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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
CCS: the solution to reduce CO2 emissions
The CCS technology consists of capturing the CO2 from burning fossil fuels and storing it in deep geological formations, this way it will not boost the greenhouse gases. Technology exists to capture the emissions of factories and other industrial processes such as natural gas processing as well as power plants that burn fossil fuels or even biomass.
read more... 03/01/2013
Alstom to build a combined heat and power plant in Germany
Alstom will build a 450MW combined heat and power plant in Cologne, at an average cost of €350 million, for German power utility RheinEnergie.
read more... 28/12/2012
The new government of Japan to revive nuclear power
Japan's newly elected Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced this week that it could discard plans drafted by the previous administration as he intends to review plans to abandon the use of nuclear power after the previous government had said it wanted to phase out nuclear power by 2040 following last year's disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
read more... 28/12/2012
Blue Energy to build its biggest solar plant in Africa
The British firm Blue Energy is building the biggest solar plant in Africa and the fourth-largest in the world. The $400 million Nzema solar plant will produce 155 megawatts of electricity, increasing the country’s electricity capacity by 6 %.
read more... 24/12/2012