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Release of IEA Energy RD&D budgets data
08 November, 2022
The International Energy Agency has released its ‘2022 Energy Technology RD&D Budgets Data’ report, together with a new report designed to help governments better track their national energy RD&D investments.

GE and Shell sign LNG development agreement
08 November, 2022
GE Gas Power and Shell Global Solutions, a prominent supplier of liquefied natural gas for more than 50 years, have signed a development agreement to pursue potential pathways aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of Shell’s LNG supply projects around the world. With global LNG demand projected to almost double by 2040, decarbonisation is becoming a critical issue.

Victoria-NSW interconnector upgrade completed
08 November, 2022
A greater volume of renewable energy will be able to flow between Victoria, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Teritory (ACT), with the successful delivery of Transgrid’s upgrade of the Victoria-NSW Interconnector, VNI. The $45 million upgrade has increased capacity by 170 MW.

Waveswing trials exceed expectations
08 November, 2022
Inverness, Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy has recorded ‘highly encouraging’ results from the current phase of sea trials of its wave energy device at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.

SMRs: a question of when, not whether?
04 November, 2022
The momentum behind small modular reactors continues to build worldwide

Tenerife PV project leads the way
02 November, 2022
E.ON and Adeje, a municipality in the south west of the island of Tenerife, are establishing an innovative energy community called “Adeje Verde” – said to be the first of its kind in Europe. The aim is to enable residents to produce, share and collectively use PV generated electricity, allowing Adeje, currently 79% dependent on fossil fuels, to move towards 100% renewables in the form of rooftop solar.

IEA sees reasons for hope in the current energy crisis
01 November, 2022
The International Energy Agency’s most recent publication, World Energy Outlook 2022, suggests that the global energy crisis ‘can be a historic turning point towards a cleaner and more secure future’, but it warns that present scenarios will not be enough to avert catastrophe. But for the first time, it reports, global demand for each of the fossil fuels shows a peak or plateau across all WEO scenarios, with Russian exports in particular falling significantly as the world energy order is reshaped.

UN Panel on Climate Change issues stark warning
01 November, 2022
A new report released on 26 October by the UN’s principal climate change watchdog, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, shows that countries are ‘bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward’ but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Large-scale direct air capture moving to next step
01 November, 2022
The world’s largest commercial-scale project capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it underground is undergoing assessment in Iceland. Ramboll has been selected by prominent direct air capture (DAC) company Climeworks to carry out a due diligence study of the project, which is operating under the name ‘Mammoth’.

Enabler of the all-electric future
26 October, 2022
Electrify everything and run it on low carbon power. That is the imperative driving the huge growth in power-to-X projects worldwide

Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure to develop 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark
26 October, 2022
Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have entered into a partnership to develop approx. 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark across four projects.

Siemens contracts for 105 MW of wind power to Finland
26 October, 2022
Siemens Gamesa has been chosen by project developer Energiequelle for the first time to deliver wind turbines for the Mikonkeidas wind farm in Finland.

Scholven C coal PP returns to the market
26 October, 2022
‪Uniper will operate its Scholven C hard-coal-fired power plant for longer than originally planned. The 345 MW hard coal-fired unit will continue to supply the Ruhr region from 31 October this year, beyond the planned retirement date, for at least the winter period. It will continue to serve as back-up for the operation of the other two remaining power plant units at the Gelsenkirchen site, unit B (hard coal, 345 MW) and the Buer district heating plant (FKW Buer, hard coal, 70 MW).‬‬‬

Ukraine’s energy sector – an update from the war zone
25 October, 2022
DTEK Group, the largest owner of Ukrainian generation capacity, provided the following update on 13 October via an online briefing by its CEO Maxim Timchenko that took place during an air raid alert in Kyiv.

New space-efficient battery storage from Saft
25 October, 2022
Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has developed a new high-energy density storage system (ESS) optimised for time-shifting applications, a key enabler for the large scale integration of low-carbon renewable energy on power grids.

RWE launches into floating PV, offshore and inland
20 October, 2022
A major player in offshore wind, RWE also sees considerable promise in floating offshore photovoltaics. And as a first step into floating PV it has recently commissioned an installation on a cooling water lake at its Amer power plant site in the Netherlands.

Gas markets to remain tight into 2023
18 October, 2022
European demand for LNG has set off global competition for supplies, even as demand tumbles in Europe and Asian growth stalls, according to the latest International Energy Agency quarterly Gas Market Report.

German government confirms short life extension of three nukes
18 October, 2022
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany’s remaining reactors until April 2023, reports online news agency Clean Energy Wire.

GE receives H-Class GT order from Eneva
18 October, 2022
GE has secured an H-Class gas turbine order from Eneva, the largest private natural gas operator in Brazil. GE will supply a 7HA.02 gas turbine for Eneva’s new Azulão reserve power plant, which is intended to to help stabilise the grid.

TwinWind concept gains momentum
14 October, 2022
Swedish start-up Hexicon reports progress with the development of its floating wind concept, which envisages two turbines per platform mounted on tilting towers.