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Power Construction

Heat-stricken Argentina turns to China to fortify grid

Argentina is turning to China to fortify its electricity system that is buckling from a sweltering heat wave following years of under-investment and near-frozen…

Energy Storage Battery

UK Developer All Ears on 500MW PV-Plus-Storage

UK developer Low Carbon has started an initial consultation on early-stage proposals to build an up to 500MW solar-plus-storage scheme on land near Gate Burton …

Nuclear Power Plant

France Expects New Nuclear Reactors to Begin Operation in 2035-37

She said the new reactors would be EPR2 models, improved versions of EDF's EPR, which has suffered years of delays and billions of euros of cost overruns on uni…

India

Sembcorp signs PPA to supply 625MW to India's Andhra Pradesh

The long-term contract will run for 12 years.

Oil Price

Gas Prices Surging in Europe

Increasing concern about Europe's reliance on gas supplies from Russia has led to fears of continued price volatility in the international energy market.

Market Analysis

EDF’s Scottish Nuclear Power Plant Hunterston B to Close After 46 Years

EDF’s Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland will close on Friday after some 46 years of operation, the company said.

Offshore Wind Power

New Jersey Joins National Offshore Wind Research Group

NJ Board of Public Utilities will contribute $1m over four years to new initiatives

Crude Oil

Mexico To End Oil Exports In 2023

Mexico will suspend crude oil exports in two years in a bid to focus on domestic self-sufficiency.

Nuclear Fuel

Ukraine to Invest more than $333 million in its Uranium Mining Industry Over Five Years, Ministry Says

According to the concept for the development of the nuclear energy industry prepared by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, Ukraine intends to fully cover requir…

Pumped Storage

Utility Pushes UK's First Big Pumped Storage Hydro Project in 30 Years

The project would involve construction of an upper reservoir providing a 500-m drop to the existing Loch Lochy lake, about 15 km northeast of Fort William in th…

Nuclear Policy

Uzbekistan and IAEA Sign Cooperation Framework for Five Years

Uzbekistan and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed a cooperation framework for five years.

Electricity Transmission

Xcel Energy, ITC Midwest Complete Major New Electric Transmission Line

Xcel Energy and ITC Midwest have completed the Huntley-Wilmarth 345-kilovolt project, a major new, high-voltage electric transmission line in southern Minnesota…

China

Amid Global Energy Crunch, China’s Economic System Prevails Again

In late September, as an unusual cold wave arriving weeks earlier than previous years took the country by surprise, many residents in Northeast China were caugh…

Nuclear Policy

China Could be Key to Iran Nuclear Impasse

The 2015 agreement on the future of Iran's nuclear program was held up as a triumph of painstaking international diplomacy until former United States president …

Electricity Trade

India’s Renewables Boom Set to Lift Power Exchange Spot Trading

Share of spot market may more than quadruple in two years