Utilities

Utilities

• Trump goes to court to oppose Scotland wind farm

  American tycoon Donald Trump is taking legal action to challenge the Scottish government's decision to approve an offshore wind farm near his luxury ... 

• Poland's shale gas hopes suffer blow

  News that Talisman Energy Inc. and Marathon Oil are pulling out of exploration for shale gas in Poland is a blow to the country's hopes that its ... 

• German utility E.ON's profits rise on asset sales

  German utility company E.ON SE says net income rose 25 percent in the first quarter thanks to the sale of several businesses. The company's profits ... 

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  Japan vows 'high safety' for Turkish reactor

  Japan has learned from the Fukushima disaster and will offer technology with the highest safety standards while building Turkey's second nuclear ... 

• Japanese-French partners picked for nuclear plant

  Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says a Japanese-French consortium has been chosen to build Turkey's second nuclear plant. His ministry said ... 

• Nuclear outages weigh on GDF Suez's Q1 revenues

  Franco-Belgian utility GDF Suez says its revenue fell slightly in the first quarter of the year due to nuclear plant outages in Belgium and a loss of ... 

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  UN powers say NKorea, Iran 'serious' nuke threats

  Ahead of a round of global nuclear talks, five major powers labeled North Korea and Iran as "serious challenges" to the world's nuclear security ... 

• Emergency shutdown at Bulgarian nuclear plant

  Officials say a turbo generator at Bulgaria's only nuclear power station has been shut down due to a hydrogen leak in its cooling system but insist ... 

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  Suu Kyi visit highlights Japan's Myanmar push

  Japan's long-deferred aspirations for a larger role in Myanmar are getting a boost this coming week with a visit by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ... 

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  Iran says 37 killed in earthquake in south

  A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials ... 

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  Iran unveils uranium sites, renews defiant tone

  With words of defiance, Iran announced two nuclear-related projects Tuesday that expand capabilities to extract and process uranium — modest advances ... 

• Danish Vestas in big wind turbine deal in Canada

  Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, says it will provide 166 wind generators to a project in Alberta, Canada. 

• Japan Gas, Technip of France in Russia LNG project

  JCG Corp., a Japanese engineering company, and French oilfield services company Technip S.A. have won a contract for a liquefied natural gas plant in ... 

• Obama says Iran a year away from nuclear weapon

  Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that ... 

• Iran: Bushehr nuclear power plant taken off line

  Iran's vice president says the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the country's electricity grid because of a mechanical problem. 

• German utility Eon posts FY profit of $3.4 billion

  German utility Eon bounced back to profit in 2012 but warned that it may have to start closing gas-fired power plants if government doesn't take steps ... 

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  ADB: In Asia, wealth buys access to clean water

  Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's ... 

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  Recovery slow as Japan marks 2 years since tsunami

  Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marked the second anniversary Monday of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that ... 

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  Obama nominates 3 to Cabinet-level posts

  President Barack Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, ... 

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  WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident

  Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of ... 

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  WWI shell found near Belgian nuclear power plant

  A Belgian utility says an unexploded World War I shell was found on the grounds of a nuclear power plant but was safely removed by military experts. 

• Bulgaria abandons plans for 2nd nuclear plant

  Bulgaria's parliament has confirmed an earlier government decision to abandon plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant with Russian ... 

• Officials: Slovenian nuke plant shuts down

  Slovenia's only nuclear power plant shut down automatically on Monday after a drop in pressure in a steam generator and there was no danger of a leak, ... 

• Rare countrywide power blackout hits Pakistan

  A rare countrywide blackout has left Pakistan without electricity for almost two hours overnight. The authorities blamed technical problems for the ... 

• Bulgaria to revoke Czech power company license

  Bulgaria announced Tuesday that the license held by a Czech company for power distribution in parts of the Balkan country will be revoked following ...