
21 April 2011

Two major California solar projects win loan guarantee support
21 April 2011

Cape Wind plan gets final approvals
21 April 2011

Carbon capture technologies 'at a disadvantage'
20 April 2011

ADB to finance India's solar industry
20 April 2011

France considers shale gas ban
20 April 2011

Tepco begins pumping out unit 2 turbine building
20 April 2011

New data reveals spread of radiation in waters around Fukushima
16 April 2011

Unit 4 Fukushima spent fuel assemblies 'mostly undamaged'
15 April 2011

Tauron to convert Tychy coal-fired plant to biomass
15 April 2011

OAS attempts to suspend Bel Monte construction
15 April 2011

Belarus to build nine hydropower plants by 2020
15 April 2011

Russia, Bulgaria to close Belene EPC deal
15 April 2011

Fukushima Unit 2 suppression pool to blame for much of leaked radiation, JSC concludes
14 April 2011

Aggreko mobilises 200 MW emergency power for Japan
14 April 2011

Supergrid is 'not a silver bullet' – Poyry report
14 April 2011

New estimates show raised levels of site flooding at Fukushima
13 April 2011

NISA raises crisis rating of Fukushima Daiichi to INES 7
13 April 2011

Fukushima Daiichi ready for draining
12 April 2011

First turbine installed at Ormonde
11 April 2011

Nuon postpones gasification at Magnum, again
08 April 2011

US-Dutch firm to build largest European zone PV plant
08 April 2011

UK government to introduce carbon price floor
08 April 2011

Australia and UK lead new global CCS effort
08 April 2011

Swiss utility doubles Veytaux storage capacity
08 April 2011

GE urges elimination of gas flaring
08 April 2011

E.On builds on US renewable plans
07 April 2011

Italy awards geothermal concessions
07 April 2011

Wind was Spain's main source of electricity in March, says REE
07 April 2011

Tepco continuing containment effort at Fukushima
07 April 2011

Seawater contamination at Fukushima worsens
06 April 2011

TEPCO starts bulk flush-out of low level waste
05 April 2011

Leak into sea found at Fukushima-Daiichi site
04 April 2011

New tidal energy device for Welsh waters
01 April 2011

Hitachi Zosen innovation chosen for Hinwil refurb
01 April 2011

Tepco to try sprayed plastic containment at Fukushima
01 April 2011

BritNed link 'a major step forward for power grid interconnection'
01 April 2011

CEZ Pocerady natural gas project gets under way
01 April 2011

Kuwait issues tender for $2.7bn power plant
01 April 2011

China and Germany ahead in green investment
01 April 2011

March 2011

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Water pumping dominates Fukushima-Daiichi activity
31 March 2011

TEPCO told to balance cooling with leak prevention at Fukushima
30 March 2011

More radiactivity found in water leakage at Fukushima
28 March 2011

High radiation levels prevent recovery action at Fukushima Daiichi site
27 March 2011

Russian firm to build hydro plants in Turkey
25 March 2011

AMSC buys The Switch
25 March 2011

Scotland mulls over renewables barriers
25 March 2011

Iberdrola approves Renovables merger
25 March 2011

Daiichi unit 1 containment intact despite high temperature
25 March 2011

UK regulator wants to 'break utility stranglehold'
25 March 2011

Lights on at Fukushima unit 3
24 March 2011

Toshiba mobilises Japan earthquake support team
24 March 2011

Reconnection halted temporarily at Fukushima
22 March 2011

Power recovery operations continue at stricken nuclear plant
21 March 2011

SSE proposal for carbon capture and storage project
21 March 2011

TEPCO restarts unit 5 cooling pump at Fukushima
21 March 2011

International impact of the Fukushima-Daiichi emergency
18 March 2011

Fukushima – water spraying operations continue
18 March 2011

Nuclear disaster will shift $200 billion to fossil and renewables
18 March 2011

Russia may loan Belarus $6 bn for its first nuclear plant
18 March 2011

Japanese government seeks to boost output from fossil plants
18 March 2011

NTPC will exceed capacity addition target
18 March 2011

ABB buys stake in CSP tech firm
17 March 2011

Scottish government gives go-ahead for 10 MW tidal array
17 March 2011

Qatar buys stake in Iberdrola
17 March 2011

GE unveils new offshore wind turbine
17 March 2011

Wind industry “back on track”, says GWEC
17 March 2011

Fukushima focus shifts to cooling spent fuel
17 March 2011

Iberdrola opens 292 MW wind farm
16 March 2011

Radiation levels hit new high at Fukushima Daiichi
16 March 2011

Fukushima Daiichi situation worsens
15 March 2011

Gulf nuclear energy infrastructure institute launched
11 March 2011

Nicaragua gets geothermal project loan
11 March 2011

Controversial Belo Monte project starts construction
11 March 2011

The MPS Fossil Power Innovation awards
11 March 2011

Vietnam's largest hydro project gets under way - in Laos
11 March 2011

Three Gorges set for final completion by 2015
11 March 2011

GE Hitachi gains approval for boiling water reactor
11 March 2011

Unconventional gas reserves could transform European energy landscape – new report
11 March 2011

UK permits for Willington plant
11 March 2011

Florida P&L unveils hybrid solar energy centre
11 March 2011

China publishes draft five year plan
11 March 2011

Korea to build its largest renewables complex to date
04 March 2011

Mitsubishi to buy into Spanish solar project
04 March 2011

GE completes acquisition of Lineage Power
04 March 2011

Ningdong-Shandong HVDC line passes full power test
04 March 2011

Danish government unveils energy independence strategy
04 March 2011

Irish Sea "has carbon storage potential"
04 March 2011

FutureGen selects CO2 storage site
02 March 2011

Enel and Eni inaugurate Brindisi CCS
02 March 2011

E.On sells its UK network
02 March 2011

February 2011

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Record number of Alstom gas plants entered commercial operation in 2010
28 February 2011

Research group aims to forecast lifetime of nuclear reactors
27 February 2011

India's renewables potential is 68 GW says World Bank
27 February 2011

Zambia secures hydro loan from India
27 February 2011

HECO pursues palm oil option
27 February 2011

SNC-Lavalin to build geothermal plant in New Zealand
27 February 2011

Czech Republic rises in PV power league
27 February 2011

Weak grid connections stalling China's wind energy growth
27 February 2011

Vestas signs up for floating wind turbine project
27 February 2011

CO2 dream becomes reality
18 February 2011

Babcock wins Magnox and Sellafield contracts
18 February 2011

ABB wins $33 million PV orders in Italy
18 February 2011

EDF has a good year in France, but declines in USA and UK
18 February 2011

RWE to invest Euros900 m in East Europe, Turkey
18 February 2011

Global CCS Institute announces Mountaineer funding
18 February 2011

Iberdrola announces technology innovation award winners
18 February 2011

US energy budget proposal promotes huge shift to clean energy
18 February 2011

GE acquires wind turbine tower company
18 February 2011

European consortium wins the giant Belo Monte project
18 February 2011

GEH and Lockheed sign nuclear deal
17 February 2011

Toshiba wins $500 million pumped storage order in US
11 February 2011

ABB wins $180 m order for Norway-Denmark link
11 February 2011

UK wind pipeline now at 67 GW
11 February 2011

Ayrshire Power seeks EU funding for CCS
11 February 2011

Centrax wins French orders
11 February 2011

US government launches its offshore wind strategy
11 February 2011

UK seeks feed-in-tariff modifications
11 February 2011

ADB funds Pakistan wind farm
08 February 2011

European Council calls for much faster progress towards single market
08 February 2011

Suzlon wins $ 1 billion wind power deal
03 February 2011

Advanced hydro storage plants on drawing board in Japan
03 February 2011

Babcock hands over at Windscale
03 February 2011

GE completes $3 billion acquisition of Dresser
03 February 2011

UK-Norway interconnector feasibility is to be studied – again
03 February 2011

Fortum opens its second CHP plant in Estonia
03 February 2011

SDE plans wave power plant off Kenya
03 February 2011

Low carbon transition fuels – private capital will be essential
03 February 2011

French CCGT project approved
03 February 2011

Fingrid builds up reserve capacity
03 February 2011

January 2011

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Reliance Power to make major investment in Indonesia
28 January 2011

Russia, Belarus to sign nuclear power deal – finally
28 January 2011

$1billion Malampaya investment planned
28 January 2011

Jinsha River hydro project approved by NDRC
28 January 2011

GE Hitachi signs up Rafako and Stocznia Gdansk in Poland market bid
28 January 2011

French consortium is studying feasibility of undersea nuke
28 January 2011

Obama courts controversy with clean energy push
28 January 2011

French government announces €10 billion in wind tenders
28 January 2011

Major investors pull out of Cernavoda
28 January 2011

Greece plans €600 million solar park
28 January 2011

China to spend heavily on new EHV lines
21 January 2011

Venezuela to spend US$5bn on generation by end 2012
21 January 2011

China to add 80 GW in thermal power projects this year
21 January 2011

Larsen and MHI inaugurate milestone plant at Hazira
21 January 2011

Masdar plans wind turbine project and new solar plant
21 January 2011

India to build Asia's first commercial tidal power plant
21 January 2011

Hu visit boosts US-China energy co-operation
21 January 2011

Fingrid, Elering choose EstLink 2 contractors
19 January 2011

E.On plans new storage capacity
19 January 2011

ABB enters US EV charging market
19 January 2011

Emerging economies will lead energy growth, says BP
19 January 2011

Constellation completes purchase of five gas fired plants
14 January 2011

Edwardsport cost agreement to be renegotiated
14 January 2011

AE&E rescue bid filed for approval
14 January 2011

Duke Energy–Progress merger will create USA's largest utility
12 January 2011

Iberdrola buys wind capacity from Gamesa
12 January 2011

Romanian substation order goes to ABB
12 January 2011

AES starts landmark energy storage system
12 January 2011

Wärtsilä wins Timor-Leste orders
12 January 2011

ABB to acquire Obvient Inc
05 January 2011

SGCC acquires USD 1 bn of power assets in Brazil
04 January 2011

India's Mundra supercrit synchronised
04 January 2011

UAE submits plans for nuclear plants
04 January 2011

Bahrain wants to join nuclear power club by 2017
04 January 2011

First turbine comes on line at Son La dam
04 January 2011

RusHydro to buy Armenian hydropower plants
04 January 2011

Russia, India, to develop new generation reactors
04 January 2011

December 2010

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Contracts awarded for Maine transmission line
29 December 2010

Baltic link contract goes to ABB
29 December 2010

MAN Diesel & Turbo presents new generation industrial GT
21 December 2010

Turkey's first nuclear power plant to start construction in 2013
21 December 2010

Canadian Solar Inc. and SkyPower in solar EPC agreement
21 December 2010

AMSC wins "intelligent grid" order from Ergon Energy
21 December 2010

Alstom ammonia process selected for CO2 capture plant in Romania
21 December 2010

Nexans wins the Malta-Sicily link
21 December 2010

Finance for Cheves hydro project secured
21 December 2010

US ready to sign nuclear co-operation agreement with Russia
21 December 2010

EDF to extend UK AGR life by five years
21 December 2010

Breakthrough reported in CO2 capture
17 December 2010

Siberian genco to build eight hydro plants in Altai
17 December 2010

MHI to support Manitoba's low carbon efforts
17 December 2010

MHI begins operational testing of its J turbine
17 December 2010

Government proposals will transform the UK power market
16 December 2010

Uranium fuel bank to be set up
15 December 2010

Bulgarian government proceeds with shutdown of Brikel
15 December 2010

Commission proposes new market rules
15 December 2010

North Sea grid initiative firms up
15 December 2010

Laos inaugurates Nam Theun 2
15 December 2010

Alsltom to retrofit Belchatow
11 December 2010

For sale: IGCC+CCS project with Section 36 consent, one colourful owner
10 December 2010

E.ON sells its Gazprom holding
10 December 2010

EdF will sell EnBW holding to German federal state
10 December 2010

Alstom forges strategic agreements with Russian energy giants
10 December 2010

German nuclear life extension becomes law
09 December 2010

Czech Republic confirms PV feed-in amendment
09 December 2010

Rosa project capacity to be doubled to 2400 MW
09 December 2010

European firms win generation contracts in Peru
09 December 2010

GE wins additional Brazilian wind contracts
09 December 2010

Construction starts at Markinch
09 December 2010

India, France sign nuclear pact
09 December 2010

IFC supports China's wind power sector
09 December 2010

Germany's solar PV feed-in tariff "not guaranteed after 2012"
02 December 2010

Wood group to build Dorad CCGT
02 December 2010

Drilling starts at Bavaria's 10 MW geothermal plant
02 December 2010

Attempting to generate power from sewage water
02 December 2010

Saudi Arabia, Egypt to link their power grids by 2013
02 December 2010

Enel has two bidders for Maritsa 3
02 December 2010

Sumitomo to invest In French solar power
02 December 2010

Major initiative to create a 15 MW offshore wind turbine
02 December 2010

AES forms joint venture for projects in Turkey
02 December 2010

ADB urges solar growth
02 December 2010

Investors boost Aquamarine funds
02 December 2010

November 2010

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Xinjiang has huge plans in the wind
26 November 2010

Comparison study of transmission costs launched
26 November 2010

Technical problems lead to shutdown of Iran's enrichment programme
26 November 2010

.Engineering contracts signed for first CAP1400 reactor
26 November 2010

Canada-Italy partnership wins Tunisian contract
26 November 2010

ESBI will help establish EU-GCC network
26 November 2010

Statkraft to build second Turkish hydro plant
26 November 2010

Aker completes Ontario CCGT
26 November 2010

E.On and Bionersis start Asian CDM project
26 November 2010

MHI completes verification plant for Li battery production
19 November 2010

Siemens claims carbon capture breakthrough
19 November 2010

Eletronorte opts for SVC
19 November 2010

UK looks to long-term gas future
19 November 2010

Iberdrola closes sale of US gas firms
19 November 2010

EU is behind schedule on renewable energy target
19 November 2010

Commission proposes priority corridors for energy infrastructure
19 November 2010

Smart energy coalition launched
17 November 2010

Kepco and Enel sign low carbon technology pact
15 November 2010

Namibia inaugurates Caprivi interconnector
15 November 2010

Golden share in EDP ruled illegal
15 November 2010

Czech senate limits solar subsidy
12 November 2010

EDB to allocate Belarus $2bn in power loans
12 November 2010

Rosatom reports increase in revenue and profits
12 November 2010

Tapping the power of the Mississippi
12 November 2010

Mitsui to buy into Spanish solar power
12 November 2010

NTPC to add 13 GW by 2012
12 November 2010

Current climate agreements are 'inadequate' says IEA
12 November 2010

Australia-US initiative should 'drive down solar costs'
12 November 2010

Scottish Power and E.On collaborate on wave power
12 November 2010

EC offers guidelines on bird protection
12 November 2010

European Commission to support CCS with emissions allowances
12 November 2010

UK government hopes to revive CCS demonstration programme
08 November 2010

The EU grants EUR 150m for Kriegers Flak connection
04 November 2010

REpower launches its MM100 in US
04 November 2010

AE&E opens Bandirma CCGT
04 November 2010

Alstom to refurb Najaf power station
04 November 2010

Fortum to discontinue Meri-Pori CCS project
04 November 2010

Alstom wins contract for 800 MW CCGT plant for KMC
04 November 2010

GE Introduces 1 MW solar inverter
04 November 2010

Urenco to buy Capenhurst site
02 November 2010

Bulgaria to extend its nuke contract with Atomstroyexport
02 November 2010

CEZ postpones construction of two new units at Temelin
02 November 2010

KEPCO consortium wins 1600 MW power plant order from UAE
02 November 2010

Itaipu generator unit 6 to be off-line indefinitely
02 November 2010

South Korea plans 2.5 GW offshore wind farm
02 November 2010

China invites solar thermal tenders
02 November 2010

October 2010

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EDF takes over UniStar
28 October 2010

GEH pushes Generation III+ and IV
28 October 2010

Vestas to close European plants
28 October 2010

DanTysk: another offshore wind win for Siemens
28 October 2010

Ex-Im Bank approves $ 917 million finance guarantee for India's Sasan coal plant
28 October 2010

9FAs for India's biggest combined cycle plant
28 October 2010

Iberdrola sells Guatemalan assets
28 October 2010

Fluor to study SA solar park
28 October 2010

Singapore warms to combined cycle
28 October 2010

Korean packager for Rolls-Royce gas turbines
28 October 2010

Plug for Idatech
28 October 2010

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21 October 2010

Some green issues survive savage cuts in UK spending
21 October 2010

Iberdrola plans two US PV plants
21 October 2010

Constellation makes offer to keep Calvert Cliffs alive
21 October 2010

Enel eyes Russian smart grid investment opportunities
21 October 2010

E.On scraps plans for Kingsnorth supercritical plant
21 October 2010

UTC throws lifeline to Clipper
20 October 2010

UK government backs out of huge tidal barrage scheme
20 October 2010

Alstom to supply FGD system for Kusile
14 October 2010

Europe’s largest wind turbine test site in operation
14 October 2010

Tepco's vision for floating wind turbines in the '20s
14 October 2010

CEZ granted 10 year Temelin licence renewal
14 October 2010

Siemens wins contract for Ontario wind project
14 October 2010

Argentina's first geothermal plant 'to be operational by 2015'
14 October 2010

Inter RAO leading contender in sale of Maritsa East 3
14 October 2010

Build of new power plant in Samsun gets under way
14 October 2010

Siemens to build two CCGT plants in Oman
14 October 2010

Rødsand II starts up
12 October 2010

E.On to build wind farm in Poland
12 October 2010

Spanish subsidy plan approved
12 October 2010

Foster Wheeler to study carbon capture scenarios for CCP
12 October 2010

South Africa again facing blackouts
12 October 2010

GE to acquire Dresser for $3 billion
10 October 2010

Stuxnet threat gets scarier
08 October 2010

GE wind turbines make Polish debut
08 October 2010

Alstom signs development MOU with RusHydro
08 October 2010

Wärtsilä and Ecospec co-operate on clean power
08 October 2010

Japanese consortium closer to Kazakhstan nuke deal
08 October 2010

New agreement on fuel cell power stations
08 October 2010

Endesa to start El Quimbo hydro plant construction
07 October 2010

Site selection process for FutureGen CCS announced
07 October 2010

RWE builds its first biomass cogeneration facility in Italy
07 October 2010

AMEC wins Longannet CCS contract
07 October 2010

EDP says goodbye to 1970s oil-fired power station
07 October 2010

Brazil to hold huge hydro auction this year
01 October 2010

Eurus to build largest US PV plant to date
01 October 2010

CEZ to quit Cernavoda nuke project
01 October 2010

Baltic states to delay launch of power market
01 October 2010

Market forces have to reassert their authority
01 October 2010 “The government is inadvertently picking the technology winners ... though...

September 2010

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GE and Harbin Electric form JV to manufacture in China
30 September 2010

Alstom enters the Turkish wind energy market
30 September 2010

World's largest gas engine power plant inaugurated
30 September 2010

Fortum inaugurates biomass CHP in Poland
30 September 2010

Andasol 3 reaches new milestone
30 September 2010

Southern Company starts CO2 capture at Georgia power plant
27 September 2010

Landmark reached in UK wind supply
23 September 2010

Weir engineer receives R-R award
23 September 2010

Dedicated maritime operations weather service launched
23 September 2010

Alstom wins Whitelees extension order
23 September 2010

World's largest offshore wind farm inaugurated
23 September 2010

Optimum Coal sues Eskom over Hendrina contract
23 September 2010

Solar power to be grafted on to Mejillones coal plant
23 September 2010

New superconducting cables ready for installation in Japan's power grid
23 September 2010

Lanco Infratech plans CHP plant for Karnataka
23 September 2010

Germany's opposition party calls for referendum on nuclear future
23 September 2010

South Africa cancels pebble bed reactor funding
23 September 2010

California licenses world's largest CSP plant
20 September 2010

Ikea boosts its green credentials
16 September 2010

ABB wins Ingula hydro order
16 September 2010

Lake Erie wind farm developer named
16 September 2010

Battery storage facility for Los Angeles
16 September 2010

Human error blamed for Vestas blade failure at Lem
16 September 2010

100 MW tidal project proposed for Ireland
16 September 2010

UK government withdrawing backing from Severn tidal barrage scheme
14 September 2010

RWE places Gwynt y Môr cable order
14 September 2010

EU ETS savings will be 'miniscule', warns campaign group
14 September 2010

DOE funds marine energy research
14 September 2010

Siemens wins first order for Flex-Plant 10 combined cycle plants
09 September 2010

NLC planning 2000 MW supercritical in Tamil Nadu
09 September 2010

Alstom wins Euros 200 million order for ECO wind turbines
09 September 2010

DOE supports US-China collaboration
09 September 2010

Oldbury nuclear plant will include low profile cooling towers
09 September 2010

Korea places order for first 1000 MW ultra supercritical units
09 September 2010

Iberdrola, Enel win in Brazilian auction
09 September 2010

Mitsubishi abandons plan to build new coal-fired power plants
09 September 2010

Coal India may set up power plants to utilise excess production
09 September 2010

Tepco to build 15bn yen wind farm In Norway
09 September 2010

Germany proposes 12-year nuke licence extension
08 September 2010

CEZ buys Elcho power plant in Poland
03 September 2010

Toshiba to build solar plant in Bulgaria
03 September 2010

Belarus plans to build new hydropower and wind plants by 2015
03 September 2010

Exelon acquires wind developer John Deere
03 September 2010

Cisco and Itron join forces to deliver smart grid platform
03 September 2010

Cape Wind decision is double-edged, says judge
03 September 2010

GE Hitachi and Tata to explore potential reactor designs for India
02 September 2010

Platts introduce new indicatior for thermal coal into India
02 September 2010

Sweden's largest onshore wind farm inaugurated
02 September 2010

Giant marine turbine installed at EMEC
02 September 2010

August 2010

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July 2010

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AD 700 on the Carnot track
29 July 2010

Alstom signs power MOU with Iraq
29 July 2010

Alstom to build two CCGTs in India
29 July 2010

MHI to license its wind technology in China
29 July 2010

First successful test of an HTS cable at 200 kV
28 July 2010

Wind will lead renewables in Europe by 2020
28 July 2010

Ormat seeks opportunities in Japan
28 July 2010

Emerson and KOSEP to collaborate on emerging markets
28 July 2010

Doosan and GE strengthen steam turbine agreement
28 July 2010

Commission proposes ITER financing plan
28 July 2010

Commission approves 100 million Euros boost for EstLink 2
28 July 2010

Russia's RusHydro, RUSAL may raise 32 bn rubles for joint project
23 July 2010

Vestas to supply 570 MW of wind turbines for Alta WPG
23 July 2010

ABB commissions record breaking UHVDC link
23 July 2010

Bechtel and B&W form modular reactor alliance
23 July 2010

European consortium wins ITER contract
23 July 2010

ABB wins its largest ever transmission contract
23 July 2010

HelWin1 connection contracts awarded
23 July 2010

Lincs to UK grid order for Siemens
23 July 2010

EUR500 m contract awarded for BorWin connection
23 July 2010

Enel inaugurates Archimede power plant
15 July 2010

ABB invests in 'smart grid' firm
15 July 2010

Added steam turbine to boost Wilton capacity
15 July 2010

Lebanon reveals USD 5 billion power plan
15 July 2010

First solar-coal hybrid is operational
15 July 2010

Nexans and Prysmian join Transgreen
14 July 2010

Skoda awards Mochovce contract
14 July 2010

OPG adds twin unit to Chennai plant
14 July 2010

Areva plans third 'clean energy' park
14 July 2010

Alaska new build contract goes to SNC Lavalin
14 July 2010

Hitachi and MHI to consolidate their hydro businesses
09 July 2010

AES boosts Northern Ireland assets
08 July 2010

Argentina awards 895 MW of renewables contracts
08 July 2010

Energy revolution is under way, says IEA
08 July 2010

Construction of 'world's largest PV plant' gets under way
08 July 2010

Marine energy projects in Scotland receive funding boost
08 July 2010

Automation solution should add 20 years to life of Lielahti cogen plant
08 July 2010

EU industrial emissions directive approved
08 July 2010

US DoE offering billions in loan guarantees for solar investment
08 July 2010

Pilot 10 year plan for Europe's grid published
05 July 2010 'Permitting and authorisation are biggest concerns'

'Carbon at 35 Euros by 2012' – Deutsche Bank analyst
02 July 2010

Emerson and KOSEP to collaborate on emerging markets
02 July 2010

Ormat seeks opportunities in Japan
02 July 2010

RWE awards Nordsee Ost contract
02 July 2010

IFC loan boosts Turkey's hydro plans
02 July 2010

AMEC wins high temperature geothermal contract
01 July 2010

Iberdrola launches smart network in Spain
01 July 2010

Bangladesh orders Wärtsilä engines
01 July 2010

June 2010

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Iberdrola starts up 400 MW wind facility in USA
25 June 2010

Foster Wheeler awarded CSP contract
25 June 2010

Areva installs Olkiluoto 3 reactor pressure vessel
24 June 2010

GE first with two stage turbocharger
24 June 2010

Japan delays emissions trading laws
24 June 2010

Andritz resumes Ilisu supply contract
24 June 2010

Wartsila joins partnership for reduction of gas flaring
24 June 2010

Hawaii awards contract for inter-island cable EIS
24 June 2010

American Superconductor and HHI expand alliance
24 June 2010

Swedish government overturns 30 year old nuclear ban
21 June 2010

Revived Akkuyu project gets financing
18 June 2010

Areva finalises sale of its T&D division
15 June 2010

Wärtsilä to convert Ecuador crude oil plant
15 June 2010

OL3 will start up in 2013
15 June 2010

Sener awarded DOE contract for CSP development
15 June 2010

Australia plans its first 'smart city'
15 June 2010

US supports CCS demos
11 June 2010

Siemens requests ruling
11 June 2010

RWE and Voith prepare for marine prototype tests
11 June 2010

EIB supports London Array
11 June 2010

Olkiluoto 3 fuel loading in 2012
11 June 2010

Hunterston goes to next stage
11 June 2010

Total and Abengoa to build Shams 1
11 June 2010

AES and others looking to buy stake in Maritsa
02 June 2010

ABB and Nokia Siemens to test smart grid in Helsinki
02 June 2010

China Huaneng in $1.2 billion wind mega deal
02 June 2010

Sanyo Electric to supply largest PV system to Italian plant
02 June 2010

MHI and Iberdrola in EU-APWR collaboration
02 June 2010

First superconducting FCL at a power plant
02 June 2010

MHI and Weir get together
02 June 2010

Commissioning of second Ling Ao II unit gets underway
02 June 2010

CEZ submits EIA for Temelin
02 June 2010

Pumped storage plant Waldeck I officially re-opened
02 June 2010

May 2010

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Areva wins major Abu Dhabi substation order
27 May 2010

Siemens wins order for expansion of Abu Dhabi’s power grid
27 May 2010

AMSC and Sinovel expand their technology partnership
25 May 2010

EFT Group signs deal for landmark European power project
25 May 2010

Iberdrola inaugurates Middle East CCGT
25 May 2010

Scottish & Southern delays Baglan Bay start
25 May 2010

Mitsubishi files antitrust lawsuit against GE
21 May 2010

Iberdrola plans new hydro capacity in Brazil
20 May 2010

Russia's FGC and Siemens sign co-operation agreement
20 May 2010

El Centro, California, to be re-powered
20 May 2010

ABB buys software developer Ventyx
20 May 2010

Siemens to increase stake in Archimede Solar
20 May 2010

Irsching 5 CCGT put into operation
20 May 2010

Ottawa getting out of the nuclear business
19 May 2010

Controversy over Czech coal plant expansion plan
19 May 2010

Japan Wind to build 180 MW wind farm in Thailand
19 May 2010

North Vietnam's reactor programme expands to eight
19 May 2010

New Stirling engine prototype for waste heat applications
19 May 2010

Japan looks to nuke exports to offset CO2 emissions
19 May 2010

Tenders issued during March and April 2010
13 May 2010 Pubished tender requests and contact details

Logica awarded framework for automated meter reading in UK
12 May 2010

International Energy Agency endorses global solar potential
12 May 2010

UK offshore wind projects get expansion approval
12 May 2010

MHI wins supercrit order in India
12 May 2010

Australia boosts renewables funding
12 May 2010

Dominion selects MHI reactor for North Anna
12 May 2010

Sener buys 100 per cent of Ill
12 May 2010

ECO2 carbon capture system passes assessment test
12 May 2010

ABB wins Brazil power order
12 May 2010

EU likely to grant UK’s power plants four-year stay of execution
09 May 2010

Halcrow and Mott MacDonald to collaborate on tidal projects
05 May 2010

UK's home office electricity bill tops £1 million - for one building
05 May 2010

EDF in nuclear partnership with China
05 May 2010

AP1000 containment vessel "could release radiation"
05 May 2010

ABB wins major substation order in Saudi Arabia
05 May 2010

AREVA signs agreement with UK National Grid
05 May 2010

Westinghouse AP1000 for Poland
05 May 2010

US business group calls for clear climate policies
05 May 2010

EDP contract signals wind sector growth
05 May 2010

Cape Wind approval "has launched US offshore industry"
05 May 2010

A policy for change
01 May 2010 “Both [main political parties] are guilty of making populist...

April 2010

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Every billion dollar enterprise needs Friends
29 April 2010

Areva and Keppel Verolme get Wetfeet deal
28 April 2010

Huge marine energy farm to be built off Scotland
27 April 2010

Portugal bottom of wind consent league
27 April 2010

Mong Duong III development achieves key milestones
27 April 2010

Paiton III expansion gets finance
27 April 2010

Globeleq increases its Azito stake
27 April 2010

Historic steam turbine goes on show
23 April 2010

A lot of hot compressed air
21 April 2010

New CCGT unit for Hemweg
21 April 2010

Wirelesshart is to be first wireless control standard
21 April 2010

Wartsila and ABB to develop new emissions technology
21 April 2010

OSolar signs a contract with Longyuan for sales of tracking systems
21 April 2010

Reykjavik Energy and MHI join forces
21 April 2010

Nexans sets new superconducting MV current record
21 April 2010

Queensland to explore sites for carbon storage
21 April 2010

PG&E seeks licence for wave power project
21 April 2010

Russia to build nuclear plants for Bangladesh
21 April 2010

Japan’s plan – nine nuclear plants in next ten years
20 April 2010

OPT to develop next generation PowerBuoy
20 April 2010

A failure of governance, not of the market
20 April 2010 “Governments should resist the temptation to increase interventionism ......

Iberdrola boosts rural electrification in Brazil
19 April 2010

GDF Suez plans huge biomass plant for Poland
13 April 2010

AES expands its European wind portfolio
13 April 2010

Carbon market failure caused by recession and over generous credits
12 April 2010

Upgraded Skagerrak back at sea
12 April 2010

New safety rules may be spurred by West Virginia's mining disaster
12 April 2010

$3.7 bn World Bank loan for 4.8 GW Medupi project
12 April 2010

ABB wins Ghana power order
08 April 2010

MHI to build WTG nacelle manufacturing plant in the USA
07 April 2010

EU goes for unprecedented level of electricity and gas infrastructure support
04 April 2010

GE to invest 340 million Euros in European wind sector
01 April 2010

March 2010

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February 2010

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Siemens acquires 10% stake in Marine Current Turbines
26 February 2010

GE files wind turbine patent complaint against MHI
22 February 2010

Koreans move into the driving seat for fossil power...
20 February 2010

Clipper breaks ground at its UK offshore wind factory
19 February 2010

Electrabel secures biomass supplies
17 February 2010

US administation to provide nuclear loan guarantees
17 February 2010

ETI plans new offshore wind turbine test facility
17 February 2010

Iberdrola boosts its renewable fleet in Spain
17 February 2010

Fluor secures solar contract
17 February 2010

Finland and Estonia sign agreement on new link
17 February 2010

Tianjin IGCC gets ADB support
11 February 2010

Areva T&D bags Power Grid Corp contract
11 February 2010

MHI to collaborate on PBMR development
11 February 2010

Areva and EDF settle fuel management row
11 February 2010

Buggenum modules arrive on site
11 February 2010

Eesti Energia orders additional deSOx units
11 February 2010

Final major installation contracts signed for London Array
11 February 2010

US accelerates development of carbon capture technology
09 February 2010

FACTS market under anti-trust scrutiny
09 February 2010

Lesedi/Xstrata project tender published
09 February 2010

Tenders published in January 2010
09 February 2010 Project Lesedi: Operation and Maintenance Service Provider for...

Fatal explosion at Connecticut power plant
08 February 2010

Siemens-Rosatom goes to arbitration
07 February 2010

HLW takes to the high seas
07 February 2010

UK introduces green feed-in tariff scheme
07 February 2010

GE chosen to supply embryonic Brazilian windfleet
07 February 2010

US Aministation to invest in clean energy, cut fossil fuel subsidies
06 February 2010

Areva restructures for a nuclear future
05 February 2010

January 2010

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Zenergy sells its first superconducting FCL
27 January 2010

China's XJ Group orders core wind turbine components from AMSC
27 January 2010

Krishnan & Associates publishes analysis of the Indian power generation market
27 January 2010

International Power completes financing for Thai project
27 January 2010

ABB wins UHV transformer order in India
27 January 2010

Rhodes to get new power plant
27 January 2010

EBRD supports East European wind sector
27 January 2010

Sweden's TSO withdraws from Kriegers Flak grid project
26 January 2010

Tenders issued during December 2009
22 January 2010

Masdar signs carbon trading deal with E.On
22 January 2010

Globeleq buys Central American firm
22 January 2010

Metso and BHEL to extend technology collaboration
22 January 2010

Masdar to research advanced concentrating solar power design
20 January 2010

UTC buys huge stake in Clipper
16 January 2010

Lauvergeon blames high cost of safety for contract loss
16 January 2010

MHI and L&T to supply supercritical plant in India
14 January 2010

Venezuela rations electricity
14 January 2010

Spain launches marine energy research initiative
13 January 2010

eSolar seals landmark deal in China
13 January 2010

UK Round 3 announcements - developers commit to offshore wind plans
13 January 2010

China’s first 800 kV HVDC line tested ahead of schedule
13 January 2010

Iberdrola Renovables boosts ambitious growth plans in USA
13 January 2010

Total inaugurates Lacq CCS site
13 January 2010

E.On close to 5 GW divestment target
12 January 2010

Europe should look beyond competition
12 January 2010 “The failure to advance energy market competition ... can largely be...

Concrete proposal for CO2: why don't we put it on the road?
11 January 2010

Winter weather closes power plants in China
10 January 2010

Competition should be the solution, not the problem
10 January 2010 “ ... most analysts concur that the [UK] government’s energy policy is...

KEPCO wins UAE nukes contract
06 January 2010

World’s first 800 kV DC link goes into operation
05 January 2010

Areva T&D goes back to Alstom
01 January 2010

December 2009

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CDM board rejects wind projects in China
24 December 2009

Copenhagen climate summit ends in disarray
24 December 2009

Learning from the Chinese about clean coal ...
22 December 2009

CCS: demos needed fast ...
22 December 2009

EU sets out recovery grant beneficiaries
18 December 2009

Climate deal hangs in the balance
17 December 2009

Vattenfall and Pelamis sign joint venture in marine development
17 December 2009

Nexans wins London Array contract
17 December 2009

EIB to provide EUR 300m for construction of BritNed
16 December 2009

Nexans, Siemens, to connect London Array to shore
16 December 2009

Siemens to provide grid access for London Array
16 December 2009

Areva wins order to reinforce South Africa's network
14 December 2009

GE wins its largest wind farm contract to date
14 December 2009

European funds pledge increases prospects of a Copenhagen deal
11 December 2009

EU commits EUR1.5 billion to energy projects
11 December 2009

ABB to boost Eskom output
11 December 2009

Nine European states sign up for offshore grid
11 December 2009

EPA ruling boosts climate change talks
11 December 2009

Power Industry Projects
07 December 2009 Tenders published during November 2009

Eskom to get 1.86 billion Euros boost from AfDB
03 December 2009

EnerDel enters utility energy storage market
03 December 2009

Cambodia awards $5 million EMS contract to SNC-Lavalin
03 December 2009

ABB realigns its business units
03 December 2009

UK government announces 'Smart' meter rollout
03 December 2009

Enel sets sights on US wind market
01 December 2009

E.On partners in Spanish solar projects
01 December 2009

ABB wins Saudi power station upgrade order
01 December 2009

Osmotic power plant prototype starts up
01 December 2009

Areva negotiating to sell T&D division
01 December 2009

November 2009

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Enel to expand wind in Mexico
18 November 2009

ABB, Fortum plan smart grid for Stockholm
18 November 2009

Tenders started for new nuclear plant in The Netherlands
18 November 2009

EIB funds Gemasolar demo
18 November 2009

Carbon Trust reveals innovative offshore wind designs
18 November 2009

"Short circuit" blamed for Brazil's blackout
17 November 2009

New Zealand to uprate its main HVDC link
13 November 2009

UK government approves ten nuclear sites, promises fast track permitting
13 November 2009

Guatemala to develop hydro potential
09 November 2009

Alstom to equip new Ruacana unit
09 November 2009

The virtues of simplicity
09 November 2009

Europe - an energy market to be proud of?
09 November 2009 “Movement towards a competitive, secure and sustainable EU energy market...

Technology and markets
09 November 2009 “... by inviting governments to take a greater financial interest in the...

Taking a smarter approach to energy
09 November 2009 “...why should [capacity] be connected to a central grid if the...

Can the nuclear market be truly free?
09 November 2009

Recession uncovers market failings
09 November 2009 “... a question mark now hangs over the long term viability and integrity...

SeaGen performance 'better than expected'
04 November 2009

RWE signs construction agreement for Denizli
04 November 2009

£8 million boost for UK wave energy schemes
04 November 2009

Iberdrola completes Brazil's Angra upgrade
04 November 2009

New Swiss pumped storage plant
04 November 2009

Local authorities back Drax renewable energy plans
04 November 2009

Modern Power Systems launches major power industry survey
02 November 2009

October 2009

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Likely winners of EU CCS project funding now known
29 October 2009

Hatfield favourite for EU CCS funding
28 October 2009

GE announces 7FA upgrade
27 October 2009

New uk wind factory to get £4m grant
22 October 2009

MHI achieves 3000 hours with SOFC-micro turbine hybrid
22 October 2009

US government awards Grand Coulee refurb contract
22 October 2009

Shuweihat partners secure $2 billion finance
22 October 2009

AMSC boosts its Australian presence
22 October 2009

Ormat moves into solar
22 October 2009

US Army selects Acciona for 500 MW solar project
22 October 2009

Vattenfall to site ocean energy project in Irish sea
22 October 2009

European and Japanese companies fined over illegal cartel
22 October 2009

EC backs six CCS projects in Europe
22 October 2009

Politics of change
19 October 2009 “[US?Special Envoy] Stern may wax lyrical over the Waxman-Markey bill ......

Power industry projects
19 October 2009 Tenders published during October 2009

EC calls for major CC and energy security funding boost
16 October 2009

OPT floats a Japanese alliance
16 October 2009

Suzlon completes blade retrofit programme
16 October 2009

Horns Rev II inaugurated
15 October 2009

CSLF minister's meeting sets CCS agenda
15 October 2009

Quality in crisis
13 October 2009

Five have become one
13 October 2009

Getting the right balance
13 October 2009

Sri Lankan officials promise blackout investigation
13 October 2009

Kuwait Signs $2.65 billion power station agreement
09 October 2009

Manitoba contract for Areva
09 October 2009

Pilot CO2 capture plants start up in the USA and Germany
09 October 2009

Civil works finish at Olkiluoto, now the civil action can start
09 October 2009

Kingsnorth power plant plan put on ice
09 October 2009

MHI reaches SOFC hybrid milestone
09 October 2009

Vieux Moulin wind farm inaugurated
09 October 2009

Statkraft buys into Italian solar projects
09 October 2009

Fluor to rebuild fire-damaged ISAB Energy IGCC
09 October 2009

RWE npower to build new UK biomass plant
09 October 2009

Indian firm selects GE smart grid technology
09 October 2009

E.On completes world's largest wind farm
09 October 2009

September 2009

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August 2009

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July 2009

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June 2009

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Power Industry Projects July 2009
29 June 2009 Requests for Tenders

SNC-Lavalin to work on Egypt-Saudi interconnection
24 June 2009

ADB reveals new energy policy
24 June 2009

Baltic countries to join EU internal power market
22 June 2009

PV likely to be part of European mainstream by 2020
22 June 2009

Vattenfall wins over Nuon shareholders
18 June 2009

Verbund buys German hydro capacity
18 June 2009

Alstom, StatoilHydro and TCM in carbon capture partnership
18 June 2009

Torresol starts Valle 1 and 2 construction
18 June 2009

GE wins Al Dur supply contract
18 June 2009

O'Connor's Mainstream purchases US portfolio
18 June 2009

Iberdrola Ingenieria wins 'strategic' contract
18 June 2009

New hope for FutureGen clean coal project
18 June 2009

OPT achieves PowerBuoy milestone
18 June 2009

India boosts European order books
16 June 2009

'Grass-roots revolt' in UK against spread of wind farms
16 June 2009

Alstom wins Ecuador project
15 June 2009

Statoil Hydro prepares Hywind for tests
15 June 2009

RWE orders Trent for Emsland repowering
15 June 2009

USA puts $2.2 billion into clean coal
15 June 2009

IEA issues investment warning
14 June 2009

Power Industry Projects June 2009
08 June 2009 Requests for Tenders

Iberdrola starts Lithuania CC project
03 June 2009

Alstom moves into tidal stream generation
03 June 2009

Enel completes Maritza East 3 refurbishment
03 June 2009

EBRD to trigger sustainable energy investments
03 June 2009

Masdar site connects 10 MW PV plant
03 June 2009

ScottishPower launches carbon capture project
03 June 2009

US government proposes 25% cut in marine energy R&D
01 June 2009

Canada’s green fund gets into its stride
01 June 2009

China plans huge UHV grid investment
01 June 2009

CEZ seals Bohunice nuclear plant agreement
01 June 2009

Alstom returns to geothermal market
01 June 2009

Siemens secures new wind contracts
01 June 2009

Saft and ESMA to develop storage supercapacitor
01 June 2009

May 2009

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The US and China 'threaten European solar supremacy'
29 May 2009

Tests on biofuels hold promise, says Wärtsilä
29 May 2009

ARRA funding to boost US renewables sector
29 May 2009

Global wind power capacity rises 29 per cent
19 May 2009

Australia increases clean energy funding
19 May 2009

Corporate crime does pay
15 May 2009 March issue, 2009

The VVER revisited
15 May 2009

A few green shoots for IGCC?
15 May 2009

London Array developers are to go ahead
13 May 2009

World Bank funds Jordan upgrade
12 May 2009

Egypt issues 250 MW wind tender
12 May 2009

Centrica gains nuclear foothold
11 May 2009

New turbine pump technology for Nant de Drance hydro
11 May 2009

RWE buys share in Thornton Bank
11 May 2009

GDF Suez and Total team up for Penly project
11 May 2009

Gemasolar steam contract goes to Foster Wheeler
11 May 2009

Australia delays start of carbon trading by one year
11 May 2009

New wind production facility for Siemens in USA
11 May 2009

EU parliament passes green-tinted recovery package
09 May 2009

Siemens to build privately owned HVDC system in India
07 May 2009

Simón Bolívar-Guri, Wimalasurendra and New Laxapana hydro plants to be refurbished
07 May 2009

Areva wins China HVDC contract
07 May 2009

Westinghouse acquires nuclear fuel company NFI
07 May 2009

Powerspan secures carbon capture financing
07 May 2009

MAN Turbo wins CSP steam order
07 May 2009

Spanish policy boosts solar growth
07 May 2009

Power Industry Projects May 2009
06 May 2009 Requests for tenders, 5 May 2009

German and French utilities win bids for UK nuclear sites
05 May 2009

Cutting-edge technology for new Nant de Drance hydro scheme
05 May 2009

UK's only wind turbine manufacturing plant to close
03 May 2009

April 2009

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Nuon gears up for Buggenum CO2 project
29 April 2009

Fuel cells get ARRA funding in the USA
28 April 2009

Belgium and Germany plan new interconnector
28 April 2009

Milestone solar tower starts commercial operation
28 April 2009

Miami unveils $200 million smart grid initiative
28 April 2009

1 billion Euro contract to build UK’s largest combined cycle power plant
28 April 2009

First commercial offshore wind farm in German Baltic Sea
26 April 2009

UK proposes tough new legislation on CCS
24 April 2009

Power Industry Projects April 2009
22 April 2009 Requests for tenders April 2009

No clear engineering strategy and a lack of expertise say UK MPs
18 April 2009

CCS institute launched in Australia
18 April 2009

Candidate UK nuke sites revealed
16 April 2009

Vattenfall unit selected for Fenno-Skan 2
14 April 2009

ABB wins SVC order for Texas grid
14 April 2009

AES demonstration of pollution control
14 April 2009

PCE continues with Belchatow modernisation
14 April 2009

Pelamis demo is "dead in the water"
13 April 2009

Wind investment to be part of EU recovery plan
12 April 2009

EU funding a shot in the arm for Nabucco pipeline
07 April 2009

Scottish Power to build 1 GW CCGT power plant in UK
07 April 2009

Areva inaugurates eight new factories in India
06 April 2009

ABB wins order for hybrid integrated solar power plant
06 April 2009

ABB wins $140 m transformer order from SGCC
06 April 2009

EPA awards $3.6 m in grants for PM research
03 April 2009

CFCL suffers setback
03 April 2009

Alstom, Dow plan US CCS pilot
03 April 2009

Siemens bags Shuweihat order
02 April 2009

Foster Wheeler seals partnership in India
02 April 2009

March 2009

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Shell pulls back on renewables development
24 March 2009

Alstom merges its power generation activities into a single division
24 March 2009

European utilities make low carbon commitment
24 March 2009

RWE gains permit for Niederaussem CO2 scrubbing project
23 March 2009

US DOE urged to review FutureGen
23 March 2009

Successful test in Super 3C HTS project
23 March 2009

New MHI turbine claimed to set efficiency record
20 March 2009

Foster Wheeler to design Korea’s IGCC
20 March 2009

Sweden unveils ambitious climate and energy policy
19 March 2009

Iberdrola wins bid to operate hydro plants
19 March 2009

Grupo Ibereolica bets on CSP
19 March 2009

Koeburg refit contract goes to Alstom
16 March 2009

Siemens new wind turbine for low wind speeds
16 March 2009

GE wins its damages claim against FMI
16 March 2009

EU officials raid EDF offices
13 March 2009

CEZ signs purchase of OSSH
13 March 2009

Contractors selected for Tanjung Jati extension
13 March 2009

BHEL bags Malwa greenfield project
13 March 2009

IEA convenes new Energy Business Council
12 March 2009

Iberdrola wins Mexico wind contract
12 March 2009

AD700 on the Carnot track
11 March 2009 Some very interesting things have been happening within the European...

