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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
German STEAG to receive funding for Romania wind farm
STEAG GmbH, one of Germany’s largest electricity producers, will get funds for 108 MW wind energy farm estimated at a cost of 200 million euro ($275.47 million), located in southeastern Romania, in the province of Dobrogea, as stated by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Tuesday.
read more... 05/03/2014
Latvia delays deregulation of the electricity market until 2015
The ruling coalition in Latvia decided to put off the liberalization of the power market until the elections, in order to have more time to set up a scheme of refund for poorer residents who are trying to find money to pay for increasing energy bills.
read more... 04/03/2014
Germany’s Siemens wins a significant power contract in Qatar
Siemens won a contract estimated at $253 million from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), aiming to construct nine substations, according to the declaration made on Sunday by German corporation.
read more... 03/03/2014
Coal consumption keeps growing in China
China is dealing with a big air quality problem, so recently the Government has announced that they will reduce their coal consumption share from its current 67 percent to 65 percent by 2017. The country intends to convert coal in syntethic gas, but this will result in more carbon dioxide emissions released because converting coal to make synthetic gas and then combusting the gas to make electricity will double the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released in the atmosphere.
read more... 21/02/2014