October 20, 2016 by Eric Marx

Five years after announcing that it had chosen Pyhäjoki, in northern Finland, as the site for a new Russian-designed 1200 MW nuclear reactor, Finnish company Fennovoima is within sight of a 2018 construction start date. No, this is not the notorious Olkiluoto-3 EPR being builty by Areva– this is Hanhikivi 1, to be built by Rosatom. Journalist Eric Marx travelled to Finland to find out why Fennovoima is succeeding where other new nuclear projects … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, financing, geopolitics, infrastructure, nuclear energy

August 15, 2016 by Eric Marx

The Netherlands has shown how to drive the cost of offshore wind down to previously unimagined levels: by "taking the risk out of projects", they managed to achieve a historically low price. This paves the way to turning the European North Seas into a giant power generating region, writes freelance journalist Eric Marx for World Energy Focus. The European offshore wind model could be an example to the rest of the world. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Renewables Tagged With: electricity market, energy transition, energy2030, EU energy policy, renewables, wind power