Voith, RWE plan ocean technology venture
10 March 2009

New EPA rule for stationary engine emissions
09 March 2009

Largest ever offshore wind turbine supply agreement
06 March 2009

Nexans in joint venture with Polycab
06 March 2009

US geothermal projects show accelerating growth
05 March 2009

USA's level of GHG emissions still rising
05 March 2009

GE service agreements for power projects in China
05 March 2009

Iberdrola seeks foothold in Russia
05 March 2009

RWE to increase size of Aberthaw CCS pilot
05 March 2009

Siemens and Rosatom firm up on partnership deal
05 March 2009

Enel-EDF nuclear deal signals Italian renaissance
05 March 2009

Vattenfall to acquire Nuon
05 March 2009

Babcock Power forms joint venture to commercialise its CCS technology
05 March 2009

Power Industry Projects
05 March 2009 Requests for tenders, February 2009

February 2009

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Siemens and E.oN to build CCS pilot
24 February 2009

EU agreement on key energy projects delayed
23 February 2009

BNDES approves Jirau financing
23 February 2009

CFCL achieves 60% efficiency milestone
23 February 2009

RWE and REpower make wind history
23 February 2009

6 GW of Scottish offshore wind licenses awarded
23 February 2009

MHI wins Krishnapatnam ST contract
23 February 2009

Areva and MHI to start nuke fuel company
23 February 2009

MHI launches high efficiency gas engine
23 February 2009

Alstom and Microsoft plan power alliance
23 February 2009

Vestas warns of job losses– economic climate not good for wind
23 February 2009

AMSC and DoE to collaborate on 10 MW superconductor wind turbine
16 February 2009

Storage expected to increase – KEMA launches study
16 February 2009

GE to build first 'Ecomagination centre' at Masdar City
16 February 2009

Princess Amalia wind farm reaches production peak
16 February 2009

'ET blameless' says wind turbine operator
16 February 2009

Aker wins TCM contracts
16 February 2009

GE Energy wins SEC contract
16 February 2009

E.On orders next-generation wave machine
16 February 2009

Totoral wins IFC support for major wind farm
16 February 2009

Sweden plans to reverse its ban on nuclear build
15 February 2009

Powerfuel gets go-ahead for Hatfield IGCC
15 February 2009

Second EPR to be constructed in France
06 February 2009

Callide enters critical phase
06 February 2009

First GE 'ecomagination' centre to be sited at Masdar City
06 February 2009

Siemens and Rosatom to form nuclear partnership
06 February 2009

ABB to expand semiconductor manufacturing capacity in Switzerland
06 February 2009

GDF Suez joins UK nuclear venture
06 February 2009

Luminant forms Comanche Peak nuke JV with MHI
06 February 2009

Iberdrola to develop1200 MW hydro capacity in Portugal
06 February 2009

Ocean Power Technologies plans new US project
06 February 2009

Putting the pressure on storage
01 February 2009

AREVA acquires Powermann
01 February 2009

January 2009

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Cement firm goes green
31 January 2009

Tanjung Priok to get 750 MW extension
31 January 2009

Uruguay buys in 80 MW dual fuel plant
31 January 2009

Scotland gives go-ahead to Siadar wave project
31 January 2009

China orders AMSC wind components
31 January 2009

WEF – heavily increased clean energy spend is vital
30 January 2009

Gulf projects likely to be cancelled
30 January 2009

GE & Mitsubishi to develop 'world’s most advanced steam turbine'
29 January 2009

Ormat wins Costa Rica geothermal contract
28 January 2009

Magma raises finance for geothermal projects
28 January 2009

Iberdrola has high expectations of the Obama era
23 January 2009

RWE and Dong both back battery technology
23 January 2009

B&W to refurbish Suralaya boilers
23 January 2009

Canasia to develop Gujurat project
23 January 2009

SSE and Scottish Power join forces to bid for nuclear sites
23 January 2009

Enmax places Shepard order
23 January 2009

RWE signs up geothermal partner
23 January 2009

Westinghouse signs nuclear deal with L&T
23 January 2009

Torresol secures Gemasolar financing
23 January 2009

RWE and E.On create nuclear partnership
19 January 2009

Power industry projects
14 January 2009 January 2009, requests for tenders (II)

Gas feud may be re-run of political war
14 January 2009

Offshore wind and tidal stream - first beneficiaries of ETI funding
14 January 2009

Major row brewing over Olkiluoto 3 delays
14 January 2009

Gujurat plans more wind
14 January 2009

RWE and Essent are a “perfect match”
14 January 2009

Siemens wins major Iraq contract
14 January 2009

Rhode Island finalises Deepwater project
14 January 2009

GDF Suez secures Shuweihat 2 financing
14 January 2009

EDF starts British Energy integration
14 January 2009

Gas dispute forces fuel switching
14 January 2009

OPT for Australian wave power
08 January 2009

1 GW solar plant for Qinghai
08 January 2009

UFOs 'target UK windfarm'
08 January 2009 The (as yet) unexplained destruction of two 65 ft wind turbine blades...

Power industry projects
05 January 2009 Requests for tenders January 2009

Toshiba to install CCS at Omuta
05 January 2009

GE wins huge contract to expand Iraqi infrastructure
05 January 2009

Los Angeles to upgrade its network
05 January 2009

Australia carbon trading to start in 2010
05 January 2009

Europe faces power shortfall, warns RWE
05 January 2009

International community welcomes Philippines renewable energy bill
05 January 2009

E.On makes capacity exchange deals
05 January 2009

Kick-starting CCS demonstration
01 January 2009

In praise of free markets
01 January 2009 "If developing an energy policy to provide energy security and...

December 2008

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November 2008

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Abengoa plans 100 MW CSP capacity in Spain
20 November 2008

US companies prepare for climate legislation
20 November 2008

ADB supports key Tajikistan facility
20 November 2008

GE Jenbacher electrifies Bangladesh
20 November 2008

GE to develop new centre for clean coal research
19 November 2008

Commission approves MW Power
19 November 2008

Canada opens 200 MW wind farm
19 November 2008

Strategic energy review highlights energy security issues
19 November 2008

Australia hails potential of Callide CCS demonstration
19 November 2008

UK leads way with carbon auction
19 November 2008

Strategic energy review highlights energy security issues
19 November 2008

We are faced with 'catastrophic and irreversible' climate damage, warns IEA
17 November 2008

Diamer-Bhasha dam gets the go-ahead
13 November 2008

Thailand's Ratchaburi is expanding abroad
13 November 2008

Italy signs new agreement in Russia
13 November 2008

Alstom Hydro launches Global Technology Centre
13 November 2008

Eskom secures $500 million AfDB loan
13 November 2008

ABB expands in Vietnam
13 November 2008

Enel starts work at Mochovce site
13 November 2008

Vattenfall buys stake in Enea
13 November 2008

BP turns its back on UK CCS, wind markets
10 November 2008

Malaysian group plans USD1.4 billion power plant
06 November 2008

Riffgat boosts Germany’s offshore wind plans
06 November 2008

GDF Suez obtains CDM relief in China
06 November 2008

UK signs green deals with Gulf nations
06 November 2008

US DOE awards key Yucca contract
06 November 2008

CEZ wins Albania distribution tender: network to get SCADA upgrade
06 November 2008

SSE sells Greater Gabbard stake to RWE
03 November 2008

Poland's predicament and why "conventional" pollutants still matter
01 November 2008

CCS is central to energy and climate security
01 November 2008 “... an emissions limit of 500g CO2/kWh from 2015 has effectively ruled...

October 2008

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Enel, Eni to develop CCS demonstration
30 October 2008

GDF Suez buys Econergy
30 October 2008

Drax to build three new biomass plants
23 October 2008

Fuel cell initiative falls flat
23 October 2008

Vergnet seals 120 MW deal in Africa
23 October 2008

Lao PDR plans exports to Vietnam
23 October 2008

Huaneng obtains approval for Jinling phase 2
23 October 2008

UAE appoints nuclear manager
23 October 2008

UK pledges 80 per cent GHG reduction, will introduce feed-in tariff
23 October 2008

Masdar buys into London Array
23 October 2008

Utilities establish new International Electricity Partnership
23 October 2008

Electricity producers set up international partnership on CO2 emissions
23 October 2008

EU energy ministers take “crucial step”
22 October 2008

EU gets tough on CO2 emissions from new plant
22 October 2008

UK takes the lead in offshore wind
22 October 2008

New international standards on energy management
15 October 2008

RWE and TenneT set up security centre
13 October 2008

US defence firm to demonstrate OTEC technology
13 October 2008

EPCOR awards Jacobs Genesee contract
13 October 2008

US DOE targets Enhanced Geothermal Systems technology
13 October 2008

Vattenfall boosts wind interests by buying Amec Wind
13 October 2008

Siemens secures Solar Tres contract
13 October 2008

E.On places Rødsand order
13 October 2008

Wärtsilä and Metso form renewables joint venture
13 October 2008

Iberdrola obtains CCGT permits in Germany
03 October 2008

Rhode Island selects Deepwater Wind for offshore project
03 October 2008

US utilities look to biomass
03 October 2008

Suzlon pledges $5 billion investment
03 October 2008

World’s first 800 kV transformer ready for delivery
03 October 2008

Scottish Power plans 60 MW of tidal energy
03 October 2008

Atlantic energy lessons
01 October 2008 “... a leaked UK government paper [indicates that] half the UK’s...

September 2008

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Npower commissions CCS testing facilities
29 September 2008

RWE Innogy moves into UK biomass
29 September 2008

EDF’s persistence pays off
29 September 2008

Constellation joins local group
29 September 2008

Get smart, say GE and Google
22 September 2008

Glow launches investment plan
22 September 2008

UK approves 100 MW waste-to-energy plant
17 September 2008

NorNed link officially opened
17 September 2008

Alstom wins Santo Antônio contract
17 September 2008

Ansaldo-Metka to build Syria CCGT
17 September 2008

European Commission launches African Energy Partnership
17 September 2008

E.On sizes up new nuclear at Oldbury: UK's NDA to sell off potential nuclear sites
17 September 2008

TSOs attempt to boost European grid security
17 September 2008

Siemens, E.On mark “new era of collaboration”
17 September 2008

Iberdrola gets green light for Energy East
17 September 2008

Doosan signs up CCS technology – update
17 September 2008

IEA praises EU energy policy
15 September 2008

Areva builds on Koblitz acquisition
15 September 2008

GDF Suez, Marubeni get lion’s share of Senoko
15 September 2008

ADB loan will boost Pakistan's power structure
15 September 2008

Doosan signs up CCS technology
15 September 2008

History in the making at Schwarze Pumpe
04 September 2008

RWE plans EUR2 billion IGCC plant
04 September 2008

RWE is backing a Quiet Revolution
04 September 2008

GDF Suez buys FirstLight
04 September 2008

Eskom awards Ingula contract to Voith Siemens
04 September 2008

Alstom to build Shoaiba 3
04 September 2008

CEZ buys 600 MW wind project
04 September 2008

US utility PSEG backs compressed air storage
03 September 2008

Wärtsilä continues Brazilian success
03 September 2008

GDF Suez wins Al Dur 1
03 September 2008

Flexible thinking on CCS
01 September 2008

China’s Olympian approach to energy
01 September 2008 “Does China need the UK’s help in developing clean energy technology?......

China’s Olympian approach to energy
01 September 2008 “Does China need the UK’s help in developing clean energy technology?......

August 2008

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Norway to set up CCS test lab
28 August 2008

Electrabel proposes major offshore windfarm
28 August 2008

ADB supports Papua New Guinea plan
28 August 2008

Siemens wins Keenan order
28 August 2008

Kårstø CCS signs FEED contracts
28 August 2008

ARE plans 25 biomass CCG plants for Italy
27 August 2008

Opinion
21 August 2008 Nigel Yaxley, managing director of Coalimp (the Association of UK...

News update
21 August 2008 Advantageous connections

Ground-breaking at Haiyang ahead of schedule
21 August 2008

Canada's first low CO2 IGCC
21 August 2008

South Korea puts nuclear at heart of energy plans
21 August 2008

Siemens to provide Greater Gabbard connection
21 August 2008

Plutonic, GE to partner in $4 billion hydro bid
21 August 2008

PG&E signs “landmark” PV agreement
21 August 2008

First purchase of nuclear mini-module in prospect
13 August 2008

Australia “ideal” for solar revolution
13 August 2008

EDF seals Taishan agreement
13 August 2008

Moody’s downgrade hurts Eskom
13 August 2008

MHI hails success of Bulgarian JI project
13 August 2008

Enel targets Brazil for wind development
13 August 2008

AMSC finds sales opportunities in Turkey
13 August 2008

PLN awards Muara Tawar contract
11 August 2008

Alstom wins Taishan turbine island contract
11 August 2008

R&D and demonstration: are we spending enough?
11 August 2008

Going fission
11 August 2008

Japanese nukes: shaken & stirred
08 August 2008

Better late than never
08 August 2008

Risks, rewards and offshore wind
08 August 2008

Vattenfall to sell off German grid assets
07 August 2008

Areva to upgrade UK-France link
07 August 2008

Siadar prototype starts operations off Scotland
07 August 2008

Will China take the lead on IGCC?
07 August 2008

Carbon capers
07 August 2008

Learning by doing and market mechanisms: the keys to CCS
07 August 2008

European Commission needs to regain the energy market’s trust
07 August 2008

Heading for an unfortunate energy legacy
07 August 2008 “The latest compromise will not spur competition, nor will it lead to a...

IGCC – a work in progress
06 August 2008

Putting the case for new nuclear generation in Asia
06 August 2008 “The public, and investors, can only be assured that new nuclear...

International Power seals Paiton PPA
06 August 2008

ESB to sell off two plants
06 August 2008

GDF-Suez wins Shuweihat 2 contract
06 August 2008

Enel's clean coal plant inaugurated
04 August 2008

British Energy rejects EDF offer
04 August 2008

Enel buys into Greek wind pipeline
04 August 2008

European court rules against Spain over E.On bid
04 August 2008

Counting on nuclear power?
01 August 2008

Is a renewables revolution a prudent strategy?
01 August 2008 “It is simply not practicable to increase the UK’s renewable share...

July 2008

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June 2008

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Politics threatens US wind investments
19 June 2008

South Africa upgrades Gariep
19 June 2008

Intel spins off solar start-up
19 June 2008

Iberdrola on a wave of enthusiasm for renewables
19 June 2008

Alstom wins EUR1 billion in CCGT contracts
19 June 2008

Asia needs huge clean energy investments, says ADB
19 June 2008

WBA formed to give a single voice to bioenergy
19 June 2008

UK opens up offshore wind sites
19 June 2008

GE increases solar stake
19 June 2008

EDF-EN boosts solar capacity
19 June 2008

Suez ordered to stop work on Estreito
19 June 2008

Reykjavik Energy boosts geothermal capacity
18 June 2008

EU buckles under French and German pressure
18 June 2008

British Energy rejects bids
18 June 2008

G8, IEA call for greater efficiency and diversification
18 June 2008

Siemens hands over Korean IPP ahead of schedule
16 June 2008

Algeria boosts capacity with 1200 MW plant
16 June 2008

RWE plans EUR1.5 billion coal plant for Poland
16 June 2008

Mainstream aims to make its mark in renewables
09 June 2008

RES to build 950 MW of wind power in Canada
09 June 2008

Plan to build CCS demo at Jänschwalde
09 June 2008

Suez buys Brazilian cogen company
09 June 2008

RWE to sell off gas transmission network
09 June 2008

Ground-breaking bio-coal technology
09 June 2008

Flamanville construction suspended over materials irregularities
09 June 2008

Carbon storage deal between GE and Schlumberger
09 June 2008

GE makes $500m Saudi deal
09 June 2008

Why the Crown Estate is singing 'Rule Britannia'
01 June 2008

May 2008

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World’s first MW-scale tidal turbine installed
29 May 2008

OPT sets sights on 100 MW wave project
29 May 2008

IBM unveils solar breakthrough
29 May 2008

Suez consortium wins Jirau auction
29 May 2008

Mitsubishi gets its first Russian GT order
29 May 2008

Drax kicks off largest biomass co-firing project
29 May 2008

Tales of super-giants in the wind
29 May 2008

Enel and Sharp in solar agreement
29 May 2008

China's earthquake sparks dam fears
19 May 2008

Wärtsilä wins first 20V46F order
15 May 2008

US says EU emissions trading scheme is "a valuable prototype"
15 May 2008

Brazil launches GHG reduction programme
15 May 2008

ABB wins Fenno-Skan 2 contract
15 May 2008

International Power boosts US presence
15 May 2008

Hydrogen Energy axes Australian project
15 May 2008

DOE report claims wind could supply "20 % of US power needs"
15 May 2008

E.On wins Rödsand II – again
12 May 2008

Crown Estate buys 7.5 MW wind prototype
12 May 2008

Rolls-Royce moves into tidal
12 May 2008

Asia must act on clean energy, says ADB
12 May 2008

Enel signs greenhouse gas deal with China
12 May 2008

SEA contractor for Severn Tidal project
12 May 2008

US government funding to test geologic sequestration sites
12 May 2008

Areva, GE, select sites for enrichment facilities
12 May 2008

Commission considers liberalisation compromise
12 May 2008

Siemens 'largest ever' wind order
12 May 2008

AES acquires landfill gas project
12 May 2008

FutureGen re-launch takes shape
12 May 2008

London wind plans in disarray
01 May 2008

Government is in thrall to environmentalists
01 May 2008

April 2008

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First transmission voltage HTS link is energised
30 April 2008

Laser enrichment site selected
30 April 2008

Brazil’s BNDES sets out funding support for 3.3 GW Jirau hydro
30 April 2008

Alberta and Idaho labs collaborating on energy alternatives
30 April 2008

OPAL reactor fuel redesign following shutdown
30 April 2008

First firing of Torrevaldaliga USC this summer
30 April 2008

Wartsila to deliver world-first biofuel plant
30 April 2008

Nam Theun 2 reached “decisive” stage
24 April 2008

UK firms go to ground
24 April 2008

Airtricity to tackle Swedish market
24 April 2008

ADB to help India develop wind potential
24 April 2008

AES makes plans for Masinloc
24 April 2008

Hitachi, E.ON and Electrabel to test CO2 scrubbing
24 April 2008

Europe’s wind industry 'on target'
24 April 2008

Enel considers network sales
24 April 2008

Scottish government rejects 650 MW wind farm proposal
24 April 2008

Endesa joins energy efficiency initiative
24 April 2008

Bord Gáis boosts renewable R&D
24 April 2008

Grand Inga gets a new lease of life
24 April 2008

RWE plans wave farm for Scotland
24 April 2008

Alstom wins Hamm contract
24 April 2008

Wärtsilä wins Pakistan IPP CC contract
14 April 2008

Italian and Egyptian companies form strategic alliances
14 April 2008

Enel starts construction of hydrogen powered CC plant
14 April 2008

Iberdrola plans offshore wind expansion
14 April 2008

AECL withdraws from UK nuke assessment process
14 April 2008

Turkey invites nuclear bids
14 April 2008

ESB to make huge investment to halve carbon emissions
14 April 2008

Eurelectric takes issue with approach, timing, and content of IPPC directive revision
10 April 2008

RWE offers £11 billion for British Energy
10 April 2008

Supply contract placed for world's longest UHVDC line
10 April 2008

Alstom signs up TransAlta as technology partner
10 April 2008

USA's first nuke EPC contract, nearly, for 30 years
10 April 2008

Siemens wins its first turnkey contract in Wales
09 April 2008

MCT marks “historic” moment
09 April 2008

Suez signs financing for Estreito plant
09 April 2008

India embarks on multi-billion dollar grid project
09 April 2008

E.ON enters UK's CCS competition - but the party is spoiled by protestors
03 April 2008

AEP ultra-supercritical project moves forward
03 April 2008

Toshiba to build up promotion of its nuclear products in USA
03 April 2008

RWE to exploit Polish potential
03 April 2008

AES aims to be the sun king
03 April 2008

UK to prioritise reactor design
03 April 2008

Qatar awards Ras Laffan C contract to Mitsui/Suez
03 April 2008

RWE names CCS competition partners
03 April 2008

UAE proposes nuclear development
03 April 2008

Commission loses the upper hand in energy market
01 April 2008

March 2008

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British Energy confirms sale speculation
20 March 2008

AEP “disappointed” by IGCC setback
20 March 2008

Temasek concludes sale of Tuas
20 March 2008

Basin Electric to demonstrate CO2 capture
20 March 2008

Egesur to convert and move HFO plant across country
20 March 2008

Masdar launches CSP initiative
20 March 2008

Alstom wins Bujagali contract
20 March 2008

Russia’s gencos prove popular target
20 March 2008

UES plans $5 billion revamp in Kemerovo
20 March 2008

GT26 for new French CCGT
20 March 2008

BHEL wins Bihar project
20 March 2008

UK passes first stage nuclear GDA offerings
20 March 2008

European Commission is looking for novel solutions to avoid impending supply crisis
13 March 2008

Consortium 'will finish KMW-Mainz on time despite bottlenecks'
13 March 2008

Vattenfall, Wavebob sign development deal
13 March 2008

Approval for Mountaineer gasification CC plant
13 March 2008

'Opportunities in wood to gas business' – GE
13 March 2008

Major upgrade of Turkey's distribution network by 2010
13 March 2008

Electrabel, RWE get to the Belene final
13 March 2008

Progress files for two new reactors
13 March 2008

Iberdrola begins wave energy tests
13 March 2008

GE to double investment in emerging markets
13 March 2008

UK aims to make its emissions targets even tougher
13 March 2008

Portugal boosts reserve margin with CCGT
06 March 2008

Enel takes an important Russian step
06 March 2008

Electrabel signs up REpower
06 March 2008

GDF and Suez acquires Teesside
06 March 2008

Gazprom and E.On plan CCGT project
06 March 2008

RWE gets the go-ahead for Hamm plant
06 March 2008

China plans first inland nuclear plant
06 March 2008

DOE to test CO2 injection sites
06 March 2008

Nuclear hopes inflated?
05 March 2008

The long road to consolidation ...
05 March 2008 “If Opec accepts the need to address environmental issues then it can...

E.On offers to unbundle its transmission assets
03 March 2008

Eskom awards contract for new supercritical at Bravo
03 March 2008

Fuel cell developer receives breakthrough order
03 March 2008

Ansaldo, Enel finalise fuel cell deal
03 March 2008

Eight year timetable for RWE Innogy's 2000 MW wind farm
03 March 2008

February 2008

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FutureGen Alliance up in arms over cancellation of funds
28 February 2008

High voltage record in Nigeria
28 February 2008

Construction site tragedy will delay Neurath opening
27 February 2008

Bulgaria to pool its energy assets
27 February 2008

Alstom signs up Dow for CCS development
27 February 2008

Russia to get its first supercritical CFB
27 February 2008

China's wind sector growing fast
27 February 2008

Fourteen companies express interest in Luminant’s IGCC plans
27 February 2008

Bahrain aims for operational excellence
27 February 2008

Requests for Tenders, April 2008
27 February 2008

Eni, Enel join forces on CO2 capture
21 February 2008

Fortum to buy carbon from Russia
21 February 2008

Wärtsilä to field test an SOFC in public
21 February 2008

Lenders assess Ormonde wind-gas project
21 February 2008

Tenaska proposes trailblazing plant
21 February 2008

RWE forms partnership to build generic power plant
21 February 2008

RWE Innogy proposes 2000 MW wind farm
21 February 2008

Contract signed for first phase of Nuon Magnum
20 February 2008

Breaking ground for a groundbreaking city
14 February 2008

India, Russia further their nuclear co-operation
14 February 2008

LNG project will boost Chilean security
14 February 2008

Poland, Lithuania to build crucial link
14 February 2008

Areva-Bechtel begin design engineering for US-EPR
11 February 2008

Mariah brings its wind turbine to the consumer market
11 February 2008

RWE proposes world’s first commercial tidal stream array
11 February 2008

PGCIL moves to strengthen network
11 February 2008

EdF starts to open up to supply competition
11 February 2008

RWE becomes Nabucco partner
11 February 2008

Hawaii looks to Oceanlinx wave technology
11 February 2008

New solar city to rise from the desert sand in Abu Dhabi
07 February 2008

BP and Rio Tinto plan gasification/CCS plant in Abu Dhabi
07 February 2008

£0.58 m investment for UK's first grid connected tidal power project
07 February 2008

EU pushes ahead with renewables promotion
07 February 2008 Higher emissions targets coupled with an extended and rationalised...

RWE proposes 3 billion Euros T&D investment
04 February 2008

Westinghouse, Areva submit nuke bids in RSA
04 February 2008

InterGen places order for second Rijnmond unit
04 February 2008

Nuclear is not an energy panacea, nor are renewables
01 February 2008

January 2008

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Edwardsport IGCC clears final hurdle
31 January 2008

EnBW finds Heilbronn repowering solution
31 January 2008

India awards largest transformer contract
31 January 2008

Prokon selects Multibrid for Borkum West II
31 January 2008

RWE wants to build plants in Turkey
31 January 2008

Aker sets sights on first CO2 capture plant
31 January 2008

QinetiQ to support Jordanian privatisation
31 January 2008

South Africa national emergency – next two years “critical”
31 January 2008

US DoE announces new approach to FutureGen
31 January 2008

Power deficit in China reaches 41 GW
31 January 2008

South Africa's power shortages start to bite
24 January 2008

TVA to complete Watts Bar
24 January 2008

CFCL targets Japan with micro-CHP product
24 January 2008

UK launches significant tidal power study
24 January 2008

BP to invest in clean power in China
24 January 2008

European Commission proposes energy trading auctions from 2013
24 January 2008

Areva's networking pays off
24 January 2008

UK "must create right framework for nuclear investment"
17 January 2008

CFCL reaches micro-CHP milestone
17 January 2008

Centrica move boosts mini-CHP prospects
17 January 2008

French trio propose nuclear plant for UAE
17 January 2008

GE accelerates its renewable energy programme with $6bn investment
17 January 2008

Qatar awards EUR500 million T&D contract to Areva
17 January 2008

Areva buys into Brazilian biomass
17 January 2008

E.On, Siemens collaborate on CCS development
17 January 2008

Ireland pledges guaranteed price for wave energy
17 January 2008

Mitsubishi applies for APWR certification
10 January 2008

Hong Kong companies join bespoke green scheme
10 January 2008

Conergy signs deal for Australia’s largest wind farm
10 January 2008

Eurus targets Korea with first pv plant
10 January 2008

UK takes the nuclear option
10 January 2008

SSE extends its renewable energy reach
10 January 2008

Illinois to host first FutureGen plant
07 January 2008

China to start AP1000 project in March
07 January 2008

Plans for new UK coal plant move forward a stage
07 January 2008

RWE and GE join fight against a rising wind
03 January 2008

Irsching 4 achieves first firing
03 January 2008

Common market to extend southwards
03 January 2008

China to deploy UHVDC for world’s longest power superhighway
03 January 2008

Peabody joins China's GreenGen alliance
03 January 2008

Blue H launches floating wind turbine
03 January 2008

Dong and Siemens sign Horns Rev deal
02 January 2008

The EU continues to woo Russia over energy - but is it worth the power gain?
02 January 2008

Climate’s great expectations
01 January 2008

December 2007

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November 2007

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October 2007

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Wärtsilä starts up fuel cell prototype
25 October 2007

Enel strengthens Russian position
25 October 2007

EDP orders 500 MW of wind turbine capacity
24 October 2007

Thailand attracts 15 IPP bids
24 October 2007

New solar systems feed Italian grid
24 October 2007

E.On still on the acquisition trail
24 October 2007

Brussels appoints troubleshooters to speed cross-border projects
24 October 2007

MHI targets European market
22 October 2007

Suez auctions EUR3.3 billion of power in Brazil
22 October 2007

EU, Russia meet ahead of energy dialogue
22 October 2007

Hong Kong's CKI strengthens its Canadian position
22 October 2007

EVN gets environmental management boost
22 October 2007

E.On acquires majority stake in Russian generator
22 October 2007

GDF Suez plans ambitious development strategy
22 October 2007

Suez gains Philippines foothold
22 October 2007

E.On agrees asset swap with Statkraft
22 October 2007

EDF backs new nuclear in the UK
11 October 2007

Fenno-Skan 2 will facilitate Nordic trading
11 October 2007

UK gears up for clean coal competition
11 October 2007

Ukraine to repay Gazprom in cash and gas
11 October 2007

GE, Bechtel to develop Canada's first polygeneration facility
11 October 2007

HVDC Plus makes Californian connection
11 October 2007

NZ imposes ten-year moratorium on new thermal plants
11 October 2007

New Dutch biomass plant nears completion
11 October 2007

Statkraft to build world's first osmotic power plant
08 October 2007

E.On expands renewables business
08 October 2007

Clipper to develop "super turbine"
08 October 2007 Unit capacities for offshore wind turbines may reach 7.5 MW

Severn barrage gets a new lease of life
04 October 2007 A new report suggests that a Severn estuary tidal barrage could...

GDF, Vattenfall commit to CO2 storage programme
04 October 2007

CEMIG to bid for Santo Antonio
04 October 2007

German venture to develop CO2 scrubbing
04 October 2007 BASF, RWE Power and The Linde Group have signed an agreement to develop...

MHI to supply steam turbines to Chinese NPP
04 October 2007

UK to host world-class marine energy institute
01 October 2007 A £15 million institute for research into harnessing energy from the sea...

E.ON orders HVDC Light for Borkum-2
01 October 2007 E.ON Netz has placed a $400 million order with ABB for the power...

AEP to add 6 MW of battery storage to grid
01 October 2007 Ohio based utility American Electric Power is to expand its use...

ADB approves Mong Duong loan
01 October 2007 The Asian Development Bank has approved a $28 million first-stage loan...

Putting the case for new nuclear generation in Asia
01 October 2007 “The public, and investors, can only be assured that new nuclear...

September 2007

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Attendance at CEP conference and show is free!
27 September 2007 The best opportunity yet to explore the important and growing central...

EC tries to dodge the bullet over unbundling
27 September 2007

Siemens to build France's largest combined cycle power plant
27 September 2007

REE awards COMETA cable contract
27 September 2007

NZ commits to 90 per cent renewables
27 September 2007

EPRI study promises CO2 reduction from balanced energy mix
13 September 2007

California narrowly avoids heatwave blackouts
13 September 2007

Fluor to build Desert Rock
13 September 2007

Essent and Nuon terminate merger process
13 September 2007

Bruce expands refurbishment project
13 September 2007

TXU shareholders approve merger
13 September 2007

Statoil engages Siemens for gas compression technology
13 September 2007

Baglan Bay completes 24 000 running hours
13 September 2007

MHI and Areva name nuclear arm ATMEA
13 September 2007

Generator failure was result of spanner in works
13 September 2007

Kashiwazaki- Kariwa expected to stay offline for at least a year
13 September 2007

Fennovoima names nuclear plant site choices
13 September 2007

First phase of UES reorganisation completed
12 September 2007

Russia and Australia sign nuclear co-operation deal
12 September 2007

Foster Wheeler in clean energy partnership with Imperial
12 September 2007

AECL in Chinese-Argentine JV
12 September 2007

Endesa’s single-handed dash for gas
12 September 2007

Alstom notches up nuclear deal in China
12 September 2007

AquaBuoy deployed
12 September 2007

Areva wins contract for China-Russia HVDC link
12 September 2007

Alberta plans for new nukes
12 September 2007

Gaz de France and Suez declare merger
12 September 2007

Areva-EdF publish EPR reactor design
12 September 2007

Faulty generator halts Ringhals 3
06 September 2007

Enel plans solar plants at transformers
06 September 2007

SSE invests further in Solarcentury
06 September 2007

German utilities in government talks over nuke safety
06 September 2007

Voith Siemens Hydro wins its largest-ever contract in China
06 September 2007

Far more investment needed to beat CO2
06 September 2007

More government support required to meet renewable targets
06 September 2007 BWEA claims that the UK’s renewable energy industry can meet ambitious...

MHI goes underground in Kenya
06 September 2007 MHI is to build its sixth geothermal in Kenya

Update on Indian ultra-mega projects
06 September 2007 The bidding processfor two 4GW projects, located in Mundra in Gujarat...

Study for second Point Lepreau reactor
06 September 2007 A consortium is to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of...

UK wind expansion
06 September 2007 E.ON has announced plans to build a 300 MW wind farm 8 km off the...

RWE and EOS to exchange power
06 September 2007 Germany’s RWE and Swiss power company Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS) have...

Ontario backs renewables and nuclear over coal
06 September 2007 Conservation, renewable energy, nuclear and natural gas are to be...

Energy storm clouds gather
01 September 2007

August 2007

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Fortum sells Lenenergo shares
30 August 2007

Pacific Hydro continues to expand wind capacity
30 August 2007

New coal plant for Ensdorf
30 August 2007

Toshiba's uranium deals impact Westinghouse
30 August 2007

Thenergo projects to run on biomass
30 August 2007

BP plans clean coal alliance in China
30 August 2007

IGCC study undertaken by Foster Wheeler
30 August 2007

New report silences wind critics
30 August 2007

Olkiluoto delayed by crash strengthening
29 August 2007

UK set to miss climate and renewables targets
29 August 2007

Reprieve for Belgian reactors agreed
29 August 2007

Go-ahead for new gas plant in south Wales
29 August 2007

Korea and Indonesia agree on nuclear development
29 August 2007

Trinergy wind falls to International Power
29 August 2007

US MOX plant construction begins
29 August 2007

E.On buys Iberian wind
29 August 2007

Basslink sale
29 August 2007

UK trying to 'wriggle out of' climate change commitment
29 August 2007

IEC and Cigré to develop UHV standards
29 August 2007

Siemens and RWE to develop 'virtual' power plants
29 August 2007

US wind power build will break record
29 August 2007

GE drawn into China-US trade dispute
29 August 2007 GE is in dispute with the Chinese government over the quality and safety...

Preferred bidder for waste repository
29 August 2007

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa damage less than feared
29 August 2007 Earthquake damage at Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex has...

New PHWR plan for India's nuclear billions
29 August 2007 Work is to begin on the construction of eight pressurised heavy water...

Luminant and Shell to develop giant Texas wind farm
02 August 2007 Shell WindEnergy and Luminant, a subsidiary of TXU Corp, have reached a...

FPL plans massive wind boost
02 August 2007 Plans for between 8,000 and 10,000 MW of new wind by the end of 2012...

Europe opens formal proceedings against EU gas giants
02 August 2007 The European Commission has decided to open formal anti-trust...

Quake impact on reactor complex explored
02 August 2007 More details have emerged from the impact on the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa...

Enel-Acciona begin to take control of Endesa
02 August 2007 Enel and Acciona have opened the acceptance period of their joint...

Nevada solar project closes finance
02 August 2007 Acciona Energy has announced it has closed a $266 million long-term...

Westinghouse, Shaw to provide four reactors to China
02 August 2007 A consortium of Westinghouse Electric Company and The Shaw Group have...

EDF and Constellation Energy in US EPR alliance
02 August 2007 Electricité de France (EdF) and US energy company Constellation Energy are...

Enercon to supply hydro turbines
02 August 2007 German renewable energy firm Enercon will supply turbines for the...

Entergy orders reactor components from GE
02 August 2007 A project development agreement has been reached between Entergy Nuclear...

RWE npower presses ahead with Pembroke plans
02 August 2007 An updated Environmental Statement (ES) has been submitted to the...

Putin ratification of Iter agreements
02 August 2007 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has approved the law ratifying...

Westinghouse to acquire IST Nuclear
02 August 2007 Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement to purchase IST...

Electrabel to acquire Tractebel
02 August 2007 Belgian utility company Electrabel is to acquire the Suez stake of 99.97%...

SaskPower delays CCS project
02 August 2007 Saskatchewan Power Corp has delayed implementation of its...

MHI repowering PLN
02 August 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received a full-turnkey order from...

British Energy encounters "teething trouble"
02 August 2007 Sir Adrian Montague, chairman of British Energy, speaking at the...

Endesa to build French CCGT
02 August 2007 Endesa France has received permission from the Montceau les Mines...

Nuclear desalination deal between Libya and France signed
02 August 2007 A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Libya and France that...

AECL in Argentina CANDU deal
02 August 2007 Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has signed a Memorandum...

Iberdola commissions first Polish wind farm
02 August 2007 A 40.5 MW wind farm facility in the northern province of...

New Loviisa licences
02 August 2007 The Finnish government has granted new operating licences to Loviisa...

The market needs to refocus on supply security
01 August 2007

July 2007

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US energy spending bill passed
31 July 2007 The US house of representatives has approved the fiscal 2008 Energy and...

Japanese reactors assessed following quake
31 July 2007 A quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale centred off the coast of...

UK in smart meter trial
31 July 2007 Around 40,000 UK households are to take part in energy saving trials...

ScottishPower announces UK's largest energy crop plan
31 July 2007 Plans for two coal-fired power stations owned by ScottishPower could...

Nuon in domestic fuel cell push
31 July 2007 Dutch utility Nuon has signed an agreement with Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd...

Surging demand boosts E. European turbine market
31 July 2007 New research from Frost & Sullivan on the central and Eastern European...

Anti-trust proceedings against EdF and Electrabel
31 July 2007 Formal anti-trust proceedings have been launched against...

Head rolls at Vattenfall
31 July 2007 Klaus Rauscher has offered to step down from his position as head...

BP in coal bed gasification alliance
31 July 2007 A technical alliance agreement between BP and Ergo Exergy Technologies...

CHP gets UK go-ahead
31 July 2007 Bridestones Developments has been given government approval to develop a...

DoE seeks G4 nuclear designs
31 July 2007 The US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is issuing a request for...

Velcan wins Indian hydro concessions
31 July 2007 Independent power producer Velcan Energy has been granted four...

Alstom wins Kuwaiti contract
25 July 2007 Alstom is to provide five GT13E2 gas turbines with five...

Areva to power Alcan plant in Canada
25 July 2007 A turnkey contract to build an electricity supply system for Alcan's new...

Irish eyes from Alstom
25 July 2007 Alstom has been awarded an order worth €275 million by ESB Power...

Areva signs enrichment services deal
25 July 2007 A long-term contract worth over €1 billion euros to Areva has been signed...

GE to manage US renewable conversion
25 July 2007 GE Energy, working with Robbins Community Power (RCP) located in...

Siemens orders for oil and gas in Brazil
25 July 2007 Siemens Power Generation has been awarded two contracts from Brazil for...

Supercritical EPC for Shaw
25 July 2007 Shaw has announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement...

Aeroderivative turbines for Argentina
25 July 2007 GE Energy is to supply an LM2500PE aeroderivative gas turbine to...

Siemens turnkey for Singapore
25 July 2007 A consortium led by Siemens Power Generation (PG) has been awarded a...

Jenbacher for Australian mine
25 July 2007 APT Petroleum Pipelines Holdings is installing a 33 MW on-site power...

Wärtsilä to deliver three gas power plants to Bangladesh
25 July 2007 Finland’s Wärtsilä has signed equipment supply contracts for three...

Portugal to use 9F CCGT
25 July 2007 GE Energy is to supply an 862 MW turnkey power station to Energias...

RR notes healthy order book
25 July 2007 Bergen gas engine sales have achieved a record level, with an order...

Vestas receives orders for the US
25 July 2007 BP Alternative Energy North America has placed an order for wind...

Plans for UK desal plant
25 July 2007 Planning permission for the UK's first desalination plant has been granted...

Vattenfall sacks boss over nuclear shutdown
25 July 2007 Dr. Bruno Thomauske has been relieved of his function as head of...

US Court rejects challenge to FERC
25 July 2007 A federal appellate court has rejected a challenge to the Federal...

Fortum sets stricter carbon targets
25 July 2007 Finnish utility Fortum has announced a decision to further reduce...

UES boosts e-business
25 July 2007 Russia’s UES has announced that the trading volume on its...

EU approves key energy project coordinators
25 July 2007 The European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee...

Areva and MHI reach reactor deal
25 July 2007 A framework agreement for the joint venture between Areva and MHI to...

Hydro Tasmania to refurbish Catagunya
25 July 2007 Catagunya Dam in Tasmania will undergo a major refurbishment in March 2008...

Finavera chooses Genivar as engineers
25 July 2007 Canadian engineering firm Genivar is to lead the engineering development...

Luminant on TXU
25 July 2007 TXU Corp’s power generation and related businesses has been renamed Luminant.

ABB to equip RDF plant
23 July 2007 One of the world's largest fluidised bed power plants operating on...

MHI receives massive US wind orders
23 July 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received massive wind turbine...

ABB to electrify Italian co-gen plant
23 July 2007 Cartiere del Garda is to develop a co-generation plant to serve their...

Siemens to supply HVDC for NL-UK link
23 July 2007 Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution and Dutch consortium partner...

Coal fired retrofit for Endesa
23 July 2007 ABB has been awarded with a contract for the Endesa-owned Compostilla...

Niederaussem modernisation
23 July 2007 Siemens Power Generation, under contract to RWE Power, is to modernise...

ABB's German control order
23 July 2007 E.ON-Kraftwerke has placed an order with ABB for the supply of a...

Nuon co-firing order for Honeywell
23 July 2007 Honeywell has been awarded an automation and control design contract for...

UAE deal for ABB
23 July 2007 ABB has won a $126 million order for three turnkey substations from the...

Wind boost for GE
23 July 2007 GE is to provide an additional 600 MW of wind turbines to Invenergy...

MHI to install Spanish FGD
23 July 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi Corp and Duro Felguera,...

GE diesels for Middle East
23 July 2007 GE Transportation reports that it has provided 30 medium-speed diesel...

Gas conversion in Pakistan
23 July 2007 Wärtsilä Corp has been awarded a contract by Lucky Cement to convert...

Shaw ultra-supercritical contract
23 July 2007 The Shaw Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and...

ABB power link order
23 July 2007 ABB has secured a $54 million order for an underground and underwater...

Vestas into Italy
23 July 2007 Vestas Italia has received an order for 12 units of the V90-2.0 MW...

ABB contract for Qatar
23 July 2007 An order worth $26 million has been won by ABB as the main electrical...

Co-op repowers the Bronx
23 July 2007 Siemens Power Generation has been awarded $20 million worth of contracts...

Vestas wins Spanish orders
23 July 2007 Vestas has received an order for 94 units of the V90-1.8 and 2.0 MW...

Voith to upgrade Russian hydro
23 July 2007 Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation has won a contract for the...

Andritz Italian deal
23 July 2007 Andritz VA Tech Hydro has received three orders from Endesa Italia...

Wärtsilä gas-engines for Korean tri-gen
23 July 2007 JB Entech Co, Korea, has contracted Wärtsilä to deliver engineering...

Suzlon secures 630 MW order with Edison Mission
23 July 2007 The US-based subsidiary of Suzlon Energy, has signed a contract to supply...

