Projects
America
Brazil to construct nuclear plants
Brazilan Energy Minister Edison Lobao has unveiled plans to build four more nuclear plants to increase the nation's nuclear power-generation capacity. Brazil has two nuclear plants in operation, which includes the 657MW Angra I and 1,350MW Angra II located...
Africa
Kusile Power Station
Kusile power station, which is expected to become the world's largest coal-fired power plant upon completion, is being constructed in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Kusile is the first South African power facility to incorporate wet flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology....
Europe
Crystal Rig Wind Farm Expansion, Scotland, United Kingdom
The wind farm now operates with 85 wind turbines (25 turbines of Phase I and Ia, and 60 of Phase II and IIa) giving it a nameplate capacity of 200.5MW. The facility is operated by Natural Power...
Europe
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...
Europe
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...
Europe
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...
Europe
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...
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