SINGAPORE: While advocating consumption of renewable energy, experts have emphasised the need for changes in regulatory framework and installing state-of-the-art power grids with hybrid transmission and distribution connection to avoid blackouts. “We need robust, hybrid and micro grids for reliability and market reach,” said Dr Damir Novosel, President of Quanta Technology, a utility infrastructure consulting […]

NEW YORK – Vistra Energy Corp and Dominion Energy Inc – which serve about 5.5 million electricity customers in more than a dozen U.S. states – both say they are done building combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plants. Instead, they are building large solar plants, which offer plentiful and inexpensive electricity. This bearish view of fossil-fuel […]

NAIROBI/MAPUTO. – The Government of Mozambique has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Great Lakes Africa Energy (GLAE) to generate electric power using natural gas for domestic use at an estimated value of US $400 million. The agreement signed last Friday in Maputo, Mozambique with GLAE, a United Kingdom registered Pan African energy solutions […]

The government of Canada has imposed restrictions on the usage of coal for the generation of electricity, encouraging sources other than coal specifically renewables. This has largely impacted the country’s coal industry in recent years. Over the last five years (2013-2017), Canada’s coal production declined from 68.9 million tonnes (Mt) to 60.5Mt, at an average […]

BREXIT BRITAIN’s energy security will be put at risk because of plans to rely on a huge increase in electricity imports from Europe to keep the lights on – analysts claim. In a report seen by The Sun, Ministers are panned for failing to build enough power stations and instead hoping electricity will flow through […]

Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity announced that it will sign contracts for the electricity interconnection network with Saudi Arabia by the end of next June, with the project set to start in 2021. Egypt announced back in December 2017 a project worth $1.6 billion that will connect its power network to Saudi Arabia’s, joining a system […]

PARIS – European spot electricity prices for day-ahead delivery dipped on Wednesday on the back of forecasts for lower consumption, and increased wind power generation in Germany, while year-ahead contracts came off recent highs tracking the fall in oil, coal and carbon prices. The German day-ahead baseload power contract for Thursday delivery fell 9.4 percent, […]

The UK electrical sector charts massive growth with 410% increase in trading businesses since 2010, according to this comment piece from Swinton Business, part of insurance broker Swinton Group Swinton Business, part of insurance broker Swinton Group, has identified extraordinary growth in the electrical industry, largely due to advancement in technology and improved government policy. […]

The federal ministry of Power, Works and Public Housing (Power Sector), is inviting qualified bidders to express their interest for the construction of a grid connected solar mini-grid project at Torankawa, Sokoto State. Published in ESI Africa, 23rd May, 2018 https://www.esi-africa.com/nigeria-power-sector-invites-bidders-for-solar-mini-grid-project/

The U.K.’s largest power station is to pilot a program that could make its renewable electricity “carbon negative” — meaning that it takes out more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it creates. Originally built as a coal-fired power station, Drax in North Yorkshire, England, has been focusing on renewables in recent years and this […]