Fluor EPC for Ontario
23 July 2007 Fluor Corp has been awarded a procurement and construction project by...

Siemens compressor trains for MTP plant
23 July 2007 Siemens Power Generation (PG) will supply core equipment to the world's...

GE Energy aeroderivatives for Spanish paper mills
23 July 2007 Papelera Guipuzcoana de Zicunaga has signed a contract with GE Energy for...

Wood Group Signs turbine maintenance agreement
23 July 2007 The Gas Turbine Services Division of the John Wood Group has been awarded...

Aeroderivative GTs heading to Russia
23 July 2007 The two largest private power stations in Russia will feature six GE...

RWE developing more UK offshore wind
23 July 2007 Construction of the 90 MW Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm scheme off the...

Ocean energies take a big step forward
23 July 2007 A joint venture for tidal current technology located in the South...

Network stability cell set up
23 July 2007 European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has proposed setting up a...

Yongbon shutdown confirmed
23 July 2007 A team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors has...

Alstom Q1 results
23 July 2007 Engineering major Alstom has reported a 62% hike in orders for the...

Russian pumped storage project launched
23 July 2007 UES subsidiary HydroWGC has launched a project build the second...

Endesa developing two new wind farms
23 July 2007 Two wind farms with a combined capacity of some 65 MW are being developing...

Rostov construction underway
23 July 2007 Construction of the 2 unit of the Rostov (Volgodonsk 2) nuclear power...

WB approves Malawi transmission loan
23 July 2007 The World Bank has approved two International Development Association...

EdF in solar supply deal
23 July 2007

More biomass planned for UK
23 July 2007 A scoping statement for plans to build a 25 MW £60 million ($120...

GE moves on landfill gas
23 July 2007 GE Energy Financial Services has increased its investment in one of...

Chile investment driven by carbon trading
23 July 2007 Australia’s Pacific Hydro, along with Chiliean joint venture partner...

Burbo booming along
13 July 2007 Installation of 25 offshore 3.6 MW wind turbines for the Burbo wind farm...

Vattenfall invests in Swedish wave power research
13 July 2007 Swedish utility company Vattenfall is to invest a total of SEK 13...

E.ON in fuel cell alliance
13 July 2007 The UK subsidiary of E.ON has reached an agreement with Ceramic Fuel...

Suzlon wins giant US wind contract
13 July 2007 PPM Energy has extended its contract with Suzlon Wind Energy Corp to add...

Fifth unit on line at Bureyskaya hydro
13 July 2007 The fifth 335 MW hydroelectric unit has been brought on line at...

AGL takes over Torrens Island station
13 July 2007 Australia’s AGL Energy has added more than 60% to its generation...

Four reactor designs meet UK criteria
13 July 2007 The UK government has confirmed that all four applications received by...

SCE increases renewables buy
13 July 2007 Southern California Edison (SCE) has signed six new renewable...

Largest wind farm in Turkey
13 July 2007 A new, 130 MW wind power project in southeastern Turkey will be the...

Endesa takeover approved
10 July 2007 A planned acquisition of Endesa by Enel and Acciona has been approved by...

ETS harmonisation call
10 July 2007 Germany’s E.ON has demanded harmonisation of the European Union...

Doosan begins nuclear work
10 July 2007 Korea’s Doosan Heavy has begin preliminary excavation work on...

Breakthrough on commercial breakwater wave plant
10 July 2007 WaveGen Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology is to form the basis of...

Alstom forges Russian nuclear alliance
10 July 2007 A joint venture dedicated to manufacturing the conventional islands...

New Jersey - Long Island HVDC link complete
10 July 2007 Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) has commissioned a...

Endesa develops more French wind
10 July 2007 Ecotecnia is to build a 10.02 MW wind farm in France on behalf of Endesa at...

IAEA to monitor Yongbyon shutdown
10 July 2007 Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are to...

Madeira River projects get approval
10 July 2007 Brazil’s Ibama environmental agency has given initial approval for...

Mega projects plus Mega R&M for India
10 July 2007

CO2 capture: moving to mandatory
10 July 2007

IGCC: several steps forward, one step back
10 July 2007

Marine renewables: will they sink or swim?
05 July 2007

Penchant for the passive in China's aggressive nuclear plans
05 July 2007

Will turbine makers be ready for a German offshore explosion?
05 July 2007

GT steam cooling - who needs it?
05 July 2007

Learning from Olkiluoto 3
05 July 2007

PNM investigates utility scale solar
04 July 2007 New Mexico’s PNM has initiated a concentrating solar study group...

Acciona makes big wind acquisition
04 July 2007 Exclusive rights to develop 1,300 MW of wind assets in the states...

Georgia offshore mind
04 July 2007 A two-year study conducted by Southern Company and the Georgia Institute...

Excelerate and RWE forge LNG deal
04 July 2007 RWE has announced plans to develop a novel LNG import facility using...

Duke calls for cap and trade
04 July 2007 Duke Energy chairman, president and chief executive Jim Rogers has issued...

Enel boosts Russian wholesale stake
04 July 2007 Italy’s Enel has increased its stake in Russian wholesale power company...

MHI launches fast breeder group
04 July 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has established a new company,...

Test for Rheinfelden Kaplan-bulb turbines concluded
04 July 2007 Model testing for an upgrade of the Rheinfelden run of river hydro...

New biomass plant for France
04 July 2007 Finish paper firm UPM has inaugurated a new biofuel power plant at...

Datang plant for China
04 July 2007 China’s Datang International Power Generation Co plans to build a...

E.ON UK fires up Steven’s Croft biomass station
04 July 2007 Testing the boiler at the UK’s largest dedicated biomass power station...

Action on European energy competition
04 July 2007 The European Commission has begun the next stage of enforcement...

Getting down to the business of decarbonisation
04 July 2007

Alstom wins Algerian contract
02 July 2007 Algerian state-owned gas and electricity company, Société de l’Electricité...

Partnership with Doosan Babcock from BE
02 July 2007 British Energy has signed a seven-year partnership agreement worth...

Areva wins EdF nuclear contract
02 July 2007 French nuclear generator Electricité de France (EdF) has awarded a euro...

Belarus move from Siemens Industrial
02 July 2007 A gas-fired CHP plant is to be developed in Belarus by Siemens’...

Vestas wins Canada order
02 July 2007 Vestas has received an order for 18 units of the V82-1.65 MW turbine...

Wärtsilä’s BioPower plants reach out
02 July 2007 Six turnkey biomass-fuelled power plants are to be supplied to...

Amec scrubbers for Southern
02 July 2007 Southern Company has awarded Amec a contract to install new clean-air...

First GT26 for India
02 July 2007 Alstom has won a contract worth approximately €175 million with Gujarat...

E.ON UK finalises contract for 1.25 GW CHP
02 July 2007 Construction of one of the world’s largest CHP plants has begun with...

Brazilian blast furnace waste gas plant
02 July 2007 Alstom has received a €330 million euro turnkey contract from Brazilian...

Siemens gas turbine package to Minnesota
02 July 2007 A contract to supply key components for a simple cycle power plant in...

Enel orders 21 Vestas V90 turbines
02 July 2007 Vestas Eólica has received an order for 21 units of the V90-1.8 MW...

Moscow moves on CHP
02 July 2007 Construction of a new power unit at the CHP-26 plant of Moscow...

Vestas order in the Netherlands
02 July 2007 Vestas has received an order for delivery of 21 units of its V90-3.0...

Andritz hydro matrix order in the US
02 July 2007 SAF Hydroelectric has awarded a contract to Andritz VA TECH HYDRO for...

Wärtsilä second dairy cup
02 July 2007 Wärtsilä has been awarded the turn-key contract for the second phase of...

Pöyry wins Iranian hydro contract
02 July 2007 Finland’s Pöyry has been awarded a contract by SEPASAD Engineering for...

Novovoronezh Unit 2 deals signed
02 July 2007 Rosatom and Atomenergoproject have signed a contract for the construction...

ABB wins order for oil-platform cable
02 July 2007 ABB has won an order worth $72 million from Statoil, the Norwegian...

Ecotècnia acquisition gives Alstom membership of wind club
02 July 2007 Alstom has become the last of the major energy OEM companies to join...

Floating wind turbine plan from Hydro and Siemens
02 July 2007 Norwegian energy company Hydro and Siemens have entered into an agreement...

Alstom moves on CCS projects
02 July 2007 Carbon capture technology developed by Alstom is to be installed at...

PG&E adds utility-scale solar
02 July 2007 Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has signed agreements with two...

AquaBuOY wave technology construction launched
02 July 2007 Finavera Renewables has begun construction on the AquaBuOY 2.0 wave...

Exelon names Matagorda County for COL
02 July 2007 Exelon Nuclear has selected primary and secondary sites in southeast...

UK launches business cap and trade plans
02 July 2007 Businesses and public bodies which consume more than 6,000 MWh annually...

Sustainability comes to the fore
02 July 2007 A survey of senior utilities company executives by...

Iberdrola buys US utility
02 July 2007 Spanish power firm Iberdrola has reached an agreement to acquire US gas...

Canada approves repository programme
02 July 2007 The government of Canada has selected Adaptive Phased Management (APM),...

New cabinet for the UK
02 July 2007 The UK’s new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced sweeping changes...

Suez to build sugar cane biomass plant in Brazil
02 July 2007 A new cogeneration plant fuelled by sugar cane biomass is to be developed...

E.ON UK buys Blyth
02 July 2007 Shell, Nuon and Amec have sold their stakes in the 4 MW Blyth offshore...

International Power completes Mitsui JV
02 July 2007 A joint venture between International Power and Mitsui has been...

SSE in Chinese CDM deal
02 July 2007 Scottish and Southern Energy has finalised the first of four agreements...

Are the EU energy and climate models unbundling?
01 July 2007

June 2007

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EU emissions fall
23 June 2007 Greenhouse gas emissions from across the European Union fell by 0.7% in...

Carbon storage test site launched
23 June 2007 A test carbon dioxide storage facility has been launched in Ketzin,...

Wave energy for Orkney
23 June 2007 AWS Ocean Energy has confirmed that its Archimedes Wave Swing wave...

Doosan deal for Ultra Mega project
23 June 2007 Korea’s Doosan Heavy has been awarded a $1.22 billion contract to develop...

Reactor designs submitted to UK regulators
23 June 2007 Areva has applied to UK regulators for its EPR nuclear reactor design to...

Senate energy bill supports CCS
23 June 2007 The US Senate has passed a new energy bill that promotes increased use...

SembCorp plans third UK CHP
23 June 2007 The UK subsidiary of Singapore-based SembCorp Utilities has announced...

HVDC giant for China
20 June 2007 Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution is to construct a 5,000 MW,...

US wind growth continues
20 June 2007 The US Department of Energy (DoE) has released its first annual report...

EdF plans new UK nuclear within the next decade
20 June 2007 Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of the UK’s EdF Energy has said that the...

Single European market draws closer
20 June 2007 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the coupling of the French,...

Doosan confirms Chinese nuclear contract
20 June 2007 Korean engineering major Doosan Heavy has confirmed that it has signed...

Indian reform programme urged on by PM
20 June 2007 The Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has stressed the need for...

Origin plans Australia’s biggest CCGT
20 June 2007 A 630 MW gas-fired power station near Braemar in the Darling Downs region...

New turbines at OLK1 and 2
20 June 2007 Finland’s Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) is to upgrade the low-pressure...

Hydro-power is Endesa’s first CDM deal
20 June 2007 The Ojos de Agua hydro-electric power station, located in Chile, the...

GE Energy's Jenbacher launches 24-cyl engine
20 June 2007 Jenbacher has launched a 4 MW, J624 GS gas engine, its first 24-cylinder unit.

Endesa converts station to run imported coal
20 June 2007 Spanish Endesa has begun conversion of the third group of its As...

TXU to install mercury controls
20 June 2007 Plans to install new activated carbon sorbent injection systems (SIS) at...

AES buys GE wind
20 June 2007 AES Corp has boosted its wind generation capacity to more than 1,000 MW...

IEA critical of German nuclear phase out plan, urging market reform
18 June 2007 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has slammed German plans to phase...

Latest solar giant
18 June 2007 Spanish renewables firm Acciona has commissioned a 64 MW solar thermal...

Three Gorges begins right bank production
18 June 2007 The first turbine-generator unit on the right bank of the Three...

RWE to build new UK CCGT
18 June 2007 UK RWE subsidiary npower has announced plans construct a 1,650MW...

Oskarshamn turbine upgrade by Siemens
18 June 2007 Siemens is to upgrade the low-pressure steam turbines at Unit 2 of...

Concern over UK nuclear waste management programme
18 June 2007 A report from the Science and Technology Committee of the UK’s...

Siemens in Russian switchgear joint venture
18 June 2007 Siemens Transmission and Distribution has set up a joint venture...

Consumers willing to pay for low carbon energy
18 June 2007 A survey conducted by the UK energy regulator Ofgem has determined...

Electrabel acquires Portuguese wind farm
18 June 2007 Electrabel and Spanish wind farm developer Gamesa have signed a...

Enel buys French wind
18 June 2007 Enel, acting through its French subsidiary Enel Erelis, has finalised...

Polish wind push
18 June 2007 RWE Power is to build two wind farms in Poland with a total...

EIA for new Loviisa nuclear unit
18 June 2007 Fortum has launched an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)...

UES sells a quarter of Wholesale unit 5
18 June 2007 Russia’s UES has auctioned its 25.03% stake in wholesale generation...

GE, Hitachi forge nuclear alliance
18 June 2007 GE and Hitachi have completed the first half of their agreement to form...

Ipotesti main assembly complete
18 June 2007 A consortium led by Voith Siemens Hydro with Andritz VA Tech Hydro as...

Post-Kyoto climate deal emerges from G8 summit
14 June 2007 The G8 of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Russia, the USA, and the...

States revolt over national RPS
14 June 2007 Proposals to introduce a nation-wide 15% renewable portfolio standard...

WWF report raises fears of emissions trading failure
14 June 2007 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is being undermined because...

CCS setback as BP drops out of Peterhead
14 June 2007 BP has abandoned plans for a £500 million ($1 billion) carbon capture...

Largest windfarm yet planned
14 June 2007 A £3 billion ($6 billion) proposal to develop a 370 turbine wind farm in...

BNFL to sell reactor sites business to EnergySolutions
14 June 2007 UK nuclear firm BNFL has reached an agreement to sell the entire...

Energy consumption growth despite price volatility
14 June 2007 Despite high and volatile energy prices throughout 2006, global...

British Energy stake sold
14 June 2007 UK secretary of state for trade and industry, Alistair Darling, has...

CMS sells GasAtacama
14 June 2007 CMS Energy subsidiaries are to sell their interests in GasAtacama of...

Siemens launches a rival to "Light"
14 June 2007 Siemens T&D has launched an HVDC system based on its new generation...

May 2007

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UK White Paper backs new nuclear, clean coal and renewables
27 May 2007 Trade and industry secretary for the UK, Alistair Darling, has released...

Nuclear endorsement sees reactor vendors move
27 May 2007 With the White Paper setting out the governments belief that a new...

California curbs carbon intensive plant
27 May 2007 The California Energy Commission has approved regulations that limit...

UK-Holland power link deal
27 May 2007 A new 1,000 MW HVDC link between the UK and the Netherlands is...

US emissions fall
27 May 2007 The US Energy Information Administration (EIA), part of the Department...

Swedish competition authority calls for nuclear break-up
27 May 2007 The Swedish Competition Authority has written to the government calling...

Areva and Suzlon deal on REpower
27 May 2007 Plans to acquire Germany renewables technology company REpower have...

Diesel genset market grows in the East
27 May 2007 The outlook for the diesel gen-sets market in Eastern Europe is...

Chernobyl shelter completed
27 May 2007 Russia’s Atomstroyexport has completed the Shelter stabilisation project...

Electrabel orders Hitachi for three plants
27 May 2007 Hitachi’s European subsidiary has been selected to supply the...

First private power plant in Bahrain
27 May 2007 The 950 MW Al Ezzel power plant in Bahrain, the first independent...

Endesa to upgrade coal units
27 May 2007 Coal-fired plants in the Iberian Peninsula are to be upgraded in a...

Largest PV in Italy
27 May 2007 A 6 MW photovoltaic solar panel installation, the largest in Italy, is to...

TXU adds 200 MW of wind
27 May 2007 The wholesale unit of TXU Corp has signed a five-year power...

Browns Ferry nuclear restart
27 May 2007 The Tennessee Valley Authority has restarted Unit 1 at the Browns...

More supercritical coal for the UK
17 May 2007 Proposals for a new supercritical coal-fired power station consisting...

IPCC report supports new nuclear
17 May 2007 The third part of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Dirty thirty report slams old coal
17 May 2007 A new report from WWF has found that two thirds of Europe’s 30 most...

MHI boosts turbine capacity
17 May 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced investment approximately...

Endesa deal for solar factories
17 May 2007 Spanish Endesa and food company Frit Ravich have signed an agreement...

ScottishPower launches tidal company
17 May 2007 Norwegian technology company Hammerfest Strøm and the UK’s...

Cernavoda criticality achieved
17 May 2007 Romania’s new Cernavoda Unit 2 CANDU 6 nuclear power plant sustained...

Microgeneration push for the UK
17 May 2007 A grant programme designed to support domestic consumers...

Jebel Ali expands
17 May 2007 Doosan Heavy Industries hassigned a deal with Dubai Electricity and...

BE to restart reactors
17 May 2007 British Energy has been given permission by the UK’s Nuclear...

Cheongsong pumped storage complete
17 May 2007 The Cheongsong Pumped Storage Power Plant, located in...

Hydro power station extension on High Rhine
05 May 2007 A subsidiary of Andritz VA Tech Hydro is to supply a bulb turbine set with...

ABB wins power contract in Brazil
05 May 2007 ABB has won a $40 million order for equipment to help strengthen...

GE turbines for offshore facility in Brazil
05 May 2007 GE has signed a contract to provide MODEC with three LM2500+G4...

Foster Wheeler labours on PF generator
05 May 2007 A subsidiary of within its Foster Wheeler’s Global Power Group has...

Wärtsilä’s Belgian biomass
05 May 2007 Belgian independent power producer Renogen has awarded a contract to...

Gezhouba Group to develop Nigeria’s Mambilla plateau station
05 May 2007 The contract to develop the 2,600 MW Mambilla plateau hydropower station...

Siemens UK offshore wind farm
05 May 2007 Siemens is to supply 30 wind power systems with a combined capacity of 108...

Emerson contract in Vietnam
05 May 2007 Emerson Process Management has received a contract to install its...

Incheon II for South Korea
05 May 2007 Siemens is to supply key components for a new combined cycle power plant...

Kansas peakers from GE
05 May 2007 GE Energy has received contracts worth approximately $145 million to...

Foster Wheeler IGCC in Sicily
05 May 2007 The Milan-based subsidiary of Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract...

RR compressor deal
04 May 2007 Rolls-Royce has received orders for three RB211 gas turbine packages...

World's largest gas turbine sets sail
04 May 2007 A 340 MW gas turbine, claimed as the world’s largest and most powerful, is...

Dominion orders GE nuclear components
04 May 2007 GE has been awarded a contract by Dominion to secure critical,...

Investment for Wave Hub approved
04 May 2007 The world’s largest wave farm planned off Hayle on the coast of Cornwall...

Doosan Heavy demonstrates superconducting motor
03 May 2007 Doosan Heavy Industries and the Korean Electrotechnology Research...

Plan to halve carbon emissions by Vattenfall
01 May 2007 Vattenfall has announced plans to cut emissions of carbon dioxide from...

National interest transmission rulings from DoE
01 May 2007 America’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued two draft National...

Putin signs nuclear decree
01 May 2007 Formal restructuring of Russia's nuclear energy industry has begun with...

Mirant sails from Windies
01 May 2007 Mirant Corp is to sell its Caribbean business to a subsidiary of...

Fortum planning waste CHP plant in Sweden
01 May 2007 Plans for a new energy from waste combined heat and power plant...

India’s biggest generator commissioned
01 May 2007 A second 500 MW unit of Stage-III of the Vindhyachal Super Thermal...

April 2007

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EU and Russia prepare for energy battle
30 April 2007

Suzlon to wind up Wyoming
27 April 2007 Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon has signed a contract with Tierra Energy...

American super wins more wind jobs
27 April 2007 Dongfang Steam Turbine Works Corp (DTC) of China has awarded...

Sevmash signs reactor deal for Beloyarsk
27 April 2007 Russia’s Sevmash is to supply reactor components to the Beloyarsk...

MHI wins GTCC orders
27 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received successive orders...

Nordex receives largest ever contract
27 April 2007 Wind turbine manufacturers Nordex have signed a supply framework...

Italian IGCC for Foster Wheeler
27 April 2007 The Italian subsidiary of Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by...

Vestas receives orders in the US and Spain
27 April 2007 Denmark’s Vestas has received an order for 50 of its V90-3.0 MW wind...

CFB deal for Foster Wheeler in Thailand
27 April 2007 Foster Wheeler has been awarded contracts from Doosan Heavy Industries...

MHI to develop fast breeder reactor business
27 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been selected as the core company in...

Russia resets wholesale liberalisation schedule
27 April 2007 The federal government of Russia has adopted a resolution amending the...

New York RPS push for hydro
27 April 2007 The second phase of the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) programme...

Solar thermal hybrid planned for States
27 April 2007 Plans for a 560 MW integrated solar-thermal combined cycle hybrid...

NRC proposes plane crash design certification for new reactors
27 April 2007 A proposal from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would require...

UES to sell retail arms
27 April 2007 Russia’s UES has announced forthcoming auctions to sell mostly...

First Dutch offshore project inaugurated
27 April 2007 The Netherlands’s first wind farm in the North Sea has been...

Dalian project to commence in autumn
27 April 2007 Construction of a nuclear power plant in Wafangdian, 104 km north of...

JBIC signs transmission loan deal with Cambodia
27 April 2007 The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a...

SCE buys into geothermal
27 April 2007 Utility Southern California Edison (SCE) is to purchase 225 MW of...

EU energy market still not fully competitive
25 April 2007 The European Commission has published a detailed study concluding...

EPA publishes US greenhouse gases inventory
25 April 2007 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released details...

Emissions-biofuel trial launch
25 April 2007 NRG Energy and GreenFuel Technologies Corp have begun field testing...

Powerfuel and Shell ink gasification deal
25 April 2007 UK-based coal company Powerfuel has signed a licence agreement to use...

Iberdrola-ScottishPower deal concluded
25 April 2007 With final regulatory approvals granted, Iberdrola and ScottishPower...

IGCC in China
25 April 2007 China Huaneng Group has signed a framework agreement with the...

World Bank approves Moroccan solar hybrid
25 April 2007 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund of the World Bank is...

Alstom begins work on Vietnam CCGT
25 April 2007 Nhon Trach district, southern Dong Nai Province, near Ho Chi Minh City,...

EU and Russia preparing for energy battle
24 April 2007

RWE calls on businesses to curb carbon
20 April 2007 npower, the UK subsidiary of RWE, has released a report together with...

Endesa bid launched
20 April 2007 Enel and Acciona has filed a joint tender offer for 100% of Endesa...

Gazprom moves on German CCGT
20 April 2007 Russian gas behemoth Gazprom has announced a deal with Soteg to set up...

Endesa-Iberdrola in virtual power auctions
20 April 2007 Endesa and Iberdrola have agreed to jointly undertake five energy auctions...

Enercon-Vestas patent dispute
20 April 2007 In a series of stock exchange announcements Danish wind turbine...

Oil and gas deals hit record
20 April 2007 Record cash flows have pushed deal activity in the oil and gas industry...

Fortum planning Swedish wind
20 April 2007 Finnish power company Fortum, together with the land and forest...

World Bank calls on developing nations to cut carbon
18 April 2007 Francois Bourguignon, the World Bank's chief economist, has calledc...

Rosenergoatom and Sevmash begin floating nuclear plant construction
18 April 2007 Construction of the world’s first floating nuclear power plant has begun...

Doosan’s Dubai deal
18 April 2007 South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries has won a $1.14 billion contract...

MHI launches supercritical venture
18 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has signed an agreement with...

Areva relents on REpower acquisition
18 April 2007 French engineering firm Areva has waived the minimum acceptance condition...

Vestas orders from the Chinese
18 April 2007 Vestas has received two orders, each for 25 units of its V80-2.0 MW...

Siemens to build Dutch CCGT
18 April 2007 Siemens has been awarded a turnkey contract to build an 870 MW combined...

MHI moves to Oz
18 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for a 200...

Vestas receives 70 MW US order
18 April 2007 An order for 39 units of its V80-1.8 MW wind turbines has been won by...

Energy for pulp production in Brazil
18 April 2007 Siemens is to supply two steam turbine gensets to a biomass-fired plant...

FW to build SG in Missouri
18 April 2007 Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by City Utilities of...

Nordex 60 MW wind farm deal
18 April 2007 Nordex has received its largest Italian order to date, worth around EUR...

Siemens to supply compressors to China
18 April 2007 Siemens has been awarded a series of orders for compressors and...

Rosatom and Rusal plan nuclear metals complex
17 April 2007 Russian Federal Nuclear Power Agency Rosatom and aluminium producer...

DoE clears clean coal construction
17 April 2007 The US Department of Energy (DoE) has made a Record of Decision that...

EPA reports on manufacturing energy use
17 April 2007 America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first...

MHI to triple wind production
17 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) intends to triple its annual...

Siemens to develop Indian HVDC
17 April 2007 Siemens’ Power Transmission and Distribution division together...

RR fuel cell move
17 April 2007 Rolls-Royce has acquired the assets of Ohio-based solid oxide fuel...

EdF moves to sell Argentine districo
17 April 2007 Electricité de France (EdF) has revealed plans to dispose of its...

UK mini hydro group launches first station
17 April 2007 A group of seven water mill owners on the River Frome in the UK’s...

IPCC report warns climate affects all
12 April 2007 The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released...

Alstom in strategic nuclear partnership
12 April 2007 Power engineering major Alstom is joining forces with Russian...

Enel and Acciona officially launch Endesa bid
12 April 2007 Italy’s Enel has resolved to launch a joint tender offer with Acciona...

CPUC approves renewables transmission links
12 April 2007 The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved plans...

Areva and MHI confirm alliance
12 April 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Areva have confirmed the deployment...

NDA launches PBO competition
12 April 2007 The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the launch...

Gazprom power move approved
12 April 2007 The management committee of Russian gas major Gazprom has approved...

Burma’s hydro plant deal
12 April 2007 A memorandum of understanding has been signed in Burma that will see a...

Unistar and Ameren to prepare COLA
12 April 2007 The development arm of UniStar Nuclear has entered into an agreement...

UES generation stats
12 April 2007 Russia’s UES has released date showing the company produced 193.2 TWh in...

Chinese hydro firms move on Cambodia projects
12 April 2007 Work on the Stung Atay hydro power plant in Cambodia and a...

Biomass for Briviesca
12 April 2007 Acciona and Ente Regional de la Energía de Castilla y León (EREN) are...

Finavera completes purchase of Three Hills
12 April 2007 Finavera Renewables has completed the purchase of Three Hills wind...

Supreme Court rules Clean Air Act covers greenhouse gases
10 April 2007 The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Clean Air Act...

NRC issues second ESP
10 April 2007 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to issue an Early Site...

Duke loses NSR challenge
10 April 2007 A US Supreme Court ruling has damaged a challenge by Duke Energy...

European solar first
10 April 2007 An 11 MW solar concentrating generation plant has been inaugurated...

IEA highlights policy drivers
10 April 2007 Energy policies of OECD and non-OECD countries are expected to be driven...

TXU fails to find alternatives
10 April 2007 The investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) and...

E.ON reaches deal with Enel and Acciona over Endesa
06 April 2007 Germany’s E.ON appears to have failed in its bid to acquire Spanish...

Chinese wind to hit 5 GW
06 April 2007 Installed wind capacity in China is likely to reach more than 5 GW next...

Toshiba bulks services stake
06 April 2007 The US subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corp has announced that it has...

Chinese coal giant makes nuclear plans
06 April 2007 One of China’s largest coal-fired power plant manufacturers,...

EC approves Austrian NAP
06 April 2007 The European Commission has accepted Austria’s national allocation plan...

BP Solar expands Spanish and Indian capacity
06 April 2007 Construction has begun to expand capacity at BP Solar’s European...

Gas Natural gains CDM credit
06 April 2007 A Gas Natural project replacing fuel-oil with natural gas in...

Suez signs hydro finance deal
06 April 2007

EdP branches into US wind
06 April 2007 Energias de Portugal (EdP) is to acquire US wind development company...

Hydro-metals complex finance complete
06 April 2007 An energy and metals complex looks set to go ahead after Russia’s Hydro...

Fluor focus on nuclear
06 April 2007 Fluor Corp has announced the formation of a dedicated next generation...

E.ON UK moves on CHP plan
06 April 2007 The UK subsidiary of E.ON has completed contracts for construction of one...

TVO begins EIA
06 April 2007 Finland’s TVO has begun the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process...

UK planning reform for offshore wind
06 April 2007 Details of the licensing regime for would-be electricity transmission...

Acciona continues wind growth
06 April 2007 A 318 MW wind project in Guadalaviar of the Valencia region in Spain is to...

EdF and Delta arent blue
06 April 2007 Electricité de France (EdF) and Dutch energy company Delta are to build...

SSE plans new mini-hydro
06 April 2007 Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has applied for consent to build a new...

Record gas prices push UK carbon emissions higher
02 April 2007 A switch away from gas to coal has caused the UK power sector’s...

GE expands nuclear operations
02 April 2007 Anticipated orders for new nuclear reactors has prompted GE Energy to...

UES to auction more generation
02 April 2007 Russia’s UES has announced a public auction to sell a 25.03% stake in...

UKs NDA announces Sellafield bidders
02 April 2007 The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the UK regulatory body,...

New SCADA/EMS and metering system for AES Sonel in Cameroon
02 April 2007 AES SONEL intends to pre-qualify contractors for a turnkey basis...

March 2007

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E.ON and Lunar Energy to build giant tidal stream plant
23 March 2007 The UK arm of Germany's E.ON has forged an alliance with Lunar Energy...

TXU announces IGCC plans
23 March 2007 TXU has started the planning process for two integrated gasification...

Acciona Energia launches PV giant
23 March 2007 Spanish renewables firm Acciona has begun operations at the world's...

Enel and Rosatom sign nuclear accord
23 March 2007 Italy's Enel has signed a Memorandum of Intent on the development of...

Prospecting for geothermal in the US
23 March 2007

AEP signs with Alstom on commercial CCS
23 March 2007 Alstom and American Electric Power (AEP) have signed a Memorandum...

Unreported criticality incident in Japan discovered
23 March 2007 Japan's Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) has revealed details...

China warns over excessive hydro
23 March 2007 Excessive hydropower development in China could lead to ecological...

EIB and WB alliance on climate
23 March 2007 The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank (WB) have joined...

RWE to press government on phase-out
23 March 2007 German energy giant RWE is to use the next few weeks to challenge...

Italy heats up with US geothermal
23 March 2007 Enel, Italy's energy champion, has continued to develop its...

DoE submits spending plan
23 March 2007 America's Department of Energy has submitted a $23.598 billion spending...

IPSA secures turbines
23 March 2007 IPSA Group, set up to build and operate power stations in Southern...

UES CHP auction
23 March 2007 Russia's UES has sold 93.35% of the shares in its Zapadno-Sibirskaya...

Wind first for SA
23 March 2007 The first commercial wind farm in South Africa has been inaugurated...

BE to market power from NDA
23 March 2007 British Energy has reached an agreement with the UK's Nuclear...

Enel move on Belgian steel
23 March 2007 Enel has signed a partnership agreement with Belgian steel group Duferco...

UK NAP published
23 March 2007 The UK government has published the approved National Allocation Plan...

Foster Wheeler to supply three circulating fluidised-bed steam generators to Sth Korea
23 March 2007 Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that a subsidiary within its Global...

Siemens to supply compressor trains to Qatar and Nigeria
23 March 2007

Wärtsilä island power plant for Mayotte in the Indian Ocean
23 March 2007

Siemens to supply advanced I&C system for Spanish power plant
23 March 2007

Alstom Hydro to refurbish plants in Latvia and Sweden
23 March 2007

Chinese wind for American Super
23 March 2007

ABB supports Guri upgrade
23 March 2007

Latin American hydro boost
23 March 2007

Longview contract for Foster Wheeler
23 March 2007

HRSG and steam turbine for Halton Hills in Canada
23 March 2007

Areva to build UK's second offshore high-voltage substation
23 March 2007

Siemens to develop two UK offshore wind farms
23 March 2007

MHI wins Saudi power-desal deal
23 March 2007

Vestas receives orders for three pr
23 March 2007

Nordex awarded Spanish contract
23 March 2007

Siemens I&C in the Czech Republic
23 March 2007

Vestas receives US order
23 March 2007

AECL to provide CANDU retube training for Argentina
23 March 2007

UK unveils tough climate change bill
15 March 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair has released the UK’s draft Climate Change...

Coal has role say MIT
15 March 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a report that...

TXU names nuclear supplier
15 March 2007 Advanced PWR reactor technology developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...

More clean coal planned for UK
15 March 2007 RWE npower has set out plans for a 1,600 MW supercritical coal-fired...

NRC issues first Early Site Permit
15 March 2007 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has voted to approve an Early...

HVDC for India
15 March 2007 Siemens’ power transmission and distribution arm is to develop a 780km...

Germany rejects capacity switch
15 March 2007 Regulators have rejected a proposal from RWE to transfer unused capacity...

Alstom to acquire US gas turbine services arm
15 March 2007 Calpine Corp subsidiary, Power Systems Mfg, a supplier of parts and...

Areva boosts REpower offer
15 March 2007 French technology group Areva has increased its offer for German...

Centrica appeals over LNG plan
15 March 2007 British Gas parent Centrica, together with partners Calor Gas, LNG Japan...

Final approval granted for Iberdrola’s SP bid
15 March 2007 With the approval from the State of New York Public Service Commission,...

Renewables growth in Germany
15 March 2007 The federal environment ministry has revealed that the renewable...

Endesa earmarks Canaries investment
15 March 2007 Spanish Endesa has earmarked €1.3 billion for electricity system...

PG&E repeats renewables call
15 March 2007 California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) has issued a Request...

NRC issues welds note
15 March 2007 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued action letters to 40...

ABB in Polish transformer deal
13 March 2007

Sweden: Hydropower plant refurbishment
13 March 2007

Sweden: Stepdown transformer
13 March 2007

Netherlands: Diesel generating sets
13 March 2007

Germany: Hydropower expansion
13 March 2007

France: Alternator maintenance
13 March 2007

Bulgaria: Power cable
13 March 2007

Belgium: Installation of distribution cabling
13 March 2007

France: Gas compressors
13 March 2007

France: Power cable
13 March 2007

France: Wind farm
13 March 2007

Germany: Make-up water plant
13 March 2007

Europe agrees renewables and climate targets
12 March 2007 The European Council of ministers, meeting in Brussels, has agreed to set...

Texas transmission lasso
12 March 2007 A consortium of Airtricity, Babcock & Brown, Celanese, Occidental...

PG&E to study wave power
12 March 2007 Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) has launched an investigation...

Alstom to modernise Mexico’s Laguna Verde
12 March 2007 Alstom, in consortium with the Spanish utility Iberdrola, has signed...

GE gasification licences in China
12 March 2007 China’s Baotou Shenhua Coal Chemicals Co has signed a licensing agreement...

UCTE report says transmission compliance is the norm
12 March 2007 The Compliance Oversight Report 2006 for Western Europe’s transmission...

IEA commends UK energy policy
09 March 2007 Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency...

E.ON bolsters Endesa takeover
09 March 2007 In a statement E.ON has said it remains committed to its offer for...

Duke reaches deal over spent fuel
09 March 2007 Duke Energy Carolinas and the US Department of Justice have reached...

UES releases six-month market
09 March 2007 Results from the operation of the new liberalised model of the wholesale...

China to build first inland nuclear plant
09 March 2007 China is planning to develop a nuclear plant in the central Hunan...

FERC calls for comment on wave and tidal
09 March 2007 The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on...

UK unveils emissions manifesto
09 March 2007 The UK Manifesto on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme has been published by...

RWE clarifies investment plans
09 March 2007 In delivering its annual results for 2006, RWE has clarified some details...

BWEA warns over wind planning
09 March 2007 The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has revealed that 12 of...

Bill for US domestic wind tax credit
09 March 2007 US senators Ken Salazar (D-Colo) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore) have...

Offsets make Merdian carbon neutral
09 March 2007 Renewable generator Meridian Energy buys offsets for carbon neutral...

Philippines signs asset transfer deal with WB
09 March 2007 The Philippine government agency the Power Sector Assets and...

Electrabel to build new cogen unit
09 March 2007 Belgium’s Lanxess Rubber is to develop a €60 million cogeneration unit...

HSE publishes Thorp report
09 March 2007 The UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a report on...

Tallinn to get ABB equipment
09 March 2007

Siemens to supply transformers in Prague
09 March 2007

Alstom in boiler deal
09 March 2007

Czech Republic: Substation
09 March 2007

Germany: Generating sets
09 March 2007

Czech Republic: Steam turbine
09 March 2007

Sweden: Distribution equipment
09 March 2007

Italy: High voltage cable
09 March 2007

France: Distribution equipment maintenance
09 March 2007

France: Small hydropower turbines
09 March 2007

Germany: Make-up water plant
09 March 2007

TXU abandons new coal-fired capacity
07 March 2007 Plans to develop up to eight coal-fired stations in Texas have been...

Westinghouse and Shaw to develop Chinese nukes
07 March 2007 A consortium of Westinghouse Electric Co and The Shaw Group have negotiated...

San Diego launches 1 MW solar system
07 March 2007 A new 1.135 MW photovoltaic installation at San Diego's Alvarado...

CPUC approves first phase of renewables transmission link
07 March 2007 The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has granted approval...

DoE to send Yucca Mountain bill to Congress
07 March 2007 US energy secretary Samuel W. Bodman is to deliver a bill to Congress...

More UK retailers slash power prices
07 March 2007 Following a recent announcement by UK domestic incumbent British Gas, part...

Endesa buys French interconnection capacity
07 March 2007 More than 26% of the interconnection capacity between Italy and France...

Kozloduy equipment for impending sale
07 March 2007 Following the January shutdown of a nuclear reactor at the plant and as...

Three Gorges targets 78.6 TWh for 2007
07 March 2007 China’s Three Gorges plant and the downstream Gezhouba plant on the...

EC forms climate advisory panel
07 March 2007 The president of the European Commission is to establish an 11...

GE-Toshiba deal extends to Frame H
07 March 2007 GE Energy and Toshiba have extended their gas turbine services joint...

Voith Siemens wins Swiss contract
05 March 2007 A contract to refurbish the Eglisau (ERNEG) hydro power plant, in...

Wood Group contract with AEP
05 March 2007 Wood Group’s Gas Turbine Services Division is to develop three peaking...

Taweelah A1 grows larger
05 March 2007 The Taweelah A1 power and desalination plant in Abu Dhabi is to be...

Venezuelan hydro deal for VA Tech
05 March 2007 An Andritz VA Tech Hydro-led consortium has won an order to modernise...

LIPA deal for Siemens
05 March 2007 Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply equipment, operation...

Wärtsilä to deliver 76 MW to Kansas
05 March 2007 Midwest Energy, a Kansas utility, has ordered 76 MW of generation...

Ansaldo Energia wins orders in Oman and India
05 March 2007 Finmeccanica’s Ansaldo Energia has won two large international orders worth...

Tender: St. Vincent
05 March 2007 St. Vincent Electricity Services (VINLEC) is seeking to rehabilitate...

HSE mooted for Macedonian contract
05 March 2007 Slovenia’s HSE has reportedly been shortlisted for the development of...

Companies call for action on climate change
05 March 2007 Some of the world’s largest companies, including GE and DuPont, have...

UK energy white paper delayed
05 March 2007 The UK’s long-awaited energy white paper, which will set out the...

BC energy plan boost for renewables
05 March 2007 A radical new energy policy unveiled by the government of British...

Climate change plan for London unveiled
05 March 2007 Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has set out a comprehensive plan to...

National Grid signs huge network upgrade contracts
05 March 2007 Two consortia are to upgrade parts of the UK’s transmission network in a...

Independent IPSA begins operations in SA
05 March 2007 South Africa’s first independently-owned power plant, at Newcastle,...

Keephills 3 supercritical gets go ahead
05 March 2007 TransAlta Corp and partners EPCOR Utilities Inc are to proceed with a 450...

EdF results up on power price
05 March 2007 Electricité de France has published its annual results for 2006 showing...

India’s nuclear player moves towards renewables
05 March 2007 Investment in hydro and wind generation is to be increased by the...

Zolo and Siemens tie-up on combustion
05 March 2007 Siemens and Zolo Technologies have signed a deal to combine ZoloBOSS...

Ontario power purchase deal for small renewables
05 March 2007 A standard offer programme in Ontario will see the output from 22...

Investors' carbon test
01 March 2007

February 2007

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EU research programme offers cash to energy companies
28 February 2007

UES forecast equipment demand list published
27 February 2007 Russia’s UES has prepared a Forecast of Demand for capital investments...

Swiss policy calling for new reactors
27 February 2007 Long-term energy demand trends in Switzerland are such that, despite...

Spanish NAP approved by EU
27 February 2007 The European Commission has approved Spain's national plan for...

Ofgem extends wind research incentive
27 February 2007 UK energy regulator Ofgem has extended a scheme covering research...

Endesa launches Spanish offshore venture
27 February 2007 Endesa Cogeneración y Renovables and Enerfin-Enervento, part of the...

EU calls on California to join ETS
27 February 2007 Stavros Dimas, the European Union environment commissioner, is...

Chinese transmission first
27 February 2007 China has begun construction of its first cross-sea transmission...

RWE names Grossmann as head
27 February 2007 Dr. Jürgen Grossmann is to become new chief executive of RWE in 2008,...

Chinese contract mooted for Areva
27 February 2007 Speculation is mounting that French technology giant Areva is set to win...

Marine energy grants give fillip to tidal technologies
22 February 2007 UK government grants worth more than £13 million ($25.35 million) have...

Consolidation on cards for Chinese hydro
22 February 2007 China Yangtze Power Co has announced plans to buy a 45% stake in...

Algerian gas boost for Europe
22 February 2007 Rolls-Royce has won an order from MEDGAZ for three of its RB211 gas...

More Thames wind approved
22 February 2007 The UK’s trade and industry secretary Alistair Darling has approved...

UK announces plans to accelerate grid connection
22 February 2007 UK energy regulator Ofgem has announced plans for new requirements to...

November outage report focussed on E.ON Netz
20 February 2007 The final report into the November outage that struck much of Western...

High Court set back to UK nuclear plans
20 February 2007 A UK High Court ruling that a government consultation process that backed...

Climate change activity grows in US
20 February 2007 A Washington summit organised by the UK’s Global Legislators Organisation...

Drax upgrade plan
20 February 2007 One of Europe’s largest coal-fired stations, the 4 GW Drax station in...

GE to supply 300 wind turbines for New York
20 February 2007 GE Energy is to supply 300 of its 1.5 MW wind turbines for projects New...

Russian nuclear reform bill signed
20 February 2007 President Vladimir Putin has signed a nuclear industry reform bill...

LNG ship docks in UK
20 February 2007 A novel ship-based regasification technology has been used to deliver gas...

Scottish Power Iberdrola merger approved
20 February 2007 The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of...

Theloia and GE forge alliance
20 February 2007 In an assets-for-equity swap, Theolia is to acquire GE Energy...

Wind continues growth
16 February 2007 Despite supply chain difficulties over the past year, global wind...

UES reform plans detailed
16 February 2007 Russia’s UES has unveiled its restructuring plans for the coming...

Forsmark 1 and 2 shutdown over containment seal
16 February 2007 A possible problem with a rubber seal inside the containment of...

Transmission alliance action for market integration
16 February 2007 Five European transmission regulators have published an action plan...

Wind-gas offshore hybrid given green light
16 February 2007 A unique hybrid energy development with the potential to generate up to...

Massive gas-fired capacity sale by Mirant
16 February 2007 Mirant Corp is to sell six of its US gas-fired plants with a...

EC-Norway in sequestration talks
16 February 2007 European energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs and the Norwegian minister...

Shanghai plans wind
16 February 2007 A coastal landfill area near the East China Sea is the proposed site for...

ABB sells power stakes in Morocco and India
16 February 2007 ABB has agreed to sell its stakes in two independent power projects...

Three Gorges production
16 February 2007 The Three Gorges Project, the world's largest hydropower project,...

