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UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry yesterday granted consent for a controversial 76-turbine wind farm located between Neath and Aberdare in Wales, paving the way for the biggest such facility in the UK.
Swedish power company Vattenfall is claiming a successful first quarter of 2012 after posting profits of SEK 13.6bn ($2bn), a rise of 92.4 per cent on the same period last year.
Vattenfall is planning to invest $1.9bn to modernise and increase production at its hydro power plants until 2023.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited the country's four main utilities to meeting in May to consider how best to develop Germany’s energy mix for the future, now that nuclear has been firmly removed from the menu.
US business tycoon, Donald Trump told a Scottish parliamentary committee that he had received assurances that a wind power project would not proceed and detract from a multimillion golf resort he had financed near Aberdeen.
Vattenfall AB is to commit €1.46bn ($1.9bn) into modernising its hydropower plants over the next ten years.
Gas producer BOC has been chosen to join Alstom and Drax on the team building a carbon capture and storage project in the UK.
Swedish utility Vattenfall has announced the termination of its planned EUR1.5bn ($2bn) investment in the high-profile carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at its Janschwalde plant, blaming the ongoing uncertainty over the German CCS law.
One of the UK’s largest onshore wind farm developers. was created this week with the uniting of Nuon Renewables and Vattenfall’s onshore wind power interests.
The UK’s installed wind power capacity has passed 6 GW for the first time.
