The first concrete pouring on the foundation plate of the reactor building of the 5th unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in India was carried out with an official ceremony today. Thus, an important step was taken in the third phase of the power plant construction. The ceremony was held via videoconference due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Prior to pouring concrete, the concrete bed was prepared for the foundations of the reactor building’s auxiliary reactor building, where the Main Control Room is located, the turbine building, and the power supply building, which supplies energy for normal operation, emergency and safety control systems.

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Electricity consumption in the EU was only 1% below last year’s levels in the 4th quarter of 2020. Industry and household demand started to pick up. Demand returned to pre-epidemic levels in December, despite a small decline in November, affected by a wave of seclusion measures.
The EU electricity consumption average prevented any major differences in member states to be seen. Because consumption has increased significantly year by year in 10 countries (Hungary + 5%, Romania + 3%, Poland + 1%), while the rest remained in the negative zone.

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The world’s largest synchronous electricity network has allowed many European countries to make power trading a part of everyday grid balancing. Until now, France has usually acted as the grid’s largest exporter, thanks to its location and nuclear fleet. But in the second half of 2020, Norway rose above France to become Europe’s powerhouse. What changed in the two countries, and is this an anomaly or a trend?

Renewables threaten to revolutionise the geopolitics of power generation, but until then, location is everything.

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Renewable energy 2030 targets already written into official policy by 87 governments around the world would mean the construction of an estimated 721 gigawatts of new capacity in wind, solar
and other non-hydro renewable power technologies over the next decade, according to analysis by BloombergNEF. Meanwhile, those private sector companies that have joined the RE100 group, pledging to source 100% of their power from renewables, will need to buy an estimated 210 terawatt-hours of green electricity by 2030, on top of what they consume now, in order to be on track.

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Danish energy firm Orsted and TSMC, a Taiwan-headquartered semiconductor company which supplies businesses such as Apple, have signed a deal described as “the world’s largest renewables corporate power purchase agreement.” Announced Wednesday, the 20-year deal will see TSMC – also known as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company – purchase all the energy produced by Orsted’s yet-to-be-built 920-megawatt offshore wind farm off Taiwan.

The fixed price contract will come into force when commercial operations at the facility begin.

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Battery storage systems are emerging as one of the key solutions to effectively integrate high shares of solar and wind renewables in power systems worldwide. A recent analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) illustrates how electricity storage technologies can be used for a variety of applications in the power sector, from e-mobility and behind-the-meter applications to utility-scale use cases.

Utility-scale batteries, for example, can enable a greater feed-in of renewables into the grid by storing excess generation and by firming renewable energy output.

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