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Post-combustion capture: aiming to be commercial by 2015
01 December, 2010
Alstom’s efforts in the field of post-combustion capture are focused on two technologies, chilled ammonia and advanced amine. Initial results from pilot and validation facilities are encouraging.

Wanted: the right sort of genius
01 December, 2010
The language of innovation, uncertainty, optimality and risk, not wearisome political rhetoric and spurious certainty.

Russian KLT-40S project still afloat
01 December, 2010
Despite the economic downturn, a radical change of plan and rumours of the project’s demise, the Russians appear to have been working steadily away on realising their vision of developing floating nuclear power plants based on the well established KLT-40 marine reactor, as widely used in icebreakers

East Europe wants to be greener
01 October, 2010
A large number of new and prospective green projects in eastern Europe owe their existence to the active promotion and enthusiastic take-up of renewables technologies in the region.

Aeropower rethinkers have been galvanised into action
01 October, 2010
Spanish authorities have had to probe the oversatisfactory statistics of solar power generation at night

The three R's of the energy syllabus
01 October, 2010
Our species must make the best of what is on offer at any particular juncture

Emerson gets Samcheonpo under control
01 August, 2010

HVDC provides the platform for German North Sea connections
01 August, 2010
The infrastructure for connecting offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the German grid, via 300 kV HVDC links, is now beginning to take shape, thanks to major investments by TSO, Transpower.

Getting fired up about algae-derived fuel in PC burners
01 August, 2010
Siemens Energy says it has successfully completed the first firing in a pulverised-coal burner of PetroAlgae Inc’s algae-derived solid biomass fuel.

Winning the power game at the World Cup
01 August, 2010
The supply of reliable power for the broadcast media at a high profile global sports event such as the 2010 FIFA World Cup is critical to the success of the tournament.

The greening of Drax and the economic realities
01 August, 2010
Drax has ambitious plans to increase its use of biomass, including conversion of one of its 660 MW coal fired units to 100% biomass, construction of dedicated biomass power plants and greater use of existing co-firing facilities. But it thinks the UK's mechanisms for incentivising biomass need changing.

A utility-scale solar plant flowers in the California desert
01 August, 2010
When completed, the 400 MW Ivanpah solar power complex will almost double the amount of commercial solar thermal electricity produced in the US today.

Mobil SHC Pegasus: a revolution in oil
01 August, 2010
A highly structured programme of rigorous testing – from bench scale screening to full scale field trials – has resulted in a new, lower viscosity, synthetic gas engine oil, Mobil SHC Pegasus. This new oil can reduce fuel consumption by as much as 1.5% (as compared with the company’s standard natural gas engine oils) while at the same time achieving improved performance.

GE signs $116 service alliance with TVA...
01 August, 2010

Power from the sun – now a day-night operation
01 August, 2010
High temperature molten salt storage is being increasingly used to ballast the output of thermal solar plants, and as a heat transfer fluid in some new facilities. The first of 17 projected plants of this kind has been inaugurated in Italy. Is this the way forward for concentrated solar power?

First steps to harmony in Europe
01 August, 2010
Europe’s TSOs have produced the pilot for their 10 year plan, a response to the EU directive demanding harmonisation of national regulatory frameworks and greater transparency during the process.

Make ready for revolution
01 August, 2010
Unfortunately earthlings cannot indefinitely continue to rely on fossil fuels

Meeting low emissions rules for larger engines
01 August, 2010
Cummins Power Generation has extended its range of low-emissions gensets

Metso gives Tampere’s Lielahti CHP 20 more years of life
01 August, 2010

RWE builds up pellet power
01 August, 2010
RWE is making significant investments in the biomass supply chain for its power plants, notably in wood pellet production, both conventional and Topell “biocoal.”