David Rogers

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The facility was to have been sited in a former paper mill in the town. International Recycling Group (IRG) said the tariffs imposed by President Trump would have increased the cost of the plant’s equipment. There was also doubt about whether a $192m loan from the Environmental Protection Agency would go ahead following a temporary freeze on federal funding commitments issued by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programmes Office.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The public-private deal will turn a 140km single-lane road into a dual carriageway linking Nairobi to the Rift Valley city of Nakuru and Mau Summit. It was signed in Paris in 2020 by Uhuru Kenyatta, the president at the time, with a team that also contained finance company Meridiam and Vinci Concessions. The Vinci team were to have designed, financed, built, operated and maintained the highway under a 30-year concession, recovering its investment through tolls.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Now, the site generates heat and electricity from three coal-fired boilers, three waste-fired boilers and three steam turbines. The plan is to replace these units with hydrogen-ready equipment sourced from Siemens. EnBW is also planning to convert coal-fired sites in Altbach/Deizisau and Heilbronn to hydrogen. Altogether, this will cost €1.6bn and produce 1.5GW. The sites will also pump hot water to heat 28,500 homes, 1,400 businesses and 380 public facilities in and around Stuttgart.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

They are Russia’s Rosatom, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), France’s EDF and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). Rosatom is offering its VVER-1200, KHNP its APR-1000/APR-1400, EDF its EPR1200 and CNNC is offering its HPR-1000 (Hualong One) design. Each reactor is expected to cost around $5bn. Astana will set up a commission to examine the offers. The plant itself is expected to be built by an international consortium of nuclear engineers in the Zhambyl district of Almaty region.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

It will be financed and built by a private sector consortium led by French utility EDF and UAE-based Zero Waste, in partnership with the General Authority for the Red Sea Ports and the New and Renewable Energy Authority. The complex is expected to produce up to 1 million tonnes of green ammonia a year, starting in 2029. The first €2bn phase will create the capacity to produce 300,000 tonnes of green ammonia a year.