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U.S. ENERGY WATCHDOG REJECTS TRUMP PLAN TO SUBSIDIZE COAL, NUCLEAR SECTORS
The U.S. energy watchdog terminated Monday a key proposal by President Donald Trump's administration to subsidize coal and nuclear plants, finding it neith... READ MORE›
ENERGY AGENCY REJECTS TRUMP PLAN TO PROP UP COAL AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
The industry has been besieged by multiple bankruptcies and a steady loss of market share as natural gas and renewable energy have flourished... READ MORE›
IN GERMANY, CONSUMERS GET PAID FOR USING POWER
Several countries in Europe have experienced negative power prices, including Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI OF DATA COULD CONSUME ONE FIFTH OF GLOBAL ELECTRICITY BY 2025
Data centres on their own could produce 1.9 gigatonnes Gt or 3.2 percent of the global total of carbon emissions, he says... READ MORE›
EVEN COAL GENERATORS ARE LUKEWARM ON TRUMP'S PLAN TO HELP THEM
Dynegy Inc., and some other coal generators are poised to profit from Energy Secretary Rick Perry's plan to change power market rules... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA SURVEY BACKS RESTARTING CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NUCLEAR REACTORS
The suspension was one of President Moon Jae-in's key campaign pledges to allay public worry over nuclear power... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Power Stations
WHY YOU'RE ABOUT TO PAY THROUGH THE NOSE FOR POWER
Right now, coal accounts for 76 per cent of our electricity generation... READ MORE›
ENERGY MINISTER TO BE GIVEN MORE CONTROL IN STATE'S $500M PLAN TO SECURE FUTURE
Photo SA wants to secure its own interests, say Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis and Premier Jay Weatherill... READ MORE›
EXPLOSION AT EDF'S FLAMANVILLE NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHERN FRANCE
Nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation, but much of the country's ageing nuclear fleet is expected to close in the 2030s... READ MORE›
MEGA-BATTERY PLANT TO COME ONLINE IN SHEFFIELD
Facility run by E.ON, to be followed by many more, will help UK grid cope with fast-growing amount of renewable energy... READ MORE›
UK SPARE ELECTRICITY CAPACITY TO FALL THIS WINTER
A total of 2.56GW of power has been secured which National Grid says will increase overall margins to 5.1 percent ... READ MORE›
ELECTRIC CARS AND THE COAL THAT RUNS THEM
In electric vehicles, you cannot decouple the car from the electricity generation, said Paul Nieuwenhuis, co-director of the Electric Vehicle Center of Excellence at Cardiff University... READ MORE›
BRITISH DOCTORS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CALL FOR RAPID COAL PHASE-OUT
Group of health bodies says tackling climate change and air pollution linked to coal would improve health and reduce NHS costs... READ MORE›
'NO THREAT TO ENERGY SUPPLY' - CABLE
Scotland's Energy Minister Fergus Ewing told BBC Radio Scotland that Longannet was necessary to meet demand ... READ MORE›
SWITCH FROM NUCLEAR TO COAL-FIRED POWER LINKED TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT IN US REGION
Study reveals fall in birth weight in areas of the Tennessee Valley which had greatest boom in coal-fired power plant activity following nuclear closures... READ MORE›
MOVE TO KEEP POWER STATION 'BACK-UP'
It is negotiating with owners of gas and coal-burning power stations... READ MORE›
COAL IS LOSING AN APPALACHIAN STRONGHOLD AS TRUMP FIGHTS BACK
At least six gas-fired plants are planned in the Ohio River Valley over the next four years... READ MORE›
COAL PLANTS USE AS MUCH WATER AS 1 BILLION PEOPLE AND CONSUMPTION SET TO DOUBLE
World Water Day research finds 44 percent of coal plants, and 45 percent of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress... READ MORE›
