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Cornwall Wave Energy Hub, United Kingdom

The Wave Hub marine renewable infrastructure project will be the world's largest test site for wave energy. It is located ten miles away from the coast of Cornwall in England. The plant serves as a demonstration facility for developers...

Civaux 1-2, France

France has carried out its nuclear power programme with single-minded determination. From the oil price shock of 1973 to date, all French governments have seen nuclear investment as the best answer to the country's lack of natural resources. Industrial...

Chernobyl, Ukraine

On 26 April, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's number four reactor exploded, sending a radioactive cloud across much of Europe. Following the explosion, radioactivity with an intensity equivalent to 500 of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima at the...

Centrica Lincs Offshore Wind Project, United Kingdom

The Lincs offshore wind farm is one of the five renewable projects under development by Centrica Renewable Energy (Centrica) in the Greater Wash. The proposed development will be located approximately 8km from the Skegness coast, immediately adjacent to the...

Cefn Croes Wind Project, United Kingdom

The Cefn Croes Wind Project in Wales is the UK's largest onshore wind energy project. Located on a hillside near Devil's Bridge (Ceredigion), about 15km east of Aberystwyth, the project was opened in June 2005 with 39 GE 1.5MW...

Cas Tresorer CCGT Plant, Mallorca, Spain

The recently opened 230MW Cas Tresorer CCGT plant in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is already being expanded. The plant, which was the second of its type in the Balearic Islands, was originally opened by Endesa in July 2006 and...

Canedo Hydro Power Plant, Portugal

The Canedo Hydro Plant is a mini hydraulic power plant developed on the Beca River, located in the district of Braganca, Trรกs-os-Montes, Portugal. Owned by Candedo and operated by Hidrocentrais Reunidas / RP Global Portugal, the construction of the...

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