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UK Government to finance a new nuclear power plant in Anglesey
The UK Government has announced it intends to finance a new nuclear power station in Anglesey in North Wales within three years.
read more... 05/12/2013
Biggest solar park in UK to be built in North Wales
The Compton Group, a green energy developer is aiming to build the UK’s largest solar park in North Wales. The project is likely to see something like 180,000 panels erected over 220 acres on land near Deeside Industrial Park and would create enough green electricity from the sun to power about 11,000 households. The development could create more than 100 jobs during the construction phase and a small number of positions once ready.
read more... 10/10/2013
RWE launches carbon capture plant at UK coal plant
German utility RWE has launched a carbon capture pilot project at the 1,560MW Aberthaw coal and biomass-fired power plant in Wales.
read more... 18/01/2013
Significant Irish wind project will supply with power the UK
The UK government is taking into consideration strategies to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea to north and west Wales. The cables would re-emerge at two sites in Wales with one of them at Pentir near Caernarfon, and the other one at Pembroke.
read more... 16/10/2012
Russia: Rosatom interested in entering the UK nuclear power market
Russia’s state atomic nuclear energy conglomerate Rosatom is interested in entering the UK nuclear power market and has expressed the desire to obtain a licence to build power stations in North Wales and Gloucestershire in UK.
read more... 06/07/2012