The first unit of the world’s largest oil shale power plant, located at Attarat um Ghudran, Jordan, is now online, the project’s Chinese contractor tweeted last week. Attarat Power Company (APCO), a joint venture between Malaysia’s YTL Power, China’s Guangdong Energy, and Estonia’s Enefit, is developing the $2.1 billion, 470-megawatt (MW) Independent Power Plant (IPP) .
Just months after Japan’s Itochu flagged plans to exit Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine, a British investor is mulling offers for its right over the Narrabri mine.