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A new £9.5m ($15m) wave and tidal energy centre is to be opened in Scotland.
State-owned Dena Energy Agency says that utilities operating in Germany should not be permitted to close unprofitable gas-fired power plants to safeguard supplies.
German utility RWE has emphasised that it will continue to expand its renewable power capacities, with particular attention on building its offshore and onshore wind farm portfolio.
The boss of French nuclear giant EDF’s UK arm, Vincent de Rivaz, has said the UK is “demonstrating consistency and continuity” in its nuclear policy.
Drax Power Station is poised to complete what it claims is the largest steam turbine modernisation programme in UK history.
US industrial rotation equipment supplier, Dresser-Rand (NYSE: DRC), is to provide Max Bögl Group with an indirectly fired KG 2-3 G gas turbine for its new biomass cogeneration plant in Bavaria, Germany.
UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry has conceded that part of the government’s Electricity Market Reform plans could fall foul of European Commission state aid rules.
Vincent de Rivaz , the head of EDF Energy, has rejected predictions that France’s new president could force it to ditch its big investment in new nuclear reactors in the UK.
German utility E.ON AG plans to shut down three large gas-fired power plants in southern Germany, because the plants don't operate profitably.
Rolls-Royce have announced that two of the Group’s Trent 60 gas turbines have successfully entered service at the new EDF Luminus power plant located at Angleur in the city of Liège, Belgium.
