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Iberdrola gets the green light to build a new wind complex in Scotland
Iberdrola, through its UK arm ScottishPower Renewables, has got the green light from the Scottish Government for the construction of wind complex Kilgallioch, whose development will require an investment of about 465 million euros.
read more... 18/02/2013
Turkey to start construction of its first nuclear power plant in 2014
Stating to the Director General of Akkuyu NGS A.S. Alexander Superfin, the construction of the first nuclear power plant Akkuyu in Turkey will start in early 2014. The preparation of an ecological report on the project’s impact on the environment will be completed in May 2013.
read more... 18/02/2013
Belgium to build an artificial island to store wind power
Belgium plans to build an artificial island in the North Sea aimed to store wind energy, trying thus to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, as it intends to completely exit from nuclear power in the next future. The construction of the island in the North Sea will have a donut form and will be made out of sand, in a move that will be able to store some of the excess power generated by extensive offshore wind farms in the area.
read more... 18/01/2013
China to build a new nuclear power plant
China has started the construction of a new power reactor in December, after lifting a construction moratorium imposed following Japan’s Fukushima disaster. The 200MW capacity reactor, which is being built at Shidao Bay in Shandong Province and will have a total cost of about 3 billion yuan (475 million dollars), will start generating power by the end of 2017.
read more... 09/01/2013
USA: The wind energy Production Tax Credit extended for one more year
The USA Congress has extended the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for a year, which will allow continued growth of the energy source that installed the most new electrical generating capacity in America last year. The new version of the tax will cover all the projects that start construction in 2013. After being approved by the Senate and the House it is now expected to be rapidly signed into law by the President Obama, who always supported the wind energy tax credits during the process.
read more... 04/01/2013