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Belarus to start nuclear power plant ahead of schedule
The first 1.2GW unit of Belarus' new nuclear power plant in Astravyets will come on line in "the next few days", the country's energy ministry has said following long-standing president Alexander Lukashenko's disputed victory in 9 August's election.
read more... 12/08/2020
Plans unveiled for €1.6bn gigafactory in France to supercharge growing battery demand
Production in the gigafactory is scheduled to begin in 2023 with a capacity of 16GWh of battery cells which will later increase to 50GWh
read more... 31/07/2020
France completes closure of Fessenheim plant
French utility EDF yesterday permanently shut down unit 2 of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in eastern France as scheduled. Its closure, together with that of unit 1 in February, was necessary under the country's energy transition law before EDF can bring new nuclear capacity online.
read more... 01/07/2020
Total’s LNG project in Mozambique to secure $15bn
Total's planned LNG export facility in Mozambique is to receive $15 billion (267bn rand) of financing commitments from a banking consortium at a signing scheduled for June, according to South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), one of the project's backers.
read more... 04/06/2020
Europe is getting off coal even faster than expected
Across Europe, countries are making strides toward a fossil-free future. In April, Austria and Sweden closed their last coal plants—the latter nearly two years ahead of schedule—officially eliminating coal from their countries’ energy production.
read more... 11/05/2020