Alstom awarded turbine contract
16 February 2007

Spanish contract for interconnection of substations
16 February 2007

Siemens to supply 20kV switchgear
16 February 2007

145 kV cable for Iceland
16 February 2007

Duisburg to get €2m switchgear
16 February 2007

German contract for wood-fired CHP
16 February 2007

Ireland: Bio-fuel power plant
16 February 2007

Belgium: Excitation system
16 February 2007

UK: Solar modules
16 February 2007

France: Power line construction
16 February 2007

France: Power cables and accessories
16 February 2007

Italy: Hydropower turbines
16 February 2007

France: Solar Panel Installation
16 February 2007

Germany: Gensets
16 February 2007

Slovenia: Substation
16 February 2007

Sweden: Distribution boxes
16 February 2007

M&A deals show transatlantic divide
14 February 2007 Total energy merger and acquisition deals shattered all records over the...

EU investigates gas-insulated power lines for wind
14 February 2007 A feasibility study has been initiated by the EU Commission to...

Russia to ship power to China
14 February 2007 The management of UES has cleared a project to supply China’s State Grid...

E.ON UK tackles Chinese carbon
14 February 2007 Power Technology, E.ON UK’s energy engineering arm, has designed...

Enel launches Spanish wind construction
14 February 2007 Enel Union Fenosa Renovables (Eufer) has started construction of two...

AES buys Mexican petcoke plants
14 February 2007 Two 230 MW petroleum coke-fired circulating fluidised bed (CFB)...

Colombian hydro plant registered as CDM project
14 February 2007 A series of Colombian hydroelectric plants have been approved as...

PG&E signs second biogas deal
14 February 2007 Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has announced an agreement...

Wärtsilä power for giant Saudi dairy project
14 February 2007 Wärtsilä Corp has won a €7.6 million turn-key contract for a 14 MWe...

ABB to upgrade control system
14 February 2007 Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), has awarded a contract to ABB...

Vestas receives large orders in China
14 February 2007 Vestas has received orders for a total of 187 MW consisting of 220 units...

Himachal hydro for Bharat Heavy
14 February 2007 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a major contract...

Wrtsil gets US power contract
14 February 2007 Wärtsilä has been awarded an equipment supply contract by a subsidiary...

ABB wins South African contract
13 February 2007 ABB has received a $32 million order from Sappi Saiccor for upgrading...

Areva plans biomass projects
13 February 2007 Areva has been awarded contracts for the construction of six biomass...

DoE budget request submitted
09 February 2007 US secretary of energy Samuel W. Bodman has announced President Bush’s...

California adopts generation climate standard
09 February 2007 The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has adopted an...

Saudi power growth continues
09 February 2007 GE Energy has announced more than $1 billion of new power...

Emfesz to construct $2 billion power station in Hungary
09 February 2007 Hungarian gas trading firm Emfesz has announced plans to develop an 800...

Doosan Heavy in MidEast developments
09 February 2007 Doosan has signed two contracts for power and desalination plants in Oman.

Gazprom plans gas storage expansion
09 February 2007 Underground gas storage development has been singled out as an...

AGL expands gas-fired portfolio
09 February 2007 Australia’s AGL is to purchase the 1,280 MW Torrens Island gas-fired...

MidAmerican and AEP plan Texas transmission venture
09 February 2007 MidAmerican Energy Holdings and American Electric Power (AEP) are planning...

Enel hikes Fortuna stake
09 February 2007 Italy’s Enel has increased its ownership stake in Panamanian hydro...

Scottish transmission line enquiry begins
09 February 2007 A Public Inquiry into controversial plans to replace an existing...

Entergy buys Dynegy peaking plant
09 February 2007 An Entergy Corp subsidiary is to acquire the 322 MW Calcasieu...

Duke sale of Bolivian hydro assets
09 February 2007 Duke Energy International has completed the sale of its 50% stake in...

Marchwood move on UK generation
08 February 2007 Siemens is to build a turnkey gas-fired combined cycle power plant...

BG pulls the plug on Microgen
07 February 2007 BG Group is terminating its development programme on Stirling engine...

Philippine transmission sale void
07 February 2007 The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp (PSALM), the...

Jinping 2 construction begins
07 February 2007 China has begun construction of a second major hydropower station at...

Geothermal carbon offset plan
07 February 2007 Toronto-based renewable energy company Polaris Geothermal International...

Carbon disclosure Project steps up pressure
07 February 2007 A group of 280 institutional investors with assets of some $40 trillion...

RWE plans UK CCGT
07 February 2007 npower, RWE's UK subsidiary, has announced plans to build a combined...

E.ON boosts Endesa offer
07 February 2007 Germany's E.ON has raised its final offer price for Spanish energy...

Human activity is climate culprit
07 February 2007 Anthropogenic carbon emissions - chiefly coming from fossil fuels - are...

State of the Union call for low-carbon technology
02 February 2007 America’s President Bush has delivered the latest State of the Union...

Davos talks move climate up global agenda
02 February 2007 The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, wrapped...

New European nuclear economics are favourable, says World Energy Council
02 February 2007 Encouraging investment through stable, consistent and predictable...

Renewables obligation failing, says UK regulator
02 February 2007 UK energy regulators Ofgem have proposed radical reform of the...

Siemens ultra-supercritical for US
02 February 2007 A Siemens-led consortium is to develop a new ultra-supercritical...

Energy review is too long-term and idealistic
01 February 2007

January 2007

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Areva signs Swedish deals plus
31 January 2007 Two contracts, together worth around €400 million, have been signed...

GE to upgrade Monticello
31 January 2007 GE Energy’s nuclear business has been awarded a contract to oversee...

Wood gas plant planned for Austria
31 January 2007 GE Energy’s Jenbacher gas engine business has been awarded a contract...

Oman maintenance deal for Wood Group
31 January 2007 Wood Group has been awarded a 16-year contract by subsidiaries of Suez...

Nordex awarded Scottish contract
31 January 2007 Falck Renewables has ordered 19 N90/2500 HS multi-megawatt turbines...

Wärtsilä in Swedish biomass CHP deal
31 January 2007 A contract for equipment and installation for a biomass-fuelled combined...

ABB wins power order in India
31 January 2007 ABB has won a $42 million contract from the main electricity...

Vestas order for UK offshore wind
31 January 2007 Vestas has received an order for an offshore wind power plant with a...

Fortum’s Estonia CHP
31 January 2007 A new Fortum combined heat and power plant is under development in the...

Large Vestas order for the Italian market
31 January 2007 Vestas has received an order for 138 MW for two wind power plants,...

Wärtsilä plant for Azerbaijan
31 January 2007 Wärtsilä Corp has been awarded a contract by AzerEnerji, the...

Alstom wins Russian cogeneration contract
31 January 2007 Alstom has won a contract with OJSC Mosenergo for its part in the...

Denmark: Distribution equipment
31 January 2007

Germany: Gas turbine instrumentation
31 January 2007

Emissions control market booming on European enlargement
30 January 2007 The accession of ten new member states to the EU in 2004, eight of which...

American Superconductor in Doosan wind alliance
30 January 2007 American Superconductor Corp has signed a wind energy system...

PG&E gets dirty with Arnie
30 January 2007 Biogas firm Microgy is part of Pacific Gas and Electric Co’s plan to...

Nigeria's power and gas investment plans
30 January 2007 Seven gas-fired power plants are planned for development in Nigeria’s...

Areva positions into the wind
30 January 2007 French engineering group Areva has announced its intention to make a...

Aker Kvaerner's pulp sale finalised
30 January 2007 Aker Kvaerner’s sale of its Pulping and Power businesses to Metso Corp...

1 GW cogen plant planned for UK
30 January 2007 Plans for a 1 GW gas-fired gogeneration plant to be located in the...

Italy: Electricity supplies
29 January 2007

Sweden: Wind turbines
29 January 2007

Finland: Transformers
29 January 2007

Ireland: HVDC submarine cable
29 January 2007

Germany: Medium voltage substations
29 January 2007

Germany: Switchgear
29 January 2007

Netherlands: Switchgear, Transformers and Accessories
29 January 2007

Czech Republic: Electricity supply
29 January 2007

Poland: Distribution cables
29 January 2007

Norway: Converter station renovation
29 January 2007

Norway: Emergency Generating Set
29 January 2007

EU fines switching cartel 750 million euros
26 January 2007 The European Commission has fined eleven groups of companies more than...

Climate Act introduced to US Senate
26 January 2007 Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut...

AES and GE move on carbon offsets
26 January 2007 GE Energy Financial Services and AES Corp have announced plans to create...

BP plans US wind boost
26 January 2007 BP Alternative Energy North America Inc has announced that it expects...

RWE abandons green fuel on environmental grounds
26 January 2007 RWE npower, the UK subsidiary of the German giant, has announced a...

China launches nuclear construction plans
26 January 2007 Construction of China’s first high temperature gas-cooled reactor has...

Argentina orders new Siemens' plants
26 January 2007 A Siemens-led consortium will build two power plants in the provinces...

Giant Saudi contract for Suez
26 January 2007 A huge combined desalination and power generation project is being...

Russia continues power sales
26 January 2007 Public auctions to sell 93.35% of the shares in Zapadno-Sibirskaya CHP...

Asean partnership plans renewables trade boost
23 January 2007 Asian trade federation Asean and six other nations have signed a...

SCE calls for renewables
23 January 2007 Southern California Edison (SCE) has signed a ground-breaking wind...

South African gas first
23 January 2007 South Africa's first landfill methane gas-to energy project, powered by...

Over-allocation threatens ETS
23 January 2007 The EU emissions trading scheme will fail to deliver a reduction...

Macedonia seeks hydropower capacity bridge
23 January 2007 Hydropower will be used to cut Macedonia’s currently more than 40% level...

Gas storage plays continue in UK
23 January 2007 With volatile gas prices dogging the UK electricity market and wider...

DoE releases GNEP plan
23 January 2007 The US Department of Energy has published the Global Nuclear...

Tidal unit towed to Barents Sea
23 January 2007 Russian marine engineering firm Sevmash has reported that all works...

Areva TA to provide nuclear boilers
17 January 2007 The French general delegation for armaments (DGA) has awarded the...

Turnkey coal for Chile
17 January 2007 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received a full-turnkey order...

Wartsila wood-fired heating plants for Stora Enso in Russia
17 January 2007 Wärtsilä Corp has won an order to deliver two BioEnergy wood-fired...

ABB wins substation order in Qatar
17 January 2007 ABB has won a $450 million contract from Qatar General Electricity and...

Nordex turbines for Scout Moor
17 January 2007 Scout Moor wind farm, roughly 30 km north-east of Manchester in the UK, is...

Aker Kvaerner contract for multifuel boiler
17 January 2007 Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a letter of intent to provide...

Business backs climate combat
17 January 2007 Business leaders have presented the new global 3C (Combating Climate...

EU urges dialogue in latest energy scare
17 January 2007 The European Commission and the EU Presidency are taking joint action...

Enel plans North American wind boost
17 January 2007 Projects with an overall capacity of 277 MW are to be developed by Enel...

LIPA plans 5 MW fuel cell cogen project
17 January 2007 Long Island Power Authority and KeySpan Corp have issued a Request...

Cape Wind transmission ruling favourable
17 January 2007 A Supreme Court ruling backing the development of the Cape Wind project...

International Power acquires wind portfolio
17 January 2007 The 436 MW Levanto onshore wind farm portfolio has been acquired...

Renewables investment yeilding major returns
17 January 2007 Clean energy and carbon-related companies raised a total of $1.6 billion...

Europe sets out energy strategy
12 January 2007 The European Commission has set out a comprehensive package of measures...

China selects AP1000 technology
12 January 2007 Westinghouse Electric Company and its consortium partner The Shaw Group...

New EC policy lets energy giants off the hook
11 January 2007 For the past year it’s been widely expected that Brussels would be coming...

New pelletisation partnership
11 January 2007

Nuclear shut downs for new year
07 January 2007 A number of reactors in eastern Europe were shut down at the end of 2006 as...

Switzerland-Italy interconnection gets going
07 January 2007 A €5 million 400 MW cross-border transmission link between Switzerland...

GE sells hydro business
07 January 2007 A definitive agreement to sell GE Energy’s hydro business to the...

Go ahead for offshore wind in Thames Estuary
04 January 2007 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry has granted permission for...

Endesa begins work on French CCGTs
04 January 2007 Snet, Endesa’s French subsidiary, has taken the first steps towards...

EdF creates carbon fund for CDM
04 January 2007 Electricité de France (EdF) has announced the creation of a carbon fund...

Three Gorges transmission link completed
04 January 2007 ABB has completed a 1,040 km, 3,000 MW HVDC link connected China’s...

Little progress, little chance of improvement
01 January 2007

December 2006

Top

Blackout prompts EU push on cross-border reforms
20 December 2006 A significant increase in the legal powers of the European Commission...

Areva to modernise Moscow grid
15 December 2006 A contract worth several tens of millions of euros has been awarded to...

Sevmash floating nuclear plant contracts
15 December 2006 A contract for eight steam generators for the world’s first floating...

FGD contract for MHI
15 December 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Duro Felguera, a Spanish...

Trent power for US and Belgium
15 December 2006 Rolls-Royce has announced its first orders from electric utilities in...

Vestas US order for 125 MW
15 December 2006 Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received a US order for 76 units of...

AECL signs Argentina CANDU deal
15 December 2006 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has signed an agreement...

DoE announces $1 billion in clean coal tax breaks
15 December 2006 US energy secretary Samuel W. Bodman and Henry Paulson, secretary of...

New Zealand unveils draft energy strategy
15 December 2006 An energy strategy covering New Zealand policy to 2050 and focusing...

Solar cell break through with 40% efficiency
14 December 2006 A concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab...

SCE moves on more renewable power
14 December 2006 Southern California Edison (SCE) has signed seven new long-term...

RWE plans power investments
14 December 2006 RWE has announced plans to build a 1,600 MW coal-fired twin unit at...

Regulators call for more competition in Europe
13 December 2006 A lack of power market unbundling is a persistent barrier to competition,...

Finland’s reactor slows further
13 December 2006 Latest estimates for the completion of the Olkiluoto 3 reactor in...

Offshore wind progress for Europe
13 December 2006 E.On UK expects to commence construction of the Robin Rigg wind farm off...

China plans more Yangtze hydro
13 December 2006 The Yalong River, a major tributary on the upper reaches of the...

Libyan project commissioned by BHEL
13 December 2006 India’s Baharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has commissioned the 600 MW...

First new coal in decades planned for UK
12 December 2006 E.On UK has submitted a planning application for the UK’s first...

Finland-Estonia power link completed
12 December 2006 ABB has completed the first Nordic-Baltic transmission grid...

Biomass first for China
12 December 2006 China's first biomass-fired power plant, with an installed capacity of...

Gas pressure generation project launched
11 December 2006 A 1 GW low-carbon energy business has been launched in the UK, based on...

German offshore site for Airtricity
11 December 2006 Irish renewable energy development company Airtricity has reached a heads...

Utility wins DoE waste lawsuit
11 December 2006 The US Court of Federal Claims has awarded the Sacramento Municipal...

Massive investment planned for UK transmission
07 December 2006 UK energy regulators Ofgem have authorised a massive 100% increase...

Botswana to export power to SA
07 December 2006 Completion of the 3,600 MW coal-fired Mmamabula Power Station in 2011...

Wind turbine performance boost from GE
07 December 2006 GE has increased the output from its 2.5 MW wind turbine by boosting...

Econcern acquires Terra Nova wind firm
07 December 2006 French wind project developer Terra Nova has been acquired by Dutch...

Alstom wins US clean coal contracts
06 December 2006 Three successive contracts worth more than €400 million to clean...

Vestas receives Spain order
06 December 2006 Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received an order from the...

Westinghouse wins Korea contract
06 December 2006 PaR Nuclear, a Westinghouse Electric Company subsidiary, has received...

ABB power contract in Canada
06 December 2006 Hydro-Québec has placed a $180 million order with ABB to strengthen...

Wrtsil power for Madagascar
06 December 2006 A 20 MWe power plant for the QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite - an...

Wind deal for Portugal
06 December 2006 The Eólicas de Portugal consortium has won a concession for the...

Power Machines supplier for Belene
06 December 2006 Russia’s Power Machines in alliance with Atomstroyexport and other...

EU release phase 2 ETS NAP figures
06 December 2006 The European Commission has released its figures for the first ten...

Iberdrola in merger deal with ScottishPower
06 December 2006 Spanish utility group Iberdrola has reached a merger agreement with the...

UES to export power to China
06 December 2006 Russia’s UES is expected to reach a deal with the State Grid Corp of...

November 2006

Top

COP-out on climate
30 November 2006 The recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

European outage blamed on human error
30 November 2006 German transmission company E.On Netz has disclosed that human error at...

Belgian energy report urges review of nuclear phase-out
30 November 2006 A study commissioned by the Belgian energy ministry has concluded that...

Europe resists mandatory renewables targets
30 November 2006 European ministers have managed to reach a preliminary consensus on...

Planning reforms for UK energy
30 November 2006 New planning rules covering inquiries for large-scale electricity...

Iter gets go-ahead
30 November 2006 Ministers from the seven countries behind the Iter fusion project...

Sipat plant underway
30 November 2006 Russia’s Power Machines has begun tests of the 660 MW turbine for the...

Climate change bill for UK
29 November 2006 A climate change bill is to be introduced in the coming UK...

ABB opens HVDC test facility
29 November 2006 The world's first installation for testing 800 kV DC technology has...

European Commission report on ETS
29 November 2006 The European Commission has published a review report on the EU...

Gas player Centrica moves into clean coal
29 November 2006 An option to participate in the UK’s first complete clean coal project...

UES tests tidal generation
29 November 2006 An experimental floating tidal power plant has been launched at the...

Fitch report on nuclear credit
29 November 2006 The ownership and operation of nuclear power plants can have a...

Moscow and UES deal on reliability
29 November 2006 The Moscow regional government and UES have entered into an...

New lignite-fired station planned in Hungary
29 November 2006 Germany’s RWE has announced plans to develop a €750 million...

BE results: up on price, down on performance
28 November 2006 Despite an improved financial performance, achieved on the back of high...

First CCGT for Peru
28 November 2006 Peru’s first gas-fired combined cycle power station has been...

Solar expansion planned by BP
28 November 2006 BP Solar has unveiled plans for a $70 million expansion of its North...

EdF completes Demasz offer
28 November 2006 Majority owner of Hungarian electricity distributor and supplier Demasz...

Centrica plugs into Dutch generation
28 November 2006 UK gas major Centrica has signed an agreement giving it the rights to...

Jordan air for 9E
28 November 2006 GE Energy is to supply a Frame 9E gas turbine to state-owned Al...

GE-Hitachi nuclear alliance
28 November 2006 GE and Hitachi have signed a letter of intent to negotiate the formation of...

Fortum applying for new Loviisa licence
28 November 2006 Finland’s Loviisa nuclear power plant will operate for 50 years under...

AES bids on coal and biomass co-fired plants
28 November 2006 AES Corp has submitted two bids to construct coal and...

Power Machines commissions Tehri plant
28 November 2006 The second 250 MW unit for the Tehri hydro plant in Uttar Pradesh, India,...

Atomstroyexport to develop Belene
08 November 2006 Bulgaria’s National Electricity Company (NEK) has awarded a contract...

Siemens order for largest European wind farm
08 November 2006 Siemens Power Generation has been awarded a contract for the delivery of...

ABB wins $50 million Mexican order
08 November 2006 Contracts worth $50 million for two projects to strengthen Mexico’s...

Alstom’s Chinese hydro contract
08 November 2006 Hydro-electric equipment for pumped storage plants located in Hohhot in...

Foster Wheeler awarded Italian wind deal
08 November 2006 An engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract has been...

Power cuts hit Western Europe
08 November 2006 A cascading transmission system collapse affected large swathes of...

E.On plans 50% efficiency coal
08 November 2006 Germany’s E.On has announced plans to develop the world’s most...

Calls for reform in Chinese wind
08 November 2006 A new report released jointly by the Chinese Renewable Energy...

DoE funds carbon sequestration
08 November 2006 The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced a 10-year $450...

Chinese generation capacity set to exceed 600 GW
08 November 2006 By the end of 2006 China’s installed generation capacity is expected...

E.On welcomes CNE back down
08 November 2006 The Spanish Industry Ministry has decided to amend several critical...

EdF in nuclear cooperation deal with China
08 November 2006 Electricité de France (EdF) has signed cooperation agreements with...

Municipal utilities acquire stake in new hard coal plant
08 November 2006 Germany’s RWE has invited 26 of its municipal customers an opportunity...

Doosan Heavy buys Mitsui Babcock
08 November 2006 Mitsui Babcock, the UK-based energy services company, is to be sold to...

GE turbines for Chinese hydro
08 November 2006 A new, 300 MW hydropower plant to be located on the Bing Lang Jiang River...

Dutch windfarm begins ops
08 November 2006 Holland’s first offshore windfarm, the 108 MW Egmond aan Zee project,...

Areva names new director for Olkiluoto 3
08 November 2006 Philippe Knoche has been named as the General Project Director of...

October 2006

Top

For sale by auction: Eight unused 60 Hz gas and steam turbine generators (45 MW – 180 MW).
31 October 2006 Thursday, 16 November, 2006 at 10:00 AM PT

Bidding for Philippine hydro plants set
31 October 2006 The Philippine Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management...

New generator for Olkiluoto 2
31 October 2006 Finland’s Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) has signed a contract with Alstom...

Foster Wheeler wins Chinese CFB contract
31 October 2006 China Petrochemical Corp (SINOPEC) has awarded a contract for...

BHEL wins captive plant contract
31 October 2006 Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has received a Rs 9,500 million...

Stern words from climate report
31 October 2006 A new report on the economics of climate change for the UK government...

Oil major identifies climate change as an opportunity
31 October 2006 New research by Shell shows that the challenge of tackling climate...

Putin rebuffs EU on energy
31 October 2006 Russian Premier Vladimir Putin has rejected European demands to relax...

Energy M&A: Size doesnt matter
31 October 2006 New research by market analysts Datamonitor on European utilities shows...

Morgan Stanley to invest in emissions reduction
31 October 2006 US investment bank Morgan Stanley has announced plans to invest...

UK announces deep disposal plan
31 October 2006 David Miliband, the UK secretary of the environment, has announced plans...

ABB protects nuclear plant from solar storms
31 October 2006

AES expands on European wind
31 October 2006 A number of acquisitions have pushed AES Corp’s wind development pipeline...

BNG sale plans announced
31 October 2006 Plans to break up and sell off the UK’s British Nuclear Group (BNG) have...

Areva named T&D partner by National Grid
31 October 2006 National Grid, the owner and operator of the high-voltage...

RWE and Slovenian HSE to cooperate
31 October 2006 Slovenia’s largest power producer, state-owned HSE and Germany’s RWE...

Airtricity to buy Canadian wind developer
31 October 2006 Ireland’s Airtricity has entered into an agreement to acquire Gale...

Enel´s Texan wind growth
31 October 2006 Italy’s Enel is to buy the 63 MW Snyder Wind Project, to be developed...

Russia plays hardball over future energy deal
30 October 2006 Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signalled a tough fight with...

British Energy cracking up
23 October 2006 UK nuclear generator British Energy has revealed that boiler tube cracking...

US renewables research grants announced
23 October 2006 Mike Johanns and Samuel Bodman, US secretaries of agriculture and...

EC policy review hikes risk, says S&P
23 October 2006 The European Commission’s energy policy review could have...

Thorp leak fines for BNG
23 October 2006 British Nuclear Group (BNG) has been fined £500,000 ($950,000) following...

NW China to be wind hub
23 October 2006 China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest of the country is...

Kenyan power expansion planned
23 October 2006 Plans to invest some Sh15 billion ($208 million) in six new...

UKs Didcot boosts renewable output
23 October 2006 RWE npower has begun commercial operation of a new £3.5 million...

Clean coal giant for Alstom
23 October 2006 Alstom is to build a 833 MW supercritical lignite-fired power plant...

Scottish Power contracts for Europe's wind giant
23 October 2006 UK utility company ScottishPower has awarded £330 million ($627 million)...

MHI wins wind order
23 October 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for 42 of...

Jenbachers for Germany
23 October 2006 GE Energy is to supply 40 of its Jenbacher engines for installation at...

Vestas in LM deal
23 October 2006 Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has entered into a new...

AECL wins Chinese order
23 October 2006 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has been awarded a C$12 million...

AECL wins Chinese order
23 October 2006 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has been awarded a C$12 million...

Gas turbine component deal for MHI
23 October 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order from China’s...

Jacobs wins fusion design deal
23 October 2006 Jacobs Engineering Group Inc has won design a contract as part of...

Wrtsil power plant to Azerbaijan
23 October 2006 Finland’s Wärtsilä Corp is being awarded a contract by AzerEnerji,...

GE deal for Exelon BWRs
23 October 2006 GE Energy has signed a deal with Exelon Nuclear for parts related...

Belgium: Transformers
16 October 2006 STIB-MIVB is seeking tenders for the supply of 45 transformers, in two...

Lithuania: Turbine installation
16 October 2006 Lietuvos energija is seeking tenders for installation work to be carried...

UK: Substation refurbishment
16 October 2006 The University of Sussex is seeking tenders for the refurbishment of a...

Sweden: Ancillary services
16 October 2006 SwePol Link is seeking tenders from firms to undertake ancillary service...

UK: Substation
16 October 2006 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is seeking tenders for the supply...

UK: CCGT Power plant
16 October 2006 BP Alternative Energy Ltd (BP) and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)...

Germany: Switchgear
16 October 2006 Stadtwerke Duisburg is seeking tenders for the supply, installation...

Poland: Transformers
16 October 2006 Struga is seeking tenders for the supply and installation of 2MW...

Germany: HV Cable
16 October 2006 Vattenfall Europe Transmission is seeking tenders for the supply...

Ireland: Organisational service
16 October 2006 Sustainable Energy Ireland is seeking tenders from companies to...

Malta: Power Generating Plant
16 October 2006 Enemalta Corporation is seeking tenders for the supply and installation of...

Poland: Transmission line O&M
16 October 2006 SwePol Link Poland is seeking tenders for a 4-year contract...

Sweden: Electricity supply
16 October 2006 AB Familjebostäder is seeking tenders for a 3-year contract to...

Iberdrola and Gamesa close biggest ever wind deal
13 October 2006 Spanish energy interest Iberdrola and wind developer Gamesa have inked a...

US carbon capture pilot
13 October 2006 An alliance of Alstom, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and...

Supercritical on the cards for UK
13 October 2006 The UK-based arm of German energy major E.On, has submitted an application...

GE giants for Korean nukes
13 October 2006 South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries is to manufacture and install two...

Work begins on Europe’s largest onshore windfarm
13 October 2006 Construction has begun on the 322 MW Whitelee Windfarm, located across 55...

E.On submits Endesa offer to regulators
13 October 2006 Following the recent EU ruling regarding the illegitimacy of...

DoE grant for next gen nuclear
13 October 2006 The US Department of Energy (DoE) is to award some $8 million to...

Aggreko to buy GE energy rentals
13 October 2006 The bulk GE’s Energy Rentals arm is to be sold to Aggreko for $212...

No phase-out before 2010 for Sweden
13 October 2006 The newly elected Alliance for Sweden coalition government is to maintain...

Micro-generation push for UK suppliers
13 October 2006 UK energy regulator Ofgem is calling for power supply companies to...

Fortum acquires stake in St. Petersburg generation
13 October 2006 Finland’s Fortum is to acquire a 12.5% stake in Russia’s St....

FERC fines over dam failure
13 October 2006 AmerenUE, a subsidiary of Ameren Corp, has agreed to a $15 Million...

Alstom upgrade contract with Eskom
13 October 2006 A €110 million contract to refurbish the 2,100 MW Arnot coal-fired...

Wärtsilä power for Madagascar
13 October 2006 A turnkey contract for the supply of a 40 MW power plant in Madagascar...

Areva to replace steam generators at Prairie Island
13 October 2006 A contract to supply two replacement steam generators for Unit 2 of...

ABB wins Algerian grid orders
13 October 2006 Three contracts worth a total of $70 million have been awarded to ABB...

Entergy nuclear contracts
13 October 2006 Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has been awarded a multi-million dollar,...

Vestas gets PacifiCorp deal
13 October 2006 Danish wind technology company Vestas has won a contract for the supply of...

Shoreham back on line
04 October 2006

E.ON jacks Endesa offer higher
02 October 2006 In its troubled takeover bid for Spanish power major Endesa, Germany’s...

Areva's first half results hit by Olkiluoto 3 delays
02 October 2006 French nuclear technology company Areva has published its first half...

GdF and Suez hope to remedy EC merger objections
02 October 2006 Gaz de France and French multi-utility Suez have submitted a series...

RWE applies for Biblis A power
02 October 2006 Nuclear generator RWE Power has submitted an application to the...

Report card says dams must try harder
02 October 2006 The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its...

Xcel Energy announces new PV move
02 October 2006 An 8 MW solar power plant is under development by Xcel Energy in...

Europe needs diversified energy mix
02 October 2006 The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has called for...

GE's 7H-up
02 October 2006 GE has completed testing of its first 60Hz 7H gas turbines, which are now...

Europe probes Danish carbon tax
02 October 2006 The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to examine...

AGL plans hydro move
02 October 2006 Australian Gas Light Co (AGL) has announced plans to build...

Vegetarian transformer
02 October 2006 EDF Energy Networks, a UK subsidiary of Electricité de France (EdF), is...

Ultra-supercritical for Huaneng
02 October 2006 Huaneng Power International has been granted approval to develop phase 1...

Enel in global push
02 October 2006 Italy’s national power champion Enel has firmly set out its agenda to...

GE establishes EU clean coal base
02 October 2006 The European base of operations for GE’s clean coal technology is to...

AECL releases annual report
02 October 2006 Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has released its report for the...

Italian double for Endesa
02 October 2006 Spanish utility Endesa has acquired majority stakes in two combined...

Alliance targets new Europe nuclear clean-up market
02 October 2006 British Nuclear Group Project Services, German firm NUKEM and...

Duke stands alone
02 October 2006 With plans to separate its gas and electricity operations into...

Iberdrola lays into Latvia
02 October 2006 With the laying of a foundation stone construction has begun on a...

GE holds talks with Rosenergoatom
02 October 2006 General Electric has held talks in Moscow with senior management of...

Tasty Cornish treat for International Power
02 October 2006 AES Corp has closed on the sale of its AES Indian Queens Power subsidiary,...

Construction risks raised by PPP
02 October 2006 Market researchers Standard & Poor’s (S&P) have indicated a...

Peixe Angical hydro plant completion
02 October 2006 The third turbine at Brazil’s Peixe Angical hydroelectric plant has...

Alstom moves into Bulgaria
02 October 2006 AES Corp has awarded Alstom a contract to build a turnkey 670...

Westinghouse wins Kozloduy contract
02 October 2006 A contract to provide Primary Side Chemistry Monitoring Systems for units...

Queensland Spring Gully station tender
02 October 2006 Origin Energy has issued tender documents for the proposed development of...

Commission needs to put more faith in member states
01 October 2006

September 2006

Top

Hamaoka analysis reveals flashback problem
25 September 2006 Following further analysis of the failure of the low pressure steam...

Wind set to save the day as renewables investment soars
25 September 2006 A new report by Renewable Energy Systems (RES) suggests that many...

Alstom rejects asbestos ruling
22 September 2006 Engineering company Alstom is to appeal against a recent decision from...

London Array to appeal over planning
22 September 2006 Developers of the UK’s London Array offshore wind farm are planning to...

Dukes up on IGCC
22 September 2006 Duke Energy and Vectren Energy Delivery have filed an application with...

EC clears Toshibas Westinghouse buy
22 September 2006 The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition by the...

UK biomass plant loses government grant
22 September 2006 Plans for a 23 MW biomass-fired power plant at Winkleigh airfield in the...

MHI order for six GTs
22 September 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for six M501G...

Nordex awarded further contract in Italy
22 September 2006 Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has been awarded a €47 million contract...

Siemens to deliver turnkey substation to Dubai
22 September 2006 The power transmission and distribution arm of Siemens is delivering...

AES to supply BC Hydro with coal power
22 September 2006 AESWapiti Energy Corp has signed a 30-year power purchase agreement with...

First LNG for Mexico
22 September 2006 Mexico’s first-ever Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo has docked at...

Fortum sells Hämeenlinna plant
22 September 2006 Vattenfall is to buy a combined heat and power plant located in...

Foster Wheeler licences CFB to China
22 September 2006 Foster Wheeler has entered into a fifteen-year licence agreement with...

Spain: Substation control systems
19 September 2006 Gobierno Vasco is seeking tenders for the supply and installation of...

France: Distribution system maintenance
19 September 2006 Tenders for the repair and maintenance of the electrical distribution...

Greece: Wind turbines
19 September 2006 Terna Energy is seeking tenders to supply and install 24 wind turbines...

Greece: Wind turbines
19 September 2006 Terna Energy is seeking tenders to supply and install 12 wind turbines...

Malta: Wind turbines
19 September 2006 The Government of Malta is requesting expressions of interest (EOI)...

France: Electricity supply
19 September 2006 Syndicat intercommunal d'énergies du Département de la Loire (SIEL)...

Italy: HRSG installation
19 September 2006 Hera is seeking qualification for the supply and installation of 20-50MW...

France: Mobile emergency gensets
19 September 2006 EdF Gaz de France is seeking tenders for the supply of 160kWe and...

Germany: Transformers
19 September 2006 Vattenfall Europe Berlin is seeking tenders for the supply and...

France: Refurbishment of power lines
19 September 2006 EdF is seeking tenders for the refurbishment and upgrade of transmission...

Netherlands: Electricity supply
19 September 2006 The University of Eindhoven is seeking tenders for the supply of...

MW-class fuel cell development
18 September 2006 German utility Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) and engineering giant...

PSEG-Exelon merger hopes dashed
18 September 2006 Exelon has given the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) a formal...

Regulators slash German transmission fees
18 September 2006 German network regulator the Bundesnetzagentur (BNA) has slashed third...

Endesa plans Chile hydro expansion
18 September 2006 Spanish energy major Endesa is to develop a four unit...

Gulf grid operational by 2010
18 September 2006 A massive international transmission network is set to link six...

UES’ investment programme announced
18 September 2006 Russian energy behemoth Unified Energy Systems (UES) has published details...

New wave project planned for UK
18 September 2006 Wave technology company Ocean Prospect has forged an alliance with UK...

Hydrogen alliance by giants
18 September 2006 BP and GE are to collaborate on power generation, carbon capture...

Sites for FutureGen named
18 September 2006 Four candidate sites have been named by the US Department of Energy (DoE)...

Alberta plans for nuclear powered bitumen
18 September 2006 Energy Alberta is understood to be looking for partners to develop...

FirstGen wins Philippine hydro complex
18 September 2006 First Generation Hydropower Corp (FirstGen) has been named as the...

PFS land locked
18 September 2006 Plans to develop a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Skull Valley,...

GE Repowers varispeed
18 September 2006 REpower Systems of Germany has licensed GE’s variable speed technology...

Solid Sterling WinWinD
18 September 2006 Sterling Infotech Group (SIG) has announced the acquisition of 40%...

ABB wins $210 million energy contract
18 September 2006 ABB has won a contract worth more than $210 million from the Algerian oil...

MHI CCGT for Spain
18 September 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for three sets...

Siemens I&C deal for South Africa
18 September 2006 Siemens is to modernise the Komati coal-fired power plant in...

Nordex supplying turbines to Ireland
18 September 2006 Wind turbine manufacturers Nordex have received an order worth around...

Areva finalises Sfarsteel deal
18 September 2006 France Essor and Areva have finalised details for the purchase of...

New Vestas orders
18 September 2006 Danish wind giant Vestas has announced a couple of contracts over recent weeks.

Contract shortlist from NDA
18 September 2006 The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has named three...

Global warming bill for California
06 September 2006 California is preparing to pass the toughest greenhouse gas emissions...

Endesa to build on CCGT portfolio
06 September 2006 Spanish Endesa has announced plans to develop 14 new combined cycle...

Two new nuclear plants for South Korea
06 September 2006 Westinghouse has signed a contract with Doosan Heavy Industries...

Performance incentive programme for purer power
06 September 2006 California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has adopted performance...

TXU plans new nuclear
06 September 2006 TXU Corp plans to file applications with the US Nuclear Regulatory...

Huaneng plans massive investment in generation
06 September 2006 China's Huaneng Group, the country’s largest generator, has announced...

Flamanville to use Alstom's biggest ever steam turbine
06 September 2006 Alstom is to supply the steam turbine for Electricité de France’s (EdF)...

EPA approves new coal giant
06 September 2006 The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) appeals board has approved...

CNE to relax Eon-Endesa conditions
06 September 2006 Spanish energy regulator the CNE is expected to relax tough assets...

Xcel Energy increases IGCC investment
06 September 2006 US utility Xcel Energy has announced an additional $3.5 million in...

AES begins wind work
06 September 2006 Abilene, Texas, is the site of a new 233 MW wind generation project...

Mexican IPP plant begins ops
06 September 2006 Spanish power player Iberdrola has begun operations at its Altamira V...

Vietnam building programme picks up speed
06 September 2006 Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) is set to construct a $2.6 billion...

NRG completes Australian asset sale
06 September 2006 Flinders power station in Australia has been sold by NRG Energy to Babcock...

EdF bids for Hungarian assets
06 September 2006 Hungarian electricity distributor and supplier Demasz has become the...

Fluor bids for BNG
06 September 2006 American engineering major Fluor Corp has confirmed that it has submitted...

EPC contract for a transmission line project in Cameroon
06 September 2006 AES SONEL invites expressions of interest relating to the contract for...

EPC contract for a 150 MW turnkey gas-fired power plant in Cameroon
06 September 2006 AES SONEL, invites expressions of interest relating to the contract for...

Alstom turnkeys for Gaz de France
06 September 2006 A contract worth more than €300 million to supply two turnkey power...

Eon and Gazprom ink massive gas deal
06 September 2006 Germany’s Eon and Russian gas giant Gazprom have struck a deal for the...

August 2006

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Long Island gets longest superconductor
30 August 2006 American Superconductor has begun work on a 138 kV high...

UK funding for marine transmission hub
30 August 2006 Plans for a so-called Wave Hub located 16 km off the UK’s Cornish coast...

Commission objects to Suez-GdF alliance
30 August 2006 A question mark has been raised over proposed merger between Suez and Gaz...

UK carbon trading plan announced
30 August 2006 Britain’s environment department, Defra, has announced details of...

Progress on UES reform
30 August 2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with Anatoly...

California turns smart
30 August 2006 Following the widespread power crunch across much of California this...

ABB unveils next generation HVDC
30 August 2006 Swiss-Swedish engineering firm ABB has unveiled new HVDC...

German giants post results
30 August 2006 German powerhouse Eon have posted positive results for the first half...

EU slams Spanish conditions on Eon-Endesa deal
30 August 2006 The European Commission has concluded that Spain has violated European...

BP gets Greenlight
30 August 2006 US wind developer Greenlight Energy has been bought by oil major BP for...

British Energy performance disappointment
30 August 2006 Nuclear generator British Energy has admitted that it is likely to fall...

Philippines to sell off transmission grid
30 August 2006 The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) of...

Siemens expands US wind capacity
30 August 2006 Fort Madison in Iowa is to be the site for Siemens’ US wind turbine...

MHI control rod drives for Ringhals
30 August 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for a set...

Mitsui Babcock wins Chinese NOx deal
30 August 2006 Yaomeng power plant in China is to be the site of Mitsui Babcock’s...

Coal-fired play for States by Alstom
30 August 2006 Alstom has been awarded a contract for the engineering, design...

French eye for Danish flair
30 August 2006 Vestas has received an order for 33 of its V90-2.0 MW turbines for four...

GE and Bechtel move up on clean coal plants
21 August 2006 American Electric Power (AEP) has signed a second agreement with GE...

GE contract for aeroderivatives
21 August 2006 GE Energy’s aeroderivative gas turbine services group has received a...

More Eskom cash for ABB
21 August 2006 Following recent news that ABB had won a $30 million contract for 275 kV...

Turbine blade failures lay Japanese nuclear plants low
17 August 2006 Japan’s Chubu Electric Power Co has shut down its Hamaoka unit 5...

Central American grid project begins
17 August 2006 Work has begun on the installation of a Central American transmission grid...

DTI publishes offshore analysis
17 August 2006 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published initial...

RWE-Wavegen to develop 3 MW wave plant
17 August 2006 Voith Siemens Hydro and its subsidiary Wavegen have announced a deal...

Forsmark shutdown prompts safety fears
17 August 2006 Following a switchyard short circuit, two emergency diesel backup...

Endesa’s plant upgrade
17 August 2006 Spanish utility company Endesa has begun a €275 million plant upgrade...

Enel buys Panamanian hydro assets
17 August 2006 Italian power major Enel has acquired a joint controlling stake in...

MidAmerican and PacifiCorp boost wind folios
17 August 2006 PacifiCorp and MidAmerican Energy, subsidiaries of MidAmerican...

Rajasthan contract for BHEL
17 August 2006 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has been awarded contracts...

Japanese first for MHI´s combination SOFC - MGT
14 August 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has tested a 75 kW solid oxide fuel...

All Ireland power market delayed
14 August 2006 Irish regulators have taken the decision to delay the launch of...

ABWR development agreement signed
14 August 2006 GE Energy's nuclear business and the STP nuclear operating company (STP)...

German transmission fees slashed for RWE
14 August 2006 The Federal Network Agency of Germany (Bundesnetzagentur) has sharply...

UniStar procuring reactor components for possible US first
14 August 2006 Constellation Energy and Areva joint venture UniStar has entered...

First aeroderivative peaker for Alaska
14 August 2006 GE Energy is to supply a 30 MW aeroderivative gas turbine to Peak...

Vestas Canadian turbine order
14 August 2006 Danish wind turbine major Vestas is to supply 30 of its V80-1.8 MW...

ABB wins MV switchgear order
14 August 2006 ABB has secured an order worth around £3.2 million ($5.5 million) from...

TXU calls for emissions cap contract
03 August 2006 Texas-based TXU Generation Co and its affiliates have asked the...

Renewables target for Victoria
03 August 2006 Victoria has become the first Australian state to introduce a...

BP launches new high efficiency silicon PV process
03 August 2006 BP Solar has developed a new silicon growth process that...

E.ON to appeal conditions on Endesa takeover
03 August 2006 German power giant E.ON has announced a decision to file an appeal with...

Acciona to install Australian wind farm
03 August 2006 Spanish wind developer Acciona is to install a 200 MW wind farm in...

UK energy stats revealed
03 August 2006 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published its 2006...

New Mexico’s first biomass plant
03 August 2006 New Mexico is to develop the state’s first biomass plant with the news...

ITC favours USEC in Russian uranium import fiasco
03 August 2006 The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has concluded that...

Carbon joint venture for Mitsui
03 August 2006 Mitsui Babcock, Carbon Trust Enterprises, and Triodos Renewables have...

CoRWM publishes final recommendations
03 August 2006 The UK’s Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has published...

BHEL commissions 500 MW thermal plant
03 August 2006 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned of the first 500...

CHP expansion approved at Immingham
03 August 2006 A combined heat and power plant at Immingham in the UK’s north...

Endesa accumulating Italian wind
03 August 2006 Spanish Endesa has acquired a wind farm south of Naples in the...

Entergy finalises nuclear deal
03 August 2006 Entergy Corp and CMS Energy subsidiary Consumers Energy have reached...

Wind beneath their wings as UK researches bird life
03 August 2006 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Wildfowl and...

Tender alerts for August
03 August 2006

Contracts for Dutch windfarm
03 August 2006 Danish wind turbine manufacturers Vestas are to supply 60 units of...

Areva wins reactor vessel head replacement contract
03 August 2006 The US subsidiary of French nuclear technology company Areva has won...

Gas Natural plans CCGT growth
03 August 2006 Alstom has won contracts worth more than €300 million with Spanish...

Foster Wheeler expands CFB fleet
03 August 2006 The Polish subsidiary of US firm Foster has won a series of contracts for...

GE boosts Chinese efficiency
03 August 2006 Eurofo International Group, a Chinese green energy company, has signed a...

Chinese hydro contracts for Alstom
03 August 2006 Two contracts worth around €50 million for equipment for two...

Siemens announces US service orders
03 August 2006 Siemens Power Generation has announced a series of service orders for...

July 2006

Top

The importance of technology in emissions reduction
31 July 2006

Deadlines will not assist the evolution of gas trading
31 July 2006

Can energy markets be secure?
31 July 2006

Low carbon strategy emerges from UK energy review
17 July 2006 As expected, the long-awaited UK Energy Policy Review, which outlines...

BP and Clipper forge wind alliance
17 July 2006 Clipper Windpower and BP Alternative Energy have entered into a...

EU backs away from Endesa takeover
17 July 2006 The European Court of First Instance has confirmed the decision of...

GE, NTC ship first China-assembled 9E
17 July 2006 The first GE Frame 9E gas turbine assembled in China under a...

Vestas to supply turbines in Spain
11 July 2006 The Vestas Group has received its first order for 20 V52-850 kW wind...

