According to the study, a 300 MWe grid-scale SMR built in Ontario and operated for 60 years would create direct and related employment including nearly 700 jobs during project development, over 1600 jobs during manufacturing and construction, over 200 jobs during operations, and about 160 jobs during decommissioning.

Westinghouse's work on the offer is financed by the US Trade and Development Agency. The works are to cost $10 million.

The British company, whose businesses supply gas and electricity to millions of customers, said the deals would increase the proportion of its assets in electricity to 70% from 60%.

Though Russia suffered a relatively modest recession amid the pandemic last year, the recovery is expected to be sluggish and a jolt of state spending could help accelerate it. Russia has invested billions from the fund in the past in projects linked to big state companies.

The thermal coal value chain still claimed nearly 4,500 institutional investors totaling $1 trillion in operations.

Vietnam will need about US$320bn to develop its power sector in 2021-2045,

The South Australia government has given planning approval for the massive $3 billion Goyder South wind, solar and battery storage project

In April 2020, EuroAfrica Interconnector initiated a €650m tender for the EPC of a 1 GW subsea HVDC line between Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece (Crete and Attica).

The company will invest around £10bn (€11.6bn) in its power transmission network by 2026.

Shell Egypt and one of its affiliates have signed an agreement with a consortium made up of subsidiaries of Cheiron Petroleum Corporation and Cairn Energy PLC to acquire Shell’s upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert

Overall, Iberdrola’s operating profit fell by 3% to €1.2 billion (US$1.4 billion), driven by its recent commissioning of new plants as it ramps up its renewables capacity.

Turkey wind energy contributed to over 10% of the country's total electric production for the first time.

Turkey plans to invest a total of $9.3 billion (TL 66.56 billion) in electricity distribution during the upcoming five-year period

The EU will provide nearly Eur10 billion of funding that the partners will match with at least an equivalent amount of investment, the EC said in a statement.

The ITER agreement was signed in November 2006 by Euratom, the US, Russia, Japan, China, South Korea and India.