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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Russia Upgrades Fuel Processing at Mining & Chemical Combine

Specialists at Russia’s Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC – part of Rosatom) in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, are installing and commissioning …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

TVO Confirms Warranty Period for Olkiluoto 3

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has handed over an acknowledgment of receipt to the Areva-Siemens consortium for the EPR at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Emergency-Use Robot Trialled at Sellafield

A remotely-operated rescue robot capable of withstanding hazardous environments has been evaluated at the UK's Sellafield nuclear site. Designed and manufac…

Nuclear Reactor

Construction Begins of Fourth Haiyang Unit

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 4 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province. It marks the official start…

Energy Storage System

Grid Inertia Measurement Trial at Australia’s Biggest Battery Storage Project

The Australian government is funding a trial of grid inertia measurement at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the …

Geothermal Power Plant

Mining Firm Announces Results of Metallurgical Sampling From Reykjanes Geothermal Plant

Canadian mining firm St-Georges Eco-Mining has published results from metallurgical analyses of scale samples from the Reykjanes geothermal site in Iceland.

Carbon Emissions

Power Plant Carbon Rules Were Years in the Making and Come With Cash for a CCS Industry

The process to craft those rules has been underway for more than a decade and involves multiple challenges to the agency’s assumed authority to regulate g…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Maintenance Impacted at Zaporizhzhia, Says IAEA

The current situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is having a significant impact on the plant's maintenance capability, the International Atomic…

Solar Power Plant

Taiwan’s Largest Solar Plant Goes Online

Vena Energy says it has commissioned the largest PV project in Taiwan. It says its 272 MW E2 Solar Project will account for 4% of the island’s annual sola…

Wind Farm

Ingeteam Launches a Control System for Hybridising Wind and Solar Power Plants

It is a system that allows the hybridization of wind farms with photovoltaic plants and energy storage systems in batteries.The first units are in the certifica…

Geothermal Power Plant

Drilling to Expand Capacity of Neustadt-Glewe Geothermal Power Plant, Germany

Daldrup & Söhne AG will carry out drilling of a sidetrack well for the expansion of Neustadt-Glewe geothermal power plant in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Biden Plans to Slash Planet-Warming Pollution From Power Plants

Joe Biden at COP26 in Glasgow. (Image by the World Economic Forum, Flickr.)The Biden administration is preparing to propose limits on greenhouse gas emissions f…

Hydropower Plant

Savannah Energy to Help Develop Bini a Warak Hydroelectric Project in Cameroon

British firm Savannah Energy has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Government of Cameroon for the development of the Bini a Warak Hydroelectric Pr…

Hydropower Plant

Emrgy Secures $18.4 Million in Series a Funding to Expand Operations and Deploy Distributed Hydropower Projects

Emrgy, a woman-led renewable energy technology and project developer, has secured $18.4 million in a Series A funding round led by Oval Park Capital, with Key i…

Hydropower Plant

AFRY to End Involvement in Hydropower in Myanmar Over Human Rights Concerns

AFRY has announced its decision to end its involvement in hydropower projects in Myanmar. The company cited the worsening human rights situation in the country …