POWER UTILITY BC HYDRO PLANS C$800 MLN DAM UPGRADE
VANCOUVER, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Provincial power utility BC Hydro unveiled plans on Tuesday for an C$800 million ($808 million) upgrade of an 80-year-old hydroelectric dam and generating plant in southern British Columbia.
The utility said it had applied this week to the British Columbia Utilities Commission, which regulates BC Hydro, to modernize the Ruskin Dam and Powerhouse.
ISRAEL'S ZENITHSOLAR IN DEAL FOR CHINA SOLAR PLANTSBY TOVA COHEN
TEL AVIV, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Israel-based ZenithSolar Ltd said it signed an agreement with the Chinese government to provide two combined heat and power solar systems in Gansu province, marking its first project in China.
Under the memorandum of understanding, ZenithSolar will provide the technology for the installation of two 10 megawatt cogeneration plants, CEO Roy Segev told Reuters on Tuesday.
AUSTRALIA GREEN CAR SPENDING SEEN AT $4.4 BLN BY 2020
HONG KONG, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Australia is expected to be a major market for electric vehicles (EVs), with private spending in the sector likely to exceed A$4.3 billion ($4.36 billion) by 2020, a top executive at a market research and consulting firm said.
Electric cars would replace more than 100,000 petrol-driven cars a decade from now, and key beneficiaries would include top Australian power retailers Origin Energy Ltd and AGL Energy Ltd , said Ezra Beeman, managing director at Sydney-based consulting firm Energeia.
GERMAN POWER CAPACITY TO RISE 2.6 PCT IN WEEK
FRANKFURT, Feb 18 (Reuters) - German power plant availability reported by producers and transmission firms to energy exchange EEX is set to rise 2.6 percent to 64,256 megawatts (MW) in the seven days to Feb. 25, data from the bourse showed on Friday.
The EEX on its website issues transparency data from German generators, grid operators and small plants below 100 MW, as well as live production forecasts on an aggregated basis.
ATS SAYS PRODUCTIVITY HITS FRENCH SOLAR UNIT OUTPUT
OTTAWA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc said on Thursday January production at its French solar unit reached only 55 percent of planned output because of low productivity at a plant where the company may cut jobs.
ATS, which makes factory automation systems and solar energy equipment, said it may cut 95 full-time jobs and about 136 temporary jobs at its Photowatt International plant in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France.
BELGIUM, DUTCH INTRADAY POWER MARKET KICKS OFF
AMSTERDAM, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch energy exchange APX ENDEX said on Thursday it had launched a cross-border intraday market for trading Dutch and Belgian power in a move to help integrate electricity markets in Europe.
The European Commission aims to integrate power markets through the sharing of cross-border transmission capacity to maximise participants' surpluses, allowing a single price to emerge.
ITALY GSE SEES 2,800 MW ADDED SOLAR CAPACITY IN 2011
MILAN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Italy energy services agency GSE expects about 2,800 Megawatts of additional solar capacity in Italy in 2011, its chairman Emilio Cremona told Reuters on Thursday.
"In my opinion in 2011 I would expect about 2,800 MW of added solar capacity on top of what we have already declared in previous announcements," he said.
CHINA TOP GRID FIRM TO ADVANCE POWER LINK TO TIBET
BEIJING, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The State Grid Corp of China (SGCC) aims to link the isolated power grid in Tibet to its main networks before the end of this year, The State Grid News, a company newspaper, reported on Thursday.
The latest plan would be one year faster than its earlier plans.
CHINA'S JIANGSU SEES 10 GW SUMMER POWER SHORTAGE-PAPER
BEIJING, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Eastern China's Jiangsu province could face power shortages of more than 10 gigawatts (GW) in peak hours during the summer, or nearly 15 percent of the expected maximum load on its main grid, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
The monthly power deficit could range from 2 GW to 10 GW, in part due to insufficient power transmission capacity, the Yangtze Evening News reported, citing forecasts made at a government power conference on Wednesday.
BOSNIA EPBIH TO LAUNCH SMALL HYDRO-POWER PLANTS
SARAJEVO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Bosnia's top power company Elektroprivreda BiH will launch this year the construction of four small hydro-power plants in southern Bosnia with 43.5 gigawatts-hours annual output, it said on Wednesday.
The four plants are part of a broader project to build 15 small hydro-power plants on the river Neretvica, and will account for 42 percent of the project's total output, EPBiH said in a statement.
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