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Greece to install 3 GW of solar in mining regions
Greece has announced plans to install two large solar PV parks at mining sites. The investment will come from the national electric utility as part of its new strategy, in line with Greece’s efforts to phase out coal.
read more... 17/02/2020
DEME, Herrenknecht to make special drill for French offshore wind project
Belgium-based DEME Offshore and German tunnel boring machines maker Herrenknecht AG have signed an agreement to manufacture a sub-sea drill that will be used at the site of the 480-MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project off the coast of France.
read more... 14/02/2020
Uniper power plant in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven: Groundbreaking ceremony for new gas and steam plant
Uniper has begun construction of two new gas turbines and a steam boiler at the Scholven power plant site after the Münster district government granted approval before Christmas. The new gas and steam plant is to replace the existing plants in the future. The conversion of the site to operate with natural gas will not only massively reduce the emission of climate-damaging substances such as CO2. Also, the noise impact from the plant itself and from fuel supply trucks will be significantly reduced, as the gas will be delivered by pipeline.
read more... 07/02/2020
Smolensk unit 3 gets licence extension
Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a 15-year operating licence extension for unit 3 of the Smolensk nuclear power plant, the last of three RBMK-1000 reactors at the site in western Russia. The move means the whole plant has permission to operate for a total of 45 years.
read more... 18/12/2019
EDF Energy extends outages at UK's Dungeness B21, B22 nuclear reactors to end of January
EDF’s EDF Energy has extended outages at its Dungeness B21 and B22 nuclear reactors in Britain to around the end of January, its website shows.
read more... 01/11/2019