Ametek buys up Land Instruments
11 July 2006 US analytical instrumentation supply company Ametek has acquired...

Phase two ETS figures released
11 July 2006 The UK’s proposals for the National Allocation Plan (NAP) for carbon...

MHI to seek NRC design certification
11 July 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to submit an application to the...

Endesa signs powerline comms deal
11 July 2006 Spanish utility Endesa and Powerline Communications chip designer...

EU president calls for energy security from G8
11 July 2006 European Commission President Barroso has called on G8 leaders to agree...

Iberdrola buys wind players
11 July 2006 French wind development company Perfect Wind has been acquired by...

GE first for LMS100
11 July 2006 GE Energy’s first LMS100 simple-cycle gas turbine power plant has...

Chinese wind turbine plants launched
11 July 2006 Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Acciona has opened a new...

Brazilian hydro guarantees 30 years of supply
11 July 2006 Suez Energy International, through its affiliated company Tractebel...

Tidal stream tests on the Mersey
11 July 2006 The UK’s River Mersey is the site of an in-depth study on the potential...

Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm planned
11 July 2006 Belwind, part of the Econcern group, plans to build Belgium’s...

Alstom first quarter results
11 July 2006 Power engineering company Alstom has released its results for the...

Electrabel plans three German power plants
11 July 2006 SUEZ Group subsidiary Electrabel has announced plans to build three...

BP solar research alliance announced
11 July 2006 Oil major BP and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)...

Route map for marine power released
11 July 2006 The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) and npower, the UK's...

World's deepest offshore wind turbines set to go ahead
10 July 2006 Canadian oil major Talisman Energy has been granted regulatory approval...

Airtricity to buy 300 wind turbines
10 July 2006 Irish renewable energy company Airtricity has signed a $550 million deal...

UK energy stats revealed
10 July 2006 The UK’s Department of trade and Industry (DTI) has published its latest...

Mott MacDonald moves on Scottish hydro
07 July 2006 Mott MacDonald has been appointed by npower renewables to provide...

BHEL wins Tata power deal
07 July 2006 Bharat Heavy Electrical (BHEL) is to develop a 250 MW thermal power...

Kabul holds no fear for BHEL
07 July 2006 Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has won two contracts in...

Mitsui Babcock supercritical technology to US
07 July 2006 Mitsui Babcock has been awarded a contract for the steam generator...

Aker Kvaerner wins boiler contracts
07 July 2006 Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract for the supply of a...

Globeleq buys into Asia power
07 July 2006 Emerging markets power company Globeleq has completed the purchase of...

JFK calls for CHP O&M
07 July 2006 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking proposals...

Rolls CHP deal in Slovakia
07 July 2006 Rolls-Royce has signed a contract for two RB211-6761 Dry Low Emission...

GE lights up with enrichment technology
07 July 2006 Australian company Silex Systems has signed a commercialisation and...

Endesa contract to supply German auto major
07 July 2006 Spanish utility Endesa has signed an 18 month power supply contract with...

British Nuclear Group and Fluor win Russian contract
07 July 2006 British Nuclear Group’s specialist decommissioning business,...

June 2006

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UK regulators propose billions in transmission network investment
28 June 2006 Britain’s gas and electricity regulator Ofgem has published initial...

EC releases climate change figures
28 June 2006 Greenhouse gas emissions from the EU-15 member states rose by 0.3%...

IEA calls for technology to tackle climate change
28 June 2006 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented detailed research on...

NRC approves gas centrifuge enrichment facility
28 June 2006 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a licence to...

Wind study for Ontario
28 June 2006 GE Energy has signed a contract with the Canada’s Ontario Power Authority...

European parliament throws research cash at renewables
28 June 2006 The European Parliament has voted to dedicate two thirds of the...

Germany and Egypt agree climate deal
28 June 2006 Germany has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Egypt to...

SSE commissions co-firing upgrade and ash project
28 June 2006 Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has commissioned a £10 million...

Enel closes Russian deal
28 June 2006 Italian energy titan Enel has acquired a 49.5% stake in Russian...

TXU hopes to boost ERCOT renewables
28 June 2006 TXU Renew, a subsidiary of TXU Wholesale, is issuing a request for...

Norways NVE invites CCS tender
28 June 2006 The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has issued...

TXU signs $8.7 billion transmission service deal
28 June 2006 US transmission group TXU Electric Delivery, a subsidiary of TXU Corp,...

Novel hydro project for Cook Strait
28 June 2006 Proposals for an array of 1 MW floating sub sea turbines are being...

Alstom goes for ammonia based carbon capture deal
26 June 2006

NRG announces massive investment programme
25 June 2006 New Jersey-based NRG Energy has announced plans to develop some 10,500 MW...

Veto bill compromise opens path to Cape Wind project
23 June 2006 America’s first offshore wind generation project, the controversial Cape...

E.ON to cut carbon intensity
23 June 2006 E.ON UK, the British subsidiary of Germany’s E.ON has committed to reduce...

Boguchanskaya hydro giant to be built in Russia
23 June 2006 Russia’s Unified Energy System (UES) is to develop the 3000 MW...

Nanosolar to build 430 MW/yr solar factory
23 June 2006 California’s Nanosolar has announced plans to build a high volume thin...

Swedish Competition Authority probes power market
23 June 2006 Sweden’s Competition Authority has launched an investigation into...

Energy from waste plan for London
23 June 2006 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry has approved plans for a 72...

Uganda’s budget focus on power development
23 June 2006 A severe drought which hit Uganda’s economy over the last year has...

Hydro-Quebec sells Chile transmission assets
23 June 2006 Canada’s Hydro-Québec has reached an agreement to sell its 92% stake...

Sweden’s Oskarshamn 3 to hike capacity
23 June 2006 Despite a plan to phase out nuclear generation in Sweden its Oskarshamn...

EC to investigate GdF-Suez merger plans
23 June 2006 The European Commission has decided to open a detailed investigation into...

UK microgeneration Bill gains Royal assent
23 June 2006 The UK’s Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill, a private members...

Enel hikes Bulgarian stake
23 June 2006 Italy’s Enel has acquired the remaining 40% of Maritza East III Power...

Gas Natural to build Andalucia plant
23 June 2006 Spanish energy major Gas Natural has signed an agreement with the...

Gazprom to supply gas to Denmark and UK
23 June 2006 Russian gas major Gazprom has signed a deal to supply gas to Denmark’s...

Floating nuclear power station underway
19 June 2006 The world’s first floating nuclear combined heat and power station is set...

Norway’s renewables fund to boost wind, biomass and hydro
19 June 2006 Odd Roger Enoksen, Norway’s minister of petroleum and energy, has announced...

Ontario and Hydro Quebec announce energy plans
19 June 2006 Provincial energy minister Dwight Duncan has directed the Ontario...

Centrica plans new UK CCGT station
19 June 2006 UK gas giant Centrica has announced it is to develop the first major...

Solar giant heading for New Mexico
19 June 2006 A New Mexico land deal is set to bring about the world’s largest...

Areva shares ramp on steel move
19 June 2006 French nuclear technology company Areva has opened acquisition...

Met Office working with energy cos to assess climate impact
13 June 2006 The UK’s Met Office and an alliance of energy companies have announced a...

Construction begins on world’s largest PV plant
13 June 2006 The world’s largest photovoltaic power station is now under construction...

Toughen up ETS targets say UK business leaders
13 June 2006 A group of 14 major UK businesses have called for the government to...

Huge wind order for MHI
13 June 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to supply more than 400 of its 1 MW...

IEA warns of gas supply concerns for OECD generators
13 June 2006 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has launched a new report on the...

Alstom steam generator for oxyfuel trial
13 June 2006 Vattenfall is to use Alstom steam turbine technology at its...

Enel buys Brazilian hydro assets
13 June 2006 The Latin American arm of Italian power giant Enel has signed an agreement...

FGD for Greek utility
13 June 2006 Public Power Corp, the Greek electrical utility, is to fit wet flue...

CFB boilers for TXU plant
13 June 2006 Foster Wheeler is to design and supply two 315 MW circulating...

First turbine runner for Three Gorges
13 June 2006 Alstom has delivered the first 700 MW turbine runner for the Three...

Sardinia power link planned
09 June 2006 ABB is to develop an undersea HVDC power link between the Italian...

Wind boost for LA LA land
09 June 2006 The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is moving forward...

ETSO system adequacy report
09 June 2006 The European Transmission System Operators Association (ETSO) has...

Wind comes in under the radar
09 June 2006 The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) is testing two wind farm friendly...

Enel pushes Spanish renewables
09 June 2006 Italian energy giant Enel has launched a series of renewable...

Anglo American and Shell form clean coal alliance
09 June 2006 Shell Gas & Power International and Anglo American have forged of an...

Siemens acquires Advanced Burn Technologies
09 June 2006 Siemens has announced the acquisition of low NOx burner and...

Blast-furnace GTCC plant for Ukraine
09 June 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order through Sumitomo...

NDA supports deep disposal
09 June 2006 The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has released a statement...

London Array set back
09 June 2006 Plans for the world's largest off-shore wind farm, the 1,000 MW London...

Vestas goes down under
09 June 2006 Wind turbine manufacturers Vestas are to supply 53 V90 3 MW turbines for...

Duke digging in on coal
09 June 2006 US power player Duke Energy has announced plans to update its Cliffside...

AECL retubing deal for Korean reactor
09 June 2006 Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has been awarded a contract by...

Clean coal plants proposed for UK
07 June 2006 E.ON UK is considering developing a 450 MW integrated gasification...

Enron execs guilty as charged
07 June 2006 Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling have been found guilty of...

Energy continues to bite profits says CBI
07 June 2006 The UK’s Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has revealed a new...

New fast breeder reactor for Japan
07 June 2006 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MITI) has unveiled plans...

CCGT and wind to dominate UK energy growth
07 June 2006 UK transmission grid operator National Grid has released its latest...

MHI geothermal play
07 June 2006 A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)-led consortium has received a...

GE plant for Iberdrola
07 June 2006 GE Energy is to supply a 209FB combined-cycle gas turbine system to...

New reactor inspection centre
07 June 2006 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced plans to establish...

GE to develop uranium enrichment
07 June 2006 GE Energy's nuclear business has signed an agreement with Silex Systems,...

ABB power contract in Qatar
07 June 2006 General Electric has contracted ABB to supply electrical equipment for a...

Alsleben wind project begins operation
07 June 2006 Thirty-six GE 1.5 MW wind turbines have been commissioned at the...

May 2006

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Verdant current turbines plan for NY City
25 May 2006 American energy systems development company Verdant Power has...

Vattenfall announces major investment plans
25 May 2006 Swedish energy major Vattenfall has announced a major investment...

EU offers Iran nuclear technology
25 May 2006 The European Union is prepared to share advanced nuclear technologies...

EU wind growth
25 May 2006 Wind generating capacity has increased by more than 150% in the EU25...

Wave power prototype completes trials
25 May 2006 AIM-listed Renewable Energy Holdings (REH) has announced that its CETO...

UK unveils biomass plans
25 May 2006 The UK government has unveiled an action plan boost the development...

Enron case wraps up
25 May 2006 Defence lawyers representing senior executives of the infamous Enron...

EC moves switchgear cartel case on
25 May 2006 The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections against...

Commission raids EU gas companies
25 May 2006 Officials from the European Commission, accompanied by their...

Areva comments on UK Energy Review
25 May 2006 French technology and nuclear manufacturer Areva has published a response...

Vietnam continues mini-hydro development
25 May 2006 Song Lam Construction and Investment Co, a privately owned...

ABB to power North Sea rigs and TVA
25 May 2006 Oil major BP has placed an order with ABB, worth $50 million, to...

GE licences gasification technolgy
25 May 2006 Gasification technology developed by GE has been licensed for the...

Italian double for Alstom
25 May 2006 Alstom is to build two combined-cycle power plants using four GT26...

MHI to replace reactor vessel
25 May 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received orders from two US...

Texas flood for Bechtel
25 May 2006 US engineering group Bechtel is to design and build some 7,000 MW...

Korean wind set to blow
25 May 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to supply three 1 MW wind turbines...

Repowering German wind
25 May 2006 Siemens Power Generation is to supply a total of 17 wind turbines for...

BNG renews Japanese reprocessing contract
25 May 2006 British Nuclear Group’s specialist contracting business, Project...

Forsmark to upgrade HP turbines
25 May 2006 Siemens Power Generation is to replace the high pressure steam turbines...

EPR public enquiry to go ahead
24 May 2006

North Dakota in $100 million NSR settlement
24 May 2006

German MOX contract for BNG
24 May 2006

SSE buys into domestic wind and solar
24 May 2006

Siemens expands into gasification
22 May 2006

Supergrid for Europe's wind
22 May 2006

Falling foul of pollution law? Not in Europe!
22 May 2006

Carbon price plunge as figures are revealed
09 May 2006 Carbon prices reached record levels in recent weeks before plunging by...

Europe's largest onshore wind granted final approval
09 May 2006 The UK utility company ScottishPower has been granted final planning...

Gas-fuelled generation - without burning the gas
09 May 2006 Geo-energy company 2OC has announced a joint feasibility study with the...

20 MW wind turbine research project launched
09 May 2006 UpWind, the largest ever long-term wind energy research project to...

Corwm draft advocates long-term interim storage
09 May 2006 The UK’s Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (Corwm) has released...

Ocean generator raises cash
09 May 2006 AWS Ocean Energy, developer of the Archimedes Wave Swing (AWS) generator,...

Basslink begins operation
09 May 2006 The 600 MW HVDC transmission line between Tasmania and the...

MHI carbon capture technology
09 May 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has signed a licence agreement for...

Nuon targets solar breakthrough
09 May 2006 Dutch utility Nuon is to take over chemicals giant Akzo Nobel’s solar...

Siemens orders for Vietnam and Korea
09 May 2006 German engineering groyup Siemens is to supply the power island for a...

Power price rises inevitable for UK
09 May 2006 Rising wholesale gas prices in the supply constrained UK will...

US greenhouse gas emissions rise
09 May 2006 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its latest report...

UES releases 2005 results
09 May 2006 Russia’s energy behemoth UES has released its results for the 9 months to...

Engineering group slams UK energy research
09 May 2006 UK manufacturers lobby group the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF)...

Belgian steam generator contract for MHI
09 May 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to replace two steam generators for...

Renewables boosted by novel transmission scheme
09 May 2006 UK energy regulator Ofgem has given the go-ahead for a novel...

Alstom to upgrade Nordic hydro plants
09 May 2006 Utilities in Sweden and Norway have placed three orders with Alstom...

UK interim report boosts wind's grid performance
09 May 2006 The UK’s Department of Trade and Industry has published its interim...

Norway's Renewable Energy boosted with listing
09 May 2006 Norwegian solar company Renewable Energy Corp has announced plans to offer...

MAN Turbo expands steam turbine base
09 May 2006 Germany’s MAN Turbo has taken over the steam turbine activities...

Nuon launches offshore project
09 May 2006 The first of 36 foundation piles for the Egmond aan Zee van offshore...

Renewable alliance releases energy manifesto
09 May 2006 Thirty-five renewable or sustainable energy organisations have issued a...

Siemens and Andritz deal for VA Tech
09 May 2006 Siemens Austria and Andritz have signed the contract for the purchase of...

Renewable energy gas platform starts production
09 May 2006 Oil majors Shell and ExxonMobil have begun gas production from a...

International Power buys Texas plant
09 May 2006 International Power subsidiary, American National Power, has reached...

Wrtsil to deliver power plant to PG&E
09 May 2006 Finland’s Wärtsilä Corp is to deliver a 163 MW gas-fired power plant...

FGD for Fiddlers Ferry
09 May 2006 The coal-fired Fiddler's Ferry power station in Warrington, UK, is to...

TXU boosts wind capacity
09 May 2006 A TXU subsidiary has concluded a 15-year power purchase contract...

Concrete composition delays Finnish Olkiluoto 3
04 May 2006

Cape Wind project facing Alaskan threat
04 May 2006

Biomass co-firing move from Nuon
04 May 2006

Largest hydropower project granted carbon credits
04 May 2006

Hydrates explored for carbon capture
04 May 2006

20 MW wind turbine research project launched
04 May 2006

North Dakota in $100 million NSR settlement
04 May 2006

April 2006

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Utilities 'facing their biggest challenge'
27 April 2006 The utilities industry is facing its biggest challenge in modern...

Ukraine mourns as Chernobyl's anniversary is marked
26 April 2006

A 225 KV TRANSMISSION LINE BETWEEN BEKOKO AND NKONGSAMBA
21 April 2006 Owner and developer: AES SONEL, Cameroon - Closing date for submissions...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDIES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 225 KV TRANSMISSION LINE BETWEEN BEKOKO AND NKONGSAMBA
21 April 2006 Owner and developer: AES SONEL, Cameroon - Closing date for submissions...

Iran announces nuclear enrichment advance
19 April 2006 Hardline Islamic republic Iran has declared a major advance in its...

RWE plans carbon-free coal-fired plants
19 April 2006 German energy giant RWE has announced plans to build the world’s...

DOE sends proposed Yucca Mountain legislation to Congress
19 April 2006 US energy secretary Samuel Bodman has sent a legislative proposal to...

Skilling denies cover-up at Enron
19 April 2006 Disgraced former chief executive at Enron, Jeff Skilling, has been...

India sourcing uranium
19 April 2006 Anil Kakodkar, chairman of India’s Atomic Energy Commission, has launched...

UK players call for generation diversity
19 April 2006 Major UK energy player E.On has called for energy diversity, including...

Duke Power selects Cherokee site for COL
19 April 2006 Duke Power and Southern Co have selected a jointly owned site in...

UK reveals offshore connection rules
19 April 2006 Energy minister Malcolm Wicks has revealed the UK’s connection regime...

DOE moves Advanced Energy Initiative forward with hydrogen deal
19 April 2006 US secretary of energy Samuel Bodman has announced a three-year,...

RWE moves on Dutch co-fired plant
19 April 2006 A combined hard-coal/biomass-fired power plant in the Netherlands has...

GE plans offshore wind development
19 April 2006 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $27 million contract...

Commission takes action on energy competition and renewables
11 April 2006 The European Commission has sent 28 letters of formal notice to 17...

Endesa pays €1 billion bond to block takeovers
11 April 2006 Spanish Endesa has paid a €1 billion bond in order to endorse a ruling by...

Vestas books booming as orders blow in
11 April 2006 Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Group has announced a series of...

Commission refers Spain to the courts
11 April 2006 Spain is being referred to the European Court of Justice by the...

Intermittency report dispels renewables myths
11 April 2006 The UK’s Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has released a report that...

German generators launch transparency initiative
11 April 2006 German generation players have begun to publish production data on the...

EU approves BNFL asset transfer
11 April 2006 The European Commission has formally authorised the transfer of...

German renewables players call for priority
11 April 2006 Plans to invest billions of Euro in renewable energy projects in Germany...

German industry demands nuke life extension
11 April 2006 Jürgen Thumann, president of the Federal Association of German Industry...

MicroCHP could hit half of UK
11 April 2006 The Society of British Gas Industries has published an update on...

Endesa to develop wind assets
11 April 2006 Spanish Endesa has announced plans to invest more than €87 million...

Plans for Severn Barrage resurface
11 April 2006 A number of proposals have been put forward that may lead to the...

Foster Wheeler wins Spanish retrofit deal
11 April 2006 Foster Wheeler has won a contract by Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico (HC)...

MOX plan approved in Japan
11 April 2006 Kyushu Electric Power Co (Kepco) has received local approval for its plan...

Calpine to sell Mexican stake
11 April 2006 Calpine Corp is to sell its 45% stake in the Valladolid III power plant...

Hong Kong’s wind plans unveiled
11 April 2006 UK renewables development firm Wind Prospect and Hong Kong utility...

Duke and Cinergy complete merger
11 April 2006 Duke Energy and Cinergy have completed their planned merger, creating one...

UK onshore wind set to hit 6 GW
04 April 2006 By 2010, the onshore wind industry will generate 50% more than...

Power from the people as microgeneration strategy is unveiled
04 April 2006 The UK government has launched a national microgeneration strategy which...

EU steps into Endesa debacle
04 April 2006 A Madrid court has halted the hostile cash and stock bid of about €22...

Indian power needs billions in investment
04 April 2006 India is searching for investors to help it to develop some 62 GW of...

UK to miss emissions target
04 April 2006 The UK has acknowledged that it will not meet its aspirational target...

GE giant heads for Spain
04 April 2006 The largest gas turbine ever manufactured by GE Energy at its Belfort...

Hydro Power Station, Papua New Guinea
04 April 2006 Closing Date for submissions is 18 April 2006

Power Industry Projects
03 April 2006 Notices posted up to 30.3.06

March 2006

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Coal gasification deal in China
30 March 2006 Oil-major Shell and China’s Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Corp have...

Wave Dragon wins Welsh funding
30 March 2006 KP Renewables, the AIM-quoted renewable energy project developer, has...

Vietnam to build Laos hydro plant
30 March 2006 The Vietnam-Laos Electricity Development and Investment Joint-stock...

Suzlon bags Belgium's EVE
30 March 2006 Indian wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy has acquired Belgium's...

Centrica’s fuel cell plan for UK consumers
30 March 2006 Fuel cell development company Ceres Power has announced a £2.7million...

Ocean power test site launched off Ireland
30 March 2006 Ireland’s Marine Institute and Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) have opened...

New China-Vietnam transmission plans
30 March 2006 China’s Southern Power Grid Co plans to construct a second 220kV...

Texas snaps up 70 Siemens wind turbines
30 March 2006 Cielo Wind Power, of Austin, Texas in conjunction with Edison Mission...

Cinergy's IGCC project moves forward
30 March 2006 GE Energy and Bechtel Corp have signed an agreement with Cinergy/PSI to...

Powerfuel partnership plays for IGCC
30 March 2006 UK coal venture, Powerfuel, and one of Russia’s largest coal...

French and Italian titans clash head on
27 March 2006

Shell and Statoil in CO2 joint venture
27 March 2006 Norwegian major Statoil and oil giant Shell have signed an agreement...

Europe maps out power market future
13 March 2006

Oz opposition pledges itself to Kyoto
13 March 2006

E.On in Canadian CO2 venture
13 March 2006

Renewables markets 'set to quadruple'
13 March 2006

US DoE looks to boost oil with gas
13 March 2006

Chinese plans for IGCC
13 March 2006

Drax results get boost from rising gas prices
13 March 2006

Carbon capture venture for oil majors
13 March 2006

Chinese investment gap revealed
13 March 2006

M & A deals set to accelerate in 2006
13 March 2006

GdF and Suez moot merger
03 March 2006 French multi-utility Suez and national gas giant Gaz de France have...

Eon makes rival offer for Endesa
03 March 2006 German energy giant Eon has announced an offer for Endesa, Spain's...

EU energy market preliminary report finds "serious malfunctions"
03 March 2006 An EU investigation into the energy sector inquiry has confirmed that...

Steam and gas turbines to galvanise markets in Mideast and Africa
03 March 2006 Strong economic growth, youthful demographics and diversification away...

NRC licence for Private Fuel Storage
03 March 2006 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a licence to Private...

NatGrid buys out Keyspan
03 March 2006 The UK’s National Grid has reached a sales agreement with US gas...

Iran resumes enrichment as IAEA prepares for meeting
03 March 2006 Nuclear enrichment is believed to have recommenced at the Natanz facility...

Baltic states agree on nuclear
03 March 2006 The prime ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have agreed on...

ABB posts $735 million net profit
03 March 2006 Switzerland based engineering giant ABB has posted full year results for...

UK energy stats released
03 March 2006 The UK dash for gas is looking increasingly like a race that’s run...

US and India seal nuclear accord
03 March 2006 The US and India have finalised a cooperation agreement that includes...

Swedens largest offshore wind farm deal
03 March 2006 Vattenfall has signed a contract with Siemens for the construction...

Areva and Siemens to supply steam turbine for Three Mile Island
03 March 2006 Framatome ANP, a joint venture of Areva 'and Siemens, has been awarded...

Construction begins at Glendoe
03 March 2006 Construction work at Scottish and Southern Energy’s (SSE) £140 million...

New power plant for UAE
03 March 2006 Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority (SEWA) has ordered four Frame 9E...

Foster Wheelers CFB boilers to Sinopec
03 March 2006 Two 120 MW circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) steam generators from...

Turbine for SA plant
03 March 2006 GE Energy has won a $9.2 million contract by Mondi Business Paper...

MHI turnkey order from EVN
03 March 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has won a turnkey order from Electricity...

GE service agreement For Ratchaburi
03 March 2006 GE Energy has signed a 22-year, contractual service agreement with...

ABB to engineer Guri upgrade
03 March 2006 Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB is installing protection and...

Third RO report released
03 March 2006 UK regulators Ofgem have published the third annual report on the...

February 2006

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Giants clash as E.On bids for Endesa
23 February 2006

BP launches hydrogen-fired station
14 February 2006 UK oil major BP and US utility Edison Mission Group (EMG), a subsidiary...

AP1000 chosen for new COL
14 February 2006 South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA...

Solar thermal plant launched
14 February 2006 Construction has begun on a 64 MW solar thermal generation station in...

Wärtsilä's Belgian biomass boost
14 February 2006 The Belgian company Renogen has ordered a biomass-fuelled combined heat...

Wärtsilä's Belgian biomass boost
14 February 2006 The Belgian company Renogen has ordered a biomass-fuelled combined heat...

JBIC in Egyptian solar thermal plant loan
14 February 2006 The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a $90...

Endesa wins French supply contract
14 February 2006 Snet, the French subsidiary of Spanish power giant Endesa, has won a...

Endesa wins French supply contract
14 February 2006 Snet, the French subsidiary of Spanish power giant Endesa, has won a...

Combustion Engineering reorganisation
14 February 2006 A US District Court judge has set the hearing of the revised Plan...

World's biggest lignite power plant underway in Germany
10 February 2006 RWE Power is to develop the world’s largest lignite-fired power station...

Mexico's first supercritical power plant
10 February 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to develop a...

Mexico's first supercritical power plant
10 February 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to develop a...

US launches Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
10 February 2006 A $250 million programme, the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)...

Siemens boosts Russian role and wind capacity
10 February 2006 German engineering major Siemens has increased its stake in the...

UKs Longannet opts into LCPD
10 February 2006 ScottishPower is to opt its 2,304MW Longannet power station into the EU...

UKs Longannet opts into LCPD
10 February 2006 ScottishPower is to opt its 2,304MW Longannet power station into the EU...

GE 9E for Tunisian plant
10 February 2006 GE Energy is to supply a Frame 9E gas turbine and maintenance services...

Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy
10 February 2006 The Swedish government has announced plans to become all but oil free...

Westinghouse sold to Toshiba
07 February 2006 Japan’s Toshiba Corp has announced that it has entered into a...

Endesa to appeal Gas Natural bid
07 February 2006 Following approval for the Gas Natural hostile takeover of Spanish...

IAEA passes Iranian resolution
07 February 2006 UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has...

West Virginia-NJ transmission
07 February 2006 American Electric Power (AEP) has filed an application with the...

Wave farm breakthrough
07 February 2006 The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has named...

Three Gorges to be completed ahead of schedule
07 February 2006 Work on the walls of China's Three Gorges Dam, the world’s...

Germany stalls on renewables
07 February 2006 Renewable energy generation in Germany has all but stalled over the last...

EU Commission to rule on UK emissions allocation
07 February 2006 A decision on the UK’s revised national allocation plan (NAP) under...

Mitsubishi moves
07 February 2006 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi Corp, and Duro Felguera,...

Australian federal government
07 February 2006 Following the Deecmber move by the New South Wales state government to...

Macedonian districo lines up foreign bidders
07 February 2006 Four foreign majors have been invited to submit final bids in the tender...

Uganda's Bujagali construction due this year
07 February 2006 Construction operations on the 250 MW Bujagali hydroelectric station are...

Bush backs nuclear and clean coal in State of the Union address
03 February 2006 US president George W Bush delivered his state of the Union address on...

Endesa to fall to Gas Natural
03 February 2006 Spain's Madrid government is believed to have granted approval for...

Iran to be referred to Security Council
03 February 2006 The foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN...

Enron trial begins
03 February 2006 The trial of the key defendants in one of the world’s most infamous...

Record results for European wind
03 February 2006 Figures released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) record...

Clean coal call from Mitsui Babcock
03 February 2006 Boiler technology firm Mitsui Babcock has outlined an agenda for...

Shell renewables update
03 February 2006 Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has provided an update of its activities...

UK warns of dangerous climate change
03 February 2006 Scientific findings presented at the International Symposium on...

Airtricity in Mitsubishi deal
03 February 2006 Irish wind developers Airtricity has signed a deal worth more than...

Vestas wins order for 44 MW in Germany
03 February 2006 Plambeck Neue Energien AG (PNE) is to buy 23 wind turbines from Vetsas with...

UKs biomass giant
03 February 2006 Siemens Power Generation Group in consortium with Kvaerner Power has...

Nordex deals in Europe
03 February 2006 Wind turbine manufacturers Nordex have installed Germany’s first...

RWE auctions virtual power plant
03 February 2006 RWE has become the first German energy producer to auction a...

BNFL sells BNG America
03 February 2006 In the midst of its sale of the Westinghouse US reactor manufacturing...

Scottish energy shift
03 February 2006 The first two volumes of a detailed study on energy use in Scotland...

January 2006

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Growth in European gas demand set to slow
27 January 2006 A report published by the natural gas programme of the Oxford Institute...

Siemens and Doosan to build Saudi power-desal plant
27 January 2006 An international Siemens-led consortium has won a €1.8 billion contract for...

Energy innovation index launched
27 January 2006 A new global stock market index for the clean energy industry has...

Wave and tidal power could supply up to a fifth of UK energy demand
27 January 2006 Marine energy could provide up to 20% of the UK’s current electricity...

Endesa posts record results
27 January 2006 Spanish Endesa has released in 2005 results showing a more than...

Endesa launches Chinese carbon programme
27 January 2006 Spanish power giant Endesa has unveiled a carbon credit purchasing...

International Power consortium to buy Al Hidd project
27 January 2006 International Power, together with Suez and Sumitomo Corp has announced...

Spanish wind consolidation continues as Acciona buys Cesa
27 January 2006 Spanish construction and energy group Acciona has announced the purchase...

AP 1000 Progress
27 January 2006 US utility company Progress Energy has announced that the Harris...

Swedish nuclear plant upgrade
27 January 2006

Heimifeng pumped storage plant moves ahead
27 January 2006 Alstom has received an order from China’s Dongfang Electrical Machinery...

EBRD buys stakes in Bulgarian
27 January 2006 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has acquired...

Ceres wins fuel cell role
27 January 2006 Ceres Power has become the only fuel cell company in the UK...

AES plans Panamanian hydro plant
27 January 2006 AES Corp has announced plans to construct a 150 MW hydroelectric plant...

China to build Tokamak fusion device
27 January 2006 A Tokamak fusion device is to be developed in Hefei, capital city of...

GE service agreement for China
27 January 2006 Shanghai Tonghua Gas Turbine Services Co has signed a contractual...

British Energy enters FTSE 100
27 January 2006 Nuclear generator British Energy is to join the Financial Times...

UK energy review paves way for new nuclear build
27 January 2006 The UK government has instructed its Health and Safety Executive to carry...

Toshiba wins Westinghouse with a $5 billion bid
27 January 2006 Major engineering conglomerate Toshiba has been selected as the...

California solar initiative launched
20 January 2006 The California Solar Initiative, a 10-year, $2.9 billion programme...

Foster Wheeler to develop world's largest CFB boiler island
20 January 2006 The Finnish and Polish subsidiaries of engineering group Foster Wheeler...

EU-3 to call for February meeting over Iran
20 January 2006 Britain, France and Germany, the so-called EU-3, are to call an...

Global T&D market worth $79 billion
20 January 2006 The total value of the global transmission and distribution market in 2005...

ABB to link US and Mexican power grids
20 January 2006 An HVDC system is to link the grids of the US and Mexico to boost...

Italy facing gas crunch
20 January 2006 Utilities are expected to be allowed to burn more fuel oil for...

E.ON acquires MOL gas storage
20 January 2006 German power giant E.ON is to buy the gas trading and storage business of...

Alstom issues nine-month results
20 January 2006 Engineering conglomerate Alstom has issued results for the first nine...

RWE npower completes wind farm transfer
20 January 2006 The UK unit of RWE, npower, has transferred four wind energy projects...

GE CHP plants in Torino
20 January 2006 Five cogeneration units for three new power plants supplying the city...

El Paso Corp to sell Central American generation
20 January 2006 El Paso Corporation has reached an agreement to sell the majority of...

Brazil to invest in wind
20 January 2006 The southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil is to develop a 150 MW...

Greece hopes to develop renewables
20 January 2006 A draft bill is being debated in Greece which is designed to...

Sempra settles over California
13 January 2006 San Diego-based Sempra Energy and its two California utilities,...

Duke sells bulk of US generation
13 January 2006 Duke Energy has announced the sale of Duke Energy North America...

UK's biggest windfarm begins ops
13 January 2006 The 97 MW Black Law wind farm near Forth in South Lanarkshire, Scotland,...

DONG sees listing in 2007 as EU approves part of merger deal
13 January 2006 The European Commission has approved part of a merger deal between...

China plans RPS
13 January 2006 Generators with more than 5 GW of capacity will be required to source some...

Airtricity to recommence Irish build programme
13 January 2006 Irish wind farm developers Airtricity have announced plans to develop...

UK gas-fired capacity set for boost
13 January 2006 EDF Energy has submitted an application to develop two new gas-fired...

Pemex plans cogeneration plant
13 January 2006 Mexican oil major Pemex is set to develop a cogeneration plant at...

GW Energi buys German wind
13 January 2006 Danish wind farm operator GW Energi is to buy the Cottbus Nord wind farm...

Kyoto alternative kicks off in Australia
11 January 2006 The six nation Asia-Pacific Clean Development and Climate Partnership...

German energy summit planned
11 January 2006 Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed that energy supply in Germany will...

Credit risk still high for nuclear plants: S&P report
11 January 2006 Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has released a new research...

East Africa facing power shortages as water levels fall
11 January 2006 Delayed rains have resulted in power shortages across east Africa as...

Endesa - Gas Natural plan faces regulatory hurdle
06 January 2006 Antitrust authorities in Spain have struck a blow to Gas Natural’s...

NTPC to boost capacity
06 January 2006 India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has announced plans...

Vietnam plans Laos hydro development
06 January 2006 A consortium of Vietnamese companies has been granted permission to...

Iberdrola wins French generation licence
06 January 2006 Spanish generation major Iberdrola has won a tender from Electricité...

Bujagali project set to resume
06 January 2006 The stalled 250 MW Bujagali power project in Uganda has been...

Nigerian power plans
06 January 2006 The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and its joint...

France to develop next generation nuclear reactor
06 January 2006 French President Jacques Chirac has announced plans to build a...

EDP chief walks out slamming Iberdrola influence
06 January 2006 Joao Talone , the chief executive of Energias de Portugal (EdP),...

Gazprom boosts gas supplies as Ukraine clash rumbles on
03 January 2006 A dispute over gas prices between the Ukraine and Russia’s Gazprom has...

NRC approves Design Certification for AP 1000 reactor
03 January 2006 The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved...

Pakistan plans to buy Chinese reactor
03 January 2006 Pakistan is in talks to buy between six and eight nuclear reactors from...

Marine Current Turbines pilot gets go ahead
03 January 2006 A 1 MW sub-surface sea current turbine is to be installed in...

E.On announces investment plans
03 January 2006 Germany’s E.On has announced its planned investment programme for the...

First from frame 6C at Kemalpasa in Turkey
03 January 2006 The world's first combined-cycle power plant based on GE Energy's Frame...

UK signs low-carbon deal with China
03 January 2006 A landmark agreement on the development of clean coal technology with...

Siemens and Doosan to build Saudi power-desal plant
03 January 2006 A Siemens-led consortium including Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction...

Reorganisation for Combustion Engineering
03 January 2006 The US Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has issued an...

International Power opts coal-fired plant into combustion directive
03 January 2006 The UK’s International Power has announced plans to install Flue...

Gas-fired project in Nigeria
03 January 2006 Alstom has won contracts worth over €200 million for the supply of...

GE wins capacity boost contract at Mexican nuclear plant
03 January 2006 GE Energy’s nuclear business has been awarded a contract at the Laguna...

Nordex wins 30 MW order
03 January 2006 German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has won a contract to develop...

December 2005

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VA Tech hydro sale by Siemens moves forward
20 December 2005 Siemens is set to sell the hydro operation of VA tech to Allianz AG's...

Edf to replace coolant pump bearings
20 December 2005 Up to 30 reactors in France are to have bearings replaced in...

Endesa announces R&D programme
20 December 2005 Spanish utility Edesa has announced two research and development...

Grid stability from wind
20 December 2005 A new report published by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)...

Wave power for Wales
20 December 2005 Plans have been unveiled for the deployment of a 7 MW wave power device...

Bahrain water and power project sale
20 December 2005 International Power – in consortium with Suez Energy International...

IEA highlights good energy policy practice
20 December 2005 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a review of...

AEP completes purchase of Ceredo station
20 December 2005 American Electric Power (AEP) has completed its purchase of the 505 MW...

VA Tech Hydro to develop Indian project
20 December 2005 VA Tech Hydro is to develop an 84 MW hydro project in India after winning...

Some Kyoto progress, but US stays put
15 December 2005 After a couple of weeks during which no visible progress was made on...

Mitsubishi Heavy and Shell allied on Carbon
15 December 2005 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Shell EP International have signed...

GE Energy to send 2 GW of gas turbines to Nigeria
15 December 2005 Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Power and Steel has ordered 18 gas...

E.On plans to build new Isle of Grain plant
15 December 2005 The UK’s Powergen, owned by E.On UK, has revised plans to convert...

Xcel investment blow to Skull Valley nuclear storage site
15 December 2005 Midwestern utility group Xcel Energy has reportedly announced that it is...

Franco-Belgian transmission line opens
15 December 2005 A new cross-border transmission link between Belgium and France has...

Alstom CCGT plant in Oman
15 December 2005 A €425 million contract from Sohar Aluminium Company has been won by...

Delay in Belene bids
15 December 2005 Bulgaria’s National Electricity Company (NEK) has announced a 45 day delay...

Russian reforms move on
13 December 2005 The Russian Cabinet of Ministers is understood to have accepted...

EC sets out support for biomass
13 December 2005 The European Commission has adopted an action plan designed to promote...

Ontario energy report calls for generation mix, but no to coal
13 December 2005 The keenly anticipated supply mix advice and recommendations report...

Massive contribution possible from microgeneration
13 December 2005 Domestic microgeneration could provide 30-40% of the UK's total...

Indian grid split may be dropped
13 December 2005 India’s Power Ministry is expected to abandon plans to divide the Power...

EDP acquiring Spanish wind
13 December 2005 Portuguese power major EdP is expected to buy renewable energy...

US signs on for FutureGen project
09 December 2005 The US Department of Energy has signed an agreement with the...

9FB ready for Spain
09 December 2005 The world's first installation of GE Energy's 9FB technology, has...

Work starts on Russia-UK gas pipeline
09 December 2005 An alliance of E.ON, Gazprom and BASF has begun development of the...

H system under construction
09 December 2005 Construction has begun on a 775 MW power plant in western Riverside...

EC supports CO2-free energy
09 December 2005 The Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants has...

ABB submarine cable for Burbo
09 December 2005 A £6 million ($10.3 million) contract for the submarine cables for the 90...

EdF announces worker cuts post flotation
09 December 2005 Electricitè de France (EdF) has announced plans to cut about 6,000 jobs...

Russian reforms due for completion in 2008
09 December 2005 Senior figures in the Russian government have insisted that the...

EVN plans massive investment in power system
09 December 2005 Vietnamese state-owned power player Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) plans...

Alstom signs mercury deal
09 December 2005 Vosteen Consulting of Germany has signed a deal with Alstom to market...

CCGT plans for Spain
09 December 2005 Alstom is to develop two 400 MW gas-fired turbines in Spain along...

NI ROCs sale
09 December 2005 Northern Ireland Electricity plc have appointed NFPAS Ltd to auction...

FGD for Texas power plant
09 December 2005 The J.K. Spruce 2 power plant to be located in San Antonio, Texas, is to...

Chinese service agreement for Alstom
09 December 2005 Alstom has signed a 14-year long-term service agreement worth...

Capacity crunch could stunt EU wind growth
06 December 2005 Booming US demand for wind turbines is leaving supply companies struggling...

Giant solar tower engineering set for change
06 December 2005 EnviroMission Australia is reportedly in negotiations with construction...

Colombian hydro project to commence
06 December 2005 Brazilian construction company Construcoes e Comercio Camargo Correa has...

Plans to privatise districos by Vietnam
06 December 2005 Vietnam is planning to privatise all the nation’s electricity...

Two combined-cycle plants in Spain
06 December 2005 Alstom has won a deal for the turnkey construction of two 400 MW...

ABB wins United Arab Emirates order
06 December 2005 Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA) has ordered the...

Power Industry Projects
05 December 2005 Notices posted up to end-November 2005

New nuclear mooted in UK energy review
02 December 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced a review of the UK's...

Electrabel plans Dutch capacity boost
02 December 2005 Belgian power firm Electrabel is planning to build three power stations...

Basslink operations set to go ahead
02 December 2005 Testing has begun on the Basslink transmission project that will...

Unified energy policy needed on EU climate change
02 December 2005 The executive director of the European Environment Agency (EEA)...

Fortum taking control of Russian utility
02 December 2005 Finnish utility Fortum is reportedly close to securing control of one of...

Teesside CHP plant starts commercial operation
02 December 2005 RWE npower has completed the conversion of its 58 MW CCGT power plant at...

Spanish consider changing wind tariffs
02 December 2005 The Spanish government is understood to be considering amendments to...

Offshore wind plans filed for Welsh project
02 December 2005 The UK’s npower renewables has submitted its consent applications to...

EU supports India's fusion plans
02 December 2005 The European Union is supporting India's bid to join the €10...

Germany facing extended power cuts
02 December 2005 Almost a week of power cuts have struck parts of Germany after heavy...

EnBW chief calls for consensus on nuclear
02 December 2005 Utz Claassen, chief executive of Germany's Energie Baden-Wurttemberg...

EdF selling Egyptian thermal plants
02 December 2005 Electricité de France has signed an agreement with Malaysia’s Tanjong...

Nordex establishing joint venture in China
02 December 2005 Wind turbine manufacturers Nordex have signed a joint venture contract...

Work starts on Vietnam hydro plant
02 December 2005 Vietnam has begun construction work on its largest hydro-electric power...

Endesa buys up Italy-France interconnector capacity
02 December 2005 Spanish power giant Endesa has acquired 46% of the total...

November 2005

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CO2 'highest for 650,000 years'
29 November 2005 Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are currently rising faster than at...

BP pushes into low-carbon arena
29 November 2005 Oil major BP has announced plans to double investment in renewable...

Breaking mirrors set to hit California
29 November 2005 Two large mirror array solar generation stations are under development...

Delays expected to UES restructuring
29 November 2005 Reform of state-owned Russian utility Unified Energy Systems (UES),...

Scottish Power E.ON takeover bid flounders
29 November 2005 E.ON has dropped its all cash bid for UK generator Scottish Power...

UK call for EC gas probe
29 November 2005 UK energy regulators Ofgem have written to the European Commission...

Canada moves into wind
29 November 2005 The provincial government of Ontario has unveiled plans for a series...

Revised Italian allocation plan for EUETS
29 November 2005 Italy has published a revised National Allocation Plan (NAP) limiting...

Court rules in favour of UK over EUETS allocation
29 November 2005 The UK government has won a legal challenge in the Court of First Instance...

EdF shares fail to shine
29 November 2005 The initial public offering of a 15% stake in French power...

Dominion Resources invests in emissions reduction
29 November 2005 Dominion has announced plans to invest some $500 million installing...

Coal-fired capacity opted into UK combustion plant directive
29 November 2005 Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has announced plans to opt...

Siemens in SOFC deal with Gas Turbine Technologies
29 November 2005 Gas Turbine Technologies (GTT) has signed a deal with Siemens which will...

Private hydropower project in Pakistan
29 November 2005 A $37.3 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to be used...

New turbines for UKs Aberthaw
29 November 2005 RWE npower has announced plans to invest £45 million ($77.4...

Turkey to transfer hydro to priv sector
29 November 2005 The Turkish government is expected to transfer all of the...

E.ON plans Highlands wind farm
29 November 2005 A planning application for a 19 turbine wind farm at Rosehall, near Lairg...

Meridian plans New Zealand giant
29 November 2005 New Zealand’s Meridian Energy is investigating plans to develop a wind...

Hungarian peaking plant planned
29 November 2005 German power giant RWE is planning to install two gas turbines at the 836...

Scottish and Southern drop wind plans
29 November 2005 Plans to develop a wind farm at Broubster in Caithness, Scotland, have...

