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POWER Digest [November 2023]
POWER Digest [November 2023]

News briefs curated by POWER's editors for September and October 2023. Canada Commits CA$3B to Complete Romania’s CANDU Nuclear Construction Canada will loan CA$3 billion in available export financing to…



POWER Digest [June 2023]
POWER Digest [June 2023]

KEPCO Wants to Extend Operations of Two Reactors. Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) in April asked Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for permission to extend the lifespan of…


POWER Digest [May 2023]
POWER Digest [May 2023]

News briefs from the world's power industry curated by POWER's editors. European Grid Operator Secures 22 GW of HVDC Projects European transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT will lead a charge…


POWER Digest [January 2023]
POWER Digest [January 2023]

POWER's editors curate important policy, technology, business, and industry news briefs from around the world in this department.  Brazil Formally Restarts Construction of Angra 3 Nuclear Reactor Eletronuclear, a mixed-ownership…


POWER Digest (October 2022)
POWER Digest (October 2022)

Saft Installs Batteries on Italian Islands. Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has installed seven maintenance-free Flex’ion lithium-ion battery systems supporting a microgrid with solar plants on the Italian island of…


POWER Digest [September 2022]
POWER Digest [September 2022]

New Transformer Improves Power System Reliability for Zimbabweans. An Emergency Power Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project funded by ZimFund reached the last leg of implementation on July 10 with the delivery of…


POWER Digest [September 2021]

LFP Battery Technology Chosen for Australia Project. Maoneng, an Australian renewable energy company, in August said its proposed battery energy storage system (BESS) in Victoria state’s Mornington Peninsula will use…


POWER Digest [August 2021]
POWER Digest [August 2021]

Bangladesh Scraps 8 GW of Coal-Fired Projects Bangladesh’s government on June 26 approved the Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Ministry’s proposal to scrap 10 coal-fired power plants, given their lack…


POWER Digest [March 2021]
POWER Digest [March 2021]

Hydropower Plant Comes Online in Turkey. GE Renewable Energy in February said the company has successfully completed the Lower Kaleköy Hydropower plant at the Lower Kaleköy Dam in Turkey, with…


POWER Digest [January 2021]
POWER Digest [January 2021]

Feasibility Study Set for Netherlands’ CCS Plan. Neptune Energy in mid-December announced a feasibility study to develop a carbon capture and storage (CCS) plan for the Netherlands. The study will…