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MOZAMBIQUE: Globeleq Closes Financing for Its Cuamba Solar Power Plant

UK-based independent power producer Globeleq has announced the financial close of its Cuamba solar project in Mozambique.

Nuclear Power Plant

Inner Dome Installed at Taipingling 1

Taipingling unit 1, the first of six Hualong One units planned at the site, is scheduled to start up in 2025.

Nuclear Power Plant

Cavendish and Jacobs Sign MOU for UK Treatment of Japanese Fast Reactor Sodium Coolant

Cavendish Nuclear and Jacobs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan Atomic Energy Agency for the treatment and re-use in the UK of sodium coolant …

Market Analysis

Russian Nuclear Plants Announce New Electricity Generation Record

Russia’s nuclear utility Rosenergoatom said on 2 January that Russian nuclear power plants had begun 2022 with a new electricity generation record of 222.436TW…

Hydropower Plant

CTG Starts Construction of Tiantai Pumped Storage Plant

China Three Gorges Corporation has begun construction of a new pumped storage project that will feature the world’s highest hydraulic head.

Nuclear Power Plant

Kazakhstan Looks at Possible Nuclear Power Plant Sites

Kazakhstan is considering the village of Ulken in the Alma-Ata region and the city of Kurchatov in the East Kazakhstan for the possible construction of its firs…

Nuclear Power Plant

First Concrete for Unit 2 of China’s San'ao Nuclear Power Project

First concrete was poured on 30 December for unit 2 of China’s of the San'ao Nuclear Power Project in Zhejiang Province.

Third Hualong One Unit Connected to Grid

Unit 6 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province - the second of two demonstration Hualong One reactors at the site - has begun supplying ele…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's JAEA and Mitsubishi Heavy to Cooperate in U.S. Fast Reactor Project

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will cooperate in a U.S. project to build a next-generation fast reactor, it has been learne…

Solar Power Plant

Roofing Giant Takes on Tesla to Make Solar Roof Shingles more Affordable

When Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Solar Roof in 2016, it was the first that many people had heard of solar shingles.

Energy Investment

Iran to Add 10GW to Renewable Energy Capacity

Iranian Energy Ministry and some of the country’s private contractors signed memorandums of understanding on Sunday for cooperation in the construction of rene…

LNG

South Korea Retires Two Oldest Coal-Fired Power Plants, to Replace with LNG

South Korea has permanently shut its two oldest coal-fired power plants, which will be replaced by new LNG-based ones, in line with President Moon Jae-in's push…

Solar Power Plant

European Solar PV Capacity Jumped 34% in 2021

2021 is touted as the best year in solar history according to a new study

Solar Power Plant

Sonnedix Completes 100MW Spain Solar Swoop

IPP adds two 50MW projects to existing 700MW development portfolio

Solar Power Plant

Greece’s Coal Phase Out Enters Shaky Ground

Greece’s government announced in September 2019 that it aims to phase coal out of its electricity mix by 2028 at the latest.