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Urenco inks Ukrainian agreement
Urenco, manufacturer of enriched uranium for the nuclear power utilities worldwide, should supply uranium enrichment to Ukraine under an agreement inked last week by the country's national nuclear firm Energoatom and the enrichment company possessed by Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
read more... 22/08/2016
EDF, Edison, Gas Natural and Centrica interested in acquiring a large share in Eni's retail gas and power business
European giant utilities French EDF’s, Italian unit Edison, Spain's Gas Natural and Britain's Centrica are interested in acquiring a share in Italian oil major Eni's retail gas and power business, a deal that could cost up to $3.4 billion.
read more... 29/04/2016
Britain's wholesale gas will continue to be cheap this year
British utilities are likely to benefit from low wholesale gas prices this summer and beyond even if electricity firms chose to do a lot more switching from coal to gas to fuel their plants.
read more... 27/01/2016
Swiss grid will exploit Alpine hydro plants to counterbalance nuclear shutdown
The Swiss power grid operator has informed utilities that they may have to increase energy production from high-mountain hydro plants this winter since nuclear reactors stay closed and there is not sufficient transformer capacity to take on enough green power from Germany.
read more... 03/12/2015
Second largest floating solar installation in the world to be built in the UK
Water company United Utilities has begun construction of a floating farm installation, with a capacity of the 3 MW, on a reservoir near Manchester, in the UK.
read more... 29/10/2015