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Scatec Solar completes 40 MW solar plant in South Africa

16 July 2014

The Linde project, located in the Northern Cape region, is the second utility scale solar PV plant Scatec Solar has completed under the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Program and the first of its two projects awarded in the second round. The new solar plant increases its installed capacity in the country to […]

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Siemens wins contract for 36MW windfarm in Germany

16 July 2014

Siemens Energy has won a contract to supply turbines for a wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Under the contract, the company will supply 12 direct-drive wind turbines, 11 model SWT-3.0-113 and one model SWT-3.0-101 turbine, for the Süderlügum publicly-operated wind farm. Located around 20km from the North Sea coast, the Süderlügum wind farm is scheduled […]

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Alstom and NASL to renovate and modernise Talcher super thermal power plant in India

16 July 2014

NTPC has awarded a contract to Alstom and NASL for modernisation of the Talcher super thermal power plant in India. Under the €13m (INR 1,074m) contract, the two companies will renovate and modernise electrostatic precipitators (ESP) at four units of the 4 x 500MW Talcher power plant in Odisha. The contract scope includes engineering, supply, […]

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Trans-Asia receives service contract for three Filipino hydropower projects

15 July 2014

The Philippine Department of Energy has awarded service contracts for thee hydropower project developments to the Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corporation, according to a disclosure filed with the Philippine Stock Exchange. The plants include a 300 MW plant in Pililla, 10 MW plant in Ilagan, and 10 MW plant in Buguias. “All contracts provide […]

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Mibugawa announces new small hydropower project for Fukushima

15 July 2014

Mibugawa Power and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Marubeni, have begun construction of a 175 kW small hydropower project in Fukushima Prefecture’s Minami Aisu County. The small hydro plant is the first to be constructed Minami Aizu County since Japan’s 2011 earthquake and is part of a Reconstruction Design Council plan to make Fukushima a “frontier land of renewable […]

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First Solar abandons plans for world’s biggest Solar PV Plant in China

15 July 2014

First Solar Inc. won’t be building the world’s largest solar plant in China after more than four years of negotiations on pricing failed to produce an agreement. First Solar had planned to build the 2,000-megawatt Ordos project in Inner Mongolia and sell the output to China’s power grid. Terms for selling the power were never […]

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Intersolar highlights PV innovations

15 July 2014

The refreshingly upbeat tone of the Intersolar 2014 conference and show in San Francisco this year was broadly supported by company announcements of advances in technology, new strategic partnerships, and expectations of more business as the PV industry evolves into maturity. While booth space was down about 10 percent, according to one unofficial estimate, attendee […]

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Sumitomo to begin construction of 75MW biomass power plant in Japan

14 July 2014

Japan-based power producer Sumitomo will begin construction on a 75MW biomass power plant in Aichi prefecture as a new power supply source for Summit Energy’s electric power retail business. To be built adjacent to the Port of Kinuura in Handa-city, the Handa biomass power plant will be operated by Summit Handa Power. The total project […]

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Ofgem approves £1.2bn Scottish subsea link and transmission charging reform

14 July 2014

Scottish Hydro Electricity Transmission (SHE Transmission), the electricity transmission subsidiary of SSE, has received approval from Ofgem for a £1.2bn subsea link and transmission charging reform. The new transmission link, between Caithness and Moray, will comprise more than 100 miles of underground and subsea cable for the transmission of a large volume of electricity from […]

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Fund provides lift-off for 30 community projects

14 July 2014

Thirty local renewable energy projects stretching from Cornwall to Cumbria were today named as the first recipients of the government’s Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) this year to help develop projects across England. They represent a range of technologies, including community-scale anaerobic digestion, solar power, hydropower and wind energy, as well as renewable and low-carbon […]

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