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Octopus Renewables Looks to Further Growth After Strong First Year Results

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has hailed the success of its inaugural year with a gross asset value of £441 million from 24 assets.

Geothermal Power Plant

Djibouti Launches Its National Geothermal Energy Engineering Company

Djibouti has reached another milestone in its geothermal energy development with the establishment of its very own national geothermal energy engineering compan…

Solar Power Plant

ETHIOPIA: Masdar to Supply 500 MWp of Solar Energy in the Coming Months

The Emirati independent power producer (IPP) Masdar Clean Energy has just obtained the approval of the Ethiopian government to produce 500 MWp of solar energy.

Hybrid Power Plant

GE to Provide Solar-Storage Combo for New York Hybrid

GE Renewable Energy has been selected by Convergent Energy + Power to provide an integrated solar inverter and battery package for a 123 megawatt-hour hybrid so…

Concentrating Solar Power

VRB Energy to Build Battery-Integrated Solar Power Station in China

VRB Energy has agreed to build a 100MW solar photovoltaic plant with a 100MW/500MWh integrated vanadium flow battery in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, China.

Solar Power Plant

African Petrol Stations Embracing Solar

Roof-mounted solar, and even storage systems, provide cheaper power than mains electricity or diesel generation, prompting companies such as Total to install mo…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia’s Leningrad-II Unit 2 Ready for Commercial Operation

Russian regulator Rostekhnadzor on 10 March issued a conclusion on the compliance of unit 6 of the Leningrad NPP with the requirements of technical regulations …

Nuclear Equipment

GE Steam Power Unveils 'Largest Last-Stage Blade Ever Made'

GE Steam Power announced today that it has designed and manufactured the largest-ever last-stage blade for its Arabelle low-pressure rotor.

Nuclear Fuel

Fuel Loading Under Way at Barakah 2

The process of loading 241 fuel assemblies into the core of unit 2 at the Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE has begun, operator Nawah Energy Company has an…

Nuclear Power Plant

France to Build Nuclear Crisis Centres Based on Fukushima Lessons

Local Crisis Centres are to be built at 11 nuclear power plants in France.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Yallourn Power Station to Retire in 2028

It currently supplies nearly 20% of Victoria’s electricity demand.

Solar Power Plant

Burkina Faso to get 30MW Solar Plant for National Grid

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund will finance 80% of the construction of Urbasolar SAS’ new solar plant planned for 250km south-east of Ouagadougou, Bur…

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant's First Unit's Power Grid Disconnection Explained

The official said: “A huge number of equipment and system tests are performed in the course of commissioning a nuclear power plant unit.

Hydropower Plant

Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Sign Roadmap for Implementing Hydropower Project

Minister of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan Kubanychbek Turdubayev met with an Uzbek delegation headed by Uzbek Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov.

Nuclear Power Plant

Ohio Senate Strips Subsidies from Nuclear Power Plant Bailout Law

Ohio Senators have unanimously approved a bill that strips out a key provision of the sweeping energy law that’s at the center of a federal corruption scandal.…