Power plants

Electricity Reform

Mexico's Energy Reform Strains Ties With US

Mexico's plan to favor its own state-owned electrical power plants and limit energy sales by private, foreign-built projects could affect U.S. investment in Mex…

Thermal Coal

India’s NTPC to Raise Thermal Coal Imports

India's biggest state-controlled power utility NTPC is seeking to boost its thermal coal imports to ensure steady supplies for its power plants as part of a bro…

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…

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…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Kusile Unit 4 to Boost SA Power Grid with Additional 800MW

The fourth unit of Eskom's Kusile power station is up and running and expected to soon contribute an additional 800MW to the country's power system.

Hydropower Plant

Republic of Srpska Breaks Ground on Three Hydropower Plants on Bistrica River

The contractor on the project, valued at EUR 103 million, is AVIC-ENG – China National Aero-technology International Engineering Corp.

Nuclear Fuel

Ukraine to Invest more than $333 million in its Uranium Mining Industry Over Five Years, Ministry Says

According to the concept for the development of the nuclear energy industry prepared by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, Ukraine intends to fully cover requir…

China Belt and Road

BiH, China Launch Construction of Green Energy Project

Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially launched the construction of the Bistrica hydropower plants near the city of Foca, some 80 km southeast of the capital Sar…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

First 1-GW Unit of Major China Coal-Fired Plant Comes Online

A Chinese power company said the first of four 1,000-MW units at a new coal-fired power plant in a northwestern region of Inner Mongolia has entered operation.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Million-kW Thermal Power Unit Begins Operation in N China

The first million-kilowatt thermal power unit of China's largest thermal power project under construction went into operation on Monday, after a successful 168-…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

S. Korea's Oldest Coal-Fired Plant to Shut Down

South Korea's oldest coal-powered plant will be shut down for good this week, the energy ministry said Tuesday, in line with the government's plan to shift towa…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Japan's Shikoku Electric Buys 15% Stake in Coal Power Plant Project in Vietnam

Japan's Shikoku Electric Power Co Inc has announced that it had invested more than 10 billion yen to buy a 15% stake in the Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power plant pr…

Thermal Plant

Petrobras Sells Three Thermal Power Plants in Bahia

The facilities will now be owned by São Francisco Energia S.A., a subsidiary of utilities company Global Participações em Energia S.A.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India To Consider Stopping New Coal Plants Construction

India is reviewing a proposal to stop new coal-fired capacity construction under a plan to meet its climate pledges, Indian outlet The Economic Times reported o…