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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
Spain’s Garona shuts down
Spain’s oldest nuclear plant Garona, suffers shutdown due to a new energy tax imposed by the government. After years of selling power below costs, Spain’s government decided to introduce higher taxes on electricity generation as a measure to deal with a 24 billion euro energy tariff deficit.
read more... 17/12/2012