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Total: assets acquired by South Africa’s Exxaro for $472 million
Mining conglomerate Exxaro Resources declared on Monday it had purchased the South African coal assets of France's Total for $472 million, increasing its production and offering it extra capacity at the world's major export terminal.
read more... 29/07/2014
Vattenfall to build a new coal-fired power station in Germany
Vattenfall has begun operations at its new coal fired power station in Saxony, Germany. The 675 MW Boxberg R plant will be fuelled with local brown coal from a nearby eastern German mining area and will cost about 1.29 billion dollars to build.
read more... 15/10/2012
Germany to build a wind farm in a lignite mining area
RWE Innogy unveiled that it has started the construction of the Jüchen wind farm in a lignite mining district in the west of Germany.
read more... 07/06/2012
Mining industry to invest 20 billion dollars in renewable energy by 2020
According to a Pike Research report, mining industry is likely to invest 8.4 billion dollars in 2016 and up to 20 billion dollars in 2020 in renewable energy and energy storage.
read more... 21/05/2012
U.S. imposes high antidumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels
The U.S. Commerce Department (DOC) announced the imposition of antidumping tariffs of more than 31% to 250% on Chinese solar panels, after determining that exporters sold product in the US below its production costs. This move aims to protect US domestic solar firms.
read more... 18/05/2012