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Longship launched, full steam ahead for capture & storage
24 December, 2020
Among recent encouraging developments in the CCUS area, one of the most significant is the positive final investment decision taken, after considerable deliberation, by the Norwegian government in favour of a major full-chain CCS project, now called Longship (in Norwegian ‘Langskip’). The total cost, capital plus ten years of operation, is estimated at 25.1 billion NOK ($2.7 billion), with the Norwegian government contributing 16.8 billion NOK ($1.8 billion).

New energy storage project will be one of world’s largest
23 December, 2020
Independent energy company InterGen, based in Edinburgh, has been granted consent for the UK’s largest battery energy storage project. The project is more than ten times the size of the UK’s current largest operational project and will be one of the world’s largest. It will provide fast-reacting power and system balancing to support the integration of renewable energy sources and is a significant piece of system architecture critical to the UK’s transition to Net Zero.

Contract for the 174 MW Asahan 3 hydro plant is awarded
23 December, 2020
Voith Hydro has been awarded by Mitsubishi Corporation the electro-mechanical equipment contract for the Asahan 3 hydropower project in Indonesia, which will be operated by the state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN). The project is supported and financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Continuing to achieve new benchmarks in China
15 December, 2020
The indefatigable Professor Weizhong Feng and his colleagues at Shanghai Shenergy Power Technology are still setting new standards for coal fired power plant performance

Learning from Petra Nova
10 December, 2020
Amidst growing international interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS) this year, an apparent high profile setback for the technology came in May, with the mothballing of NRG’s Petra Nova facility in Texas – a coal-based project that represents the world’s largest installation of CO2 capture on a power plant. Like nearly all CCS projects operating today, Petra Nova relied on using CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and was therefore hit hard by plummeting oil prices in the wake of the Covid-induced slump in demand.

Aiming towards zero carbon in the Humber
02 December, 2020
Equinor, together with eleven other companies and organisations, has submitted a joint proposal to create a low carbon cluster in the Humber, the UK’s largest and most carbon-intensive industrial region

Developing Australia’s H2 economy
26 November, 2020
The opportunities and challenges of scaling up

NEOM giga project aims for hydrogen leadership
25 November, 2020
Recent months have seen continuing progress with Saudi Arabia’s NEOM giga project – to be constructed in the north west of Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea – with the finalisation of several major contracts.

Barakah 1 powers up
18 November, 2020
On 19 August 2020 the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced grid connection and synchronisation of its 1400 MWe Barakah 1 pressurised water reactor, designed and built under the leadership of Korea Electric Power Corp, which was awarded the prime contract in 2009. The connection was effected by ENEC’s O&M subsidiary Nawah Energy Company (in which Kepco has an 18% share), in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Transmission and Despatch Company (TRANSCO), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA). As of 22 September unit 1 had achieved 50% of full power.

Al Dhafra: aiming to be the biggest single-site PV project
18 November, 2020
The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has announced the contract award for the development of what it believes is currently the world’s largest single-project solar power plant project. The contract was awarded to a consortium led by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and Masdar, with partners EDF and JinkoPower. The plant is the 2 GW Al Dhafra solar PV IPP (independent power producer) project, which will be located approximately 35 km from Abu Dhabi city. The project’s 30 year power purchase agreement (PPA) and shareholders’ agreement were signed with EWEC. EWEC says the “rigorous procurement process” leading up to the contract award resulted in one of the most cost-competitive tariffs for solar PV energy yet, set at AED 4.97 fils/kWh (USD 1.35 cents/kWh) on a levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) basis.

North America thinking big on small reactors
05 November, 2020
Steps to revolutionise the adoption of micro reactors and small modular reactors (SMR) in North America are progressing at an increasingly rapid pace. Economic forces in both Canada and the United States, combined with the intensifying objective of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, are making nuclear power from next-generation reactors a viable, near-term energy alternative

Floating offshore wind: time to go large
04 November, 2020
Janet Wood reports from Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT2020), Marseille, 7-9 September, which, remarkably, was a live event, as well as being on-line

Korea launches big plans for offshore wind, Doosan’s new growth engine
04 November, 2020
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction says it “is preparing to penetrate in full force the market for offshore wind power generation as its new growth engine.”

Making the case for battery-based virtual transmission
29 October, 2020
The idea of employing energy storage as transmission – aka “virtual transmission” – has been gaining traction recently, with Fluence, the AES/Siemens energy storage joint venture, perhaps not surprisingly, proving to be a leading advocate

50Hertz and Energinet inaugurate world’s first hybrid interconnector
28 October, 2020
On 20 October, 50Hertz and the Danish system operator Energinet inaugurated the world’s first hybrid offshore interconnector, integrating the German Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 offshore wind farm sites, operated by 50Hertz, with the Danish Kriegers Flak in the Baltic sea. This combined grid solution (CGS) connects the two offshore wind farm substations to each other and to the existing onshore connections. As a result, the CGS can bring offshore wind power to Denmark or to Germany and can also be used for cross-border energy trading.

Japan claims world first: DLN gas turbine combustors verified on 100% hydrogen
26 October, 2020
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd and Obayashi Corporation have announced “successful technology verification, for the first time worldwide, of 100% hydrogen-fuelled gas turbine operation with dry low NOx (DLN) combustion.”

10th birthday present for Nova Innovation
21 October, 2020
Nova Innovation is celebrating its 10th birthday with the successful expansion of the world’s first tidal array. The company has confirmed a step-change cost reduction in tidal energy as their new turbine begins powering homes in Scotland’s most northerly islands, the Shetlands.

Natural gas conversion: a new role for old coal
14 October, 2020
Coal plant operators are looking at ways of repurposing their old units to avoid them becoming stranded assets. Conversion to natural gas has been a widely adopted strategy in the USA and is also favoured by Alberta based Transalta

Regulatory milestone for NuScale and for SMRs
14 October, 2020
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed Phase 6 review – the last and final phase – of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for NuScale’s small modular reactor with the issuance of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER). The FSER – the first ever for a small modular reactor – represents completion of the technical review and approval of the NuScale SMR design, which is a much scaled down pressurised water reactor, with natural circulation cooling.

Hitachi ABB: aiming to transform power grids
13 October, 2020
“It’s a very good fit”, says Bruno Melles, speaking of ABB’s recently completed divestment of its Power Grids business to Hitachi and the formation of a new force to be reckoned with in the T&D business: Hitachi ABB Power Grids.