China to develop Ghanaian hydro
29 November 2005 Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China’s Sino-Hydro...

Suez-Tractebel sells Peruvian stake
29 November 2005 Belgian energy group Suez-Tractebel has sold a 17.22% stake in...

Appropriations committee boosts reactor research but cuts Yucca funding
22 November 2005 The senate and house appropriations conference bill for 2006 has been...

German nuclear phaseout to continue
22 November 2005 The grand coalition government in Germany has failed to reach a...

Drax sale stalls as offer falls short
22 November 2005 The UK’s largest power station, the 4 GW coal-fired Drax in Selby,...

EU backs away from Endesa-Gas Natural fracas
22 November 2005 In a blow to the board of Spanish power giant Endesa, Gas Natural's...

Barsebäck closure compensation agreed
22 November 2005 Government, Vattenfall and E.ON negotiators have agreed compensation of...

Cash from carbon ETS
22 November 2005 Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has issued a new report,...

Gulf states grid moves forward
22 November 2005 A major interconnection project linking six Gulf states has got underway...

EU renewables set for boom
22 November 2005 European markets for renewable energy are gathering momentum as...

Vattenfall publishes electricity sector report
22 November 2005 Swedish power company Vattenfall has published a report on the...

Water and power deal for Saudi Arabia
22 November 2005 A consortium of Malaysian and Saudi Arabian companies has signed a...

Hai Phong loan agreed with Vietnam
22 November 2005 Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has signed a credit contract worth ¥7.74...

EGAT in talks with Myanmar on hydro
22 November 2005 Thailand’s state-owned power giant EGAT is reportedly in talks...

EU expected to avoid intervening in Gas Natural-Endesa play
15 November 2005 The European Commission is unlikely to intervene in the Gas Natural bid...

UK has the best wind resource in Europe
15 November 2005 The most extensive study yet of the UK's wind resource, conducted by...

EU calls for more energy market competition
15 November 2005 Preliminary findings of an ongoing year-long probe into Europe's...

Drax in talks over boosted Constellation bid
15 November 2005 The UK’s largest power station, the 4 GW Drax, is in negotiations with a...

EGAT share sale suspended by courts
15 November 2005 Thailand has suspended the partial privatisation of state-owned power...

Lithuania's Elektrine plant upgrade
15 November 2005 Lithuania is to receive €249 million in grants and loans for the upgrade...

Gazprom gets green light for power play
15 November 2005 Regulators have approved plans by Russia's Gazprom to buy up to 49% in...

Enel plans new power stations
15 November 2005 Italian electricity giant Enel is planning to build three power plants...

Kiriyenko takes over Russian nuclear agency
15 November 2005 Former Russian prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko has been appointed to head...

Greece debates competitive electricity market
15 November 2005 A bill brought before the Greek parliament aims to deregulate the...

World Bank unit sponsors Chile hydro project
15 November 2005 International Finance Corp, the World Bank's private sector arm, is set...

Portuguese wave energy potential
15 November 2005 Some 5 GW of wave generation could be installed in Portugal according to...

Four players vie for Westinghouse as Koreans step up to bid
11 November 2005 There are now four contenders on the short-list to buy nuclear...

Spanish regulators approve Gas Natural bid for Endesa
11 November 2005 The proposed takeover by Spanish gas distributor Gas Natural of...

UK's offshore wind set for growth
11 November 2005 Thanet Offshore Wind has submitted formal consent for its planned...

Drax sale stall fears as International Power withdraws
11 November 2005 The sale of the UK’s largest power plant, the 4 GW coal-fired Drax is...

IEA world energy outlook 2005
11 November 2005 The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented findings...

China has potential to be world's biggest wind energy market by 2020
11 November 2005 A new report released by the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries...

Power network upgrades from ABB
11 November 2005 ABB has won a series of recent contracts for the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Siemens acquires AN Windenergie
11 November 2005 Siemens Power Generation is to expand its presence in the wind sector...

RWE npower buys Great Yarmouth Power
11 November 2005 BP has sold its Great Yarmouth Power, owners of the 420 MW CCGT at...

Electrabel acquires 80 MW wind farm in Portugal
11 November 2005 Belgian utility Electrabel has taken control of an 80 MW wind farm...

Italian combined cycle power plant from Siemens
11 November 2005 Siemens Power Generation is to build a gas-fired turnkey combined cycle...

PPM announces construction on 200 MW Big Horn
11 November 2005 Scottish Power’s PPM Energy has begun construction of the 200 MW Big...

Rolls-Royce expands in Asian oil & gas markets
11 November 2005 Contracts valued at over $50 million have been won by Rolls-Royce which...

Endesa brings Aitona mini-hydro plant on-line
11 November 2005 Spanish power giant Endesa has brought the new Aitona mini hydro...

GE to supply control unit parts to Exelon’s BWR Fleet
11 November 2005 Exelon Corp, the largest nuclear generation company in the US, has signed...

Siemens wins blast furnace order from India’s Jindal South West Steel
11 November 2005 Indian steel producer Jindal South West Steel has signed a contract...

E.On starts up UK's first CO2 capture rig
08 November 2005 E.On UK, the company that runs Powergen, is currently in the process...

World's first subsea HV umbilical
08 November 2005 In what is regarded as a major advance in subsea technology, cable...

New approach for Drax
04 November 2005

Call to cap the cost of carbon
04 November 2005 The head of one of the UK's six largest utilities has called for measures...

Power industry projects
04 November 2005 Notices posted up to end-October 2005

From Russia with love?
01 November 2005

October 2005

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EdF privatisation programme announced as Areva sale cancelled
28 October 2005 One of Europe’s largest energy players is set to be partially...

Drax completes first UK sulphur trade
28 October 2005 Drax Power, owners of the 4 GW goal-fired plant of the same name,...

EU energy market expands into Balkans
28 October 2005 The EU's single energy market has expanded into the Western Balkans with...

UK manufacturers back new nuclear build
28 October 2005 EEF, the UK manufacturers’ organisation has urged the government to...

Siemens to deliver 27 wind turbines in Germany and Greece
28 October 2005 Germany’s Siemens Power Generation has received two orders for the supply...

MHI wins order for reactor coolant pumps
28 October 2005 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for four...

Gas turbine orders for Siemens
28 October 2005 Russian company Uralkali JSC has ordered four industrial...

Sumitomo to build geothermal plant in Indonesia
28 October 2005 Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp is to build a geothermal power plant...

Turkey plans power privatisation
28 October 2005 Distribution companies and a raft of power stations are set to be sold by...

MHI to supply blast-furnace-gas turbine to China
28 October 2005 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for a gas turbine...

Alstom signs a partnership agreement with India's BHEL
28 October 2005 An industrial partnership agreement has been signed between Alstom and...

Plans to harmonise New Source Review with existing rules
18 October 2005 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued proposals for a...

Ontario to restart Bruce reactors
18 October 2005 TransCanada Corp has struck a C$4.25 billion ($3.6 billion) deal with...

Industry groups pledge co-operation on climate change
18 October 2005 Meeting in Sapporo, Japan, recently the heads of the Union of the...

UK offshore wind farm application
18 October 2005 Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd (GGOWL), an Airtricity and Fluor...

GE launches new generation of wind turbines
18 October 2005 GE Energy has launched a new generation of 2.5 MW and 3 MW wind...

New transmission line allows hydro station to supply Primorsky Territory
18 October 2005 Electricity from the newly developed Bureya hydro power station has...

Endesa reduces plant emissions
18 October 2005 Spanish energy giant Endesa has begun construction of a combustion...

GE windfarm under development in Germany
18 October 2005 Construction has begun on a 55.5 MW wind farm in the...

Ukrainian nuclear company plans pumped storage plant
18 October 2005 The Southern Ukrainian nuclear power plant is planning to start...

Centrax acquires Turbomeca Rolls Royce contracts
18 October 2005 Centrax Gas Turbines has recently signed an agreement with French...

Centrax acquires Turbomeca Rolls Royce contracts
18 October 2005 Centrax Gas Turbines has recently signed an agreement with French...

Bakun project delivers local contracts
18 October 2005 Malaysia’s Bakun hydro project has seen twelve local companies from...

UK biomass set to grow
14 October 2005 A slew of new biomass and co-firing projects in the UK suggest that...

European wholesale market maturity still varies widely
14 October 2005 New research by independent market analyst Datamonitor suggests that the...

Statkraft plans development of green portfolio
14 October 2005 Norwegian state-owned power giant Statkraft is expected to invest...

India contemplating tariff-based bidding for hydro projects
14 October 2005 The Power Ministry of India is considering revising the rules...

FERC records higher power prices
14 October 2005 The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Summer 2005 Energy Price...

Vietnam plans $500 million hydro project
14 October 2005 The Ministry of Industry of Vietnam has submitted a feasibility study for...

Endesa Italia begins construction of Sicilian wind
14 October 2005 Spanish utilty company Endesa has begun construction of two wind farms on...

GE to repower Crown Van Gelder
14 October 2005 GE Energy’s aeroderivative gas turbine services group is to replace an...

Hydro-Quebec expected to call for tenders
14 October 2005 Canadian natural gas distribution company Gaz Metro is planning to launch...

Innovative wave power device moves to stage two trials
14 October 2005 Trident Energy has announced that tests at the New and Renewable...

Alstom to refurbish two US hydro generators
14 October 2005 The US Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $13 million contract by...

Alstom to refurbish two US hydro generators
14 October 2005 The US Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $13 million contract by...

Foster Wheeler wins boiler contract
14 October 2005 A contract for two package boilers by BASF FINA Petrochemicals...

Foster Wheeler wins boiler contract
14 October 2005 A contract for two package boilers by BASF FINA Petrochemicals...

Foster Wheeler wins boiler contract
14 October 2005 A contract for two package boilers by BASF FINA Petrochemicals...

PPM Energy sells output from Shiloh Wind
14 October 2005 ScottishPower subsidiary PPM Energy has signed long-term power...

Turkish grid to connect to European system
14 October 2005 A feasibility study has been launched to examine the possibility...

German cartel office examines power price data
14 October 2005 E.On and RWE have submitted extensive statements to the German federal...

NZ invention combines wind and hydro
14 October 2005 New Zealand firm Green Zephyr is reportedly developing the world's...

E.ON UK chief executive calls for safety valves on carbon price
11 October 2005 The head of one of the UK's big six calls for measures to be in place...

Study says up to 70% of CO2 price factored into power
11 October 2005

DONG acquisition faces in-depth EU probe
11 October 2005

Pakistan desalination plant from Siemens
11 October 2005

Pakistan desalination plant from Siemens
11 October 2005

Fitch comments on Italian energy transmission windfall tax
11 October 2005

Moroccan steam underway
11 October 2005

Moroccan steam underway
11 October 2005

China-Kazakh JV plans to develop coal-fired plant
11 October 2005

Plans for Mekong hydro plants revived
07 October 2005

Italy orders GT26
07 October 2005

Italy orders GT26
07 October 2005

Siemens acquires Wheelabrator
07 October 2005

Boost for Ocean Power Technologies wave power project
07 October 2005

Boiler for the J. K. Spruce 2 plant in Texas
07 October 2005

Alstom boiler for the J. K. Spruce 2 plant in Texas
07 October 2005

Offshore wind project framework rules released
07 October 2005

Alstom to develop CHP plant in Thailand
07 October 2005

Alstom to develop CHP plant in Thailand
07 October 2005

AEP hopes to retire Conesville
07 October 2005

Babcock Power CFB scrubber deal
07 October 2005

Babcock Power CFB scrubber deal
07 October 2005

Powerline communications deployment
07 October 2005

Ecuador and Peru to accelerate energy interconnection
07 October 2005

Liberalisation rules set to prompt investment in Greece
07 October 2005

ABB to upgrade Kuwait power plant
07 October 2005

ABB to upgrade Kuwait power plant
07 October 2005

India names new nuclear sites
07 October 2005

UK consumers see capacity content revealed
07 October 2005

WWF names dirty men of Europe power plants
04 October 2005 The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has released a new report claiming...

NRG Energy buys Texas power firm
04 October 2005

Siemens plans development of world's most powerful gas turbine
04 October 2005

MHI receives first supercritical steam turbine order for the US
04 October 2005

MHI receives first supercritical steam turbine order for the US
04 October 2005

GE and Bechtel get approval to proceed with IGCC project
04 October 2005

European Parliament votes for increased deployment of renewables
04 October 2005

Strategic partnership in Russia with EM Alliance and Alstom
04 October 2005

Areva turns to wind
04 October 2005

Alstom completes oxy-fuel pilot plant test
04 October 2005

First Siemens order for offshore wind in England
04 October 2005

First Siemens order for offshore wind in England
04 October 2005

Endesa's rebuff to Gas Natural bid
04 October 2005

Thailand cogeneration service agreement for GE
04 October 2005

Alstom GT26 heads for Germany
04 October 2005

Alstom GT26 heads for Germany
04 October 2005

E.On returns Grain station to service
04 October 2005

EDF consolidates Swiss position
04 October 2005

Thailand orders MHI gas engine
04 October 2005

Thailand orders MHI gas engine
04 October 2005

VA Tech wins Rock Island dam contract
04 October 2005

VA Tech wins Rock Island dam contract
04 October 2005

September 2005

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Constellation and Areva join forces on EPR
20 September 2005 Nuclear revival mooted as European forge alliance to break into the...

Bill aims to restructure South African power sector
20 September 2005

Offer made for UK's Drax
20 September 2005

North Korean breakthroughs and setbacks
20 September 2005

PPM Energy orders 300 MW of new GE turbines
20 September 2005

Total sells stake in power plant
20 September 2005

Venezuela needs $17 billion investment on transmission network
20 September 2005

EU court to rule on EdP's GdP stake
20 September 2005

Alstom to modernise Brazilian hyro plant
20 September 2005

Alstom to modernise Brazilian hyro plant
20 September 2005

Duke to dispose of merchant power arm
20 September 2005

FPL Energy orders Siemens wind turbines
20 September 2005

FPL Energy orders Siemens wind turbines
20 September 2005

E.On boost Ratcliffe-on-Soar efficiency
20 September 2005

Hydro Tasmania develop new wind farm
20 September 2005

Hitachi, Sumitomo win Egyptian turbine order
20 September 2005

Hitachi, Sumitomo win Egyptian turbine order
20 September 2005

Spain to separate grid operator and owner
20 September 2005

Philippine geothermal sale postponed
20 September 2005

Rajasthan to add 4,500 MW
20 September 2005

World Bank promotes Bangladesh power reform
20 September 2005

10-year life extension at Dungeness B
20 September 2005

E.On completes acquisition of Energie
20 September 2005

Rolls-Royce wins turbine contract for Nigerian oil field
20 September 2005

Rolls-Royce wins turbine contract for Nigerian oil field
20 September 2005

Ampla to sell stake in 10 small hydro plants
20 September 2005

France approves first offshore wind farm
20 September 2005

Fox bid on gas
20 September 2005

EBRD loan for Bosnian distribution upgrade
20 September 2005

Hydro Tasmania to develop new wind farm
20 September 2005

Thailand's EGAT to sell shares
20 September 2005

Plans for new UK gas-fired capacity announced by E.On
13 September 2005 E.On appears to have broken away from the pack with its announcement...

Katrina update
13 September 2005

MHI begins gas turbine component production in China
13 September 2005

Power worker blacks out two million in Los Angeles
13 September 2005

California grid congestion costs plummet
13 September 2005

Australia's Hazelwood gets carbon cap
13 September 2005

US Senate clears way for vote on utility mercury rule
13 September 2005

NERC issues long-term reliability assessment
13 September 2005

UES develops hydro strategy
13 September 2005

Carbon plans for India
13 September 2005

Chubu Electric plans MOX generation from 2010
13 September 2005

GE buys 55 MW German wind project
13 September 2005

North Korean nuclear talks set to resume
13 September 2005

SoCal Edison in wind buy
13 September 2005

Enels European acquisitions war chest
13 September 2005

EU Energy Commissioner "concerned" by wave of mergers
13 September 2005

Suez fundraising to buy out Electrabel
13 September 2005

Diesel-wind hybrid to power three Philippine islands
13 September 2005

Diesel-wind hybrid to power three Philippine islands
13 September 2005

GdF and Centrica get clearance for Belgian acquisition
13 September 2005

Endesa rebuffs Gas Natural offer
09 September 2005 The expected rejection by Endesa of its smaller rival's offer sets the...

Russian gen-set market report
09 September 2005

ESB should sell plant says researchers
09 September 2005

Indonesia to tender for eight power projects
09 September 2005

Indian contract for Alstom
09 September 2005

Indian contract for Alstom
09 September 2005

Fox set to veto Mexican power reform bill
09 September 2005

EU to help China curb emissions
09 September 2005

IEA commends Czech reforms
09 September 2005

Burma contracts Chinese for hydro project
09 September 2005

Burma contracts Chinese for hydro project
09 September 2005

Spanish Gas Natural launches bid for Endesa
06 September 2005 The long-awaited consolidation of the Spanish energy market may be...

EOn considers Scottish Power takeover bid
06 September 2005

Entergy continues to work on Louisiana power network
06 September 2005

20 years on Chernobyl assessed
06 September 2005

Vietnam to invest in new generation
06 September 2005

Grid repairs advance slowly in energy-shocked Gulf coast
02 September 2005 Fears of an energy crisis are growing in the US as the full extent of...

Plans for new nuclear plant by Progress Energy
02 September 2005

ADB lends $120 million for Vietnamese transmission project
02 September 2005

Fortum accelerates Nordic grid reliability programme
02 September 2005

Construction start-up soon on Sri Lankan coal unit
02 September 2005

Wärtsilä BioPower plant for Sweden
02 September 2005

Wärtsilä BioPower plant for Sweden
02 September 2005

China plans closure of coal-fired units
02 September 2005

Japan allows MOX fuel for reactor
02 September 2005

Superconducting cable project moves forward
02 September 2005

Three Gorges third phase schedule announced
02 September 2005

GE Energy in Chinese play
02 September 2005

Vote on South Korean nuclear repository due soon
02 September 2005

August 2005

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Hurricane Katrina sees over 1 million without power
31 August 2005 With much of New Orleans under water, Entergy is struggling to restore...

First US greenhouse gas emissions limits plan ready to move
25 August 2005 A group of states are set to go it alone with a carbon cap and...

North Korea should accept offer say Japan and China
25 August 2005

Vestas results hit by supply woes
25 August 2005

Westinghouse bidders come and go
25 August 2005

Thailand plans $6 billion power investment
25 August 2005

Allegations of Iranian HEU enrichment programme found to be false
25 August 2005

Russia-Finland subsea cable planned
25 August 2005

Suez gets board approval to buy Belgian Electrabel
25 August 2005

Babcock & Wilcox signs scrubber deal
25 August 2005

Babcock & Wilcox signs scrubber deal
25 August 2005

FPL issues a request for proposals for power beginning in 2009
25 August 2005

AEP to buy Ceredo station from Reliant
25 August 2005

Babcock & Wilcox receives boiler contract
25 August 2005

Babcock & Wilcox receives boiler contract
25 August 2005

Brazil plans 1,600 Km of new transmission lines
25 August 2005

Germany approves ninth offshore wind project
25 August 2005

Enel unveils investment plans
25 August 2005

EPA report shows progress on air quality
23 August 2005 The US EPA cap and trade project is bringing about significant results...

Blackout investigation in Indonesia
23 August 2005

Spanish wind power will overtake coal and hydro says EWEA
23 August 2005

Excess wind to produce hydrogen in Scotland
23 August 2005

Napocor sale delayed to Q1 of 2006
23 August 2005

Scottish carbon storage research group launched
23 August 2005

ABB wins orders for Mexican cement plant
23 August 2005

ABB wins orders for Mexican cement plant
23 August 2005

Offshore contract goes to Danish Bladt Industries
23 August 2005

Offshore contract goes to Danish Bladt Industries
23 August 2005

SGL Carbon wins graphite contract for PBMR
23 August 2005

SGL Carbon wins graphite contract for PBMR
23 August 2005

Indonesian power failure leaves 100 million without electricity
19 August 2005 Power-strapped Indonesia plunged into darkness as strained transmission...

NRC delays rulings on new reactor permits
19 August 2005

Trittin calls on utilities to account for carbon trade in power costs
19 August 2005

Italian regulators want Eni to cut gas storage stake
19 August 2005

Enercon accuses Vestas of patent infringement
19 August 2005

Enel gains Slovak approval for takeover
19 August 2005

Endesa plans 20 gas-fired plants
19 August 2005

Ontario plans Niagara tunnel project power boost
19 August 2005

EC approves AEM, EdF bid for Italian Edison
17 August 2005 Regulatory approval sets the sceme for a final resolution of the...

JP Morgan Chase settles Enron suit
17 August 2005

Pickering reactor overhaul abandoned on cost grounds
17 August 2005

DoE selects GE for coal powered fuel cell
17 August 2005

DoE selects GE for coal powered fuel cell
17 August 2005

Alstom wins Lithuanian refurbishment contract
17 August 2005

Alstom wins Lithuanian refurbishment contract
17 August 2005

RWE npower sells Isoengine intellectual property rights to Mitsui
17 August 2005

E.On UKs Killingholme station returns to full service
17 August 2005

RWE plans new coal-fired plant
17 August 2005

Chinas massive power investment
17 August 2005

New power firm approved in Saudi Arabia
17 August 2005

Sistema acquires stakes in seven Urals energy interests
17 August 2005

Russian company to manage Kyrgyzstan power grid
17 August 2005

Oman aluminium smelter, desalination and power plant planned
17 August 2005

Gesa-Endesa to cut carbon emissions
17 August 2005

IAEA calls for Iran to suspend enrichment activities
12 August 2005 UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATEResolution calling for a return to negotiations...

Seoul supports North Korean civil nuclear programme
12 August 2005

AEP expands CO2 reduction commitment
12 August 2005

Chinese hopes boost shares of Australian uranium interests
12 August 2005

Portugal plans for wave energy
12 August 2005

German CDU offers longer nuclear life for power subsidies
12 August 2005

China may delay nuclear contracts
12 August 2005

Dalkia buys Polish power and heat unit
12 August 2005

Suez looks to Electrabel buyout
10 August 2005 Pressure from shareholders to resolve its relationship with Electrabel...

Bush signs comprehensive energy bill
10 August 2005

Enel, Endesa should be forced to divest to virtual utilities says regulator
10 August 2005

Australia must consider emissions trading scheme says IEA
10 August 2005

Bush 'suspicious' of Iranian nuclear programme
10 August 2005

Major solar project mooted by SCE for California
10 August 2005

Siemens CCGT contract for Azerbaijan
10 August 2005

EU makes nuclear offer to Iran
05 August 2005 In its game of brinkmanship with the West, Iran has apparently succeeded...

South Africa´s first plants for 15 years
05 August 2005

Spanish Catalonia plans for power development
05 August 2005

CEZ tipped as big gun in Central and Eastern Europe
05 August 2005

Permit for Sandbank 24 offshore wind farm approved
05 August 2005

Siemens to build new combined cycle power plant in Thailand
05 August 2005

Aneel approves thermal generation in Amazonas and Espirito Santo
05 August 2005

Boiler replacement at St. Lucie nuclear plant
05 August 2005

Alstom air pollution equipment for Endesa
05 August 2005

GE transformer for Connecticut
05 August 2005

Comprehensive US energy bill ready for executive branch approval
04 August 2005 President George Bush is expected to sign a $14.6 billion energy bill...

Credit Suisse announces Enron charge
04 August 2005

PLN plans to raise electricity tariffs for business and industry
04 August 2005

Calpine quarterly loss widens
04 August 2005

Major investment required for Russian power sector
04 August 2005

Enel plans to build two power plants in Spain
04 August 2005

LNG to replace coal in Delhi
04 August 2005

Australian government opens uranium mining in Northern Territory
04 August 2005

CIBC agrees to settle Enron class action litigation
03 August 2005 Candian bank follows others and reaches record payout deal to resolve...

Iran delays enrichment restart in the face of international pressure
03 August 2005

EU regional energy supply competition study
03 August 2005

North Korea may be close to nuclear settlement in six nation talks
03 August 2005

Pumped-storage plant set to go ahead in Slovenia
03 August 2005

US hits record demand
03 August 2005

UK plans to cut transmission charges for remote renewables
03 August 2005

Calpine and GE to install H System in Southern California
03 August 2005

Bangladesh to allow private micro-power projects
03 August 2005

Kenya develops Rift Valley geothermal projects
03 August 2005

Massive energy savings potential in UK homes
03 August 2005

Regulators wait for French government on third party access tariffs
03 August 2005

Drax appointment of new CEO
03 August 2005

July 2005

Top

House approves consolidated energy bill, senate to follow
29 July 2005 With the Senate set to vote on the measure today and a sweeping...

Global carbon market set to grow in 2005
29 July 2005

Study analyses European energy taxation policies
29 July 2005

Asia-Pacific climate plan faces criticism
29 July 2005

British Energy moves back into black
29 July 2005

Vestas to build blade plant in China
29 July 2005

N Korea nuclear talks continue
29 July 2005

Three Gorges capacity breaches 8 GW
29 July 2005

Russia, China to start building floating nuclear plant
29 July 2005

US energy bill heads to final vote
27 July 2005 Tax credits only outstanding issue for broad energy bill as Senate...

New Asia-Pacific climate plan mooted
27 July 2005

EdF targets gas ahead of flotation
27 July 2005

Spanish white paper proposes limiting market power
27 July 2005

German army offers land for wind farms
27 July 2005

FERC investigation rules out MISO market manipulation
27 July 2005

UK's Centrica buys 26 MW Scottish wind farm
27 July 2005

Czechs approve industry CO2 allowances
27 July 2005

Austrias Verbund plans massive investment
27 July 2005

Remote renewables one step closer for UK
27 July 2005

SDG&E outlines powerline comms test plans
27 July 2005

UES gains control over Armenian transmission grid
27 July 2005

Carbon prices rocket as temperatures rise
22 July 2005 Heatwave sweeping Europe pushes up emissions certificate prices as...

US energy bill makes rapid progress
22 July 2005

India forges nuclear transfer deal with United States
22 July 2005

Scottish & Southern plan 600 MW wind farm for Shetland Isles
22 July 2005

Siemens to connect New Jersey and Long Island
22 July 2005

British Energy's subsidies
22 July 2005

Duke and Cinergy seek regulatory approval
22 July 2005

Price cut deal rejected by German nuclear generators
22 July 2005

House panel subpoenas DoE over Yucca Mountain
22 July 2005

ABB signs new $2 billion credit facility
22 July 2005

RPS bill signed in California
22 July 2005

Transco plans Philippine investment
22 July 2005

US proposed supercritical plant to set standards
22 July 2005

High-power flexible solar panel developed
22 July 2005

France approves 1.6 GW of wind
22 July 2005

Sri Lanka to press ahead with power sector reforms
22 July 2005

Northwest consortium plans 600 MW IGCC plant
20 July 2005 A new coal gasification project launched by utility consortium brings...

Basslink joins Tasmania to Australian mainland
20 July 2005

Eskom’s gas plans
20 July 2005

Two short-listed for Belene nuclear
20 July 2005

Greece to liberalise gas and power markets
20 July 2005

Portugal to hand over control of gas and electricity grids
20 July 2005

NZ opposition pledges changes to power sector rules
20 July 2005

Vietnam set to open markets to China
20 July 2005

EC grant to support Liberian liberalisation
20 July 2005

Bord Gáis disposes of UK gas distribution arm
20 July 2005

Siemens PTD takes over VA Tech
14 July 2005 Regulators give the go ahead for acquisition, but only on condition...

Final resolution of Dabhol in sight as Bechtel deals
14 July 2005

Plans for fusion development by India and China
14 July 2005

French reactors facing dry summer
14 July 2005

Competitive power market saves billions: study
14 July 2005

South Korea offers power to the North in attempt to resolve nuclear deadlock
14 July 2005

Low carbon supply strategy for UK
14 July 2005

WWF names and shames dirty power plants
14 July 2005

UES cuts power to Georgia
14 July 2005

China gets CDM green light
14 July 2005

Greece to liberalise energy
14 July 2005

Russias 16,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel
14 July 2005

Wind farm extension approval sets up UK's largest
14 July 2005

Endesa sells Sechilienne stake
14 July 2005

Buyers for Westinghouse set out position
12 July 2005 As BNFL fields buyers for its nuclear plant engineering group,...

UES and Moscow JV to operate city's grid
12 July 2005

India & Bechtel in Dabhol settlement
12 July 2005

German opposition sets out nuclear manifesto
12 July 2005

GdF soars on first day of trading
12 July 2005

Chinese province to invest in transmission
12 July 2005

Siemens wins power plant order in India
12 July 2005

Vietnamese government approves power plans
12 July 2005

EU probes E.On Hungarian gas buy
12 July 2005

Power plant bids due for Argentina
12 July 2005

Bord Gáis signs €100 million wind deal
12 July 2005

GE forges alliance with FirstEnergy
12 July 2005

Eurelectric draws plans for pan-European power market
07 July 2005 Industry organisation sets out road map for a continent-wide power...

South Korea approves two new nuclear reactors
07 July 2005

Belgian, Dutch and French regulators launch market integration plan
07 July 2005

EU to take action against five over energy liberalisation
07 July 2005

Wood-fired power plant first for Thailand
07 July 2005

FERC approves Exelon-PSEG merger
07 July 2005

UES suspends power deal with Ukraine
07 July 2005

Japan to continue fast-breeder research
07 July 2005

Cancer risks higher for nuclear workers
04 July 2005 Huge study across 15 nations finds that there is an appreciably...

Majors predicted to dominate energy trading
04 July 2005

Japan to continue fast-breeder reactor research
04 July 2005

UES and China State Grid Corp sign cooperation agreement
04 July 2005

Nuclear costs underestimated: study
04 July 2005

Spain to cut nuclear generation to 16.5% by 2011
04 July 2005

Enel sale of Terna probed by competition authorities
04 July 2005

Calls on G8 to promote wind
04 July 2005

White House names Joseph Kelliher as FERC chair
04 July 2005

ABB signs deal with Ansaldo Energia
04 July 2005

France wins Iter site, Japan wins anyway
01 July 2005 Japan has won a raft of concessions by ceding the Iter site to Europe for...

Senate passes comprehensive energy legislation
01 July 2005

Areva wind research
01 July 2005

Thorp board of inquiry report released
01 July 2005

ABB consolidates global transformer business
01 July 2005

BNFL announces annual results and Westinghouse sale plan
01 July 2005

S&P reports on French wind sector
01 July 2005

Russia's energy giant overhaul
01 July 2005

GE strikes deal over Dabhol
01 July 2005

Oil giants back clean gas
01 July 2005

Mitsui Babcock buys into Polish energy services
01 July 2005

Statkraft acquires hydropower plants in Sweden and Finland
01 July 2005

Agreement expected on trans-European networks in enlarged EU
01 July 2005

Russia signs first JIP under Kyoto
01 July 2005

Vattenfall Europe to up plant investment
01 July 2005

Moldova seeks $240 million for capacity boost
01 July 2005

Dolphin to buy EdF's Edenor stake
01 July 2005

Solar industry slump set to follow silicon shortfall
01 July 2005

Wind orders for South Korea
01 July 2005

June 2005

Top

Gaz de France begins energy privatisation play
27 June 2005 France has launched its privatisation programme for the energy sector...

Gazprom to make electricity a core business
27 June 2005

UK nuclear programme would require public sector support: report
27 June 2005

Siemens wins Middle East and North African contracts
27 June 2005

GE to provide turbines for Hebei Province project
27 June 2005

French and UK gas players buy into Belgium
27 June 2005

German solar business anticipates growth
27 June 2005

Ontario rejects coal in phase out
23 June 2005 Delayed deadline will see final coal-fired plants in the province shutdown...

Senate rejects emissions cap proposals
23 June 2005

BNFL expected to sell Westinghouse
23 June 2005

NII orders improvements at Thorp
23 June 2005

Dabhol restart expected late 2006
23 June 2005

No childhood cancer link to UK nuclear power stations
23 June 2005

Gaz de France privatisation launched
23 June 2005

UK wrong to ignore nuclear and clean coal: report
23 June 2005

G-8 to launch forum on climate change
20 June 2005 Following the recent joint academies' statement on climate change, the...

London aims for 1 GW wind farm as UK's largest farm launched
20 June 2005

Enel plans renewables investments
20 June 2005

US Senate panel approves energy tax incentives bill
20 June 2005

Generg invests in wind
20 June 2005

Clean coal option bought
20 June 2005

Power regulator approved in Germany
20 June 2005

Human involvement in climate change 'is a fact'
09 June 2005 Scientific opinion has hardened in favour of the existence of...

FERC urges Congress to act on transmission
09 June 2005

World's largest coal-fired plant planned for India
09 June 2005

EU energy commissioner wants cleaner coal plants
09 June 2005

NZs largest wind farm planned
09 June 2005

$2 billion a year on power for Vietnam
09 June 2005

MPS round-up of contract awards
08 June 2005 Let us know about contract awards, forthcoming and planned projects,...

Pacific Hydro in carbon sale first
07 June 2005 Clean Development Mechanism world premier as ABN AMRO bank acts...

NGT to return billions to shareholders
07 June 2005

Nanobiotechnology study looks at hydrogen production
07 June 2005

Calpine powers up two new plants
07 June 2005

Germany agrees new power bill
07 June 2005

UK wind prospects improving says report
07 June 2005

Nepa disbanded as new company takes over
07 June 2005

Bids for Bulgaria-Macedonia power link
07 June 2005

Mexican grid contract for Iberdrola
07 June 2005

Russia may sell to China up to 50 TWh
07 June 2005

EU postpones competition probe
07 June 2005

Fortum stake sell off
07 June 2005

Cegelec wins turbine contracts
07 June 2005

Fuel cell breakthrough
03 June 2005 A new family of catalysts that could revolutionise fuel cell take-up has...

Bechtel wins order to seize Indian assets
02 June 2005 Dabhol dispute rumbles on as US power company wins the right to...

Vattenfall acquires capacity in Denmark after resolving takeover deadlock
02 June 2005

EU to host ITER
02 June 2005

Italian utility ownership law declared illegal by EU
02 June 2005

Japanese ruling boosts fast breeder technology
02 June 2005

Siemens to build Europe's largest forest-biomass-fired power plant
02 June 2005

New superconducting cable material boosts capacity
02 June 2005

ABB wins dam contract in Laos
02 June 2005

German opposition to push for power law by July
02 June 2005

PLN denies mismanagement led to losses
02 June 2005

Arklow Bank inaugurated
02 June 2005

Siemens to build German CCGT
02 June 2005

Barsebäck 2 closed
02 June 2005

MPS round-up of forthcoming power projects and associated contracts.
01 June 2005 Let us know about forthcoming and planned projects, tenders and requests...

May 2005

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Calpine sells UKs Saltend power station
31 May 2005 Troubled US power company Calpine divests its last remaining UK asset to...

GE to join in on Dabhol restart
31 May 2005

Vattenfall plans giant Baltic Sea wind farm
31 May 2005

US Senate panel approves repeal of utility merger restrictions
31 May 2005

NEPA pitches for tariff rise
31 May 2005

Moscow to sue UES over power cuts
31 May 2005

Tasmania joins Australian power market ahead of Basslink
31 May 2005

France and Italy resolve power dispute
31 May 2005

CLP Holdings to build in South China
31 May 2005

First Dutch offshore wind farm
31 May 2005

Hyundai wins $696 million order from UAE
31 May 2005

Comment
31 May 2005

Power failure in Moscow and surrounding regions
26 May 2005 Blame laid on Anatoly Chubais, the head of UES, as a criminal...

Emissions trading gets the green light
26 May 2005 The UK is set to join the European Emissions Trading scheme with the...

Senate energy plans
26 May 2005

German nuclear capacity may get post election reprieve
26 May 2005

FutureGen back on track with House spending bill
26 May 2005

FERC finalises grid connection rules for wind
26 May 2005

Coal ash to become concrete additive
26 May 2005

GE, Bechtel and AEP plan 600 MW clean coal project
26 May 2005

Mediterranean solar potential
26 May 2005

China fixes power prices
26 May 2005

Calpine to sell assets and cut operating costs
26 May 2005

EdF moves prompt rumours of LatAm cash pull out
26 May 2005

UK support for renewables
26 May 2005

Ballard deals with Ebara for cogeneration
26 May 2005

FP&L plans gas giant
26 May 2005

HVDC transmission line for Vancouver Island
26 May 2005

Duke cuts SOx
26 May 2005

Australian wave plant set for installation
26 May 2005

Former Texas regulator to lead FERC
26 May 2005

Scottish Power sells PacifiCorp to MidAmerican
24 May 2005 One of the year's biggest international M&A deals is set to go ahead...

EU carbon allowances costs hit record high
24 May 2005

UK power among cheapest in Europe
24 May 2005

Regulatory changes to boost Australian power sector
24 May 2005

Northern Vietnam facing power crunch
24 May 2005

Vattenfall launches Polish trading arm
24 May 2005

Rate adjustment cuts Napocor losses
24 May 2005

Spanish companies negotiate changes to review process
24 May 2005

Belgian adoption of energy law
24 May 2005

Portugal set to spend on remote metering
24 May 2005

Greece to build four new plants
24 May 2005

Vattenfall to build CO2-free coal-fired demo station
19 May 2005

Commercial first for wave power
19 May 2005

States push for carbon trading
19 May 2005

German demand outstrips solar supply
19 May 2005

Thorp leak hits INES category III - a 'serious incident'
19 May 2005 The pipe failure at the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) part of...

Move towards Kyoto MkII
19 May 2005

Regulator declares Gazprom not to control generation
19 May 2005

Dutch postpone grid sale to 2008
19 May 2005

Endesa cuts greenhouse emissions
19 May 2005

PBMR awards fuel contract
19 May 2005

Iran faces sanctions as European attitude hardens
19 May 2005

French companies win Chinese nuke contracts
19 May 2005

Chinese power plans for wind
19 May 2005

FP&L plans $1.2 billion, gas-fired plant
19 May 2005

Germany shuts down nuclear plant
19 May 2005 German utility EnBW has announced the final closure of the country's...

American Superconductor wind farm controller
19 May 2005

Thailand to privatise distribution system
19 May 2005

Latvian electricity market law passed
19 May 2005

SSE posts 17% pre-tax profit rise
19 May 2005

Wind's massive potential for New Zealand
17 May 2005

India to resurrect Dabhol - again
17 May 2005

World's biggest solar generator just got bigger
17 May 2005

Energy shake up by UK government
17 May 2005

UES hit with $131 million back tax bill
17 May 2005

Energy bill stalls in Senate
17 May 2005

Power Grid of India to sell stake in IPO
17 May 2005

Takeover change prompts step down in Denmark
17 May 2005

Malaysia’s solar diesel hybrid
17 May 2005

Huadian to build power facilities in China
17 May 2005

Duke to buy up Cinergy
13 May 2005 Wave of US consolidation continues with new deal

THORP leak adds to new build opposition
13 May 2005

ENEL and EdF end impasse with deal
13 May 2005

Central and Eastern Europe behind turbine market growth
13 May 2005

Research highlights renewables role in UK
13 May 2005

RTE takes its first steps into China
13 May 2005

Californian energy agency consolidation plan
13 May 2005

PSEG to auction off four power plants
13 May 2005

Bulgarian nuclear tender announced
13 May 2005

Government approves EGAT privatisation
13 May 2005

GE in green drive
13 May 2005

Netherlands suspends renewables subsidies
13 May 2005

Largest UK windfarm commissioned
13 May 2005

German utilities boosted by eastern Europe
13 May 2005

Swiss energy market to open from 2007
13 May 2005

April 2005

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Under investment jeopardising
29 April 2005 Representatives of the world's utility companies (119 from 108...

Death toll rises at Narmada dam
28 April 2005 The death toll from the Indira Sagar dam disaster has risen to at least...

Fusion and waste to get bulk of proposed EC research funding
26 April 2005

House passes comprehensive energy bill
26 April 2005

Climate change cost modest says EIA
26 April 2005

New email scandal for Yucca Mountain
26 April 2005

US researchers develop microbial fuel cell
26 April 2005

Nuclear cheaper than renewables: report
26 April 2005

Software glitches delay ETS
26 April 2005

Nuclear and gas sector seen as attractive to utilities: survey
26 April 2005

Wind power world´s fastest growing resource
26 April 2005

Bangladesh approves private power plants
26 April 2005

Cyprus to liberalise electricity market
26 April 2005

French companies win Chinese nuclear deals
26 April 2005

SeaWest sold to AES Corp
26 April 2005

UK debate on nuclear power to open post-election
26 April 2005

Wind farm for Hawaii
26 April 2005

Shell and Bechtel sell InterGen assets
21 April 2005 Power partnership divests some of its generation assets to equity fund...

EU plays down legislative role
21 April 2005 Commissioner calls for more action on liberalisation rather than...

Spain to surpass UK for renewables investment
21 April 2005

Mexico to allow private generation
21 April 2005

Private investors staying away from Indian power
21 April 2005

Ontario to open up Crown land for green power
21 April 2005

Siberia to free electricity market from 1 May
21 April 2005

Philippine savings from power contract changes
21 April 2005

Thailand's Glow Energy set for small rise in stock launch
21 April 2005

PLN warns Java-Bali supply critical
21 April 2005

Largest ever transformer banks in India
21 April 2005

Nigerian power reform sees dissolution of NEPA
21 April 2005

Pakistan invites power project bids
21 April 2005

Gas Natural to buy wind farm
21 April 2005

Wärtsilä sells engine unit to MHI
20 April 2005 Finland's Wärtsilä sells French manufacturing unit to Japanese...

Carbon prices must double to boost renewables
20 April 2005

Italian decree on network charges
20 April 2005

Belgian energy market survey
20 April 2005

EdF forms European group for next generation nuclear plant
20 April 2005

South Africa to launch renewable energy trading
20 April 2005

VA Tech Hydro to develop Bucharest plant
20 April 2005 Romanian plant to get extension from Austrian hydro giant

Silicon shortage to hit solar growth
14 April 2005 Materials costs threaten continued market growth for solar PV as a...

First deep water wind turbines planned
14 April 2005 Scotland's Moray Firth set to be world first for deep turbines

Plans for East River tidal plant
14 April 2005 Regulatory approval pushes tidal project one step further for Big Apple

EdF and Enel set to break deadlock
14 April 2005 Enel into France as probe launched over possible price-fixing

House moves energy legislation
14 April 2005 Committees voted for tax breaks and oil

Russia and Germany agree on gas
14 April 2005 Baltic pipeline to see Gazprom bypass Ukraise to Germany

New England success for competition
14 April 2005 New England ISO releases restructuring report

Ontario unveils plans for coal alternatives
14 April 2005 2007 deadline for coal phase out

EU Commission approves Czech CO2 plans
14 April 2005 Compromise sees carbon allowances agreed

Spanish moves into Portugal power
14 April 2005 Iberdrola aims for 20% of Portuguese market in 5 years

Firm has £1 billion for distribution
14 April 2005 UK districo to boost Midlands power network

Powerline communications are opened for utilities
12 April 2005 Utilities must be allowed to offer broadband services via the...

Duke to lobby for carbon tax
12 April 2005 Energy giant calls for economy-wide carbon tax to spare utilities

New wind grid needed: report
12 April 2005 Offshore grid for wind needed to boost offshore capacity says Greenpeace

Chinese superconducting line tested
12 April 2005 High capacity superconducting distribution line tested

Wind desalination project mooted
12 April 2005 Norwegian group to build wind power desalination plant

Load factor takeovers planned for poor performers
12 April 2005 NTPC and private players may take over Indian ops

German renewables investment plans announced by ministers
12 April 2005 Germany to invest €200 billion in renewables by 2020

Micro power plants fast tracked
12 April 2005 Bangladesh targets small and medium plants to ease capacity shortfalls

HVDC to link US and Canada
12 April 2005 BC transmission line takes another underwater step

Brazil's Cemig to raise prices
12 April 2005 Nearly 25% rate hike approved by Aneel

WA electricity market opens
12 April 2005 Australia limits capacity to boost competition

Frequency regulation market set for huge growth
07 April 2005 The US frequency regulation market was worth $360 million in 2004, says a...

