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German utilities conclude a risky deal.
The four operators of nuclear power in Germany made a deal, last month, with the government, agreeing to extend the life of the plants by a 12 year average.
read more... 06/10/2010
New electricity cable between Finland and Estonia
Fingrid, the Finnish grid operator announced that it intended to go through with the project of building a 650-megawatt Estlink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia that would cost 320 million euros.
read more... 30/09/2010
Kazakhstan interested in building a nuclear plant.
Three Japanese companies, Japan Atomic Power Company, Toshiba Corp and Marubeni Corp, announced Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Kazakhstan administration to provide data and cost estimates for the construction of a nuclear power plant with an advanced boiling water reactor.
read more... 30/09/2010
Norway worried about power supplies for winter to come.
Last year has proven to be a difficult one for Nordic countries as prices for power reached all-time highs as temperatures were lower than usual and Swedish nuclear reactors had outages concerns.
read more... 29/09/2010
Big plans for Angola hydropower potential.
Carlos Feijo, Angola’s Minister of State, announced that his government is planning to invest 18 billion USD to 2016 to rebuild its dams that were destroyed in their three-decade long civil war. This investment is going to be, till now, the country’s biggest one in the energy sector.
read more... 24/09/2010