Power plant

Hydropower Plant

$20 Million Crypto Mining Farm to Be Built at Hydropower Plant in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan intends to build a new facility for cryptocurrency mining at one of the country’s hydroelectric stations. The project aims to minimize the powe…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

UK Government to Invest Us$219M Into Nuclear Power

This new nuclear power station would help deliver the government’s ambition for up to 24GW of the UK’s power to come from nuclear sources by 2050 &n…

Thermal Coal

Nevada Utility to Convert Last Coal-Fired Plant to Natural Gas

Image by Peter H from PixabayIn the US, Nevada’s largest utility plans to retire its last coal-fired plant by the end of 2025 and convert it to run on nat…

Power Construction

US working on power plant standards for energy transition: US EPA head

Micheal Regan, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency | Photo Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency websiteMicheal Regan, the Administrato…

Floating Solar

Hartek Solar bags Rs 80-crore contract for 22 MW floating solar plant on Bhakra Nangal reservoir

File picture: The 92-MW floating solar power plant at NTPC- Kayamkulam. | Photo Credit: HANDOUTHartek Solar, part of the Chandigarh-based Hartek group, has bagg…

Hydropower Plant

Gilkes Commissions Hydropower Turbine at Water Treatment Plant in the US

Hydro engineers from Gilkes have recently returned from the US, successfully completing the commissioning of the company’s latest hydropower turbine in No…

Hydropower Plant

Muela Power Station Unit One Successfully Restored After Year-Long Effort

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has announced it has successfully restored and brought back Unit 1 at the Muela Power Station into operation.…

Energy Storage Project

'World's Largest' BESS Project Gets Approval

A multi-faceted clean tech project site, built out of an old coal power plant in the UK, will be home to what developers are calling the world’s largest b…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Framatome's Accident Tolerant Fuel Technology One Step Closer to Market Readiness

Framatome's industry-first, 100% Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) assembly successfully completed its first cycle of operation at a U.S. nuclear power…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Alaska Simplifies Microreactor Regulations

The US state of Alaska has adopted regulations to streamline the regulatory process for the siting of microreactors. The new regulations, which waive some requi…

Hydrogen Production

RWE Creates Preconditions for Constructing a Hydrogen-Ready Gas-Fired Power Plant in Weisweiler

RWE plans to build hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants at its own former power plant sites in Germany by 2030 to help achieve the goal of phasing out coal 203…

Geothermal Power Plant

Exergy to Design UK's First Deep Geothermal Power Plant

Exergy International and Geothermal Engineering (GEL), the UK’s leading developer and operator of geothermal plants, have signed a contract for the supply…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Aging Takahama Nuclear Reactor in Japan Restarted After 12-Yr Halt

This photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 27, 2023, shows the No. 1, right, and No. 2 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear p…

Microgrid

Virtual Power Plants Can Cost-Effectively Support the Grid— If We Let Them

(A rooftop solar system.)Contributed by Mathew Sachs, CPowerStrained by the double burden of increased demand and more frequent extreme weather events, our grid…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Burundi and Russia Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation

The Republic of Burundi and Russia have signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on peaceful uses of nuclear technology. It was signed as the Russia-Africa Econ…