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Nuclear Policy

Swedish Support for Nuclear Continues to Grow, Poll Shows

As many as 78% of people surveyed in Sweden - up from 71% in 2017 - strongly support nuclear energy, 43% are open to the construction of new nuclear power plant…

Thermal Plant

RusHydro Launches State-of-the-art Thermal Power Plant on Sakhalin Island

RusHydro has announced the opening of the Sakhalinskaya GRES-2 on Sakhalin Island. The modern 120 MW power plant with long-run annual output of 840 kWh will rep…

Thermal Plant

Turkey Postpones Environmental Requirements for Thermal Power Plants

The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved an article of an omnibus bill postponing the requirement for using chimney filters and chimney gas purification syst…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Global Coal Electricity Production to Fall Around 3% in 2019 - the Largest Drop on Record

Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3% in 2019, the largest drop on record. This would amount to a reduction of around 300 ter…

Ecuador’s Pichincha Province Dusting Off Four Small Hydro Projects

Ecuador’s Pichincha provincial government is looking to dust off four small hydroelectric projects, which would help cover local demand as national author…

Nuclear Power Plant

France's EDF to Sell its Stake in U.S. Nuclear Reactor Firm CENG

French state-controlled power group EDF (EDF.PA) said it would exercise an option to sell its 49.99% stake in CENG, which owns five nuclear reactors across thre…

Solar Power Plant

International Finance Corporation to Fund Solar Farms in Mexico

NADB and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have agreed to provide $200m in green loans to Infraestructura Energética Nova (IEnova) to fund four new s…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

China Coal-fired Power Capacity Still Rising, Bucking Global Trend - U.S. Report

China also has another 121.3 GW of coal-fired power plants under construction, U.S.-based research network Global Energy Monitor said in its report, nearly enou…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

South Korea to Close 6 Older Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2021, from Planned 2022

South Korea’s six older coal-fired power plants will be retired by 2021, a year earlier than previously planned, as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to c…

Iran Energy Minister : To Launch 9 Thermal Power Plants,Build 10 New Dams

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said nine thermal power stations are planned to come on stream in various provinces across the country, adding that ten …

Thermal Plant

51% of India's Coal-fired Power Plants Set to Miss Emission Norm Deadline

Thermal power companies, which produce three-quarters of the country's electricity, account for some 80% of India's industrial emissions of sulphur- and nitrous…

Concentrating Solar Power

Storage for Advanced Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants

Ellen B. Stechel, a professor of practice in the School of Molecular Sciences and co director of ASU LightWorks®, received $3.3 million for a project to develo…

EDC Increases Revenues with Better Performance of Geothermal Plants

EDC reports geothermal revenues of $514m for first three quarters of 2019 contributing around 34% of total revenues of its mother company First Gen. Better perf…

Solar Company

Côte d’Ivoire Gets World Bank Support for 60 MW of Solar

The African country has joined the World Bank’s Scaling Solar Program. Two PV plants will be located in Touba and Laboa, in the northeast of the country.

Bangladeshi Government Will Renegotiate Solar Tariffs for Projects Which Miss Deadlines

Officials in Dhaka frustrated by the lack of progress on several PV projects have decided to punish tardy developers by setting new power prices which reflect t…