Kyoto stance impacts on renewables firms
07 April 2005 US and Australian renewable energy firms suffer under government policy

Maharashtra signs up for IPPs
07 April 2005 India’s Maharashtra state signs up for 12,500 MW in projects

Superconducting wind deal
07 April 2005 American Superconductor and GE in Hawaiian wind farm deal

MOX go-ahead for Japan likely
07 April 2005 Japan’s Aomori government set to approve MOX plant

Enel signs Chile geothermal deal
07 April 2005 Geothermal resources to be opened for development in new alliance

Siemens wins industrial contracts
07 April 2005 Italian and Saudi Arabian deals for gas turbines

Areva to buy remaining Alstom T & D asset
07 April 2005 Areva makes $18.4 million bid for Indian Alstom

ADB approves Laos hydropower loan
07 April 2005 Series of deals to boost finances for power export project

Bulgarian nuke set for go-ahead
07 April 2005 Belene nuclear plant set for go-ahead on second unit

Emerson to automate China's most modern coal plant
07 April 2005 Emerson wins control contract for China's first ultra-supercritical plant

AES and EHN to develop NY wind
07 April 2005 Renewable Portfolio Standard seto to push wind growth in New York state

FERC chairman to step down
07 April 2005 Pat Wood's four year term comes to an end at the end of June

Armenia wants hydro finance
07 April 2005 German feasibility study points way to project

Gazprom backs privatised UES
07 April 2005 Strategic plan shows Gazprom has similar agenda to UES

Italian blackout compensation
07 April 2005 Regulators set to determine payments and dispersal

Makeover for North American grid... but no mandatory reliability standards
06 April 2005 USA . T & D

...while in Oz, renewables go on the back burner
06 April 2005 AUSTRALIA . COAL/RENEWABLE

US focus shifts to gasification
06 April 2005 USA . COAL FIRING

$10.4 bn upgrade needed
06 April 2005 ROMANIA . FINANCE

SuperVar passes grid test
06 April 2005 USA . T & D

Kepco to be probed over fatal accident
06 April 2005 JAPAN . NUCLEAR

House blocks bid for power refunds
06 April 2005 USA . FINANCE

First Basslink section laid
06 April 2005 AUSTRALIA . T & D

Marubeni/BPU is Taweelah B front runner
06 April 2005 UAE . COMBINED POWER AND DESALINATION

Euro-nuke build looking inevitable
06 April 2005 EUROPE . NUCLEAR

Kenneth Lay indicted
06 April 2005 USA . ENRON

Bowman stays in business
06 April 2005 UK . M & A

Lignite, the new clean coal
06 April 2005 USA . COAL FIRING

Alstom rescue plan formally approved
06 April 2005 FRANCE . FINANCE

Team for turbines - EUnited
06 April 2005 EUROPE . TURBINES

Enron sees escape route
06 April 2005 USA . FINANCE

Green energy too expensive
06 April 2005 EUROPE . RENEWABLES

Speed record goes to China
06 April 2005 CHINA . T & D

Horns Rev runs into generator
06 April 2005 DENMARK . RENEWABLES

Western states in plans to develop transmission grid
05 April 2005 California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming are planning to build transmission...

US RPS to inject wind with enthusiam: report
05 April 2005 Renewable Portfolio Standards engender massive investment in America

Draft French energy law threatens independent wind
05 April 2005 Tariff plans face criticism over exclusions related to mid-range projects

Blackouts anticipated if rains fail
05 April 2005 Grid capacity and gas constraints heighten fears of power cuts

Keppel Energy starts work on HK plant
05 April 2005 Alstom to develop $525 million plant for industrial zone

GE forms joint venture with Chinese
05 April 2005 Alliance with turbine controls company expands GE sphere of influence

Power reforms affect Philippines energy players
05 April 2005 Ratings agency warns of regulatory instability affecting credit

EdP dumps Red Electrica stake
05 April 2005 Transmission holding slimdown for Iberian players

Japan launches power trading exchange
05 April 2005 Liberalisation of Japanese energy market continues

High temperature research for coal firing
05 April 2005 USA . COAL FIRING

GM and DoE sign $88 million fuel cell deal
05 April 2005 Roll out of vehicle fleet supported by US DoE in five year agreement

German giant signs deal for Romanian supply co
05 April 2005 E.On takes divestments a step further with latest deal

Kepco privatisation scuppered
05 April 2005 S KOREA

Centrica buying plants at home and abroad
05 April 2005 UK . MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

EdF receives offers for Edison
05 April 2005 Edison sale holds hopes for French extraction

Alstom granted two years grace
05 April 2005 FRANCE . FINANCE

Power industry projects
05 April 2005

New power structure for Iraq
05 April 2005 IRAQ . RECONSTRUCTION

In Brief
05 April 2005

Gulf grid funding approved
05 April 2005 ARABIAN GULF . T & D

KPLC recovery kit agreed
05 April 2005 KENYA . FINANCE

Bringing coal into the loop
05 April 2005 USA . CLEAN COAL

Resolution sets sail
05 April 2005

Swiss reputation on the line
05 April 2005 ITALY . BLACKOUT

Embattled Alstom reprieved - for now
05 April 2005 FRANCE . FINANCE

In brief
04 April 2005

In brief
04 April 2005

GE Energy acquires AstroPower
04 April 2005 USA . M & A

Fluctuations in Kenya Power
04 April 2005 KENYA . T & D

Rental gensets cost Toronto $53 million
04 April 2005 CANADA . BLACKOUTS

New ASEAN union
04 April 2005 INDONESIA/MALAYSIA . T & D

CO2 captured
04 April 2005 WORLDWIDE . GHG

Low investment will cause blackouts
04 April 2005 UK . BLACKOUTS

Blackout 'could have been prevented'
04 April 2005 USA . BLACKOUTS

Beyond CompAir
04 April 2005

New way of getting your bearings
04 April 2005

World first in condition monitoring
04 April 2005

New ranges of KoCoS meters
04 April 2005

In Brief
04 April 2005

Japan and US to fund joint H2 programme
04 April 2005 JAPAN/USA . H2 PROGRAMME

Renewables programme
04 April 2005 UK . RENEWABLES

Lignite plans shelved
04 April 2005 GERMANY . LIGNITE

New gas giant
04 April 2005 NETHERLANDS . H2 PLANT

UK number 1 for wind prospects
04 April 2005 WORLDWIDE . RENEWABLES

Thais riot in the streets over power privatisation
04 April 2005 THAILAND . PRIVATISATION

Rising tide for MCT
04 April 2005 UK . RENEWABLES

New main in Spain commissioned
04 April 2005 SPAIN . T & D

Making light work of mercury removal
04 April 2005 USA . EMISSIONS

The pull of the sea
04 April 2005

'$1 trillion to be invested in coal firing by 2020'
04 April 2005 WORLDWIDE . COAL FIRING

2000 MW of geothermal potential in East Africa
04 April 2005 KENYA . RENEWABLES

NY grid "can take 3300 MW"
04 April 2005 USA . RENEWABLES

FERC supports NERC aim of "full compliance"
04 April 2005 USA . BLACKOUTS

N American unity to beat blackouts
04 April 2005 CANADA . BLACKOUTS

Enel outlines plans for hydrogen plant
01 April 2005 An initial 20 MW unit is planned as part of a move away from massive...

Yucca data scandal sees FBI probe
01 April 2005 Water transport issues may further delay Yucca project

Plug pulled on China's power duopoly
01 April 2005 Reforms allow power sales as investigation into renewables launched

EPRI recommends tailored incentives for IGCC
01 April 2005 Group calls for series of measures to promote new technology

Alstom wins Swedish nuclear contract
01 April 2005 Reactor refurbishment to deliver results for Sweden

First for Canada as most modern plant comes on line
01 April 2005 Coal-fired supercritical first for the nation

CEZ to invest $650 million in refurbishment
01 April 2005 Coal-fired plant for Czech Republic

Egat corporatisation first of many
01 April 2005 Thai generation group set to move into private sector

NRC approves MOX manufacture
01 April 2005 Savannah River site approved in swords to ploughshares scheme

Final UES genco defined
01 April 2005 Russian UES completes registration of last wholesale generation company

Brazilian Copel to up investment in 2005
01 April 2005 Distribution and transmission system investment growth

More dam building on the Yangtze
01 April 2005 CHINA . Hydropower

New deal resolves wind concerns
01 April 2005 CANADA . Gas turbines

New LM6000 test bed opens
01 April 2005 CANADA . Gas turbines

The sub-continent powers ahead
01 April 2005 INDIA . Power plant inauguration

Eskom cuts power to Zimbabwe
01 April 2005 ZIMBABWE . Blackouts

Breaking the light barrier
01 April 2005 USA . Renewables

AMSC gets it superconductor patent
01 April 2005 USA/NEW ZEALAND . Superconductors

Power industry projects
01 April 2005

In Brief
01 April 2005

US supports Japanese bid
01 April 2005 JAPAN . Nuclear

World's largest offshore programme cranks up
01 April 2005 UK . Renewable

The 60Hz "H" turns up in Canada
01 April 2005 CANADA . Gas Turbines

UK promise drastic CO2 reductions by 2050
01 April 2005 UK . Emissions

Giant windmill manufacturers combine
01 April 2005 DENMARK . Renewables

EPA proposal would slash pollutants
01 April 2005 USA . Emissions

March 2005

Top

Infrastructure needed, not fuel
30 March 2005 What causes instability and triggers blackouts is not the loss of output...

The nuclear future: hot or not?
30 March 2005

China to clamp down on illegal plants
23 March 2005 Central authorities are set to launch a policy to cancel construction...

China's grids go cutting edge
22 March 2005 Massive investment planned to boost transmission capabilities across...

IGCC plant planned by AEP
22 March 2005 Gasification plant to extend reach of clean coal

Phase II of CO2 capture project begins
22 March 2005 Sequestration and storage systems set for development

EU liberalisation laggards get short shrift
22 March 2005 EU Member States scolded for failure to open energy markets

UK greenhouse gas emissions fall while CO2 rises
22 March 2005 Carbon cuts set to hit target

Coal leads the pack in German energy
22 March 2005 VDEW unveils latest figures for generation contributions

Swiss OK grid operators joint venture
22 March 2005 New alliance to operate national transmission grid approved

BE replaces CEO
22 March 2005 British Energy chief replaced by non-executive director

UES reform to stay on track
22 March 2005 Chubais insists reforms to remain on schedule for 2006

UK gas giant hedges with coal
22 March 2005 Centrica agrees first coal-indexed power purchase agreement

Gleitz to head GE's wind arm
22 March 2005 Former Alstom man to take over from Zwolinski

EPA launches emissions control cap and trade measures
17 March 2005 National first as EPA orders coal-fired industry to cut mercury over...

US renewable standards to cost billions of dollars
17 March 2005 Some 52 GW of new renewable capacity required under state RPS schemes

Rethink on Dutch nuclear closure
17 March 2005 Kyoto and compensation conspire to keep reactor running

Solar power cost to fall for Japan
17 March 2005 Improved production methods set to pull PV power prices down

Nuclear power costs falling as gas prices rise
17 March 2005 Study finds nukes more attractive as load factors rise

Northern Ireland opens first windfarm
17 March 2005 First investment in renewable sector launches wave of developments

Enel and EdF close to reaching deal
17 March 2005 Technology investment may resolve market access dispute

Mine workings set to heat Scottish housing
17 March 2005 Abandoned pit to supply energy in the afterlife

Pakistan to develop 8,800 MW of new nuclear capacity
17 March 2005 Some 350 MW need annually through to 2025

Senate OKs Alaska wildlife refuge drilling
17 March 2005 Congress fight expected in oil exploration move

UK nuke surge mooted following media reports
17 March 2005 Government plays down nuclear surge post election

Bush presses Congress to act on reliability
15 March 2005 Mandatory standards call as FERC prepares to change rules for wind generation

Sweden-Lithuania power link
15 March 2005 Interconnector to support Baltic wind project

Wind turbine destroyed by wind
15 March 2005 Innovative twin blade system severely damaged by rapid change of wind direction

Biomass set for massive growth
15 March 2005 Huge contribution from biomass predicted over coming decades

Siemens to build plant in the UAE
15 March 2005 Middle East proves lucrative for German engineering giant

Areva to build two biomass power plants
15 March 2005 Wood waste to generate in Paraná, Brazil

Egat's accelerated status change
15 March 2005 Programme brought forward to boost development programme

Science funding to boost UK climate change skills
15 March 2005 New funding allocations announced by UK’s DTi

Biomass projects put on hold in Vietnam
15 March 2005 Sugar crop shortages threaten Vietnam's bagasse biomass plans

ENEL and ENAP set up geothermal plant
15 March 2005 Chilean state to become site for three joint developments

Indonesia plans coal-fired plant
15 March 2005 Consortium to develop two 12 MW units

Vestas wins US order
15 March 2005 Puget Sound to get 83 V80s

Alstom restructures boiler unit
15 March 2005 Some 340 boiler jobs are to be lost in Europe and the US in 'right sizing' move

Regionalisation is the new business strategy
15 March 2005 Increased interest from non-commercials could turn out to be a...

Third time lucky for H system go-ahead in US
10 March 2005 GE to build lead 60 Hz plant for H system at Calpine-owned two-unit...

FPL plans clean-coal plant
10 March 2005 Gasification project set for go-ahead for multiple units

Capex studies $19 billion wind to hydrogen plan
10 March 2005 16 GW of wind capacity key to hydrogen market project

Apex-BP Solar wins Zambian deal
10 March 2005 Contract for solar schools in rural areas

Alstom wins €560 million Saudi projects
10 March 2005 Three new 400 MW systems major plant nation's largest

60 nuclear plants to come on line over next 15 years
10 March 2005 Rising expectations for nuclear business in Asia

CPUC asked to approve six renenewables contracts
10 March 2005 RPS promoting Californian renewables projects

GE Energy Services targeting plant
10 March 2005 Additional revenues from services and maintenance contracts mooted

Japanese institute to seek to locate reactor in USA
10 March 2005 Alaskan town proposed site for novel nuclear design

Winds of change for Edinburgh
10 March 2005 Building designed to incorporate wind turbines

Russia on track for 2007 liberalisation
10 March 2005 Reforms programme set to forge forwards this year

Indian Tarapur 4 reactor goes critical
08 March 2005 Domestic nuclear industry goes large as the first 540 MW reactor goes...

Turbine ready for wave energy
08 March 2005 Novel Australian plant ready for siting

China's renewables target to cost $60 billion
08 March 2005 Foreign investment levels in doubt

Plans for UK biomass plant
08 March 2005 North East location for new wood burner

Siemens consortium to build Yemen plant
08 March 2005 Gas-fired facility to come on line in 2007

India to become fourth largest wind generator
08 March 2005 Growth levels put nation on course to overtake European players

Dynegy settles EPA pollution suit
08 March 2005 Illinois coal-fired plants to be refurbished to cut NOx and SOx

Guizhou begins new phase in power transfer plan
08 March 2005 West-east transmission begins second phase

Britain to launch single power market
08 March 2005 Unified system set to lower prices and boost renewables

Endesa taking action against rivals
08 March 2005 Iberdrola, Gas Natural face allegations of market manipulation

LIPA study shows $33 billion cost to bury power lines
08 March 2005 Reliability not significantly improved

Xcel bids for 2,500 MW of new capacity
08 March 2005 Colorado to get power boost in RFP

Canadian scientists develop plastic IR solar cell
08 March 2005 Cheaper solar power on the horizon

Europe and Japan stand behind plans for ITER
08 March 2005 Deadlock means delays for the fuel of the future

Nuclear development agreement signed
04 March 2005 A new multi-national deal to boost next generation nukes reasearch has...

GE wins giant Quebec wind deals
04 March 2005 Huge order for 660 turbines to generate 1 GW

NZ coal plants suspended
04 March 2005 Fuel supply issues see plants on hold

Georgia unveils privatisation plans
04 March 2005 UES reportedly excluded from bidding for small hydro and districos

Thin film solar efficiency first
04 March 2005 New nano-technology development boosts conversion

Kepco admits management role in accident
04 March 2005 Report details flaws in communications and inspections ahead of steam...

Dutch unbundling plan mooted
04 March 2005 Transmission and generation set for split

CLP wins TXU assets from Singapore
04 March 2005 Distribution and generation in Australia's Victoria fall to Hong Kong player

Vestas wins US order for 84 turbines
04 March 2005 Oklahoma plant gets phase II this summer

Russia signs nuclear fuel deal with Iran
04 March 2005 Controversial deal goes ahead despite US protests

Las Vegas to build 3.1 MW solar PV project
04 March 2005 One of the world's largest plants set to go ahead

UK bid to exploit tides
04 March 2005 New Bristol Channel project mooted

Solar desalination project to go ahead
04 March 2005 Research project to be based on thermal systems

UK to press EU nations for greater competition
04 March 2005 Forthcoming presidency set to raise profile of energy liberalisation

Hydro giant planned for Congo
01 March 2005 $50 billion run of river project to be world's largest hydro plant,...

Spanish laws set to increase regulation of major players
01 March 2005 Imports likely to be restricted in bid to boost competition

EdP heads for conflict over merger with GdP
01 March 2005 EU merger veto to be appealed on Iberian market devlopment

Distribution sector marked by reforms
01 March 2005 Eurelectric report highlights distribution operations

Indian SEBs need reform: report
01 March 2005 State Electricity Board losses mount

Cogeneration neglected by European Commission
01 March 2005 EC overlooks role of cogeneration in biomass plan

More solar for CA in revised proposal
01 March 2005 California seeks more solar power for resource mix

Leading edge power station for Oz state
01 March 2005 First gas-fired CCGT for NSW

Vietnam to build eight new hydro plants
01 March 2005 Small hydro get government go-ahead

Fuel cells for the home ahead
01 March 2005 Japan Co plans to market to home users

Deals Ugandan
01 March 2005 Power distribution company in Uganda privatised

Colombian transmission link
01 March 2005 New 1,000 km link planned for 2007

Chinese renewable law passed
01 March 2005 Bid to promote renewables speeds through legislature

Italian grid sales from Enel
01 March 2005 Terna to become Italian grid operator

Nuclear development deal
01 March 2005 Groundbreaking deal to see Gen IV reactor development

February 2005

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Power line communications: still looking for a niche?
28 February 2005

Australian blackout threat as Basslink hit by bad weather
24 February 2005 World's longest HVDC link delayed by months after transformers are...

Gen-set market growth mooted for Mid-east and Africa
24 February 2005 Economic and population growth accelerate demand

FutureGen siting set to begin
24 February 2005 Planned coal-fired plant with sequestration systems takes a step forward

China to accept tenders for four new nukes
24 February 2005 Massive growth in nuclear generation planned over coming decade

RWE investment plans announced
24 February 2005 German giant aims for massive €20 billion spend

Bid possible for third US nuclear plant
24 February 2005 New streamlined process for licensing tested

Vietnamese rural transmission development planned
24 February 2005 EVN to invest $2.09 billion on power links while import rise

Brussels to probe energy market
24 February 2005 Slow pace of liberalisation prompts investigation

Siemens-Westinghouse to replace nuke's turbine parts
24 February 2005 New LP rotors at Cook 1 to increase output

GE to supply Taiwanese nuclear plant
24 February 2005 Control systems upgrade goes to US firm

French solar deal for Morocco
24 February 2005 Total, EdF, Total Energie win €21.2 million solar deal

France likely to sell well below 30% of GdF
24 February 2005 Small scale deal opens doors for acquisitions

Argentina to develop new T & D links
24 February 2005 Links planned for hydro and interstate plans

Tajikistan to export power to Russia
24 February 2005 Kazakhstan link opens Tajikistan to export 700 GWh

Transmission costs for wind: report
24 February 2005 Wind to cost Germany more than €1 billion in transmission

Reactor replaced in single piece
24 February 2005 MHI saves time without cutting anything

M&A deals in gas and electricity treble in 2004
22 February 2005 Report says new surge in deals led by the States with the top five deals...

Finnish, Swedish grids plan subsea cable
22 February 2005 Bottlenecks to be eliminated by new link

German renewables grow by a fifth in a year
22 February 2005 Green energy boosted by massive wind growth

Verbund to build 480 MW pumped storage facility
22 February 2005 Austrian plant ready to smooth renewables impacts

AES to develop Bulgarian plants
22 February 2005 Lignite-fired plants to go ahead by 2008

NZ's energy rules must be clarified
22 February 2005 Weak generation investment threatens supply security

Irish liberalisation moves forward
22 February 2005 Domestic market still dominated by state-owned ESB

Vancouver plant gets go-ahead
22 February 2005 BC Hydro gains capacity to avoid brown outs

Indian wind calls for incentives switch
22 February 2005 Performance based tax credit mooted

Manila may accelerate Napocor sale
22 February 2005 Spot market launch to coincide with asset split

EdF and Enel in possible nuke link
22 February 2005 Dispute resolution may see technology alliance

Kyoto takes effect
17 February 2005 As the Protocol comes into force many observers see it heralding a new...

Maharashtra open to buy Dabhol output
17 February 2005 Stalled project nearing finance breakthrough

EPA outlines options for NOx
17 February 2005 Three plans open for NOx control in states

Areva to build HVDC de-icing system
17 February 2005 Thyristor key component to prevent ice damage in Quebec

South Korea to build offshore wind
17 February 2005 Four projects mooted for 1 GW of power

Wind to deliver Karachi energy
17 February 2005 Plans for massive expansion of project

Finland grants nuke building permit
17 February 2005 New reactor to go ahead

Romania plans €137 million upgrade
17 February 2005 EU environmental standards to be achieved

Dong acquires new Energi E2 stake
17 February 2005 Danish player closes out Swedes

Aim for 4,800 MW generation hike by SNET
17 February 2005 French player plans to bulk up

Contracts and tender: Portugal tenders for wind
17 February 2005 New wind farm planned, submissions invited

Phu My 2.2 commences ops in Vietnam
17 February 2005 Latest CCGT comes on line in giant power complex

UES to implement Kyoto projects
17 February 2005 Carbon savings planned at CHP plants

Tougher policy to bring focus on Chinese power sector
15 February 2005 Crack down planned on unauthorised generation plants

Fortum invests in biodiesel
15 February 2005 Move set to expolit demand growth prompted by EU directive

Central American transmission interconnection
15 February 2005 Siepac development set to go ahead as companies come aboard

Brazil to auction transmission
15 February 2005 New sale set to be larger than previous divestments

Privatisation of Nigerian NEPA
15 February 2005 Long-delayed plans for sale set to go ahead

Flywheel energy storage contracts
15 February 2005 New York and California to trial demo projects

EU in dispute with UK over carbon allocations
15 February 2005 Threat to electricity sector if the EU stands firm on allocations after...

Vietnam plans $13.8 billion power investment by 2010
15 February 2005 Privatisation bids to raise cash for energy development

A year of change
14 February 2005 "... there is no certainty that the new (German) energy law will...

China in bid to develop pebble bed reactor
10 February 2005 Site selection pushes China into a strong position to develop the...

French privatisation plans
10 February 2005 Chunks of EdF and Areva both set to go this year

UK and US agree on BNFL contracts
10 February 2005 Fixed price contracts to go ahead after deal

Cabinet approves Saudi bid for KESC
10 February 2005 Pakistani utility sale to consortium set to go ahead

Grid rules to be enforced by FERC
10 February 2005 Cost recovery under threat through non-compliance

Egat sale back on after Thaksin returned
10 February 2005 Massive victory gives mandate for privatisation plans

New mercury emissions approach mooted
10 February 2005 Plan seen as favourable to early movers

Endesa spends €1.06 billion on distribution
10 February 2005 Iberdrola and Endesa jacking up spend

DONG buys Copenhagen power company and E2 stake
10 February 2005 Elsam not distraction for DONG dealings in Denmark

New de-sal plant for Fujairah
09 February 2005 Abu Dhabi to get new power and water facility

5 MW wind turbine gets going
08 February 2005 REpower 5M prototype, inaugurated by Germany's environment minister,...

Transmission report on European interconnections
08 February 2005 Eurelectric and UCTE report on European-CIS-Med links

Beacon gets flywheel storage patents
08 February 2005 Flywheel energy storage technology patents

Dabhol deals starting to move
08 February 2005 NTPC/GAIL to buy 50:50 stake in Dabhol

Giant plans for North Sea wind
08 February 2005 Irish Airtricity plans off-shore wind farm

Contracts and tenders: International developers invited to bid
08 February 2005 Three new plants for Pakistan

Spanish drought boost's carbon spend
08 February 2005 Dry spell may cost euro 400 million

Primary Energy buys 270 MW
08 February 2005 Cogeneration plants sold in US

Data wave for UK
08 February 2005 Research to pave way for wave generation

Russian aluminium group's plans
08 February 2005 Giant Tajikistan hydro power plant

Langley buys RWE Piller
08 February 2005 RWE sells UPS group

AES wins Bulgarian go-ahead
08 February 2005 Maritsa Iztok-1 project under development

It's a DONG deal
08 February 2005 DONG and Vattenfall raise stakes for Elsam

Romanian distribution sale
08 February 2005 E.On and CEZ get first refusal

Wartsila's oil giant
08 February 2005 oil-fuelled engine power plant inaugurated

Norwegian small hydro can double output
08 February 2005 20% of capacity available

$80 billion in estimated costs for power interruptions in the US
03 February 2005 Berkeley study estimates annual cost of power interruptions and finds...

German windfarm closes finance
03 February 2005 Construction underway at 128 MW farm

New power policy approved in India
03 February 2005 Guidelines aim to promote competition and rural electrification

'MOX safer than storage' for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium
03 February 2005 NRC report paves way for new MOX plant in US

Dabhol still desirable
03 February 2005 Load-shedding Mahrashtra calls for resolution on plant

Ofgem details conditions for gas network sale
03 February 2005 National Grid Transco and buyers to comply for deal

Japan rejects EU ITER deal
03 February 2005 Contracts clause drags out settlement for site location

US electricity demand setting new records
03 February 2005 Winter peaks raise concerns for gas supplies

San Diego Gas & Electric to expand transmission for renewables
03 February 2005 Geothermal resources set to be tapped

Private power costs less than Mexican CFE
03 February 2005 Modern plant outperforms state sector

IEA calls for new reactors in Canada
03 February 2005 Policy review highlights options

EHN, AEGA and KW Tarifa alliance to market wind
03 February 2005 Market forces at work in Spain

New GE 10-2 gas turbine system reduces NOx
03 February 2005 Power generation model to follow

Russian hydro expects minimal earnings in first year
03 February 2005 Newly formed giant hopes reforms will boost revenue

British Energy shuts down Heysham - 1
03 February 2005 Developments at AGRs

French power surge
01 February 2005 Record French consumption reached

US LNG for Tractebel
01 February 2005 Sempra sells third of LNG capacity to Franco-Belgian giant

Californian Commission votes on demand-side management
01 February 2005 PUC puts control back in utility hands

EdF increases stake in EnBW
01 February 2005 French play opens possibility for majority holding

Spain to face nuclear waste management costs
01 February 2005 Plant owners to contribute to waste management company

Contracts and tenders: GE kit for Nevada peaker
01 February 2005 GE turbine for Nevada plant

UK gas distribution networks up for grabs
01 February 2005 National Grid Transco gains permission to sell

Wind growth in the EU
01 February 2005 Growth is topped by Spain in European league

Precipitator and scrubber market analysis
01 February 2005 A series of new reports reveals China as the global powerhouse in new...

More than 20 GW of renewables planned for UK
01 February 2005 New survey shows growing role of green energy

Contracts and tenders: Siemens wins orders in Africa, India and the Middle East
01 February 2005 Gas turbine orders worth euro 850 million

Moves on Laos Nam Theun 2 hydro project
01 February 2005 World Bank set to begin appraisal

Contracts and tenders: Siemens to modernize Bulgarian substation
01 February 2005 Upgrade for Bulgaria's second city

New scheme helps British wave and tidal projects
01 February 2005 Revenue and capital boost for large demonstration projects

GE boost for renewable finance
01 February 2005 Finance house alliance to focus on renewables and clean technology

January 2005

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Is Commmission's benchmarking report a tacit admission of failure?
31 January 2005 “... those markets that want to ensure control by domestic companies...

Exhaustive action needed on water?
31 January 2005

Canadian Kyoto strategy
26 January 2005 Government set to unveil carbon reduction plans

Global warming 'time bomb'
26 January 2005 Report says G-8 must reduce carbon emissions as planet ‘close to point of...

FERC paves way for wind
26 January 2005 New connection rules proposed to enhance reliability

Spanish Cesa and Terranova link likely
26 January 2005 Bulking up to take on larger domestic players

Siemens ups VA Tech bid - Vattenfall's Elsam play fails
26 January 2005 Pressure from shareholders sees offer rise

Conferences and events: Transmission summit
26 January 2005 The seventh annual transmission summit takes place from 7 – 9 March

Clear skies bill for US
26 January 2005 Senators have unveiled the latest version of Bush's emissions...

Wind blows through Greece
26 January 2005 Iberdrola to benefit from efforts to meet Kyoto targets

Indian PPA plant deal
26 January 2005 Successful trading PPA gives boost to private project finance

German wind production
25 January 2005 Installations slow on 2003 figures

IP buys out EME portfolio
25 January 2005 International Power has completed its acquisition of the...

Middle east power finance
25 January 2005 Al Taweelah largest mid-east electricity financing

New 'hot fusion' experiment
25 January 2005 MIT and Columbia University researchers have begun operation of a...

Mirant files bankruptcy deal
25 January 2005 Proposals to see group emerge by mid-year

Sempra lawsuit to proceed
25 January 2005 Up to $24 billion suit to go ahead

ABB to develop world's longest seabed HVDC link
25 January 2005 The NorNed project, a 600 MW high-voltage direct current transmission...

Worst polluters named
25 January 2005 North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has...

Four new CCGTs for Portugal
25 January 2005 Plants due for 2005 launch

Canada's Melancthon Grey
25 January 2005 Wind farm to use GE machines

Financing for US biomass clone complete
25 January 2005 Building on experience gained in the UK, a group of investors...

Mitsui supercritical in China
25 January 2005 Mitsui Babcock boiler to reduce emissions

Siemens launches in Morocco
25 January 2005 First CCGT for German engineering giants

IPE launches UK price index
25 January 2005 Bilateral OTC trade tool appears

Solar vineyard
25 January 2005 GE and Premier Power to deliver turnkey solar project

Discounts for German giants
25 January 2005 Transmission deal set to favour big players

Spain approves emissions rules
25 January 2005 Coal-fired generators get bigger carbon allowances

GE wins Chinese turbine deal
25 January 2005 Series of contract wins puts GE ahead

Vattenfall bids for Elsam
20 January 2005 Danish power major a target for takeover

Danish wind battle
20 January 2005 Four bidding to develop off shore farm

Russian reform sidetracked
20 January 2005 Privatisation on hold as restructuring continues

Vietnam power to raise equity
20 January 2005 Power sector reforms change equity structure for seven power plants

CEZ completes Bulgarian deal
20 January 2005 Distribution companies go to Czech player

Foreign players flee China
20 January 2005 Power players turning away from massive growth market

CEZ buys emission permits
20 January 2005 Czech giant buys up bulk of emissions permits

RWE launches new gas access scheme
20 January 2005 Postal type system to ease third party access to gas network

French strike cuts output
20 January 2005 Union action slices 7,000 MW off French capacity

Tenders and proposals: Israel solar
20 January 2005 100 MW solar project in the air for southern Israel

Tenders and proposals: Ohio clean coal
20 January 2005 Clean coal technology or carbon sequestration to boost use of Ohio coal

Alstom wins Chinese orders
20 January 2005 China sends euro 60 million worth of business to Alstom

Siemens VA tech bid to rise?
18 January 2005 Pressure from commercial banks may force Siemens' hand

Price manipulation suits
18 January 2005 Legal battles continue years after power crises in California

npower in bribery case
18 January 2005 Claim and counter claim as former partners fight

British Energy re-lists stock
18 January 2005 Troubled nuclear group launches following restructuring move

Siemens wins power contracts
18 January 2005 Steam, gas and wind turbines boost order book

EU urges open energy markets
18 January 2005 Report suggests more effort needed to achieve competitive energy market

Soviet base for Estonian wind
18 January 2005 Former submarine base site for new wind venture

Chinese wind starts to fly
18 January 2005 Domestic industry begins to grow as fuel prices rise

Iberdrola wins Albanian deal
18 January 2005 Substation contracts for Spanish group

Swedes still in the dark
18 January 2005 Repairs continue a week after the storm

EdF swaps Pemex gas for CFE
18 January 2005 Contract swaps now allowed in Mexico

Lahmeyer takes over Madagascar
18 January 2005 German group to operate distribution of water and electricity

Sempra makes Mexican move
14 January 2005 LNG contract for Mexican generation

EU carbon prices slump
14 January 2005 Warm and wet weather pushes carbon price down

EdF to hike UK tariffs
14 January 2005 French-owned utility boost tariffs for UK customers

Indian police attempt to curb theft
14 January 2005 Orissa plans new power police to cut transmission losses

Spain could fund nukes
14 January 2005 Falling demand could land consumers with compensation bill

Germany takes over from Japan
14 January 2005 Japan falls to second place in solar installations

Mexico's $3 billion in power
14 January 2005 Central American country plans major boost in generation

Seinfra building wind plant
14 January 2005 Two new wind farms under development in Brazil

Wind adds little to grid cost
14 January 2005 German consumers face minimal cost for wind grid enhancement

Eletrobras 2005 investment
14 January 2005 Brazil's state-owned utility announces investment plans

Tampa Electric's emissions
14 January 2005 Florida plant set for clean up with SCR

AES plans to buy SeaWest
14 January 2005 Wind joins the mainstream as AES buys out developer

Britain hits global top spot
14 January 2005 The UK hits the heights for renewable energy investment

Euronext works on carbon
11 January 2005 Carbon trading market under development in France

China's capacity boost
11 January 2005 Surge in capacity growth set to deliver excess by 2005

E.On UK plans for wind
11 January 2005 Scotland set to get more wind capacity

NERC set to approve draft rules
11 January 2005 Rules brought in to improve grid reliability

ABB to develop longest HVDC
11 January 2005 Norway and Netherlands set to be linked

Emissions from 1000 plants reported
11 January 2005 Data reveals worst offenders in North America

GE to supply Mexican turbines
11 January 2005 Mexico to get new GE supplied CCGT plant

Siemens acquires companies
11 January 2005 Network planning group PTI joins Siemens as VA Tech prepares to fall

Gales cut power across Europe
11 January 2005 Massive power disruptions as storms sweep northern Europe

Enron directors reach deal
11 January 2005 Agreement said to be reached in suit with Californian university

New wind for Weatherford
11 January 2005 FPL plans Oaklahoma's largest wind farm

Indian grid seeks $2 billion
11 January 2005 Plans to accelerate grid development have prompted a fund raising drive

CPUC action for cleaner power
11 January 2005 Regulators place market value on greenhouse gases

Scroby boosts UK wind
06 January 2005 Scroby Sands commissioning all but doubles UK’s offshore wind capacity

New UK minister
06 January 2005 Mallard to replace Hodgson as new energy minister for UK

Spanish investments up
06 January 2005 2004 Spanish power investments up almost 10% on 2003

Norwegian price fluctuations
06 January 2005 Norwegian spot prices slump - prices set to rise in 2005

Iranian capacity boost
06 January 2005 The last eight years have seen huge growth in Iranian istalled capacity

Surge in Chinese coal plant
06 January 2005 Massive investment programme set to change global markets

Indonesian reforms at risk
06 January 2005 Law repeal threatens foreign investment

Vietnam shortage fears prompt capacity boost
06 January 2005 EVN stumping up investment cash for power growth

December 2004

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Siemens' Chinese HVDC link
21 December 2004 China is running its third HVDC link after its completion by Siemens Power T&D

Maharashtra capacity plan
21 December 2004 Faced with a growing energy crisis Maharashtra is planning big boosts...

Bruce heads for restart
21 December 2004 Ontario's Bruce A nuclear plant moves a step closer to restart

Petrobras boosts stake
21 December 2004 EdP sells power stake to Brazil's Petrobras

GE's windmills in La Mancha
21 December 2004 Nearly 200 turbines installed for Spanish wind farm

Peakers for Southern CA
21 December 2004 Up to three new plants planned for Southern Californian peaking market

Gazprom's power plays
21 December 2004 Russian Gazprom makes moves towards intergrated energy outfit

Australian gas first
21 December 2004 Plans for first gas-fired baseload mooted in Oz

IEA investment projections
21 December 2004 $10 trillion in investment needed over next 25 years

Transmission limits to wind
21 December 2004 Transmission constraints between the Scotland-England border may limit...

US coal on the up
21 December 2004 Rising gas prices are prompting a resurgence in coal-fired developments

Greens for sale
21 December 2004 United Utilities seeking buyer for green energy division

UK unions back nukes
21 December 2004 Two major unions have called upon the government to revise energy policy...

Say hello wave goodbye
21 December 2004 Ex-CEGB man backs wave power venture

Mexican prices prompting private power
21 December 2004 An industrial consortium plans to set up a private generation arm

Philippine privatisation boost
21 December 2004 Measures introduced by the Philippine government are laying the...

German demand flat
21 December 2004 New figures show demand in Germany has hardly risen in nine months

African plans
17 December 2004 Eskom aims for private sector generation

Australian emissions trading scheme
17 December 2004 Resistance between states is holding up development of Australia's ETS

New energy chief for the US
17 December 2004 Bush names Bodman as Energy Secretary

Green group lobbied
17 December 2004 WWF ruffles feathers over green power

Agency bows out in California
17 December 2004 Arnie shuts CA state Power Authority

CPFL to boost generation
17 December 2004 Hydroelectric plants boost earnings

Reforms set to deliver efficiency in Russia
17 December 2004 Russia plans to increase its electricity industry's efficiency through...

ABB case to be reviewed in District Court
14 December 2004 ABB's Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganisation for its subsidiary...

Iran to suspend uranium enrichment
14 December 2004 EU and Iranian officials have reached agreement over Iran’s plans...

GT26 contract confirmed
14 December 2004 Alstom has signed the contract to supply the 1400 MW combined-cycle...

Vestas ceo resigns
14 December 2004 Svend Sigaard, president and CEO of Vestas Wind Systems, has decided...

Scroby Sands commissioned
14 December 2004 E.On UK, the company that runs Powergen, has announced that all 30...

EDF's new status brings changes
09 December 2004 The French state-owned entity is now a limited liability company.

Investigation into Texan grid operator moves up a notch
09 December 2004 Grand jury to study fraud allegations at ERCOT.

EC prohibits acquisition of Gas De Portugal
09 December 2004 The European Commission has thwarted a bid by Electricity de Portugal and...

GE buys water treatment company
08 December 2004 $4.4 m deal agreed for purchase of Ionics

FKI to get out of wind turbines
08 December 2004 Engineering manufacturing group FKI is to close its wind...

High-efficiency gas turbine plant will be a first
08 December 2004 The first application of GE's H system in 60 Hz combined cycle station.

Keeping the market well oiled
08 December 2004 Are there any grounds for optimism in the year to come?

Now we are five, THM is everything
08 December 2004

November 2004

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Plant services opportunities
17 November 2004 Eastern Europe privatisation is increasing the demand for plant services.

Two owners for Spanish plant
17 November 2004 Amorebieta gas-fired station is to be Spain's first foreign owned plant.

US energy chief resigns
17 November 2004 Abraham leaves Department of Energy

Enel a candidate for geo plant
17 November 2004 Chile's Enap is in talks with an Enel subsidiary to build a geothermal plant.

SA govt approves funding of PBMR
16 November 2004 Government agrees to $81 million for key contracts

Chinese greens fiercely oppose Leaping Tiger project
16 November 2004 Local environmentalists are hoping to prevent the building of eight dams...

France pushes for local ITER site
16 November 2004 IAEA talks to decide the site for the the ITER fusion project have...

Siemens prepares to take over VA Tech
16 November 2004 Benefits expected in growth markets from new euro-combine.

The alliance has issue
16 November 2004 The recently formed GE-Bechtel alliance is to study feasibility of a...

Call for better access to hydro finance
16 November 2004 The UN is promoting measures to help developing countries establish...

Privatisation approved
16 November 2004 Distribution organisations get sell-off approval in the long drawn...

Siemens wins contract at giant photovoltaic plant
16 November 2004 Siemens is to supply electrical equipment for Germany's 10 MW Bavaria Solarpark

Premiere for Ecobulb
16 November 2004 Two 1 MW turbines for small-scale hydro have been commissioned in Paullo.

Wind of change drives mega projects
10 November 2004

October 2004

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2500 comes up for GE
29 October 2004 GE Energy has installed its 2500th 1.5MWe wind turbine.

EDF sells its stake in Total
29 October 2004 EDF has put up for sale its 2.3% stake in Total SA,

Nigeria gets its research reactor
29 October 2004 Nigeria has commissioned its first nuclear reactor, a research unit near Zaria.

Reliance Energy to build Haryana
29 October 2004 Haryana state cabinet has approved the award to Reliance Energy of a...

Ameren buys Illinois Power
29 October 2004 Ameren Corp has completed its purchase of Illinois Power from Dynergy.

EDF gets its own EPR
29 October 2004 Electricité de France has revealed the site for its first EPR.

US generators contest CO2 lawsuits
29 October 2004 Five US electricity generators have filed motions to dismiss CO2...

Power giants see new opportunities in China
29 October 2004 China's power shortfall has created new opportunites for foreign companies...

Russian cabinet approves Kyoto
29 October 2004 With Russia's ratification the Kyoto Protocol will achieve the required...

Siemens moves into the wind business
29 October 2004 Siemens PG has acquired turbine maker Bonus Energy.

BT signs record green power deal
29 October 2004 UK telecoms giant BT has entered into agreements that amount to the...

New recip-based microgenset to be developed
29 October 2004 Advanced Engine Technologies and generator specialist Danotek...

Regenesys will go on, but in Canada
29 October 2004 VRB Power Systems Inc is to buy the Regenesys electricity storage...

CO2 sequestration, the new FGD?
01 October 2004

New Commission faces challenge on energy
01 October 2004 "On paper the market is more competitive but in reality competition has...

September 2004

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IGCC revisited: the new deal
11 September 2004

SuperVar passes its grid test
03 September 2004 American Superconductor has announced the successful operation and testing...

Dealing Success
02 September 2004 “...the power market may turn full circle – to one where the US market...

August 2004

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A new role for coal?
23 August 2004 “There are concerns that the market is not working as envisaged when NETA...

Power from the ocean deeps
23 August 2004 INDIA . RENEWABLES

Erosion/corrosion of nuclear credibility
23 August 2004 comment

Power industry projects
23 August 2004

Huangheyuan hydro shuts down
23 August 2004 CHINA . HYDRO

Power industry projects
16 August 2004 No introduction in this so why is this ridiculous panel mandatory?

Kepco to be investigated over fatal nuclear accident
12 August 2004 Following the recent accident at Kansai Electric Power Company's...

July 2004

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The rise and fall of greenhouse gases
08 July 2004 Sequestration is difficult, but if we don't have sequestration then I...

Regionalising Europe
08 July 2004 Increasingly finding favour is the notion of regional markets, the...

June 2004

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Upcoming contracts
23 June 2004

Oil's influence: why it still matters
23 June 2004 It is difficult to ignore the current rising price of crude oil. At the...

Mercury rising in the EU?
23 June 2004 So far, the USA, with regulations due to be finalised in December 2004,...

May 2004

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Security 'a major concern'
23 May 2004 WORLDWIDE . ENERGY SECURITY

IGCC at a turning point?
23 May 2004

Europe's nuclear question
23 May 2004 With questions being raised about the cost of wind power, and...

March 2004

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Power industry projects
15 March 2004

February 2004

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Australia abandons Kyoto protocol
21 February 2004 AUSTRALIA . Emissions

Power industry projects
21 February 2004

Tower power comes closer
21 February 2004 AUSTRALIA . Renewables

Making allowances for pollution
21 February 2004 Clearly electricity prices will rise as a result of the emission...

Qubec 7H on hold, for now
21 February 2004

December 2003

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Vestas and Micon to merge
24 December 2003 A new giant in the wind turbine business will be created if...

Hatfield colliery goes into administration
22 December 2003 After a sustained period of loss making operations Hatfield colliery,...

World's largest offshore windfarm proposed
22 December 2003 If London Array has made plans to lease an offshore wind farm site in...

IEA criticises trans-Asian pipeline plan
22 December 2003 The International Energy Agency, has suggested that Russia's plan to build...

US energy bill talked out
22 December 2003 Democrat members duly carried out their threat to block by filibuster the...

Russia to drop out of Kyoto agreement
22 December 2003 Russia will not ratify in its present form the Kyoto Protocol designed...

Regenesys runs out of time
22 December 2003 RWE is to close down its Regenesys regenerative fuel cell project....

The fusion race is on
22 December 2003 The European Union has chosen Cadarache in France to be its candidate for...

Squeeze on BE tightens
22 December 2003 Delays in re-opening Heysham 1 and Sizewell B power stations have...

The reforming of Enel
22 December 2003 As part of its preparation for partial privatisation Enel is to sell a...

New cable service in the Straits
22 December 2003 Nexans and Pirelli are to build the 115 million Euro, 30 km, high...

Areva-Siemens gets the EPR contract
22 December 2003 The Areva/Siemens consortium has been awarded the contract to build an...

Step change in simple cycle efficiency
22 December 2003 GE has unveiled its latest simple cycle gas turbine, flagged as the...

November 2003

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Three Gorges share sale flooded with offers
25 November 2003 An initial public offering (IPO) in China's Three Gorges project attracted...

Blackout will have far reaching effects
25 November 2003 A study measuring the economic impact of the North American power blackout...

