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Statoil will invest in a new renewable project in Scotland
Statoil has recently announced that it intends to invest about 236 million dollars in a new renewable project in Scotland. They talk about building the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast, near Buchan Deep. The project will consist of five floating 6MW turbines totaling 30MW, which should be enough to power 20,000 homes.
read more... 04/11/2015
The Dukovany nuclear power plant operated by CEZ offline more than expected
The spokesman of the Dukovany Nuclear Plant operated by CEZ, Jiri Bezdek, has recently announced that the relaunch of the nuclear plant might be delayed. CEZ took offline the units 2 and 3 on September 17 for verifications which were initially supposed to continue three to four weeks, but the shutdown has been prolonged numerous times and could be longer than the November dates. Bezdek added that the units will be reconnected in different moments without mentioning the exact dates.
read more... 02/11/2015
Tauron CEO declared Poland needs to fuse its electricity groups
Poland has to merge some of its four largest state-run electricity firms soon to create bigger players able to compete on the European market, as stated by the CEO of the country's second major power producer Tauron on Friday.
read more... 02/11/2015
Vattenfall to phase out two German lignite plants to meet climate change objectives
Swedish utility Vattenfall agreed on Monday to phase out two lignite coal power plants in Germany, corresponding to 8 million tonnes of CO2-emissions.
read more... 27/10/2015
Germany will begin the transfer to coal power reserve in winter 2016
German utilities RWE, Vattenfall and Mibrag will begin cutting their coal-fired electricity production at the start of winter 2016, transferring this capacity instead to the country's power reserve as part of a plan to reduce carbon emissions, as stated by the government.
read more... 26/10/2015