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![Dams be damned: read this and more in the new Future Power]()
Dams be damned: read this and more in the new Future Power
In this issue: going 100% renewable, the last coal power stations left in the UK, filling the energy skills gap, and more.
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![Nuclear renationalisation: the debate]()
Nuclear renationalisation: the debate
As EDF and the French Government consider the possibility of renationalising the firm’s nuclear business to shelter its capital-intensive operations from the pressures of the market, what would be the...
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![Politics not technology: what must change for the world to go 100% renewable by 2050]()
Politics not technology: what must change for the world to go 100% renewable by 2050
Researchers from the Energy Watch Group and the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology in Finland have released a report, with the ambitious claim that the world can be entirely reliant on...
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![Seven up: the last operating coal plants in the UK]()
Seven up: the last operating coal plants in the UK
The heartbeat of the UK from the Industrial Revolution to the early 1980s, coal is going through a terminal decline. Coal-fired power stations will officially be assigned to the dustbin...
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![Dams be damned: is hydropower holding countries back?]()
Dams be damned: is hydropower holding countries back?
A 2000 report by the World Commission on Dams showed a huge fall in popularity, leading some to declare the era of the dam was over. Almost two decades on...
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![June’s top news stories]()
June’s top news stories
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) agreed to acquire US-based hydropower company Cube Hydro for an enterprise value of $1.2bn, and GE Renewable Energy announced that it will test its Haliade-X 12MW...
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![Facing its demons: inside the UK’s broken energy market]()
Facing its demons: inside the UK’s broken energy market
With a number of sensational business collapses in recent months, the UK energy sector is enduring a difficult time. Andrew Tunnicliffe speaks with Warwick Business School Global Energy Research Network’s...
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![The longest running power companies]()
The longest running power companies
The majority of the world’s oldest power companies started their operations in businesses unrelated to the power sector before progressing in the industry through organic and inorganic means. Power-technology lists...
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![Bright futures: efficiency versus cost in solar cell production]()
Bright futures: efficiency versus cost in solar cell production
While the use of solar cells is become increasingly widespread, the silicon technology used in many types is becoming obsolete. JP Casey looks at concentrated solar power, micro-trackers and perovskite...
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![Top 10 biggest wind farms]()
Top 10 biggest wind farms
Five of the ten largest wind farms in the world are operated in the US. Two offshore wind farms have made the list, while the remaining eight are onshore. Power-technology.com...