UK APPROVES CHINESE-BACKED NUCLEAR PLANT, SETS TIGHTER CONTROLS
The project offers an insight into how Britain could conduct relations with the world in a post-Brexit era... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: GE TO BUY POWER PLANT UNIT OF KOREA'S DOOSAN ENGINEERING
It also will help lower costs, increase service revenue and allow GE to use engineering and software to raise plant efficiency, Bolze said... READ MORE›
BRITAIN FACES HUGE COSTS TO AVOID POWER SHORTAGES WITH ELECTRIC CAR PLAN
The cost of Hinkley Point C alone, the only nuclear power station now under construction in Britain, is estimated at 19.6 billion pounds... READ MORE›
CHINA TO TAKE ONE-THIRD STAKE IN A?24BN HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER STATION
China to take one-third stake in A?24bn Hinkley nuclear power station... READ MORE›
JAPAN RESTARTS FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR SINCE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER
Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan is first to begin operation since 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, despite anti-nuclear protests... READ MORE›
CHINA SCRAPS 85 COAL PLANTS IN PIVOT TO GREEN ENERGY
China scraps 85 coal plants in pivot to green energy -- RT Business... READ MORE›
ELECTRICITY EMISSIONS SURGE BY 5.5% SINCE REMOVAL OF CARBON PRICE
Brown coal emissions fell slightly in the year to March 2016, almost entirely because Victoria's brown coal generators stopped exporting power to Tasmania... READ MORE›
RIOT POLICE CRACK DOWN ON PARIS PROTESTS AGAINST LABOUR REFORMS
Thousands of protesters turn out on streets of French capital as refineries and nuclear power stations across the country come to a halt... READ MORE›
MONKEY IN KENYA SURVIVES AFTER SETTING OFF NATIONWIDE BLACKOUT
KenGen, which often provokes the ire of customers who complain about Kenya's relatively high electricity costs, said late on Tuesday that the outage had been fixed... READ MORE›
POWER PLANT OWNERS LIMIT TOSHIBA'S WESTINGHOUSE LIABILITIES
Toshiba's Westinghouse subsidiary is building the nuclear power plants for the U.S. utility companies, but filed bankruptcy in March because of cost overruns... READ MORE›
GLOBAL COAL BOOM UNDERCUTS CHINESE VOWS
Parents whose children have developed persistent coughs blame the school's new neighbor a huge coal-fueled power plant built by Chinese engineers with Chinese aid... READ MORE›
COAL'S DECLINE MAY CONTINUE EVEN UNDER TRUMP
The switch is happening even faster across the USA, where gas surpasses coal as a fuel for power plants... READ MORE›
GERMANY TO SHUT DOWN COAL-FIRED PLANTS, EXTEND POWER GRID
Germany to shut down coal-fired plants, extend power grid sources... READ MORE›
MAKHADO MINE: FLASHPOINT FOR TENSIONS OVER SOUTH AFRICA'S PRO-COAL POLICIES
A campaign by locals and farming businesses to halt a large opencast mine highlights a far wider conflict over South Africa's continued addiction to coal... READ MORE›
HINKLEY POINT NUCLEAR PLANT WILL GO AHEAD
The delay caused tension with the French government because EDF had approved funding for the project despite serious concerns about the company's ability to absorb the huge costs... READ MORE›
HOW WILL THE CLOSURE OF HAZELWOOD POWER STATION AND MINE AFFECT YOU?
Strain on parts of the NEM were experienced in early February 2017, when record-setting heatwaves swept across South Australia and into NSW and Queensland... READ MORE›
GAS SHORTAGE COULD TURN AUSTRALIA'S POWER OFF, PM WEIGHS IN
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attacked the states for higher gas prices, after the Energy Market Operator warned of potential electricity shortages... READ MORE›
UNLIKELY CASUALTY IN CALIFORNIA'S RENEWABLE ENERGY BOOM
Unlikely casualty in California's renewable energy boom natural gas... READ MORE›