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Hydrogen makes headway in the USA Projects being undertaken by GE and Mitsubishi Power in the USA will see increasing proportions of hydrogen being used in fuel for gas turbines
Start of a global industry? Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and...
The pathway to renewables and the role of liquid air To accommodate a growing share of intermittent renewables in the energy mix, while also maintaining grid stability, will require a major expansion of energy storage capacity. Among...
Remote mine sets the gold standard with energy storage and renewables Gold Fields and its independent power provider, EDL, have achieved renewable energy penetration up to 85% (under favourable weather conditions) at the Agnew gold mine in...
How HVDC will revolutionise the European, and in turn global, energy market The power sector in Europe and beyond is being transformed by the growth of renewable energy and the move towards a single energy market. HVDC (high voltage direct current) has a...
Success for Hitachi Zosen Inova Energy from waste projects employing Hitachi Zosen Inova technology are progressing in the UK and Russia
Longship launched, full steam ahead for capture & storage Among recent encouraging developments in the CCUS area, one of the most significant is the positive final investment decision taken, after considerable deliberation, by the...
Continuing to achieve new benchmarks in China The indefatigable Professor Weizhong Feng and his colleagues at Shanghai Shenergy Power Technology are still setting new standards for coal fired power plant performance
Learning from Petra Nova Amidst growing international interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS) this year, an apparent high profile setback for the technology came in May, with the mothballing of NRG’s...
Aiming towards zero carbon in the Humber Equinor, together with eleven other companies and organisations, has submitted a joint proposal to create a low carbon cluster in the Humber, the UK’s largest and most...
Developing Australia’s H2 economy The opportunities and challenges of scaling up
NEOM giga project aims for hydrogen leadership Recent months have seen continuing progress with Saudi Arabia’s NEOM giga project – to be constructed in the north west of Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea – with the finalisation of...
Barakah 1 powers up On 19 August 2020 the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced grid connection and synchronisation of its 1400 MWe Barakah 1 pressurised water reactor, designed and...
Al Dhafra: aiming to be the biggest single-site PV project The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has announced the contract award for the development of what it believes is currently the world’s largest single-project solar...
The case for synchronous energy storage Blackouts experienced in the UK last year prompted a flurry of headlines expressing concern that ‘near-misses’ were on the rise. The national grid and its ability to adapt to the...
AM shows its mettle in sCO2 CSP application SupportFree additive manufacturing allowed the successful build of a mission critical shrouded radial expander wheel (impeller) for use with sCO2 as the working fluid in a...
North America thinking big on small reactors Steps to revolutionise the adoption of micro reactors and small modular reactors (SMR) in North America are progressing at an increasingly rapid pace. Economic forces in both Canada...
Floating offshore wind: time to go large Janet Wood reports from Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT2020), Marseille, 7-9 September, which, remarkably, was a live event, as well as being on-line
Korea launches big plans for offshore wind, Doosan’s new growth engine Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction says it “is preparing to penetrate in full force the market for offshore wind power generation as its new growth engine.”
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