You searched for

HA gas turbines support the coal-to-gas transition in Ohio
27 September, 2023
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has announced the start of commercial operation of Caithness Energy’s 1875 MW Guernsey power station in Guernsey County, south eastern Ohio, in the heart of the state’s Utica and Marcellus shale gas development area.

A plug for Rotterdam
27 September, 2023
Uniper’s H2Maasvlakte project has been selected by the European Commission for a grant under the EU Innovation Fund scheme. It has also selected Plug Power to design the electrolysers.

EDF creates new UK engineering subsidiary
26 September, 2023
EDF has created EDF EPR Engineering UK, a move designed to strengthen its nuclear engineering presence in the United Kingdom and ‘optimise its project performance’. The new company is a 100% subsidiary of Edvance, which is itself a subsidiary of EDF and Framatome.

The path to global warming at 1.5 °C is still open – barely
26 September, 2023
The International Energy Agency has released a new edition of its Net Zero Roadmap, which shows that the road to driving down greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s energy sector to net zero and limiting global warming to 1.5 ̊C remains possible, just, owing to the record growth of key clean energy technologies, but momentum still needs to increase rapidly in many areas.

ZNPP risks diminish, but not military tensions
26 September, 2023
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has completed the drilling of ten groundwater wells, bringing the plant close to having a longer-term solution for the provision of cooling water to the shutdown reactors after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June, director general Rafael Grossi said on 22 September during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Update 184.

Ghana launches $550 bn net-zero plan
26 September, 2023
Ghana has launched a USD 550 bn Energy Transition and Investment Plan aimed at achieving net-zero emissions, and expecting to create 400 000 jobs by 2060.

Construction starts of largest biomass power plant in West Africa
26 September, 2023
EDF, Meridiam and SIFCA have laid the foundation stone of the largest biomass power plant in West Africa. Located in the Aboisso municipality, around 100 km East of Abidjan, the 46 MW plant will use agricultural waste. It forms part of the 2014-2030 National Action Plan for Renewable Energy established by Côte d’Ivoire, which has set a 45% target of renewable sources in its energy mix by 2030.

Takasago Hydrogen Park enters full-scale operation
26 September, 2023
Mitsubishi Power, an MHI brand, has announced that Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world's first integrated hydrogen validation facility, has entered full-scale operation. The park is located at MHI’s Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo prefecture in west central Japan. Electrolysis hydrogen production recently began operation at the park, and Mitsubishi Power aims to improve product reliability through the validation of hydrogen co-firing and 100% hydrogen firing of gas turbines, while also implementing successive expansion with the introduction of next-generation hydrogen production technologies.

GE Vernova MoC for Ukraine hydro
26 September, 2023
GE Vernova has signed a Memorandum of Collaboration between its Hydro Power business and Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s largest operator of hydropower plants. As part of the two-year agreement, both companies will seek to identify opportunities to build and restore Ukraine’s hydropower facilities. In particular, the MoC identifies a new pumped storage plant, Kaniv (1 GW), the supply of 3 units of 324 MW for the Dniester power plant, and the reconstruction of Kakhovka power plant (335 MW, pictured), which has been damaged during the war. This MoC provides a framework for potential contractual agreements in the future.

Heat pump expansion in Germany stalls
26 September, 2023
Germany’s heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country’s expansion target of installing 500 000 units a year from 2024, reports online agency Clean Energy Wire. The German heat pump association (BWP) says that demand for heat pumps has fallen steeply in recent months owing to uncertainty stemming from the protracted debate on heating, and unclear funding conditions. This follows a roughly 50 % drop in applications for heat pump subsidies in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut. As a result, Germany’s competitiveness as a heat pump producer has also deteriorated, the BWP added.

MEPs back plans to boost renewable energy
19 September, 2023
In its plenary session on 12 September the EU parliament voted to boost the deployment of renewable energy, in line with the Green Deal and REPowerEU plans.

DemoSATH floating wind starts commercial ops
19 September, 2023
The floating offshore wind project DemoSATH, led by the Spanish engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies in collaboration with RWE and Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO), has started supplying power to the Spanish grid.

Global electricity production still falling
19 September, 2023
The latest International Energy Agency Monthly Electricity Statistics report, which includes June 2023 data, shows that for total OECD membership, total net electricity production amounted to 864.1 TWh in June 2023, down by 4.5% compared to June 2022. Over the first half of 2023, electricity production dropped by 3.7% compared to the same period last year.