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Metka in deal with RWE to build Turk power plant

Τρι, 3 Νοεμβρίου 2009 - 15:29

Greek engineering firm Metka said yesterday it had signed a deal with RWE and Turcas Guney Elektrik Uretim to build a 450-million-euro 775-megawatt power plant in Turkey. As a contractor for the RWE-Turcas joint venture, Metka, a unit of metals group Mytilineos, will construct an electricity plant fueled by natural gas at Denizli, Western Anatolia.

Joschka Fischer: Next Year Crucial for Nabucco

Τρι, 3 Νοεμβρίου 2009 - 12:53

European Union's Nabucco gas pipeline project will play an important role for Bulgaria's future and the coming year will be crucial for it, former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer said in Sofia. Fischer, now an adviser for partners in the Nabucco consortium, the German and Austrian energy giants RWE and OMV, arrived in Sofia to discuss the project with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and other officials

China To Double Wind Power Installed Capacity This Year

Δευ, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2009 - 19:09

China will add wind power installed capacity of 12 gigawatts this year, doubling the nation's total wind power capacity, Li Junfeng, deputy director of the Energy Research Institute under the National Development and Reform Commission, said Monday.

Czech Nuclear Tender Highlights Geopolitical Rift

Δευ, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2009 - 19:09

Czech power utility CEZ AS (BAACEZ.PR), Central Europe's largest company by market capitalization, just received initial bids in a $30 billion tender, the region's largest ever, to build five new nuclear reactors in Europe. But the utility, majority-owned by the Czech state, faces a strategic dilemma: whether to use western or Russian technology.