Fuel and energy

The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency are currently conducting a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the UKHPR1000 reactor.

According to the data of the grid connection office of the branch the power engineers allowed to provide 3.265 MW to agricultural and processing industries.

The tests were conducted at the Krylov State Research Center.

The western part of Australia's Goonyella coal rail network remains closed following heavy rain from storms that have hit central and northern Queensland over the past two days.

Novatek, Russia’s largest non-State gas producer, said on Monday it had won an auction for Alrosa’s two gas assets with a bid of 30.3-billion roubles. 

Rating Agency RAEX (Expert RA) assigned a long-term credit rating of IDGC of Centre, PJSC at the ruAA level on the national scale, the outlook for the rating is stable.

IDGC of Centre overfulfilled its business plan for 2017 for a number of key performance indicators.

Operators at Exelon Generation's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant removed Unit 1 from service just after midnight Sunday to begin a planned refueling outage, capping a record-setting run of 628 consecutive days of power generation.

Operators powered down Lasalle Generating Station Unit 1 early this morning to begin the nuclear power plant's spring refueling outage, but this year will be different for the hundreds of employees and outage workers tasked with refueling and performing maintenance on the plant while it's offline.

Despite one hurricane, one winter storm and wave heights of up to 8,2 meters, Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm, performed better than expected in its first 3 full months in production.