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KSK doubles operating profits

Mon, 12/07/2010 - 21:37
KSK Power Ventur more than doubled operating profits to $23.1m as operating capacity grew from 144MW to 448MW

Enel to resume Green Power flotation

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 16:47
Listing of minority stake to go ahead despite fears over market conditions as Enel seeks to reduce debt

Lithuania eyes sale of state-owned assets

Thu, 08/07/2010 - 02:30
The Baltic government is considering initial public offerings of its energy and real estate companies as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country's troubled public sector

Dublin agrees to buy power network for £1bn

Thu, 08/07/2010 - 01:34
The Irish Republic's state-owned power company will acquire Viridian's transmission and distribution business as well as its construction and maintenance services units

Low-carbon power spur for Liverpool

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 02:24
The city is set to host the UK's largest smart electricity grid, which will equip up to 1,200 households with smart meters, solar panels or wind turbines and provide charging points for plug-in cars

Enel's Russian unit prospers

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 02:20
The Italian power group says earnings at its Russian power unit, OGK-5, could increase by as much as five times by 2014 as the market recovers from a steep fall in demand

Spice shareholder calls for talks with Cinven

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 00:04
One of the biggest shareholders in Spice calls on the directors of the utility services company to hold talks with Cinven after they dismissed an improved takeover approach from the private equity group

Australian resource tax

Fri, 02/07/2010 - 17:20
Miners are not doing cartwheels over the supertax climbdown

Finnish parliament backs nuclear reactors

Fri, 02/07/2010 - 03:52
Lawmakers vote in favour of plans to build two new reactors in a bid to increase energy security and reduce carbon emissions, highlighting the renewed momentum behind atomic power in Europe

Emerson deal to mean deep cuts at Chloride

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 22:55
The US group is likely to slash more costs than originally planned as it seeks to justify the near £1bn price tag it will pay for the UK power systems provider

Poland's energy sell-off moves ahead

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 00:40
Tauron Polska Energia, the country's second-largest generator, raises 4.2bn zlotys in its initial public offering as the government calls for bids to buy a majority stake in Enea

Bids spark power struggle for Chloride

Wed, 30/06/2010 - 21:39
A hitherto unremarkable UK electronics company, has pitted two heavyweight US chief executives, from Emerson and ABB respectively, against each other

Verbund seeks €1bn share issue

Wed, 30/06/2010 - 10:12
Austria's biggest utility hopes to reinforce its capital structure and fund further investment

Emerson offers £997m for Chloride

Wed, 30/06/2010 - 01:10
US suitor lifts its cash offer in a move to tempt the British company away from a deal it has agreed with rival ABB, the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering group

Emerson / Chloride

Tue, 29/06/2010 - 16:46
It is more of a civilised duel than an all-out bidding war but shareholders of the British maker of uninterruptible power supply systems are loving it

Teesside poised for first bioenergy plant in Europe

Mon, 28/06/2010 - 03:24
Ineos Bio is a step closer to realising the conversion of dustbin contents into biofuel and renewable energy by securing £7.3m of grants towards its development of the continent's first waste to bioethanol plant

Spain pressed over solar tariff cuts

Wed, 23/06/2010 - 21:33
The country's cash-strapped government is under increasing pressure to back down on plans to retroactively reduce special tariffs to photovoltaic energy operators