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Austria files a legal challenge against Hinkley C nuclear power station in the UK
Austria, the non-nuclear nation, has filed a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice against £17.6bn EU-granted state subsidies for a new nuclear power plant in Britain, according to government officials.
read more... 08/07/2015
RWE plans reorganization of units to cut costs
German utility RWE is thinking about a restructuring that could see units such as RWE Generation and RWE Innogy being fused or swallowed up by the parent group since it deals with an industry-wide crisis, as stated in a German newspaper on Saturday.
read more... 06/07/2015
Bosnian regulator suspends decision to raise electricity prices
The electricity regulator in Bosnia's independent Serb Republic on Tuesday deferred a decision to permit the region's power utility ERS to increase electricity prices by an average 8.76 percent from July, mentioning legal and technical problems.
read more... 01/07/2015
GE will defend Alstom electricity unit to purchase at EU hearing
General Electric will try to convince hesitant EU antitrust regulators of the merits of its 12.4 billion euro (US$13.9 billion) offer for Alstom's electricity unit at a hearing, as stated by the U.S. consortium on Saturday.
read more... 29/06/2015
Vattenfall to divest its last fossil fuel asset in Denmark
Swedish energy company Vattenfall agreed to divest its last fossil fuel asset in Denmark, the 410-MW Nordjylland combined heat power plant, to district heating company Aalborg Forsyning for DKK823m ($123.4m).
read more... 26/06/2015