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Japan’s Hitachi to build nuclear power plants in the UK
The Japanese company Hitachi has announced on Tuesday that it intends to buy from German utilities E.ON and RWE the nuclear venture Horizon, for a total of 696 million pounds, and added that it was already in negotiations to find another company to manage the plants after they are built.
read more... 01/11/2012
China to end nuclear ban after Japan's Fukushima disaster
China is seeking to steadily resume construction of new nuclear power plants, approving a small number of nuclear power projects by 2015. The government froze new nuclear power projects and ordered a national scrutiny of existing plants after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
read more... 25/10/2012
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
Dong Energy to switch 3 plants from coal to biomass
Dong Energy, Denmark’s biggest utility, is likely to cut coal use and then carbon emissions by switching three of its major plants to biomass, which have a total capacity of about 1,968MW, announced the company.
read more... 16/10/2012
IAEA: nuclear energy will register a slowdown in growth by 2030
The general director of International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano announced at the IAEA’s 56 general conference in Vienna, that nuclear power will maintain its importance in several countries, despite the Fukushima disaster. He also added that there will be a steady increase in the number of nuclear power plants worldwide in the next 20 years.
read more... 02/10/2012