Thermal power

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Closed Texas Power Plant May be Refired in 2021

A now-closed coal-fired power plant in Texas may be reopened in 2021 to help meet what is projected to be record high demand for electricity.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Construction Halted on 1-GW Polish Coal Plant

Polish energy companies Enea and Energa announced late on May 19 that they were ending their involvement in the construction of the Ostroleka C coal-fired power…

Thermal Plant

NTPC Commissions First Unit of Nabinagar Plant Installed Capacity Touches 55,786 MW

NTPC has announced that it has commissioned the first unit of 660 MW capacity under Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project.

Geothermal Power Plant

U.S. Energy Commission Gives Geothermal Projects a Shot in the Arm

The CEC has awarded almost $10 million in grants for three projects related to this renewable power.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

DEFF Orders Eskom to Shut Down Kendal Power Station

South Africa's environment minister, Barbara Creecy, has rejected Eskom's objection to and confirmed the compliance notice issued to Eskom in December 2019 by t…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India Added 8,800 MW of Coal-Based Power Capacity Last Year: IEEFA

The thermal power generation sector is facing stress carrying $40-60 billion of potentially non-performing assets, IEEFA said.

Gas power plant

Total Strengthens Presence in Spanish Energy Market

Global energy player Total has acquired Energías de Portugal's portfolio of two gas-fired combined cycle power plants.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Mongolia Offers Rio Tinto Surprise Proposal to Build Coal-Fired Power Station

The cost of expanding Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi copper project could decline by nearly US$1B under a surprise Mongolian government plan that could increase its lon…

Geothermal Power Plant

Swiss Heating Coop Plans to Invest $51m in Expansion of Geothermal District Heating

The heating company also supplies lorach stetten in Germany with heat that crosses the border.

Geothermal Power Plant

Enel JV Begins Construction on Geothermal Expansion Project in Chile

Chile's Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant is expanding a 33-megawatt project.

Geothermal Power Plant

Kalahari GeoEnergy Secures $3.2m Loan Funding for Geothermal Project in Zambia

Three new resource definition slim wells will help move Zambia's first commercial geothermal project forward.

Geothermal Power Plant

Djibouti Launches the Geothermal Exploitation Project

The board of directors of the African Development Bank approved, additional funding of $3.22 million for the geothermal exploitation project in the Lake Assal r…

Thermal Plant

Limejump has Added A New Gas-fired Peaking Project to UK Virtual Power Platform

Energy tech company Limejump has added a 20 MW gas-fired peaking project, owned and developed by Ylem Energy, to its virtual power plant platform in the UK.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Coal Power Falls to Lowest Levels in 43 Years in US, After Biggest Annual Drop in 2019

“The miners are coming back,” Trump said of the coal mining industry at an election rally in Louisville, Kentucky, more than four years ago.

Geothermal Power Plant

Clean Technology Fund Injects $10m Into Ethiopia's Geothermal Capacity

The clean technology fund trust fund committee provided a concessional loan of us $10 million for Ethiopia's 50 megawatt tulu moyo geothermal power plant projec…