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GSE: Italy hits 15.9GW of cumulative PV capacity
Italy has installed a cumulative photovoltaic capacity of 15.9GW from its 448, 226 PV plants currently in operation at an annual cost of EUR 6.39 billion (USD 8.27 billion), as of October 12th, 2012, according to the Italian network agency, GSE.
read more... 19/10/2012
Vattenfall to build a new coal-fired power station in Germany
Vattenfall has begun operations at its new coal fired power station in Saxony, Germany. The 675 MW Boxberg R plant will be fuelled with local brown coal from a nearby eastern German mining area and will cost about 1.29 billion dollars to build.
read more... 15/10/2012
Didcot and Fawley power stations to be closed in 2013
RWE npower has announced that the two power stations in Oxfordshire and Hampshire which are 42 years old will be closed soon, as the EU rules required reducing greenhouse gasses emissions. The closures will occur at the end of March 2013, when the power stations will have exhausted their permitted hours of operation before they have to shut down, the energy company said.
read more... 19/09/2012
EDF Renewable Energy: 140 MW Pacific Wind Project in US becomes operational
EDF Renewable Energy, the US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, announced commissioning of the 140 MW Pacific Wind Farm, located in Kern County in California.
read more... 17/09/2012
France to close its oldest Fessenheim nuclear reactor by 2017
French government is committed to closing Fessenheim nuclear reactor, the country’s oldest operational reactor, by 2017.
read more... 11/09/2012