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China to invest in UK’s nuclear plants
Two Chinese state-owned energy companies are interested in buying E.ON and RWE's UK nuclear joint venture Horizon which was put up for sale in March, as China envisages building a huge number of new nuclear plants on its own territory, to replace some of its old and heavily polluting coal plants.
read more... 07/05/2012
Fukushima’s impact on global nuclear generation in 2011
Total electricity generation by nuclear power plants worldwide decreased to 2518 TWh in 2011, down 4.3% compared to 2010’s amount of 2630TWh, this is following Fukushima’s disaster one year ago and Germany’s decision to remove its nuclear power.
read more... 20/04/2012
Vattenfall to make a major investment in hydro power
Swedish power company Vattenfall revealed its plans to invest SEK13bn ($1.9bn) on upgrading and boosting production at its hydro power plants until 2023.
read more... 17/04/2012
Nuclear pact signed between Japan and UK
Following the first Cameron’s visit in Japan, the British Prime Minister and his Japanese counterpart, Yoshihiko Noda, have signed a civil nuclear cooperation pact on building, decommissioning, decontamination and expertise share of nuclear plants.
read more... 13/04/2012
Largest solar power plant to be built in Asia
The biggest solar power plant will be built in Asia by the French energy group Areva for the Indian company Reliance Power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The two plants are developed by Areva Solar and imply the use of compact linear Fresnel reflector technology aimed to generate 250 MW of electricity in Rajasthan, a northwestern region in India.
read more... 12/04/2012