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Dire warning from UN climate chief
16 April, 2024
Humanity has only two years left ‘to save the world’ by making dramatic changes in the way it discharges heat-trapping emissions, according to the head of the United Nations climate agency, Executive Climate Secretary Simon Stiell, in a speech on 10 April at the Chatham House think tank in London.

National Gas to study Gravitricity’s H2FlexiStore
12 March, 2024
National Gas – the UK’s gas transmission system owner and operator – has secured Strategic Innovation Funding (SIF) from the UK energy regulator Ofgem to study a new kind of underground hydrogen energy storage – developed by Edinburgh storage specialists Gravitricity – as a potential technology as part of its plan to decarbonise the UK gas network.

UK government proposes new ‘dash for gas’
12 March, 2024
The UK government “will stand with you as you build new gas fired power stations,” Claire Coutinho MP, Secretary of State at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) announced to developers in a high-profile speech at the Chatham House think tank on 12 March. Investors, she said, “should be ready too”.

ZNPP safety inspections still being hindered
16 January, 2024
International Atomic Energy Agency experts at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have not yet been given access to the reactor halls of units 1, 2 and 6, hindering their ability to monitor the nuclear safety and security situation at the plant, as well as the five concrete principles established at the United Nations Security Council, IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said on 12 January when reporting the IAEA’s latest Ukraine Update, No 205.

First in the world operation of a GT on 100 % renewable H2
18 October, 2023
Installed at Saillat-sur-Vienne, France, on the site of prominent paper packaging company Smurfit Kappa, the Hyflexpower project aims at the production, storage and re-electrification of 100 % renewable hydrogen. It is produced by a 1MW electrolyser, and then stored in a one-ton tank and used to power a Siemens Energy SGT-400 industrial gas turbine.

SeaVolt to launch floating solar test platform
25 July, 2023
SeaVolt, a collaboration of Tractebel, DEME, and Jan De Nul, is preparing for its first floating solar energy test platform to be installed offshore. The platform flotation system is currently located in the port of Ostend, on the Belgian North Sea coast, where main contractor Equans is finalising assembly. The test platform will be the first installation in the Belgian North Sea aimed at the large-scale development of offshore solar energy and is scheduled to be towed offshore, anchored, and put into operation to gather data for at least a year, starting in August.

Plan to re-purpose Pleasants power plant to fire H2
04 July, 2023
California-based Omnis Global Technologies is in negotiations to buy the 1300 MW coal fired Pleasants Power Station in West Virginia from Energy Transition and Environmental Management, a Texas company that had bought the plant with the intention of demolishing it. Omnis has signed a letter of intent to that effect, aiming to refurbish the plant and run it on hydrogen, possibly in a co-firing mode. The plant was shut down on 1 June after a concerted effort from West Virginia officials to keep it running. However, critics of the scheme are wary, as converting a coal power plant to burn hydrogen is an, as yet, untested solution.

Cancelling coal plants is cost-effective way ahead
06 June, 2023
The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), a leading energy and environment think tank based in Jakarta, Indonesia, has released a first-of-its-kind analysis, commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation, which examines what it would take to prevent planned coal plants from being built. The report, ‘Delivering Indonesia’s Power Sector Transition’ found that nine coal plants in Indonesia could be cancelled with minimal repercussions for supply or grid stability and affordability, while avoiding an estimated 295 million tons of CO2 emissions. The cost would be less than 80 cents per ton of CO2. The study recommends cancelling all planned, permitted, or pre-permitted plants as one of the most cost-effective and environmentally impactful approaches to accelerating just energy transitions in Indonesia.

Zero Emission Hydrogen Turbine Center at Finspång – four things we’ve learnt
06 June, 2023
At the beginning of 2019, Siemens Energy and five partners launched a research project on the site of its industrial gas turbine manufacturing plant in Finspång, Sweden. The Zero Emission Hydrogen Turbine Center has since served as a demonstration plant for a flexible and sustainable energy system. It combines gas turbines with a photovoltaic field, an electrolyser, hydrogen, and batteries for energy storage.

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.

Powering the energy transition
01 March, 2023
Green ammonia is being increasingly recognised as a cost effective way of transporting green energy over long distances, and also as a potential fuel. It is relatively easy to liquefy and has a much higher volumetric energy density than liquid hydrogen. Ammonia (albeit grey) also has the advantage of already being a globally traded commodity, with a mature transport infrastructure.

Proposed launch of Great British Energy
04 October, 2022
The UK’s largest opposition party, the Labour party, announced at its annual conference that a Labour government would set up a publicly owned energy company to invest in clean UK power.

After the perfect storm
28 September, 2022
We are all energy experts. Social media is flushed daily with opinions on how to mitigate the energy crisis that has been percolating since the pandemic and escalating since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months ago. Climate sceptics have blamed the phase-out of coal, the lack of investment in fracking and nuclear, and the ‘blinkered’ drive to achieve net-zero for surging energy prices, while climate activists have blamed under-investment in renewable energy. Ironically, neither is right or wrong in its assessment.

Uniper and Vesta to develop green ammonia terminal
13 September, 2022
‪Uniper Global Commodities and the Dutch company Vesta Terminals have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to evaluate the feasibility of refurbishing and expanding an existing storage facility at Vlissingen, in The Netherlands, with the aim of creating the first green ammonia hub in northwest Europe. Uniper intends to book capacity in the terminal, which is named ‘Greenpoint Valley’, to create an entry point into the northwest European markets for the growing green ammonia and hydrogen activities within the Uniper group. It is anticipated that developing these markets will also further strengthen security of supply in Europe.‬‬

Breaker breakthrough
31 August, 2022
On 29 August, Hitachi Energy unveiled, in conjunction with CIGRE Session 2022, what it describes as “the world’s first fully tested SF6-free 420 kV circuit-breaker.” A world-first SF6-free 420 kV dead tank breaker employing the new technology is to be installed for Eversource in the USA in 2023.

Hitachi launches world’s first eco-efficient 420 kV CB
30 August, 2022
Hitachi Energy chose CIGRE Session 2022 on 29 August as the place to unveil the world’s first eco-efficient 420 kV circuit-breaker. The technology is described by Hitachi as a significant milestone in its accelerated EconiQ high-voltage portfolio roadmap, and is said to be the world’s first fully tested SF6-free 420 kV circuit-breaker where all the relevant tests described in the IEC and IEEE standards, for 63 kA, 5000 A, at 50 and 60 Hz have been successfully performed.

UK Power Networks maps a path to SF6-free switchgear
24 August, 2022
When UK Power Networks upgraded a substation in Kent, UK, it took the opportunity to specify primary switchgear that would enable it to evaluate how it can reduce reliance on SF6. Stephen Gibbs, ABB’s UK marketing and sales director for distribution solutions, answers questions about the project and explains ABB’s strategy in introducing an alternative gas mixture.

Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
02 August, 2022
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of heat pump, a flexible heat pump technology, which could help households save on their energy bills and contribute towards net-zero emissions goals.

Mocean starts new wave energy test programme
19 July, 2022
Mocean Energy has begun tank testing models of its 250 kW Blue Horizon wave energy machine as part of the EU funded EuropeWave programme.

SF6: preparing for tighter regulations worldwide
23 June, 2022
As anticipated, the regulations governing SF6 use are growing ever more stringent, and switchgear manufacturers and system operators are responding.