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Kazakhstan interested in building a nuclear plant.
Three Japanese companies, Japan Atomic Power Company, Toshiba Corp and Marubeni Corp, announced Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Kazakhstan administration to provide data and cost estimates for the construction of a nuclear power plant with an advanced boiling water reactor.
read more... 30/09/2010
Norway worried about power supplies for winter to come.
Last year has proven to be a difficult one for Nordic countries as prices for power reached all-time highs as temperatures were lower than usual and Swedish nuclear reactors had outages concerns.
read more... 29/09/2010
Big plans for Angola hydropower potential.
Carlos Feijo, Angola’s Minister of State, announced that his government is planning to invest 18 billion USD to 2016 to rebuild its dams that were destroyed in their three-decade long civil war. This investment is going to be, till now, the country’s biggest one in the energy sector.
read more... 24/09/2010
GDF Suez back out from Penly project.
Gerard Mestrallet, the CEO of GDF Suez, sent a letter to French Prime Minister, François Fillon, letting him know that they no longer want part in the Penly project, wrote Les Echos.
read more... 24/09/2010
Alpiq to construct a new block in Bosnia power plant
Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH), the state owned company in the energy sector of Bosnia, invited in March a few investors to examine the possibility of building a new block at the coal power plant in Tuzla, of a capacity of 450 MW, in a project worth 1.1 billion USD.
read more... 22/09/2010