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EU turns up the heat on Electricite de FranceThe European Commission on December 29 turned up the heat on French power giant Electricite de France (EdF), confirming that it suspected the former monopoly of breaking EU competition rules. The European Commission has sent Electricity exported from November 1 Tajikistan’s Energy and Industries Minister Gul Sherali recently announced in Dushanbe that Turkmen electricity will be supplied to Tajikistan during the autumn-winter period between 2008- 2009, Asia-Plus reported. “The Uzbek side assured us that repairs Big coal plant wins clearance The state of Hamburg granted regulatory approval on September 30 for one of Europe’s biggest coal-fired power stations, angering the environmentalist Greens Party which had campaigned for a gas plant instead. Swedish-based utility Vattenfall has German factory claims first auto lithium-ion batteries A factory making lithium-ion batteries for hybrid- drive cars opened in Germany on September 24, with owner Continental saying it was the first in the world to mass-produce the storage cells. Smaller lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable EVN’s profits down Austrian energy provider EVN AG on August 28 reported its net profit decreased by 14.4 per cent to 190 million Euro in the first three quarters of its 2007/08 business year due to higher primary Electricite de France is stopped in its tracks Electricite de France suspended concrete pouring at Flamanville-3 after the discovery of “anomalies” in the construction project, France’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, or ASN said on May 27. ASN found the anomalies, which involve non-conformances in StatoilHydro to build floating wind turbine Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro said on May 22 it has decided to build the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and test it over a two-year period offshore Karmoy. The company said the Davies Report requires coal plants to capture carbon emissions  British MEP Chris Davies is preparing a report calling for all new coal burning power stations to be required to capture 90 percent of their CO2 by 2015 and all stations to be fitted out Amsterdam giving free energy-saving bulbs A total of 6,000 low-income households in the city of Leeuwarden, in the northern Netherlands, will be receiving a so-called energy box in May from the municipality. The energy box, distributed to the people at German electricity industry supports coal power The electricity industry in Germany, where about 60 new coal-fired power stations are planned, attacked environmentalists and said politicians lacked the courage to tackle the looming energy gap. “We face a backlog of planning permissions,” Siemens wins to build 2 wind parks in Poland German engineering giant Siemens AG said it is to build two wind parks in Poland worth about 100 million Euro. Siemens Energy, said it had won two orders from RWE Innogy to supply wind 33 French utility EDF eyes Spanish energy market The French utility Electricite de France SA ( EDF) admitted that it had exploratory talks with the Spanish construction company ACS and is interested in the Spanish energy market. However, the company declined to comment Biomass power seals 400 mln Euro investment  Austrian company Warmebetriebe and local energy company Electrica will invest 400 million Euro in the construction of several biomass power stations with an installed output of 200 megawatts in Romania, the state-owned company strategy and Ukraine eyeing Dniester electric power station Ukraine’s Fuel and Energy Ministry seeks to gain full control over the construction of the Dniester pumped-storage hydro-electric power station, replacing its current owner with the 100-percent state corporation Ukrhydroenergo, the local media reported on Endesa buys Soprolif share Endesa France has acquired 55percent of Soprolif from EDEV, which is in charge of EDF’s development activities, Endesa revealed in a statement last week. Endesa already held 45 percent of Soprolif, the French company which Electrabel to go nuclear Belgian utility Electrabel, owned by France’s Suez, is among the two favorite contestants to win the bid for 49 percent of the new Bulgarian Nuclear Plant – Belene. Alongside it is the German RWE. Bulgaria PGE to build power station State-owned power group PGE intends to invest PLH 10 billion into building a power station in the city of Liublin, company spokespersons announced on March 9. The plant is expected to have two 800 MW Government rations electricity in the bone-freezing cold The authorities in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan early last week introduced electricity rationing in response to severe energy shortages caused by an unusually cold winter, Irinnews reported. Following severe energy shortages caused by China to finance power projects in Nepal China has assurred Nepal of soft loans for two power projects worth 121 million Euro aimed for domestic consumption in the hilly country. A nine-member Chinese delegation that visited Nepal led by Assistant Minister for E.ON earnings up Late last week, Germany’s biggest utility group E.ON AG unveiled higher earnings for last year. This came as Berlin stepped up its attack on the company over its plans to offload the group network. “We |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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