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Nagai is a 300MW coal-based thermal power plant being constructed in Nagapattinam District of Tamilnadu, India.

Oldbury Power Station, a 434MW, twin nuclear reactor station, was decommissioned in 2012. At the time it was the world's oldest operating nuclear power reactor and the UK's first nuclear power station to use pre-stressed concrete pressure vessels instead of steel. The plant entered service in 1967.

20 February 2014 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will approve approximately $6.5bn in loan guarantees for the construction of two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors at the Alvin W. Vogtle electric generating station, also known as Plant Vogtle, in Georgia.

The majority of power technology innovations and breakthroughs in 2013 occurred in the renewables sector. Power-technology.com lists some of 2013's major innovations and breakthroughs in energy technology. Ultra-efficient photovoltaic designs A four-junction solar cell, developed by Germany's Freiburg-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec and two other research organisations, achieved a record breaking 44.7% efficiency converting sunlight to electricity in September 2013.

Inspired by the pilots that placed themselves at risk to monitor radiation levels following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a team from Bristol University has developed a drone with Thunderbirds-style adaptability to make radiation monitoring safer.

The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project in the UK and the MeyGen tidal array project in Scotland stand out among the few large-scale tidal power projects currently under development.

The UK announced a £7bn package in the 2014 budget to reduce energy costs for British manufacturers and households by 2019, and GDF Suez launched the Sohar 2 and Barka 3 gas-fired combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) plants in Oman.

Germany has witnessed a surge in renewable technology ever since the decision in 2011 to do away with nuclear power. Critics however, doubt the country will be able to meet ambitious C02 unless coal can be cut out of the equation.

Scientists in California have reached an important milestone in nuclear fusion research; generating more energy from a fusion reaction than transferred to the nuclear fuel. The holy grail of ignition remains elusive, but each step brings the world closer to a virtually limitless nuclear energy source with no emissions and negligible waste.

The International Ashden Awards champions some of the most interesting and life-changing sustainable energy projects created at a grass-roots level for local communities.

The proposed Pentland Firth tidal power plant will be the biggest tidal turbine array in Europe. The project, proposed by MeyGen, a subsidiary of Atlantis Resources, will be located in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, between mainland Scotland and Orkney.

Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) is developing the new 1,250MW Port Everglades Next Generation Clean Energy Centre (PEEC) to replace the existing Port Everglades power plant of the 1960s. FPL demolished the Port Everglades power plant in 2013 and plans to begin construction of the new $1bn combined-cycle power plant in the second quarter of 2014.

Jasper solar power project is a 96MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant being developed in Northern Cape Province near Kimberly in South Africa. The plant will become one of the biggest solar power plants in Africa, upon completion. The project will be developed and operated by California-based solar developer SolarReserve and its consortium partners Kensani and Intikon Energy.

Iran's enormous energy reserves could transform the country into a major economy, but for this to happen nuclear-non proliferation must be adhered to if international sanctions are to be lifted. Kumar Nishant, GlobalData's Associate Project Manager for Power, reports.

28 April 2014 The New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has agreed to expand NY-Sun's initiative throughout the state with around $1bn (€723m) in incentives for new solar power projects. The NY-Sun programme provides long-term funding that will increase existing businesses and attract new investments to New York from international solar companies for greater economic growth of the state.

24 April 2014 US-based Moundsville Power will build a new 549MW natural-gas-fired combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) in Moundsville, US. Construction of the approximately $615m plant is expected to begin in mid-2015 on a 37-acre portion of the former Allied chemical plant site, which is now owned by Honeywell.

25 April 2014 The UK government has awarded eight renewable energy projects totalling 4.5GW. The government has sanctioned five offshore wind farms and three biomass projects. The projects include offshore wind farms, coal to biomass conversions and a dedicated biomass plant with combined heat and power.

24 April 2014 Power transmission equipment provider Alstom T&D India has won a contract worth INR670m ($11m) from Power Grid Corporation (POWERGRID) to expand and upgrade the energy management system of various control centres in north-east India. The control centres include the North Eastern Regional Load Despatch Centre (NERLDC) and seven other regional load despatch centres.

The Mount Signal Solar Project, also known as Imperial Valley Solar 1 (IVS1), is a utility-scale photovoltaic power plant, located in Imperial County, California, approximately 100 miles (160km) east of San Diego.