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Vestas receives 53 MW order in Sweden
Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order for 16 V126-3.3 MW turbines for a wind power project in Sweden. The order was placed by Allianz Capital Partners, the Allianz Group's in-house investment division for alternative investments. With a combined generation capacity of more than 1,000 MW, Allianz is one of the world's largest financial investors in renewable and wind energy.
The wind power plant is one of the largest in the southern part of Sweden and will be installed...
Wind
- Jul 31, 2014
Oregon LNG Secures Department of Energy Approval for Global LNG Exports
Oregon LNG today announces that it has received authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. Today’s approval comes notwithstanding recently announced modifications to DOE’s licensing review process and adds strong momentum to Oregon LNG’s project, which is one of the most advanced in the review process conducted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
Natural Gas & LNG
- General News - Jul 31, 2014
Westinghouse Strikes Deal to Build Bulgaria Nuclear Reactor
Bulgaria's outgoing government greenlighted on Thursday a last-minute deal with Toshiba's US nuclear engineering unit Westinghouse to build a new reactor at the country's Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Energy is an extremely sensitive issue in the European Union's poorest country, which is seeking to wean itself away from almost total dependence on Russia for its gas and nuclear fuel imports amid flaring tensions over Ukraine.
The Socialists-backed government, which res...
Nuclear
- Jul 31, 2014
Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory
Panasonic and Tesla Motors have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory.
According to the agreement, Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the land, buildings and utilities. Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in the associated equipment, machinery, and other manufacturing tools based on their mutual approval. A network of ...
General News
- Jul 31, 2014
Taiwan to Shutter Near-completed Nuclear Plant
Taiwan's government said Thursday it would seal off a nuclear power plant due to open next year but repeatedly attacked as unsafe by the public, pending a referendum on its future.
Deputy economic affairs minister Woody Duh said maintenance fees could reach Tw$4 billion ($133 million) to shutter the power station for three years -- the estimated time required to organise and hold the referendum.
In April, the government said it would halt construction after an estimated 28,500 pro...
Nuclear
- Jul 31, 2014
Russia's Lukoil Sells Filling Stations in Ukraine
Russia's Lukoil said Thursday it had reached preliminary agreement to sell its network of filling stations in Ukraine, days after radical nationalists there tried to extort fuel from the company.
The price for the sale of the roughly 240 filling stations and six petroleum tank farms to Austria's AMIC Energy Management GmbH was not disclosed.
"The sale of the filling station network and petroleum tank farms in Ukraine to AMIC will help Lukoil optimise its asset structure a...
Oil and Gas
- Jul 31, 2014
AltaGas Announces Start-Up of 195 MW Forrest Kerr Hydro Facility
AltaGas today announced that it has started producing power at its 195 megawatt (MW) Forrest Kerr run-of-river hydroelectric facility. Final commissioning of the powerhouse systems and high voltage switchyard were completed in July and the facility is now tied-in and delivering power to the Northwest Transmission Line at Bob Quinn, British Columbia.
"We are pleased to announce that we have safely commissioned and energized the largest construction project in our history," said D...
Hydro
- Jul 31, 2014
Biomass Magazine Launches New Biogas Producer Map
Biomass Magazine announced this week the completion of Biomass Magazine's 2015 U.S. Biogas Producer Map and list. This is the only online map produced that plots the location and status of all U.S. biogas production from on-farm facilities and wastewater treatment plants producing grid-connected bioenergy.
"We're very excited to take our first step towards bringing our biogas data and map offering to the same level our readers and audience enjoy in the biomass power, pellets,...
Bio
- Power Generation - Jul 30, 2014
