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New power plant in Qatar by 2016.
Qatar plans to build a power plant to meet increasing demand even though it has currently an electricity surplus.
read more... 07/10/2010
German utilities conclude a risky deal.
The four operators of nuclear power in Germany made a deal, last month, with the government, agreeing to extend the life of the plants by a 12 year average.
read more... 06/10/2010
New electricity cable between Finland and Estonia
Fingrid, the Finnish grid operator announced that it intended to go through with the project of building a 650-megawatt Estlink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia that would cost 320 million euros.
read more... 30/09/2010
Kazakhstan interested in building a nuclear plant.
Three Japanese companies, Japan Atomic Power Company, Toshiba Corp and Marubeni Corp, announced Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Kazakhstan administration to provide data and cost estimates for the construction of a nuclear power plant with an advanced boiling water reactor.
read more... 30/09/2010
Norway worried about power supplies for winter to come.
Last year has proven to be a difficult one for Nordic countries as prices for power reached all-time highs as temperatures were lower than usual and Swedish nuclear reactors had outages concerns.
read more... 29/09/2010