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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.”
Making the case for battery-based virtual transmission The idea of employing energy storage as transmission – aka “virtual transmission” – has been gaining traction recently, with Fluence, the AES/Siemens energy storage joint venture,...
Japan claims world first: DLN gas turbine combustors verified on 100% hydrogen Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd and Obayashi Corporation have announced “successful technology...
Natural gas conversion: a new role for old coal Coal plant operators are looking at ways of repurposing their old units to avoid them becoming stranded assets. Conversion to natural gas has been a widely adopted strategy in the USA...
Regulatory milestone for NuScale and for SMRs The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed Phase 6 review – the last and final phase – of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for NuScale’s small modular reactor...
Hitachi ABB: aiming to transform power grids “It’s a very good fit”, says Bruno Melles, speaking of ABB’s recently completed divestment of its Power Grids business to Hitachi and the formation of a new force to be reckoned with...
Steam power from Pilsen Pilsen-based Doosan Škoda Power plans to deliver two 50 MW DST-G20 steam turbines, plus associated equipment, in the middle of 2021 to Palu 3 – a coal fired plant which it...
Korea in the big league Korea is well on its way to joining the elite group of countries (USA, Germany, Japan, Italy) with their own independent advanced large-frame gas turbine and combined cycle technologies.
T-Point 2 goes commercial Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (Mitsubishi Power as from 1 September 2020) reports that its T-Point 2 combined cycle power plant validation facility is now in full commercial...
Hydrogen A key element in the future development of Siemens gas turbines
NSW energy transition The need for speed
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