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Service Operation Vessels – one year on
13 December, 2016
It's been a little over one year since Siemens Wind Power launched what it described as the world’s first purpose-built Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) committed to offshore wind farms: Esvagt Froude and her sister-ship, Esvagt Faraday (see MPS, August 2015, pp 30-31). Has the SOV concept, for far-from-shore installations, lived up to the high expectations of its developers? How has one of those SOVs, Froude, performed during its first year of operations at the Baltic II wind farm off the coast of northern Germany?

Wood fuel for a carbon-neutral Copenhagen
10 November, 2016
The world’s largest fully-wood-chip-fired CFB based combined heat and power station is under construction in Copenhagen where it will supply around 25% of the city’s heat demand. Part of a vision to make the city the world’s first carbon-neutral capital by 2025, the plant also incorporates novel architectural features. David Appleyard

British MPs support tidal lagoon project
28 August, 2016
Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project, which in December last year was hit with a year’s delay when negotiations with the government for funding the project broke down, has received a boost from legislators.

sCO2 turbine for Allam Cycle
04 August, 2016
Aturbine operating with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid, with oxyfuel combustor, is one of the enabling technologies needed to make the highly promising Allam Cycle a reality (see MPS April 2016, pp 8-10).

Brighter outlook for Longview?
11 July, 2016
Rehabilitation is not usually a term associated with newly built state of the art power plants. But that was what was required at the Longview supercritical plant in the USA. Staff report

Parker’s conversion business grows
10 July, 2016
One beneficiary of growth in the energy storage market is power conversion system provider Parker Hannifin, which has recently reported that its power conversion technology is now operating at two 10 MW AES Advancion energy storage projects in Europe: the AES Kilroot facility in Northern Ireland; and the AES Netherlands energy storage array in Vlissingen.

CCS after COP21: where do we go from here?
20 June, 2016
An Aker Solutions perspective

UK government MPs support Swansea tidal lagoon project
20 May, 2016
Recent research shows very strong backing for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project among government members of parliament.

Highview prepares for the next step in liquid air technology development
29 February, 2016
An important milestone in the development of liquid air energy storage is expected to be reached this spring with entry into operation of Highview’s 5 MW pre-commercial demonstrator, which is being constructed alongside Viridor’s Pilsworth landfill gas generation plant in Greater Manchester, UK. In addition to providing energy storage, the plant will convert low-grade waste heat to power.

Power Balancing contract with Finning
20 February, 2016
Finning, the sole dealer for Caterpillar in the UK & Ireland, has signed a contract to supply Power Balancing Services Ltd with 15 new 2MW Cat gensets to be used in a capacity mechanism function in the UK network.

Launch of ultra-low NOx CHP range
20 February, 2016
ENER-G has launched a new range of ‘ultra-low’ NOx combined heat and power systems in the 50 kWe to 230 kWe range that it says are achieving a five-fold reduction in emissions.

1500 revolutions per minute in Cuba
20 February, 2016
The recently inaugurated power plant in Moa, Cuba, is one of the largest projects supplied by MAN Diesel & Turbo in the Caribbean region. Located about 600m from the sea near Moa city, about 900 km south-east from Havana, the plant has a total power output of 184 MW. Moa is an industrial city with many open nickel mines and is located on Cuba’s north-east coast.

The world’s largest floating power plant
20 February, 2016
Karadeniz power ship Osman Khan, presently being fitted out in Turkey, will be, at 486 MW, the world’s largest floating power plant when delivered in 2016. Power units are being supplied by MAN Diesel & Turbo, while Alstom has signed a contract to supply power transformers.

New low-end range from F G Wilson
20 February, 2016
Caterpillar subsidiary F G Wilson has launched a new range of diesel powered gensets in the capacity range 8.5 – 290 kVA. Designated the F range it comes in 10 sizes in 50 and 60 Hz versions and in open and enclosed versions.

Finning demonstrates its skill with cooking oil
20 February, 2016
For a year now REG Bio-Power has been successfully producing carbon neutral power from waste cooking oil at its 18 MW Whitemoor site in the UK.

New lightweight alternator for the standby market
20 February, 2016
Cummins has produced an updated Stamford alternator offering, aimed at the lower end of the power range.

Domestic micro CHP installations: Japan remains in the lead
20 February, 2016

Towering achievement for Intelligent Energy
20 February, 2016
PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell developer, Intelligent Energy, has made a start on implementing its ambitious plans to install fuel cell power generation systems at Indian telecom towers, hoping to have about 50 towers fitted with fuel cells by May.

Recognising its true value: a WEC perspective
19 February, 2016
A narrow focus on cost alone may be leading to misconceptions about the real value of energy storage according to a new report from the World Energy Council, E-storage – shifting from cost to value, the work of 23 industry experts and academics belonging to the WEC storage “knowledge network”, with DNV GL and PwC as lead organisations.

GE’s Power Services to upgrade four power plants
19 February, 2016
GE’s Power Services business has announced a contract with Dynegy Inc., an independent power producer with 35 power stations in eight states of the USA, for the installation of GE hardware and software equipment to upgrade and modernise four of its power plants – three of which the company recently purchased.