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A new 60 MW energy-from-waste plant will be built in Cheshire
The Government has given the green light for the construction of a new 60MW energy from waste generating station in Cheshire (UK), being financed by Tata Chemicals and E.ON.
read more... 04/10/2012
IAEA: nuclear energy will register a slowdown in growth by 2030
The general director of International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano announced at the IAEA’s 56 general conference in Vienna, that nuclear power will maintain its importance in several countries, despite the Fukushima disaster. He also added that there will be a steady increase in the number of nuclear power plants worldwide in the next 20 years.
read more... 02/10/2012
UK’s largest coal power plant to become a clean-energy producer
According to Drax Group Plc, the UK’s largest coal-fired plant will become the largest clean-energy producer, switching from burning coal to burning wood, becoming probably the biggest renewable plant in the world. At the moment, coal is the most polluting fossil fuel and it produces roughly 41 % of global electricity, and about 50% of electricity in the UK.
read more... 01/10/2012
Italy: Eni to switch its Venice plant into a biofuel plant
Italian energy group Eni announced a $125 million project to convert its Venice Refinery into a bio-refinery, with the first biofuel production expected to start at the beginning of 2014.
read more... 26/09/2012
Coal power is set to increase in the next 4 years to come
In the next 4 years to come, coal power production is set to increase considerably as at the moment it is the most profitable source of energy in Europe. According to UBS AG, power producers from EON AG to RWE AG (RWE) will open six times more coal-burning plants than gas-fed units by 2015.
read more... 24/09/2012