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Paris deal pushes power sector towards decarbonisation
31 December, 2015
Implications for the power industry of the Paris climate change summit in December.

How upgraded chimney design can enhance coal-fired power station efficiency and flexibility
01 September, 2015
These are challenging times for coal and lignite fired power plants, requiring them to explore all possibilities for increased efficiency, flexibility and optimisation. Rethinking the flue gas exit path, in particular the deployment of borosilicate linings, can prove beneficial, as three case studies, briefly summarised below, demonstrate.

IT solutions for cloud-based virtual power plants
01 September, 2015
Siemens has developed a cloud-based service for the managing of virtual power plants based on its DEMS distributed energy management system.

Making the most of Turkish lignite
01 September, 2015
Profile of the Soma 2 x 255 MWe circulating fluidised bed power plant.

Germany sets course for 2 GW of new offshore capacity in 2015
01 June, 2015
Not surprisingly German offshore wind has had no shortage of teething problems, but 2015 seems to be proving productive for projects in the German North Sea, with seven large (300-400 MW range) wind farms in various stages of start up/commissioning. These, when fully commercial, will add some 2071 MW to Germany’s North Sea offshore wind installed capacity, taking the total from about 856 MW (including Blackstone-financed Meerwind Sud/Ost (288), the troubled Bard Offshore One (400 MW), Riffgat (108 MW) and Alpha Ventus (60 MW test facility)) to nearly 3 GW (the current stated goal for offshore wind installed capacity being 6.5 GW by 2020 and 15 GW by 2030).

New National Grid pylon unveiled
13 April, 2015
National Grid has constructed working versions of the new electrical transmission pylons it has adopted following a competition in 2011 to find a new design suitable for the future UK grid.

UK government makes limited fracking concession
30 January, 2015
The UK government has agreed to a ban on fracking but only in the protected areas known national parks.

Scotland calls moratorium on fracking
30 January, 2015
The Scottish government has imposed a moratorium on unconventional oil and gas exploration activities to allow further research and a public consultation to be carried out.

Four utilities drop ZEP membership
22 January, 2015
Four European utilities that have vacated their membership of the Zero Emission Platform have been accused of trying to take control of the European carbon capture and storage debate.

Modernising Loviisa, learning from LARA
01 January, 2015
Loviisa’s first attempt at a full upgrade of its I&C systems, a project called LARA, proved unsuccessful because of the complexity and sheer scale of the undertaking. Building on the painful lessons of that experience a new project, ELSA, with new contractors, is underway. The scope is somewhat reduced, but the project remains ambitious and the schedule tight, with completion by 2018.

Alstom enters the DC CB lists with a hybrid 120 kV prototype
01 January, 2015
An ultra-fast ‘mechatronic’ circuit breaker has been developed by Alstom specifically for duty in HVDC networks. The successful development at an economic cost of a high speed DC breaker, a critical component for protection of the grid, would pave the way for continental-scale, meshed DC networks.

MILENA and OLGA get together for high efficiency and low tar
01 January, 2015
MILENA is an “indirect” gasification concept, combining CFB (circulating fluidised bed) pyrolysis and BFB (bubbling fluidised bed) combustion in the same vessel, while OLGA addresses what has been seen as the Achilles heel of waste gasification, namely tar. The combined technologies mean that high quality syngas can be produced from waste, and promise a considerable increase in the efficiency of waste-to-energy (WtE) plants, enabling them to employ IGCC technology.

Global energy: steering the world towards catastrophe
01 January, 2015
Events of the last year have increased many of the long-term uncertainties facing the global energy sector, says the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2014. It warns decision makers not to be distracted from tackling the longer-term signs of stress that are emerging in the energy system.

New record established for AC switching voltage
01 January, 2015
ABB has installed and commissioned in India an AC circuit breaker that at 1.2 million volts is established as the highest AC voltage breaker installed anywhere in the world. It will support the country’s plans for its ultrahigh voltage grid.

Wind-plus-CAES mega plan for LA
01 January, 2015
In early January 2015, four companies – Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke- American Transmission – are expected to formally submit an $8 billion wind-power-plus-compressed-air-energy-storage proposal to the Southern California Public Power Authority, in response to the agency’s request for proposals to supply the Los Angeles area with renewable energy and electricity storage.