Electricity

India

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Pitches for ‘One Nation, One Rate’ Policy for Electricity

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday pitched for ‘one nation, one rate’ policy in the power sector across the country.

Electricity Trade

State of Texas Should Pay for Enormous Energy Bills After Power Outages, Houston Mayor Says

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Sunday called on the state of Texas to pay for the enormous electric bills that scores of Texans reported after severe winter …

Solar Power Plant

Shoprite Expands Its Rooftop and Refrigeration Solar PV Project

The Shoprite Group now generates enough electricity to power over 1,100 households a year from solar energy, following the installation of rooftop PV panels at …

Energy Security

Extreme Weather Conditions Harm RWE’s Renewables Electricity Generation in the US State of Texas

Operations teams focus on resuming production at RWE’s affected onshore wind turbinesRWE expects significant negative earnings impact in Onshore Wind/Solar seg…

Electricity Transmission

Hitachi ABB Power Grids Wins Power Link Contract for Dogger Bank

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has secured a contract to lay the third transmission link from the 3.6GW offshore Dogger Bank Wind Farm.

Hydropower Plant

RusHydro Signs First Non-Regulated Agreement for Hydropower Supply

RusHydro is to supply electricity produced by the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant to gold producer PJSC Polyus after signing a bilateral power purchase agr…

Thermal Plant

NTPC’s Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Station becomes fully operational

State-owned power giant NTPC on Thursday announced that unit-2 of its Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Station with 800 MW capacity, in Madhya Pradesh has been inc…

Geothermal Power Plant

DJIBOUTI: Oddeg Chooses KenGen to Drill Three Geothermal Wells

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) to drill three geothermal wells in Djibouti.

Solar Power Plant

Engie Inks Renewables Deal with Orange France

PPA includes 51MW of new solar in development in the Hautes-Alpes region

Power Construction

Belgium, Denmark Study Energy Island Link

TSOs Elia and Energinet will carry out the analysis and conclude whether to proceed further in 2022

Power Construction

New York Authorities Approve Major Transmission Line Projects

The US' New York State Public Service Commission (NYSPSC) has approved a 54.5-mile transmission line known as the New York Energy Solution Project.

Carbon Neutral

Siemens Gamesa Recognized as Supplier Engagement Leader by the Carbon Disclosure Project

While Siemens Gamesa has had some decisive decarbonization successes, such as becoming carbon neutral or switching to 100% electricity from renewable sources in…

Energy Storage Project

AFRICA: Highview Power Raises $70m for Renewable Energy Storage

Highview Power, a company specialising in electricity storage, has just raised 70 million dollars to distribute its solutions in Africa.

Nuclear Power Plant

German, Canadian Reactors Set New World Records

The single-unit Grohnde nuclear power plant in Germany has produced more than 400 terawatt hours of electricity since it started up in 1984 - the only reactor t…

Offshore Wind Power

RWE Inks 250GWh Renewables Offtake

RWE has signed a power purchase agreement with semiconductor tooling supplier ASML for the supply of 250 gigawatt hours of green electricity annually.