Mohammed Shaker, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt, and Alexei Likhachev, Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, have launched pouring of concrete for the first power unit of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP), which will be located in the Matrouh province, the north-west of the country, Rosatom said in its statement.
The employees of the Institute of Catalysis SB RAS with support from the Russian Science Foundation have developed a rhodium catalyst for low-temperature steam reforming of the associated petroleum gas. The research results were published by the Chemical Engineering Journal, according to the report of the Russian Science Foundation.
Portuguese electricity company EDP has completed installation of 5 MW floating photovoltaic panels at Europe’s largest Alqueva reservoir, which is part of a hydropower plant (HPP) of the same name. The solar power plant occupying 0.02% of the reservoir area (4 hectares) will produce 7.5 GWh of electricity annually, which is comparable to the daily energy consumption in Luxembourg.
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