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UK: Westmill Solar plant goes cooperative
UK-based community group Westmill Solar Cooperative completed its acquisition of the 5 megawatt (MW) Westmill solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, making it the largest collectively-owned PV plant in the world, comprising over 20,000 solar PV panels spread across 30a.
read more... 09/11/2012
Onshore wind farms cost declines by 38 per cent in four years
The cost of operating and maintaining wind farms has plummeted 38 per cent over four years, according to new reports released by the wind industry and government, meaning that the cost is declining by about 11% a year, quickly approaching the cost of running conventional natural gas and coal-fired power plants.
read more... 05/11/2012
Japan’s Hitachi to build nuclear power plants in the UK
The Japanese company Hitachi has announced on Tuesday that it intends to buy from German utilities E.ON and RWE the nuclear venture Horizon, for a total of 696 million pounds, and added that it was already in negotiations to find another company to manage the plants after they are built.
read more... 01/11/2012
A €280 million solar thermal power plant inaugurated in Spain
The Madrid-based infrastructure company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) has achieved the construction of its first solar thermal power in Spain.
read more... 30/10/2012
China to end nuclear ban after Japan's Fukushima disaster
China is seeking to steadily resume construction of new nuclear power plants, approving a small number of nuclear power projects by 2015. The government froze new nuclear power projects and ordered a national scrutiny of existing plants after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
read more... 25/10/2012