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France’s Total to explore the Australian shale gas sector
The French oil major Total, which is the fifth biggest oil company in the world, has become the most recent global player to be involved in the Australian shale gas sector, signing up to a $190 million with Central Petroleum to farm into four exploration permits in the South Georgina Basin.
read more... 07/11/2012
Japan’s Hitachi to build nuclear power plants in the UK
The Japanese company Hitachi has announced on Tuesday that it intends to buy from German utilities E.ON and RWE the nuclear venture Horizon, for a total of 696 million pounds, and added that it was already in negotiations to find another company to manage the plants after they are built.
read more... 01/11/2012
Vestas to reach 3000 MW of installed capacity in Italy
Vestas has achieved 3000MW of installed capacity in Italy, which accounts for 40% of the total installed wind energy in the country and 25% of its renewable energy obligation under EU 2020 targets.
read more... 31/10/2012
UK solar installations reached 1.3 GW due to drastic cuts in FiT
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released new figures according to which a total capacity of 1.3 GW of solar installations was installed nationally at the end of September 2012. The severe cuts in feed-in tariffs for solar power in the UK reduced installations by almost 60 % in April, leaving the government far behind from its goal of 22 GW of PV by 2020.
read more... 26/10/2012
Dong Energy to switch 3 plants from coal to biomass
Dong Energy, Denmark’s biggest utility, is likely to cut coal use and then carbon emissions by switching three of its major plants to biomass, which have a total capacity of about 1,968MW, announced the company.
read more... 16/10/2012