Jellyfish force French nuclear plant shutdown
World 11:12 12/08/2025A nuclear plant in northern France was temporarily shut down on Monday after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used to cool the reactors, energy group EDF said.
Europe's old power plants to get digital makeover driven by AI boom
World 16:09 06/08/2025Some of Europe's ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them as data centres, with ready-made access to power and water.
Work starts on $2.37bn LNG power center in Vietnam
Economy 11:57 16/01/2022The project will have a capacity of 1,500MW and supply 8.25 billion kilowatt-hours to the national grid each year
Vietnam province inaugurates $30mn solar energy plant
Vietnam News 10:23 15/03/2021The Hau Giang Solar Power Plant was built on a 33-hectare plot in Hau Giang Province
$6bn liquefied natural gas-fired power plant to be built in central Vietnam next year
Vietnam News 16:50 08/11/2020The plant will be constructed in the first quarter of 2021 and the first phase of its commercial operation will begin in 2024
Thailand's EGATi builds $2.37-bln coal-fired power plant in Vietnam
Economy 10:00 23/11/2019The 1,320-megawatt Quang Tri 1 plant is being built in Quang Tri Province
AES Corp to build $1.7 billion gas-fired power plant in Vietnam
Economy 10:20 09/11/2019The power plant is scheduled to start commercial operations in 2024
Hydropower dam becomes annual fishing ground in southern Vietnam
Vietnam News 14:58 01/10/2019Plenty of fish migrating upstream become trapped upon reaching the dam, transforming this part of the river into a populated fishing ground
Great amount of coal ash remains unhandled at Vietnam’s major thermal power complex
Vietnam News 15:12 29/06/2018The layer of the ash continues to grow
Vietnam's PV Power gets govt approval for 2 gas-fired energy plants
Economy 18:01 26/04/2018The facilities represent part of Vietnam’s increasing effort to fuel its economy
