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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.