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Industry News 2006 P49



Wave power connected to Italian grid
Electricity generated from waves has been transmitted to a national electricity grid for the first time anywhere in the world, according to the developers of a project in Sicily, Italy.

BNFL get OK for British Nuclear Group privatization
BNFL, formally British Nuclear Fuels Limited, has today gained Government approval to sell its specialist nuclear clean-up business, British Nuclear Group. The announcement coincided with news that the cost of cleaning up the UK's nuclear power plants could be more than £70bn ($121.5bn), according to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority's previous estimate of the cost had been £56bn.

UK pushes microgeneration
The UK Government yesterday launched a strategy to increase local level energy production and reduce carbon emissions. News of the strategy came in the same week that the government accepted that it was unlikely to meet its target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2010.

Load shedding prompts protests in Pakistan
Severe load shedding overnight brought several hundred people onto the streets in Dhaka, Pakistan to protest yesterday. The protesters then surrounded and ransacked the office of the Power Development Board (PDB).

Energy companies consolidate as Poland protects
Poland's plans to privatize its energy assets appear to have taken a back seat as the country's government vowed to implement its new energy strategy immediately.

Northeast Seven debate model for cutting plant emissions
Operators of power plants larger than 25 MW in seven Northeast US states will have to work under the country's first mandatory market-based cap-and-trade programme to control carbon dioxide emissions if a draft model put together by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is adopted.

Doosan and Harbin agree cooperation
Harbin Power Equipment Corporation, China's top power equipment manufacturer has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries on cooperation in the field of nuclear power plant construction.

British business paying too much for energy
British businesses have failed to adapt their energy buying processes to increasingly volatile oil, gas and power markets, and as a result overspent on energy by more than £3bn ($5.2bn) last year - up from £1bn in 2004.

Nuclear set to answer South Africa's growing call for power
The South African government is investigating the possibility of building the country's second large scale nuclear power plant at a site near Cape Town.

Wind not welcome as Xcel requests renewables
US utility Xcel Energy has issued a request for proposals for around 45 000 MWh of annual renewable energy or renewable energy certificates to be generated from renewable technologies other than wind turbines.

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