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Tidal reservations surface at the water margin
01 December, 2007
Building the Severn barrage would significantly advance the UK’s fossil dependency ambitions, as well as help to maintain its position as one of the leaders in the tidal race, but at a cost that opponents say is too great to pay – the displacement of many intertidal species and even the destruction of the Severn bore, a much loved local phenomenon. Would the return justify such an enormous investment and such a loss?

Severn barrage gets a new lease of life
04 October, 2007
A new report suggests that a Severn estuary tidal barrage could provide nearly 5 per cent of the UK's electricity needs

Europe’s cleanest fossil fuel plant about to come on line
01 October, 2007
Naturkraft’s 420 MWe combined cycle Kårstø power plant, Norway’s first large scale gas fired plant, is expected to be in commercial operation from November 2007. With NOx emissions of 2 ppm it promises to be the cleanest fossil fired power plant in Europe. This demanding target is to be met by a huge SCR deNOx system, currently undergoing commissioning.

Chinese sign up for four AP1000s...
01 September, 2007

APR1400: Korea’s next step
01 September, 2007
In January 2008 the Korean nuclear industry is scheduled take a significant – albeit considerably postponed – step forward with the long awaited start of site excavation for Shin-Kori 3 and 4, the first APR1400 (Advanced Power Reactor) units. These are Generation III pressurised water reactors and the start of construction marks the culmination of a development effort that started in 1992. Certification of the design, in 2002, was followed by a delay in deployment.

Staying on the level with the help of multiple alarms
01 June, 2007
A user’s guide to available level measurement and alarm technologies for coal-handling and fly ash disposal operations.

Built-in fire brigade: water vs nitrogen
01 May, 2007
Dealing with fire is likely to become an increasingly hot topic for the wind turbine business.

Scottish sea monsters ride the crest of a wave
01 May, 2007
Although wave energy technology is still in its infancy, with most projects in the prototype stage, Europe is leading the way in terms of R & D and political awareness. Scotland shows significant potential, assisted by the recent government announcement of £13m of awards under the Marine Energy Fund, the largest beneficiary of which is to be Ocean Power Delivery, developer of the Pelamis wave energy device.

LIPA's superconducting future
01 March, 2007
Installation work on a high temperature superconductor HV link on Long Island, New York, will begin soon. When the link enters operation in September, it will be the longest and most powerful HTS cable in a live grid at transmission voltage.

Transforming Tallawarra: GT26 based plant for booming New South Wales
01 March, 2007
One of a spate of new orders worldwide for GT26-based combined cycle power stations, TRUenergy’s Tallawarra plant is being constructed on the site of a demolished coal fired plant in New South Wales, Australia.

Wood chips in to a CHP solution
01 February, 2007
Austria’s current target specifies that by 2012 8% of national electricity production must be from renewables. The Simmering plant, at 24.5 MWe the country’s largest biomass plant, on its own meets 7.6 % of that target.