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Italy: shutdown of 2 Vado Ligure coal units
Tirreno Power, an Italian electricity generation company, owned 50% by France’s GDF Suez, has received an order from an Italian judge to shutdown two coal-fired units at its Vado Ligure plant because of ecological concerns, as stated by a spokesman for the Italian firm.
read more... 12/03/2014
AREVA in talks with Niger on uranium contracts
Areva nuclear group, based in France, has made an essential step in talks with the Niger government on new contracts to extract uranium, as stated on Friday by Luc Oursel, the chief executive officer of the company.
read more... 10/03/2014
Italy’s Edison in negotiations to acquire two Israeli gas fields
Edison, Italian utility owned by EDF France, is in negotiations to acquire the Tanin and Karish gas fields offshore Israel from Delek Drilling and Noble Energy, U.S. explorer, at a total capacity of about 70 billion cubic metres, according to two sources familiar with company’s plans.
read more... 07/03/2014
More biogas plants to be launched by French biomass group Albioma
Two biogas plants of 2 and 0.5 MW capacities have been firstly launched by the French biomass group Albioma as part of an investment obligation to profit from regulatory changes in France, according to company’s general manager on Wednesday.
read more... 06/03/2014
France: EDF to shut down oil-fired plants for half a year
EDF French group will shut down its oil-fired plants for half a year starting from April, taking offline a power capacity of 5,000 MW, because the plants turned out to be uncompetitive among huge overcapacities in the European electricity sector.
read more... 06/03/2014