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Schneider, Mainspring and the Linear Generator
17 May, 2024
Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy are partnering to create a new microgrid offering that combines Mainspring’s groundbreaking Linear Generator with Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure digital architecture and its turnkey grid design–build capabilities. The partners say the combination will “provide power and fuel-flexibility as well as energy resiliency for commercial and industrial customers”, noting that “as the energy sector seeks to decarbonise operations and protect power resilience amidst increasing extreme weather events and grid demands, this innovative energy solution allows customers to efficiently generate electricity onsite and operate in parallel to the power grid or independently from the grid when needed.”

Valmet to provide biomass fuel handling and feed for coal-fired CFB in Indonesia...
16 May, 2024
Valmet is to supply a second biomass fuel handling and feed system for PT. Cikarang Listrindo Tbk’s coal-fired circulating fluidised bed (CFB) based power plant in Babelan, Indonesia, with installation scheduled for the first quarter of 2025.

Drax: banking on BECCS
10 May, 2024
Reflecting its focus on delivering BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) projects internationally, notably in the USA – alongside BECCS conversion at its UK site – Drax Group has announced a ‘carbon removals’ deal with Karbon-X. Under the agreement, Karbon-X will purchase carbon dioxide removals (CDR) credits from Drax representing 25 000 metric tons of permanently stored carbon at $350 per tonne. The deal, which will be implemented over a five-year period starting in 2030, is linked to Drax’s planned deployment of BECCS in the United States.

Bringing CCUS to Indonesian gas fuelled power
11 October, 2023
GE Vernova, CARBONCO of Korea, BP Berau (bp), PLN Nusantara Power (subsidiary of Indonesia’s national utility PLN), and PT Jawa Satu Power (aka Jawa 1), a special purpose joint venture of Pertamina, Marubeni and Sojitz that owns the Jawa 1 LNG fuelled combined cycle power plant, have signed an MoU to jointly carry out a feasibility study to develop a CCUS value chain and develop technologies to decarbonise gas fuelled power plants in Indonesia.

RWE sees huge potential in a “core market”
14 September, 2023
RWE Renewables Europe & Australia has been successful in the New South Wales competitive tender process offering “long-term energy service agreements” to long duration storage project developers, with RWE’s Limondale 50 MW/400 MWh project awarded. The storage facility will be located next to RWE’s existing 249 MWac Limondale solar farm, taking advantage of existing grid infrastructure. The project is working towards a final investment decision within the next 12 months.

Green or greenwash? Why we need clean energy certification
02 August, 2023
By 2050, supplying and using carbon-neutral energy will be a core requirement for a licence to operate, but how do we ensure that our energy really does come from renewable resources? The answer is clean energy certification.

The FLEX reactor – the next step in molten salt reactor evolution
31 May, 2023
Moltex Energy, the UK-based developer of molten salt nuclear technology, launched its subsidiary MoltexFLEX last autumn to work on its FLEX reactor – the latest application of the company’s platform stable salt reactor (SSR) design. MoltexFLEX CEO David Landon outlines the work being done to make it a reality.

Did Green Day deliver?
04 May, 2023
The UK published dozens of updates on its plans for an economy that is ‘net zero’ in carbon emissions. But what did it achieve?, asks Janet Wood

Challenging times for Smart Wires
20 April, 2023
Commercial success is proving elusive for Smart Wires, despite having a proven power electronics offering that enables better use to be made of the grid.

Adding more inertia in the UK
15 March, 2023
NG ESO Stability Pathfinder: a further update

Gas turbines and decarbonisation
18 January, 2023
The view from Finspång

Simply Blue and Marine Power Systems launch PelaFlex floating wind project
05 January, 2023
Marine Power Systems (MPS) is partnering with Simply Blue Group to develop a project proposal for the Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round run by Crown Estate Scotland.

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.

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

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.

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.

Germany embraces LNG
12 October, 2022
Germany has been late to recognise the energy security benefits of liquefied natural gas but is now making up for lost time. The country’s first LNG import terminal is under construction.

Mitsubishi Power to do mega upgrade at Datan
05 October, 2022
Mitsubishi Power has received a series of contracts from state-owned Taiwan Power Company (TPC) to carry out a large-scale renovation project of power generation equipment at theDatan power plant in the city of Taoyuan, 50 km west of Taipei.

First 7HA.03 units go commercial, at Dania Beach
28 September, 2022
Since its introduction in 2014, GE’s HA gas turbine has achieved sales of some 137 units. The latest version is the 7HA.03, the first of which have just started commercial operation.