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Market Analysis

A Wave of Big African Solar is Set to Break

The Africa Solar Industry Association has recorded almost 2 GW of large scale project announcements since the start of last month with 18 countries planning new…

Coal Trade

Robust China Coal Demand Amid Australia Import Ban Fuels Price Rally

Both thermal coal, used in power plants, and coking coal, used to make steel, have rallied strongly in recent months. And in both cases the driver has largely b…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

AES Speeds up Chile Coal Power Retirements

US utility AES is accelerating the shutdown of 1,097MW of coal-fired power generating units in Chile, in line with the greening of its corporate strategy and th…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Coal-Fired Power Generation Continues to Rise

The weather in some parts of the United States continued to be hot and dry, nuclear power and hydropower production capacity remained low, and U.S. coal-fired p…

Offshore Wind Power

Iberdrola Signs a Framework Agreement with Navantia and Windar for Future Offshore Wind Power Plants worth 400 million Euros

Thanks to this agreement, the consortium formed by the two manufacturers will set up an XXL monopile factory in the grounds of the Fene shipyard in A Coruña

Gas turbine engine

Wärtsilä to Deliver Six Gas Engine Power Plants in Italy

Finnish energy technology company Wartsila has signed contracts with Italian utility Metaenergiaproduzione for the construction of six power plants.

Solar Power Plant

RWE, Fraunhofer ISE and BTU Develop Floating PV Project

Floating photovoltaic power plants can contribute to the expansion of renewable energy without taking up land.

Geothermal Power Plant

British Geothermal Site Passes Crucial Milestone As Firm Plans Four New Power Plants

A “proof of concept power plant” in Cornwall, southwest England, has started to produce geothermal steam.

Nuclear Power Plant

UK Government Must Keep Investing In Nuclear Power Capacity

The UK government has today been urged to make sure that the country has at least 10 gigawatts of operational nuclear capacity by the early 2030s as the current…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Firms from China, Poland Ink Deal for Ugljevik 3 Coal Plant in BiH

Environmentalist groups demanded from the Republic of Srpska to scrap Comsar’s concession for coal-fired power plant project Ugljevik 3 after two previously un…

Market Analysis

Hydropower: Slowdown of “Forgotten Giant” Hampers Net-Zero Efforts

A new International Energy Agency report says growth of hydropower plants globally will slow significantly this decade.

Electric Car

Canada Mandates New Cars to be Zero-Emissions by 2035

Alghabra noted that his country is one of the few in the world with domestic access to all of the key resources for producing electric vehicle batteries, and pr…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

UK's Coal-Fired Electricity Ban Officially Brought Forward to 2024

From 1 October 2024 - one year earlier than originally planned - coal-fired electricity generation will be banned in the UK.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Bangladesh Scraps Plans to Build 10 Coal-Fired Power Plants

Bangladesh has cancelled plans to build 10 coal-fired power plants, a government official said on Monday, amid rising costs for the fuel and increasing calls fr…

Nuclear Power Plant

China Says Radiation Levels Normal At Taishan Nuclear Plant

China said Tuesday radiation levels remained normal at one of its nuclear power plants and there were no safety concerns, after the station's French operator re…