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United Kingdom: Hinkley Point nuclear power station: a new type of nationalisation
2013-10-21 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rejoice! Britain's first new nuclear power station in a generation is to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset, and David Cameron could not be happier. "This is a very big day for our country," he said yesterday, "the first time we've built a new nuclear power station for a very long time." There is only one snag: "we" are not building it at all. Thanks to an amazingly cushy 35-year deal agreed with the government, the plant to be known as Hinkley C is the responsibility of a consortium largely...
United Kingdom: Nuclear power station at Hinkley gets go-ahead as coalition signs off EDF deal
2013-10-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain is to embark on building the first nuclear power station for two decades on Monday as the coalition hands a multibillion subsidy to France's EDF with help from a state-owned Chinese firm. The two planned pressurised water reactors at Hinkley Point C, Somerset, are the first to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster and the first in the UK since the Sizewell B power station came online in 1995. The new reactors, which will cost 14bn, are due to start operating...
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Tracy Power Generating Station East of Sparks Turns 50
2013-10-10 01:36:07| Semiconductors - Topix.net
The Tracy unit number one at the generating station started producing electricity in October of 1963 and was northern Nevada's first steam-driven electric generating plant.
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Brayton Point power station to shut down as of June 2017
2013-10-08 21:14:21| Energy - Topix.net
Just five weeks after closing on the purchase of the Brayton Point Power Station, new owners Equipower, a subsidiary of investment partners Energy Capital Markets of Short Hills, N.J., disclosed Monday that they intend to shutter the plant as of June 2017.
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RES gets approval for Northumberland biomass power station in UK
2013-07-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
Renewable energy company RES has secured approval from the UK government to construct a 99.9MW biomass power station at Blyth Harbour, Northumberland.
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