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PGNiG and Chevron to explore for shale gas reserves in the southeast of Poland
Poland’s oil and gas company PGNiG, signed a letter of intent with American fuel giant Chevron, on the terms of a possible cooperation on shale gas exploration projects, which would bring together four licences in southeastern Poland.
read more... 17/12/2013
Argyll Array: High costs kill off another giant offshore wind farm project
Scottish Power has decided to scrap its plans to build the £5.4bn world's largest offshore wind farm, after four years of planning, citing it as “not financially viable". Some other challenges the project is facing with is tricky ground and wave conditions and the presence of protected sharks.
read more... 16/12/2013
Vestas has been awarded a 59 MW wind contract from Swedish Eolus
Danish wind giant Vestas has been awarded a contract from Eolus Vind to provide wind turbines a mounting 59MW for four power projects in Sweden.
read more... 13/12/2013
Turkey could increase its share in TANAP project
Turkey has demanded to Azerbaijan to increase its share in Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), the head of Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR, Rovnag Abdullayev, said this week at a conference. Currently Turkey owns a 20% share in the project, while the rest of the shares belong to SOCAR of Azerbaijan.
read more... 12/12/2013
UK’s biggest biomass plant has opened
Britain’s largest coal-fired power station has begun its conversion to become Britain’s largest renewable electricity producer as well as one of Europe’s largest renewable electricity generators. The project will see the coal station turn to wood pellets for fuel rather than coal, a move which aims to slash carbon emissions by more than 80%. One of the generating units has been converted to biomass while the other two will be using biomass by 2016.
read more... 10/12/2013