TIRANA: Albania aims to float state-owned electricity distributor OSHEE on the stock market this year, Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Monday. If it goes ahead, it will be the first public offering of shares in a major state-owned company in Albania, but Rama did not say how many shares would be sold or which […]

GENEVA, March 26 (Xinhua) — Electricity consumed in Switzerland is ever greener and cleaner, with more than 62 percent of electric power from renewable sources and nuclear down to 17 percent, according to a latest report by the Federal Office of Energy on Monday. The report, which refers to statistics in 2016, gathers each year […]

Renewable energy generated more electricity than brown coal during Australia’s summer for the first time in 2017-18, according to a new report by Green Energy Markets. Continued growth in solar pushed renewable generation in Australia to just under 10,000 gigawatt hours between December 2017 and February 2018. With the Hazelwood plant knocked out of the […]

Senior officials with Uzbekistan’s state-run power company have said work has begun on building power cables to Afghanistan that will enable them to increase exports by 70 percent. Uzbekenergo chief executive Ulugbek Mustafayev said in a press conference on March 24 that construction of the Afghan section of the 260-kilometer Surkhan-Pul-e-Khumri line will start in […]

New Delhi: India’s electricity production grew 34% over seven years to 2017, and the country now produces more energy than Japan and Russia, which had 27% and 8.77% more electricity generation capacity installed, respectively, than India seven years ago. Published in India Spend, 26th March, 2018 http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/india-produced-34-more-electricity-last-year-than-2010-now-third-globally-76993

The Kenyan government is set to spend Sh15 billion ($149 million) to rollout a countrywide electricity connection through the Last Mile Connectivity project. Energy cabinet secretary, Charles Keter, who was speaking at ACK St Joseph Kipkaren Parish in Uasin Gishu County, announced this over the weekend. Keter said that the Jubilee government is determined to […]