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¶ Abengoa and Toshiba Corporation have been picked to build the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, a 299-MW CHP project to be sited in Teeside, UK. The project will have a capacity of 299 MW from electricity and steam to be used in combustion and exported to nearby industrial facilities and consumers. The engineering, design, and construction contract is worth over €600 million. [reNews]

Image: an Indiana-based biogas plant (Abengoa)

¶ Kyushu Electric Power has restarted the first nuclear reactor to operated under new Japanese safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima Disaster. All Japan’s nuclear plants were gradually shut down after a series of meltdowns at the Fukushima plant sparked by the tsunami and earthquake. But after passing stringent new safety tests the Sendai plant restarted on Tuesday morning. [BBC]

¶ Australia plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26% to 28% from 2005 levels by 2030, PM Tony Abbott says. It is…