RWE to Take Over Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW ‘Hydrogen-Ready’ Dutch Gas-Fired Plant

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:10:00 +0000

German energy giant RWE will in September acquire Vattenfall’s 1.4-GW Magnum combined cycle gas-fired power station, a project in the Netherlands where work is underway to explore converting one of the three

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Ford, Volvo Cars, & Broad Industry Coalition Appeals to EU to Ensure All New Cars & Vans Are 0 Emissions from 2035

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 06:00:58 +0000

Volvo_XC40Ford, Volvo Cars and broad industry coalition appeals to EU to ensure all new cars and vans are zero emissions from 2035 and to establish mandatory charging infrastructure targets Carmakers Ford and Volvo Cars join 26 companies in public call to EU legislators ahead of crucial votes. A broad cross-industry coalition including Ford of Europe […]

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Norway Setting Strategy for Offshore Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:13:00 +0000

Offshore wind is big business in the North Sea, with dozens of wind power installations commissioned in the region over the past two decades. Norway, a country that gets 98% of its power from renewable energy

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Sweden’s Government Approves Construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository 

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:14:00 +0000

Sweden’s government in late January gave radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) the green light to proceed with a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at a site near Vattenfall’s 3.2-GW Forsmark nuclear power plant. The milestone, which wraps up a planning process that has taken more than 40 years, makes Sweden only the second country, after Finland, to take active steps on building a permanent SNF repository.

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UAE Set to Start First Nuclear Plant; Sweden, Germany Shut Units

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:24:25 +0000

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The first nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reportedly will come online in early 2020. The report comes one day after Sweden on Dec. 30 shut down one of four reactors at the nation’s largest nuclear plant, closing Unit 2 at the Ringhals facility after more than 40 years of operation. Germany […]

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Toyota, Mazda, & Honda To Join The Electric Car Party

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:47:07 +0000

Toyota e-Palette autonomous podToyota, Mazda, and Honda have all made announcement this week concerning their electric car future. Of them all, Honda’s news may be the most important.

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Vattenfall & MHI Vestas Inaugurate 407 Megawatt Horns Reef 3 Offshore Wind Farm

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:40:16 +0000

Swedish energy group Vattenfall and offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas joined with the Crown Prince of Denmark and Danish Prime Minister last Thursday to open the country’s largest offshore wind farm, the 407 megawatt (MW) Horns Reef 3. 

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UK Economy-Wide Coalition Urges Government To Support Onshore Wind

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:45:28 +0000

An economy-wide coalition of UK companies and organisations has called on the country’s new Energy Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, to support the development of new onshore wind farms in an effort to extricate the technology from its current persona non grata status so as to further boost the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. 

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