Russia-South Korea link
25 November 2003 Russia, North Korea and South Korea have finalised plans in principle ...

Indebted ABB announces restructuring plan
25 November 2003 ABB has announced a programme to strengthen its capital and...

European regulators get together
25 November 2003 The European Commission is to set up a European Regulators' Group to...

FirstEnergy takes major share of the blame
25 November 2003 The joint task force interim report into the August 14 US blackout has...

Solid basis for cell growth
17 November 2003

Indebted ABB announces restructuring plan
17 November 2003 Switzerland/Sweden: ABB has announced a programme to strengthen its...

Outages hit BE's costs
17 November 2003 United Kingdom: British Energy announced that it was facing extra costs...

Selling the State's rights
17 November 2003 Slovakia: Slovakia's economy minister, Pavol Rusko, said that the state...

Blackout will have long-term impact
17 November 2003 United States: A study measuring the economic impact of the North...

Transmission line agreed
17 November 2003 Russia/North Korea/South Korea: Russia, North Korea and South Korea...

Restructuring of Wärtsilä
17 November 2003 Wärtsilä has announced that as part of a general group restructuring it...

Electrabel buys stake in SHEM
17 November 2003 France: The Belgian utility Electrabel has announced that it will buy 40%...

First Russian power trades
17 November 2003 Russia: The new electricity exchange in Russia has held its first...

Sale of Illinois Power assets agreed
17 November 2003 United States: Exelon has agreed to acquire most of the assets...

Rome returns to the dark ages
12 November 2003 Parts of the south of Italy were disconnected for over 24 hours when a...

October 2003

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DoE names regional GHG partners
23 October 2003 United States The US Department of Energy (DoE) has named the...

Business not quite as usual
06 October 2003

Joint venture for Barrow wind farm
04 October 2003 United Kingdom: Centrica of the UK, DONG of Denmark, and Statkraft of...

The rising cost of energy
01 October 2003

Is the EU a suitable role model?
01 October 2003

September 2003

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IP wins a stake in Drax
30 September 2003 AES Drax Holdings (Drax) has entered into an agreement with...

Blackout may galvanise Cross Sound decision
30 September 2003 The pressing need to improve the US grid in the NE of the country may...

Renovation redefined
30 September 2003 The Bush administration has authorised the revised EPA rule on...

GE shows the H turbine to the world
30 September 2003 Baglan Bay is the site of the first commercial H turbine, GE's new...

UES under western eyes
30 September 2003 Unified Energy Systems (UES) of Russia plans to hand over management of...

EU compliant rescue plan agreed
30 September 2003 The French government has come up with a formula for the Alstom...

'We know what happened, but not why'
30 September 2003 An event timeline compiled by the US/Canada joint task force shows a...

Projects seeking participants
22 September 2003 Global: Around the world, projects are in the process of issuing requests...

Plan to bury CO2 under the sea
15 September 2003 United Kingdom: The UK government is considering plans to pipe CO2...

Thorpedoed
15 September 2003 United Kingdom: According to a report in the Guardian, BNFL will close...

IP wins Drax deal
15 September 2003 United Kingdom: AES Drax Holdings (Drax) has announced that it has...

ENEL eyes UES Power
15 September 2003 Russia: Unified Energy Systems (UES) of Russia has confirmed that it plans...

Judge says FirstEnergy broke the law
15 September 2003 United States: US District Judge Edmund Sargas ruled that...

Hydrogen visions and roadmaps
01 September 2003

August 2003

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Changes to PBMR team
26 August 2003 State owned utility Eskom is to make significant changes to the...

FERC clears Duke Energy
26 August 2003 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Duke Energy and...

AES withdraws support for Drax restructuring
26 August 2003 AES Corp, the owner of Drax, in Yorkshire, Britain's biggest coal fired...

China plans its biggest nuke
26 August 2003 A 6000 MW nuclear power station, China's biggest to date, is to be built...

Philosopher's stone found in the UK
26 August 2003 Researchers have successfully transmuted the radioactive isotope...

HTS generator breakthrough by GE-led team
26 August 2003 A successful test of its new high temperature superconducting generator...

UK-Norway link to go ahead
26 August 2003 The UK government has overruled local objections to the siting of...

North America's line failures
22 August 2003 USA/Canada: Investigators are still examining the causes of the...

Senate passes holding version of energy bill
17 August 2003 United States: The US Senate has reapproved by 84-14 a...

South Korea selects site for radwaste repository
17 August 2003 South Korea: The South Korean government has selected a site for...

Maintaining the nuclear option
17 August 2003 United States: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has...

EU may reject unfair' BE rescue plan
03 August 2003 The European Commission (EC) may reject the UK government's...

EU rejects BE rescue plan
03 August 2003 United Kingdom: The European Commission (EC) has rejected the UK...

Nexans outbids Areva for Alstom T&D
03 August 2003 France: Nexans, the French cable manufacturer, has outbid the...

Nexans counterbids for Alstom T&D
03 August 2003 Nexans has made a surprise E1.05 billion offer for control of...

Mass production of superconducting cable now possible
03 August 2003 Japan: Sumitomo Electric Industries has claimed that it has developed a...

International Power to Drax's rescue
03 August 2003 United Kingdom: International Power is understood to have made an offer...

Boost for wind power
03 August 2003 Canada: The Ontario provincial government has unveiled a new strategy...

Great River Energy files plan
03 August 2003 United States: Great River Energy has filed its Integrated Resource Plan...

Largest ever Sharia compliant loan agreed
03 August 2003 Abu Dhabi: The 2200MWe Umm Al-Nar Independent Water and Power Project...

Fuel cell tests at 31 locations
03 August 2003 Japan: Japan will carry out tests for fuel cells at 31 locations,...

Joint venture unveiled
03 August 2003 Japan: Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric said that their joint venture...

July 2003

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Inspections invited
17 July 2003 Iran: Iran has invited the European Parliament to send a mission to...

Plans for new clean-up body
17 July 2003 United Kingdom: The UK government has announced draft legislation for a...

Next step for PBMR
17 July 2003 South Africa: South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) has...

Delayed restart cuts BE's income
17 July 2003 Canada/United Kingdom: Bruce 4's delayed restart will cut the income...

Cameco restarts McArthur River mining
17 July 2003 Canada: Cameco Corporation announced that the McArthur River mine is back...

Ontario may face blackouts
17 July 2003 Canada: Emergency electricity reserves will be far below what is required...

Second Tepco unit returns to service
17 July 2003 Japan: Tokyo Electric Power's (Tepco's) Kashiwazaki Kariwa 7 has...

El Paso energy settlement finalised
07 July 2003 United States: California state negotiators have finalised a settlement...

Legislation to be pushed through
07 July 2003 Italy: The Italian government said that it would push through legislation...

Enron barred from selling at market rates
07 July 2003 United States: Federal energy regulators have barred Enron from...

Stake exchange agreed by CEZ and E.ON
07 July 2003 Germany/Czech Republic: CEZ and E.ON have agreed on an exchange of...

Cameco restarts McArthur River mining
07 July 2003 Canada: Cameco Corporation announced that the McArthur River mine is back...

AP1000 achieves milestone
07 July 2003 United States: Westinghouse Electric president and CEO Steve Tritch said...

Next step for PBMR
07 July 2003 South Africa: South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) has...

June 2003

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IAEA releases statistics
15 June 2003 Global: The International Atomic Energy Agency has released its...

Europe moves to host ITER
15 June 2003 Europe: Philippe Busquin, the member of the European Commission...

G8 consensus on weapon aspirations
15 June 2003 Iran/North Korea: The G8 leaders have agreed that North Korea and Iran...

Shaken, not affected
15 June 2003 Japan: An earthquake that took place in the north of Japan did not affect...

Eskom reaffirms support for PBMR
15 June 2003 South Africa: Eskom has announced that it was ready to continue to the...

Ginna to be sold
15 June 2003 United States: Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E) has announced that it...

Turbine repairs at Cooper cleared
15 June 2003 United States: Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has been given...

Commerce Department stands by USEC decision
15 June 2003 United States: The US Commerce Department has reasserted its position in...

No more cracks found
15 June 2003 United States: STP Nuclear Operating Co has announced that no cracks...

NRC urges review of bobbin coil data
15 June 2003 United States: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has urged...

CEZ restructuring
08 June 2003 Czech Republic: Czech electricity producer CEZ has expressed an interest...

International Power plans share buy-back
08 June 2003 United Kingdom: Since it was demerged from National Power,...

Exelon to retire four plants
08 June 2003 United States: Exelon Power Northeast Operations has announced that...

Changing renewable energy policy
08 June 2003 Spain: Spain is studying changes in its renewable energy policy in a bid...

UES offers pro rata stakes
08 June 2003 Russia: Russian utility UES has announced that it will give shareholders...

Let the sun shine in
08 June 2003 Philippines: The Philippine Trade and Industry secretary Manuel Roxas II...

Three Gorges starts flooding
08 June 2003 China: At the start of June 2003, the Three Gorges reservoir began to...

The emissions value chain
03 June 2003

Biblis A needs new licence
03 June 2003

GHG rise fires renewables rethink
03 June 2003

... while SE reviews the nuclear issue
03 June 2003

... but hardens its position in Germany
03 June 2003

Bechtel begins reconstruction
03 June 2003

CEZ comes late to the Slovakia sale
03 June 2003

The Coalition invades Europe
03 June 2003

Below par International Power plans share buy-back
03 June 2003

Cooling error puts the heat on Paks
03 June 2003

Potential leak at South Texas
03 June 2003

FERC may expose gougers
03 June 2003

ABB gets out of SEK
03 June 2003

Power lines are innocent
03 June 2003

Europe is free at last
03 June 2003

Huge losses at British Energy
03 June 2003

China's first HTS is booked
02 June 2003 The first high temperature superconducting power cable project in China is...

Legal challenge to British Energy aid package
02 June 2003 Drax owner AES has gone to the European court of first instance...

Upgrade of major CHP plant commissioned
02 June 2003 The upgrade of Al Taweelah A1 combined power and desalination plant in...

Arbre mystery buyer revealed
02 June 2003 The buyer of failed biomass venture Arbre Energy has been revealed to be...

The hydrogen economy gets under way in Iceland
02 June 2003 Shell has opened the world's first roadside hydrogen filling station,...

Deal closed on sale of Alstom turbines division
02 June 2003 The EU has given formal clearance for the the sale of Alstom's small...

Norway wants subsea link to UK
02 June 2003 Statnett has applied to the Petroleum and Energy ministry for a licence...

FERC OKs delay for El Paso deal
02 June 2003 California's FERC has given El Paso an extra month to file the...

Disposal of Babcock Borsig assets continues
02 June 2003 Babcock-Hitachi now owns 90 per cent of BB Power Systems GmbH, the...

May 2003

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US produces a bill for energy suppliers
29 May 2003 USA: After a month of sometimes intense debate the House of...

First live HV superconductor link by 2005
29 May 2003 USA: The Long Island Power Authority transmission grid is to get a new ...

Ultra-thin solar cell developed
29 May 2003 Germany: A new type of very thin solar cell made from inexpensive...

Clean air penalty agreement
29 May 2003 USA: The US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection...

Special inspection at South Texas 1
25 May 2003 United States: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has begun a...

Privatisation bids under review
25 May 2003 Slovakia: Slovakia's national power utility, Slovenské Elektrárne (SE)...

Sheep dip radwaste
25 May 2003 Australia: Following environmental approval of two sites, the...

Tepco restarts a reactor
25 May 2003 Japan: Tepco has restarted the first of its shut-down reactors,...

Sellafield three-year plan completed
25 May 2003 United Kingdom: The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) has...

Euratom legislation redrafted
25 May 2003 Europe: The European Commission has redrafted legislation allowing...

April 2003

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Five year plan for FutureGen
05 April 2003 USA Energy secretary Spencer Abraham has announced a five year plan for...

RIP Calder Hall
05 April 2003 UK - Calder Hall power station in Cumbria, opened in 1956 to great...

Framatome tender in
05 April 2003 FINLAND - Framatome ANP has put in its tender to Teollisuuden Voima Oy...

Eskom's profits surge
05 April 2003 SOUTH AFRICA - Eskom, the world's sixth largest utility, has reported a...

Barsebäck to close by 2005
05 April 2003 SWEDEN - The Swedish government has announced that the 600MWe Barsebäck...

Plant shutdowns not ruled out
05 April 2003 UK - American Electric Power (AEP) said current British electricity...

Record growth in wind capacity
05 April 2003 WORLDWIDE - Global wind-power generating capacity saw record growth in...

Government opens up power sector
05 April 2003 VIETNAM - The Vietnam government has decided to allow banks to...

Remote monitoring for engines on test
05 April 2003 USA - GE Aeroderivative and Package has introduced a system that...

Wind plans underway
05 April 2003 KAZAKHSTAN - Kazakhstan plans a pilot project to build a 5 MWe wind power plant.

AEP gets the credit
05 April 2003 United States - American Electric Power (AEP) has received an...

China buys into Caspian Sea
05 April 2003 Kazakhstan/China - China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) plans to...

Kyushu to supply Tepco
05 April 2003 Japan - Kyushu Electric Power plans to supply up to 100MWe to Tokyo...

Lebanon to sell power firm
05 April 2003 Lebanon - Lebanon said that it plans to sell 40 per cent of its...

March 2003

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EU to probe Austrian merger
24 March 2003 The European Commission is to look closely at the proposed consolidation...

Front end capability being developed
24 March 2003 Iran has begun to develop its uranium deposits as part of its plan...

Indian PFBR to start up soon
24 March 2003 Construction of the Rs 28 000 million, 500 MW, prototype fast breeder...

Marine units threaten to sink Alstom
24 March 2003

Scare at Smolensk nuclear power plant
24 March 2003 Radiation readings in the city suggest the possibility of an...

Superfast gid upgrade
24 March 2003 China is planning to move ahead fast with projets aimed at creating...

Gold from base metals
24 March 2003 Following a successful fission experiment using bismuth-lead fuel...

China places bulk orders for gas turbines
24 March 2003 In pursuit of its long term goal of increasing the role of gas plants...

First undersea tidal prototype
24 March 2003 A consortium led by Tidal Hydraulic Generators is to develop off the coast...

UK strikes ambitious pose on emissions
24 March 2003 The UK government has committed itself to a programme that calls for 60...

US joins fusion energy effort
24 March 2003 The US plans to join the ITER international project to develop a...

Plan to build super-hydros on the Yangtze
24 March 2003 The Chinese government plans to build four hydropower plants with a...

World's first supercritical CFB boiler
21 March 2003 Foster Wheeler Energia Oy will achieve a double world first in solid...

Coal remains king in China
04 March 2003

February 2003

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Sulzer Hexis fuel cell system to be trialed by GDF
27 February 2003 Sulzer Hexis Ltd has signed a co-operation agreement with Gaz de France...

Ontario pulls the plug on hydro sell-off
27 February 2003 Ontario has cancelled the projected sell off of transmission giant Hydro...

New chapter for ABB?
19 February 2003 ABB and its US subsidiary Combustion Engineering have agreed a...

BBP gets its white knight
19 February 2003 In a move that brings to early fruition the efforts of Babcock Borsig AG...

High tension over 'nuke threat'
11 February 2003 North Korea - North Korea has been raising the stakes in its dispute with...

Waste-to-energy will grow despite Nimbys
11 February 2003 Europe - Despite mounting opposition from environmental pressure groups...

Total shut down of Tepco reactors
11 February 2003 Tokyo Electric Power Company has shut down 13 of its reactors for...

Death Star raiders exposed
11 February 2003 USA - A report by the California Independent Systems Operator (ISO)...

Big plans for new nukes
11 February 2003 China - China is likely to build a new 2000 MW nuclear plant in...

Jakarta could revive nuke programme
11 February 2003 Indonesia - The World Bank, in its latest economic assessment report...

States ignore Bush on emission targets
11 February 2003 USA - Regional politicians are bypassing the Bush administration after...

Jenbacher absorbed into GE
11 February 2003 Austria - After more than five centuries of independent existence,...

January 2003

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Global wind turbine market to accelerate
22 January 2003 A new report says that starting in 2003 growth in the wind energy market...

NE states sue administration
22 January 2003

Vestas turbine accident
22 January 2003 An turbine failure has occurred during installation and start up of a...

Cleaning up with coal in Wisconsin
22 January 2003 A new 500 MW supercritical 'clean coal' unit for Wisconsin Public...

FWEC 'breached contract'
22 January 2003 JEA will defend the Northside lawsuit filed by FWEC, which alleges that...

Korean reactor programme resumes
22 January 2003 North Korea has restarted three Soviet-designed gas-graphite reactors...

Poor service loses points
13 January 2003 United Kingdom - Twelve years after the introduction of competition, the...

Black & Veatch forms stand-alone nuclear group
13 January 2003 United States - Black & Veatch has announced details of its...

Belgium will phase out its nukes
13 January 2003 Belgium - The lower house of the Belgian parliament voted 80-49 in favour...

Plant construction hits record levels
13 January 2003 United States - Over 54GWe of new capacity in the USA was completed in...

DoE begins second round of talks
13 January 2003 United States - The US Department of Energy (DoE) has started a second...

December 2002

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CEZ given takeover clearance
30 December 2002 Czech Republic - The Czech Anti-Monopoly Office (UOHS) said that it...

British biomass burns out
30 December 2002 United Kingdom - Britain's plans to generate large amounts of...

Vattenfall to upgrade hydro plants
30 December 2002 Sweden - Vattenfall plans to invest nearly $700 million up to 2013...

Dabhol restart delayed
30 December 2002 India - The proposed restarting of Dabhol received yet another setback...

R50 bn investment needed
30 December 2002 The need for investment in South Africa's power business is...

AES to sell two African ventures
30 December 2002 Africa - AES Corporation of the USA has agreed to sell its interest in...

InterGen completes Rijnmond financing
30 December 2002 Netherlands - InterGen has announced the financial closure of the...

Korean fuel oil supply suspended
23 December 2002 North Korea - The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation...

BE gets stay of execution
23 December 2002 UK - British Energy, the UK's biggest nuclear generator, has been allowed...

Latest 'clean coal' plant officially operational
23 December 2002 USA - Agasinst a beckground of controversy the US Department of Energy...

US energy bill will rise again
23 December 2002 USA - Because the US Congress adjourned without reaching agreement on...

Westinghouse 'will not bid' for Finnish nuke
23 December 2002 Westinghouse has decided not to bid for the fifth Finnish reactor....

Kozloduy closure agreed
23 December 2002 The Bulgarian government has undertaken to close down two of the reactors...

TXU Europe goes into administration
23 December 2002 UK - TXU Europe, which reputedly owes its banks £780 million, and...

Tepco submits final report
20 December 2002 Japan - Tepco has submitted its final report to the Ministry of...

The people have spoken
20 December 2002 United Kingdom - The Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) published...

Regulating Tc-99 emissions
20 December 2002 United Kingdom - The Environment Agency announced its intention to...

Small is bountiful
20 December 2002 United States - Although Congress failed to enact a fiscal 2003 spending...

NRC may cite TXU
20 December 2002 United States - The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is...

Nuclear back on Italian agenda
20 December 2002 Italy - A draft law that would allow Italian utilities to take part...

Foster Wheeler closes Dansville
19 December 2002 USA - FWEC is to close its HRSG manufacturing plant in NY state.

Bush whips up a clean air storm
19 December 2002 USA - proposals to modify clean air rules to allow more leeway to...

November 2002

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October 2002

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Setting appropriate targets
24 October 2002 James Varley is the managing editor of Modern Power Systems

More utilities drawn into inspection scandal
22 October 2002 Three more Japanese utilities, Chubu Electric Power, Japan Atomic...

EDF heads for cash crisis
22 October 2002 Electricité de France has frozen all spending not related to safety,...

Opposition to British Energy loan
22 October 2002 The imminent bankruptcy of struggling British Energy has been averted for...

TVO bid for fifth reactor
22 October 2002 Finnish utility TVO has formally announced its requirements for bid...

UK electricity market approaches crisis point
22 October 2002 Britain's model of a competitive liberalised energy market appears to be...

Swiss reject market law
22 October 2002 Swiss voters have rejected an electricity market law that proponents...

European fears for liberalisation mount
22 October 2002 The European Commission has expressed disquiet over the deadlock...

Hydrogen power park partnership
22 October 2002 DTE Energy has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DoE) as...

EC to study hydrogen economy
22 October 2002 The EC has taken an important step towards the realisation of a...

EPRI tests 'domino effect'
22 October 2002 The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been studying the problem...

Helping out with cogeneration
17 October 2002

India goes for water power
05 October 2002

El Paso penalised
05 October 2002

Poland still in power sell-off talks
05 October 2002

TVO bid for fifth reactor
05 October 2002

Opposition to British Energy loan
05 October 2002

EDF heads for cash crisis
05 October 2002

New material 'could triple wind tower height'
05 October 2002

Tepco's report to METI
05 October 2002

GE's involvement
05 October 2002

More utilities drawn into inspection scandal
05 October 2002

Asia should look West
05 October 2002

Towering test
05 October 2002

Geo-plant for Indonesia
05 October 2002

NORTH HOYLE GAINS CONSENTS
05 October 2002

NTPC to run Dabhol
05 October 2002

wood fired 100W plant
05 October 2002

European fears for liberalisation mount
05 October 2002

UK electricity market approaches crisis point
05 October 2002

Swiss reject market law
05 October 2002

Canadian business fights Kyoto
05 October 2002

Taipower to invest in wind
05 October 2002

WPS plans
05 October 2002

NGC to sell assets
05 October 2002

Iberdrola to invest in Mexico
05 October 2002

Hot dry rocks
05 October 2002

Cogema to go centrifugal
05 October 2002

Kamchatka geothermal on line
05 October 2002

EC to study hydrogen economy
05 October 2002

EPRI tests 'domino effect'
05 October 2002

Hydrogen power park partnership
05 October 2002

Russian reform slows down
05 October 2002

Uganda
05 October 2002

Thailand
05 October 2002

Sweden
05 October 2002

Sri Lanka
05 October 2002

Saudi Arabia
05 October 2002

Ireland
05 October 2002

Iran
05 October 2002

India
05 October 2002

Emergency order brings new link on-line ahead of schedule
01 October 2002 Following a request from LIPA the US DOE has issued an order authorising...

N Korea gets nukes 'on approval'
01 October 2002 At the concrete pouring ceremony for North Korea's First commercial...

Talks fall short at the summit
01 October 2002 Despite many inter-governmental agreements to promote green objectives,...

New attempt at E.On-Ruhrgas deal
01 October 2002 Following procedural errors in an earlier attempt to get permission to...

September 2002

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HTS cable test is delayed
20 September 2002 Full commercial testing of the pioneering superconducting cable link...

Nuclear industry supports the hydrogen economy
20 September 2002 Nuclear industry opinion makers have come out in support of a...

US may join fusion research effort
20 September 2002 Now that a newly designed and cheaper fusion reactor design suitable for...

Babcock & Wilcox sue Framatome
20 September 2002 Babcock & Wilcox Canada is sueing Framatome for "technology theft"...

British Energy on the brink
20 September 2002 Nuclear generator British Energy has been so hard hit by the drop in...

New build slowdown may create energy shortages
20 September 2002 Responding to a drop in US energy prices utilities have cut back on plans...

DoE green-lights planning short cuts for T & D projects
20 September 2002 Faults in the US transmission grid have been officially recognised....

New cracks appear in Japan's nuclear industry
20 September 2002 Recent revelations of falsified safety-connected inspection checks...

EU converts to CHP
10 September 2002 The European Union plans to encourage the building of new combined heat...

Pole control
05 September 2002

British Energy on the brink
05 September 2002

B & W sue Framatome
05 September 2002

Build slowdown may create energy shortages
05 September 2002

Impressive erection at Horns Rev
05 September 2002

Self-help is the core issue
05 September 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton, UK, based...

DoE green-lights planning short cuts to upgrade US grid
05 September 2002

EA APPOINTS DISTRIBUTOR IN UAE
05 September 2002

SAMSUNG TO SELL CAPSTONE TURBINES
05 September 2002

LITTLEBROOK CONVERSION APPROVED
05 September 2002

STUDY PREDICTS PEBBLE-BED SUCCESS STORY
05 September 2002

N Korea to get commercial reactors on approval
05 September 2002

Emergency order brings NY link on line ahead of time
05 September 2002

Summit talks fall short
05 September 2002

EU legislation 'to boost biomass'
05 September 2002

COTTAM DESULPHURISATION
05 September 2002

KALPAKKAM fast breeder gets GO-AHEAD
05 September 2002

FIRST GAS TURBINE FOR PHU MY
05 September 2002

Partial privatisation gets under way
05 September 2002

Power projects cancelled
05 September 2002

FGD orders 'will reach $53 bn'
05 September 2002

New attempt at Ruhrgas
05 September 2002

HTS cable test is delayed
05 September 2002

Siemens PG sheds UK staff
05 September 2002

Established utilities 'will retain edge'
05 September 2002

Geothermal joint venture
05 September 2002

Damhead Creek for sale
05 September 2002

Nuke industry supports hyd-rogen economy
05 September 2002

New cracks in Japan's nuke industry
05 September 2002

US may re-join fusion effort
05 September 2002

Expectations and reality: mind the gap
03 September 2002

August 2002

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Controversy over Mindanao project
05 August 2002

IAEA reviews Kozloduy units 3 and 4
05 August 2002

Power plant foreclosure
05 August 2002

Entergy buys Yankee
05 August 2002

Green power prices likely to rise
05 August 2002

Kamchatka crisis
05 August 2002

World's first hydrogen fuelled generating set
05 August 2002

OUTAGE AGREEMENT
05 August 2002

A TON OF ORDERS
05 August 2002

MUKIN SERKAT AGREEMENTS
05 August 2002

NEW 500 kV LINK
05 August 2002

Loy Yang generator replacement
05 August 2002

Framatome buys nuke fuel firm
05 August 2002

Approval for second research reactor
05 August 2002

Photovoltaic market to soar
05 August 2002

Signpost to the next French nuke
05 August 2002

Gail plans gas-fired power plant in Tripura
05 August 2002

Nanticoke accused of air pollution
05 August 2002

India will 'eradicate power shortages' within ten years
05 August 2002

FKI buys wind company
05 August 2002

Pressure for federal policy on emissions
05 August 2002

APPROVAL FOR TWO CHP PLANTS
05 August 2002

ILIJAN STARTUP
05 August 2002

OPG TO SELL TWO PLANTS
05 August 2002

NRG SELLS CZECH STAKE
05 August 2002

Recycling greenhouse gas may now be a possibility
05 August 2002

Power lines 'could cause cancer'
05 August 2002

EDF privatisation protests
05 August 2002

Legal challenge to E.On takeover of Ruhrgas
05 August 2002

Key traders hold fire sale
05 August 2002

The Voith of hydro power
05 August 2002

Wooden heart failure
05 August 2002

TPS future is secured by px
05 August 2002

Shell defends tolling deals
05 August 2002

European Commission converts to CHP
05 August 2002

Trading should support supply
05 August 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton, UK, based...

Babcock Borsig rescue mission fails
01 August 2002 Troubled engineering giant BB AG has gone into receivership following...

Bujagali dam project develops financial cracks
01 August 2002 World Bank inspectors have criticised a hydropower project being backed...

Utility sale makes halting progress
01 August 2002 Further legal delays in the on-off process of privatising Peruvian utilities

Photons signpost creep damage in boilers
01 August 2002 A process developed in the USA and known as photon induced...

GE uprates the 6FA
01 August 2002 Improvements to output, heat transfer rate and efficiency are claimed...

Super-efficient waste disposal
01 August 2002 A cheaper and much more efficient technique for nuclear fuel...

New agency will handle UK decommissioning costs
01 August 2002 The Liabilities Management Authority is set up to ensure that the clean up...

Launch of the next generation Candu reactor
01 August 2002 A more compact, cheaper and more efficient Candu rector design is near...

NSR programme 'deterred improvements'
01 August 2002 The US Envoronmental Protection Agency's own review has found that the...

Second green light for UK nukes
01 August 2002 According to leaked documents the UK government is preparing the ground for...

E.On may take over Ruhrgas
01 August 2002 Despite the reservations of industry watchdogs the German government...

French have it both ways
01 August 2002 The French government has promised a progressive privatisation of the...

Greenpeace dumps on the UK
01 August 2002 The UK, it says, is exporting enough dirty energy Greenpeace has produced...

Yucca plan clears final hurdle
01 August 2002 After years of legal and administrative struggle the Yucca mountain site...

July 2002

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June 2002

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'KPLC is bankrupt' claim
26 June 2002 A specially convened cabinet committee says that the state owned Kenyan...

Indonesian electricity bill faces stiff opposition
26 June 2002 Indonesia's legislators are questioning the benefits of lifting the...

Finland backs nuclear
26 June 2002 Construction of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor can now go ahead following...

CEZ privatisation delayed further
26 June 2002 The privatisation of Czech power company CEZ has been help up...

EdF buys Seeboard
26 June 2002 EdF subsidiary London Electricity has won the race to own UK...

Bid deadline delayed again
26 June 2002 The sale of the Peruvian distribution system has been delayed in order...

Distributed generation market is expanding
26 June 2002 The European distributed generation market is likely to see robust...

Iberian power market mooted
26 June 2002 Plans have been put to the Spanish and Portuguese governments for...

UAE grid closer to realisation
26 June 2002 Preliminary studies and designs for the Emirates national grid have...

EU and Japan ratify Kyoto
26 June 2002 The EU has formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Ratification by the...

Grid sale close to collapse
26 June 2002 The sale of Ontario's grid system has stalled after the board resigned...

Round-trip deals ricochet
26 June 2002 Several energy trading companies have admitted artificially inflating...

High energy demand hits green targets
26 June 2002 Energy consumption in the European Union is rising too fast for...

Loss of Heritage threatens local projects
26 June 2002 Development of the Heritage Station power plant - GE's proposed flagship...

Canada may back out of Kyoto
26 June 2002 The Kyoto Protocol is in danger of losing powerful signatories as...

U-turn on causes - but no policy change
26 June 2002 Although the Bush administration now admits the 'science' of global...

Testing times for turbines
13 June 2002 James Varley is the managing editor of Modern Power Systems

Security, low prices, falling emissions: can it be done?
05 June 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton-based energy...

Welsh wind on top
05 June 2002

18 new power plants to be built in Bangladesh
05 June 2002

FPL buys Seabrook
05 June 2002

'KPLC is bankrupt' claim
05 June 2002

GE Qatar solo
05 June 2002

Electrabel and Acea move closer
05 June 2002

Electricity bill faces stiff opposition in parliament
05 June 2002

BBP SEEKS FINANCING
05 June 2002

DUKE WINS SAFETY AWARD
05 June 2002

OHIO APPROVES PROJECTS
05 June 2002

FINANCING FOR SPALDING PLANT
05 June 2002

Further delays to CEZ privatisation
05 June 2002

Consultation launched
05 June 2002

Finland backs nuclear
05 June 2002

Seeboard sold to EdF
05 June 2002

Bid deadline delayed again
05 June 2002

RWE ACQUIRES INNOGY
05 June 2002

EXTENDED FUEL CELL LINE
05 June 2002

COOK VIOLATED SAFETY RULES
05 June 2002

Iberian power market mooted
05 June 2002

UAE grid closer to realisation
05 June 2002

DG market expanding
05 June 2002

EU and Japan ratify Kyoto
05 June 2002

UK's first wind turbine factory
05 June 2002

Grid sale close to collapse
05 June 2002

Roundtrip deals ricochet
05 June 2002

High energy demand hits green targets
05 June 2002

Windy in the park
05 June 2002

Loss of Heritage threatens local projects
05 June 2002

Canada may back out of Kyoto agreement
05 June 2002

U-turn on causes - but no policy change
05 June 2002

May 2002

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AEP fights purple haze
23 May 2002 American Electric Power and US EPA have agreed on a monitoring process...

Mexican supreme court rejects privatisation law
23 May 2002 Despite national supply shortages the Mexican supreme court has ruled...

Europe stabilises its CO2 emissions
23 May 2002 Total CO2 emissions in 2000 from the 15 member states were 0.5 per cent...

Russian government to introduce power industry reforms
23 May 2002 New legislation will include electricity law, changes to the civil code,...

UK government approves 76 MW offshore windfarm
23 May 2002 The go-ahead has been given for the largest UK offshore windfarm to date

Record breaking refuse plant
23 May 2002 Beijing is to get a new refuse burning power plant, expected to reduce...

RS to study climate change measures
23 May 2002 The UK's premier scientific institution, the Royal Society, is to...

Framatome takes over Duke E&S
23 May 2002 The Areva subsidiary has strengthened its nuclear holdings in the USA

Exelon withdraws from PBMR project
23 May 2002 A major US utility is to cancel its stake in the South African pebble...

Bangkok looks for low key route to scrapping power plants
23 May 2002 The Thailand government wants to postpone for several years two power...

Lattice and National Grid to merge
23 May 2002 A merged UK utility is in a position to make significant acquisitions in the USA

Distribution companies sold
23 May 2002 French and German utilities are set to buy large stakes in the...

GE launches Wind Energy
23 May 2002 GE has completed its purchase of Enron's wind energy division

California to get its money back
23 May 2002 The sunshine state has won a legal battle to claw back electricity...

Senate and House on collision course
23 May 2002 Despite a surprisingly pro-business energy bill from the US Senate, there...

Going with the wind
07 May 2002 James Varley is the managing editor of Modern Power Systems

Competition, prices and security
06 May 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton-based energy...

First HotModule in the east
06 May 2002

AEP fights purple haze
06 May 2002

Committee approves Nevada site
06 May 2002

Supreme court vetoes new liberalisation law
06 May 2002

Europe stabilises CO2 emissions
06 May 2002

RUSSIA cuts off GEORGIA
06 May 2002

INDONESIAN INVESTMENT
06 May 2002

IBERDROLA BUYS CADIZ PROJECT
06 May 2002

BULGARIA KEEPS MARKET CLOSED
06 May 2002

Government approves 76 MW offshore wind farm
06 May 2002

Record-breaking refuse plant
06 May 2002

Mild weather cuts earnings
06 May 2002

Government to introduce energy reform legislation
06 May 2002

REFINERY WIND FARM
06 May 2002

NUCLEAR CONSULTANCY
06 May 2002

engineers for arrubal
06 May 2002

Royal Society to study climate change measures
06 May 2002

Yaly hydroplant inaugurated
06 May 2002

Exelon withdraws from South African pebble bed project
06 May 2002

Framatome acquires
06 May 2002

G8 hears energy arguments
06 May 2002

Bangkok attempts low key approach to scrapping plants
06 May 2002

World's largest bucket
06 May 2002

Lattice and National Grid to merge
06 May 2002

Testing the water
06 May 2002

First pollution trading
06 May 2002

GE launches Wind Energy
06 May 2002

California to get its money back
06 May 2002

Distribution companies sold
06 May 2002

Senate and House on collision course
06 May 2002

Energy companies not out of trouble yet
03 May 2002 Major companies are still struggling in the post-Enron era.

April 2002

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NEPA 'needs $1 billion'
15 April 2002 Nigerian government plans to privatise NEPA, the national electric...

France delays liberalisation further
12 April 2002 France has managed to delay indefinitely the full liberalisation of...

Duncan turns state's evidence
12 April 2002 David Duncan has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by destroying...

Baltic cable cut
12 April 2002 The Germany-Sweden HVDC cable has been severely damaged after being struck...

Mixed fortunes for Babcock Borsig
12 April 2002 A disgruntled shareholder is attempting to bring down the board...

Utilities 'using nuke funds for acquisition'
12 April 2002 Luxembourg MEP Claude Turmes has accused German and French utilities...

Actions against Enron escalate
12 April 2002 Class actions have been filed in an attempt to gain compensation for...

Barcelona: was it worth the wait?
05 April 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton-based energy...

Fujian to re-negotiate terms
05 April 2002

Solar rooftop projects win government support
05 April 2002

Russia to help with nukes
05 April 2002

Renovation of Maritza by German consortium
05 April 2002

District heating companies go electric
05 April 2002

RWE to acquire Innogy
05 April 2002

HOSPITAL TURBINE
05 April 2002

EDP COST CUTS
05 April 2002

CONSORTIUM BUYS EUROGEN
05 April 2002

LUCCHINI SELLS ELETTRA STAKE
05 April 2002

Dabhol future in doubt again
05 April 2002

New in Dubai
05 April 2002

Licence for Konrad repository
05 April 2002

Baltic cable cut
05 April 2002

CEZ and Czech distribution companies to merge
05 April 2002

REE TAKES OVER TDE of bolivia
05 April 2002

UAE GT CENTRE
05 April 2002

VOSER TAKES CHARGE
05 April 2002

Karnataka wants 1000 MW plant
05 April 2002

Senator cannot stop Yucca vote
05 April 2002

International Power looking for acquisitions
05 April 2002

'Sweeping reforms' necessary
05 April 2002

... and Duncan turns state's evidence
05 April 2002

NEPA privatisation delayed again
05 April 2002

Energy companies not out of trouble yet
05 April 2002

Centrica drops Enron purchase
05 April 2002

Reactor starts
05 April 2002

Utilities 'using nuke funds for acquisition'
05 April 2002

France wins further delays in liberalisation process
05 April 2002

White House and Congress head for confrontation
02 April 2002 The US GAO is set to clash with the White House over moves to force...

March 2002

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China to restructure, invest heavily in gas plant
28 March 2002 China's State Power Corp is to be split into eleven separate companies,...

Russia 'heading for crisis'
28 March 2002 Wide ranging reform of the Russian energy sector is required, according...

Tractebel fined for 'dubious practices'
28 March 2002 Tractebel has been fined by the Belgian tax authority for 'dubious...

New desktop fusion candidate
28 March 2002 A report in the journal 'Science' opens up the possibility that...

UK 'should replace existing power stations'
28 March 2002 UK government scientific adviser David King has called for a new...

Japan feels the draft
28 March 2002 Japan's legislature has drafted new guidelines to achieve greenhouse...

GE buys Enron Wind
28 March 2002 Enron Corp is to sell its wind turbine assets to the Power Systems...

Ling-Ao 1 goes critical
28 March 2002 China's latest nuclear reactor achieved core criticality on February 4th

US commits to new nuclear plants by 2010
28 March 2002 The US is to create a public-private partnership (PPP) to bring new...

Enron "may raise cash by litigation'
28 March 2002 Enron may launch a string of lawsuits aimed at recovering more cash for...

The return of energy policy
21 March 2002 James Varley is the managing editor of Modern Power Systems

Gas prices test coal commitment
07 March 2002

Fuel cell research in Hawaii
05 March 2002

Mazda to develop rotary cogen
05 March 2002

RWE makes new bid for Innogy
05 March 2002

Blyth turbine 'was struck by lightning'
05 March 2002

Renewable Energy Obligation before UK parliament
05 March 2002

White House and Congress head for confrontation
05 March 2002

Balancing customer and generation assets
05 March 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton-based energy...

TOR II MODERNISATION
05 March 2002

GUANGDONG GRID EXPANSION
05 March 2002

RUSSIA TO BUILD TABAS PLANT
05 March 2002

FIVE NEW COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS
05 March 2002

Enel plans to invest in Bulgarian hydro plants
05 March 2002

Sale of VAWT
05 March 2002

DoE and EPA at war on clean air
05 March 2002

S & P jumps the gun
05 March 2002

NEW POWER PLANT FOR NILE
05 March 2002

STUDY OF SYSTEM RESILIENCE
05 March 2002

OSSETIA WIRELESS
05 March 2002

LINK STUDY
05 March 2002

Voith Siemens buys Esac Energie
05 March 2002

Bidders shun CEZ privatisation
05 March 2002

California seeks to cancel power contracts
05 March 2002

Solar project will provide rural power
05 March 2002

New desktop fusion candidate
05 March 2002

NSW first private wind farm
05 March 2002

Tractebel fined by Belgian government tax authority
05 March 2002

UK should replace existing nuclear stations
05 March 2002

GE buys Enron Wind
05 March 2002

JBIC finances power project
05 March 2002

Japan feels the draft
05 March 2002

Ling-Ao 1 goes critical
05 March 2002

US DoE commits to new nuclear plants by 2010
05 March 2002

February 2002

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Flooding causes power station shut-downs in Indonesia
25 February 2002 Severe flooding in the Jakarta and Tangerang areas in February caused...

Rolls Wood £20 m acquisition
25 February 2002 Rolls Wood Group has bought the Rolls-Royce Allison industrial and...

China starts up nukes, steps up hydro programme
25 February 2002 Unit one, phase two of Qinshan power station has started up. The 600 MW...

US to take action against 'dirty' power plants
25 February 2002 The US Justice Department intends to bring lawsuits against operators of...

Biomass gasifier/coal plant combination to be studied
25 February 2002 US companies funded by WRPEB are to study the feasibility of integrating...

'NETA is failing - CHPA'
25 February 2002 The code governing electricity trading arrangements in the UK is failing...

UK aims to lead emissions market
25 February 2002 The UK is to launch the first national scheme for trading greenhouse...

Estonia halts power plant sale
25 February 2002 The Estonian government has cancelled the sale of a major stake in two...

Japan delays Kyoto compliance
22 February 2002 To help its manufacturing industry Japan will not be applying...

Enron asset sale
22 February 2002 Various Enron energy companies around the world are in the course of...

Ukraine plays off Russia against the EBRD
22 February 2002 Negotiations over loans to complete two nuclear power plants in the...

UK talks up renewables, but retains nukes option
22 February 2002 The proportion of UK electricity generated by renewables should be...

Bush's twin pollution initiatives
22 February 2002 President Bush has outlined his Clear Skies initiative and a new...

Enron chiefs take the fifth
22 February 2002 Enron's leading executives have pleaded the fifth amendment at...

Roll-Royce technology sale
22 February 2002 Rolls-Royce has signed a technology deal with Alstom Power that will...

Countdown to Barcelona
05 February 2002 Jeremy Wilcox is a Director of Infascan, a Brighton-based energy...

New system for California
05 February 2002

Innogy ahead of schedule
05 February 2002

Wind rises in Germany
05 February 2002

China starts up nukes, steps up hydro programme
05 February 2002

Floods close power plant
05 February 2002

Rolls Wood £20 m acquisition
05 February 2002

AEP ACQUIRES INDIAN MESA
05 February 2002

GEOTHERMAL IN KAMCHATKA
05 February 2002

TIDAL PROJECT GETS AID
05 February 2002

VLADIVOSTOK BLACKED OUT
05 February 2002

USA to act against dirty plants
05 February 2002

Biomass gasifier/coal plant combination to be studied
05 February 2002

Swedish nuke to be shut down
05 February 2002

NETA rules are failing - CHPA
05 February 2002

KRSKO DEAL SIGNED
05 February 2002

SHELL TO OPERATE AFAM
05 February 2002

OFFSHORE DRILLING BAN CONTESTED
05 February 2002

INTERSOLAR SECURES FUNDS
05 February 2002

UK aims to lead European emissions trading market
05 February 2002

Enforcement of Kyoto delayed
05 February 2002

Government halts sale of power plants to NRG
05 February 2002

Buyers line up for Enron projects in the Far East
05 February 2002

Aggreko power into Olympics
05 February 2002

Privatisations cancelled
05 February 2002

Privatisations cancelled
05 February 2002

E.on and IP to try again
05 February 2002

Enron chiefs take the fifth
05 February 2002

Rolls-Royce technology sale
05 February 2002

Micro technology
05 February 2002

Northeast takes on Midwest
05 February 2002

Ukraine plays Russia against EBRD
05 February 2002

Bewag buyout approved
05 February 2002

UK talks up renewables, retains nuke option
05 February 2002

Bush's twin pollution initiatives
05 February 2002

Cummins increase rental options
05 February 2002

Solar flair
05 February 2002

Connect and control
05 February 2002

Big Brotherhood
05 February 2002

Scania makes Grand Alpine plant
05 February 2002

Into Africa
05 February 2002

The EPC killer
05 February 2002

January 2002

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5th nuke gets go-ahead
23 January 2002 Finland will have its fifth nuclear power plant if a...

MHI gets wind of new markets
23 January 2002 Mitsubishi lays off 4000 of its workforce, but invests in new wind...

Russia-Finland link
23 January 2002 A protocol for the construction of a new link between Russian nuclear...

New solar venture
23 January 2002 A new joint venture company called Photovoltech has been set up to...

Czech privatisation cancelled
23 January 2002 The Prague government has announcemed that the tender for bids for...

Ontario deregulation still on track
23 January 2002 Deregulation was due to take place in November of last year but the...

Russia to complete Ukrainian reactors
23 January 2002 Following the breakdown of negotiations for a European loan, Ukraine is...

El Paso, Dynegy to shed $billions in assets
23 January 2002 Major US players are busy stengthening their post-Enron position...

Gensets to generate new growth
23 January 2002 2002 could see the start of robust sales growth in the genset rental...



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