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Siemens won a 900 million dollars order
Siemens won a significant order for the development of six wind power projects in Americas worth 900 million dollars. The total capacity will reach more than 670 MW and will provide green power for more than 200,000 households.
read more... 09/11/2011
UK government to slash feed in tariffs for solar PV installations
The UK government has recently confirmed that it is going to slash feed in tariff support for new domestic photovoltaic installations next year as part of an effort to adjust their incentive mechanisms in order to keep the budget under control and reflect declining PV module prices.
read more... 04/11/2011
China reveals its shale gas output target
China, as the world’s second largest energy consumer, envisages the development of unconventional energy in order to meet its soaring demand for energy. Thus, the Chinese government revealed its plans to explore the country’s huge potential of shale gas reserves, as a result of some European countries’ decisions to ban the exploration of shale gas.
read more... 13/10/2011
Czech Republic considerably reliant on nuclear power
The government of the Czech Republic is planning to expand its atomic power at the Temelin nuclear plant, near the Austrian border and at the Dukovany plant and is also planning on building a new string of nuclear plants over the coming decades at three different locations.
read more... 11/10/2011
France to perform safety checks on each of its nuclear plant
Alain Juppe, the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and State Minister, during a conference held in Beijing on Tuesday, promised that France will soon perform a nationwide safety checks on each of its nuclear installations, aftermath of Fukushima nuclear disaster, moreover it will cooperate with the IAEA in order to maximize the safety of nuclear facilities.
read more... 15/09/2011