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The IRA will accelerate green hydrogen adoption
22 December, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act aims to systematically supercharge the energy transition, and it gives clean H2 a starring role

Sustainable wooden WTG blades
22 December, 2022
Stora Enso and Voodin Blade Technology have signed a partnership agreement to develop wind turbine blades made from wood. Under the agreement, the two companies are committed to developing sustainable alternatives for wind turbine blades and creating a competitive and reliable supply chain. They are currently producing and installing a 20 m blade for a 0.5 MW turbine and have plans for an 80 m blade.

Supporting legacy equipment in the absence of OEM support
21 December, 2022
The case of Eskom’s coal plant boiler feed pump gearboxes with variable speed fluid drive couplings

$3.7 bn to kick-start the USA’s CO2 extraction industry
20 December, 2022
The Biden-Harris administration, through the US Department of Energy has announced the launch of four programmes intended to help build a ‘commercially viable, just, and responsible carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States’. The programmes, funded with $3.7 billion from president Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will help accelerate private-sector investment, spur advancements in monitoring and reporting practices for carbon management technologies, and provide grants to state and local governments to procure and use products developed from captured carbon emissions. In tandem with strong action to reduce carbon emissions, large-scale deployment of carbon management technologies, including direct air extraction, are seen as crucial to addressing the climate crisis and meeting president Biden’s goal of a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050.

Sunotec builds Bulgaria’s largest solar plant
20 December, 2022
The construction of Bulgaria’s largest solar power plant, the 124 MW Verila project, is due to be completed by spring 2023 and will increase solar power generation in the country by 12%. The new plant is located to the south of Sofia, and is being delivered by Sunotec.

Renewable PPA for new solar project
20 December, 2022
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA has announced that it has entered into a renewable power purchase agreement that will enable the construction of a new 310 MW solar project to be located in north central Texas.

Plans to build the world’s first laser fusion plant
20 December, 2022
Following the recent announcement of fusion energy breakeven at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence in California, Longview Fusion Energy Systems has announced plans to build the world’s first laser fusion power plant.

Green Fuels for Denmark receives Danish IPCEI funding
20 December, 2022
The Danish Business Authority has awarded the Danish Power-to-X flagship project ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ DKK 600 million as part of Denmark’s participation in the European IPCEI (Important Projects of Common European Interest) programme. The funding will go towards realising Green Fuels for Denmark’s first phases of 10 MW, 100 MW and 300 MW respectively.

LNG terminal opening ‘sets pace for infrastructure modernisation’
20 December, 2022
Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas opened on 17 December, and is scheduled to supply gas to the German grid within days, reports online news agency Clean Energy Wire. “This is a very special moment,” chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the opening event in the North Sea town of Wilhelmshaven. Russia’s attack on Ukraine prompted Germany's rapid decision to build LNG terminals “in the shortest time possible” in order to become independent of Russian gas, Scholz said, adding that many observers had doubted the country could adapt fast enough. “But the opposite is true – we’ve actually made it.” Herr Scholz also revealed that many more LNG terminals would be opening soon. Once this has been achieved, “we can proudly say that Germany has safeguarded its energy security” he said. The chancellor added the terminals's rapid construction time “is … the … speed with which we’ll advance our infrastructure,” and should serve as an example for how fast important projects can be implemented.

200 MW gas plant for Ireland’s reserve
20 December, 2022
GE Gas Power and MYTILINEOS have secured an order from the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland (ESB)) for the construction of a new gas-fired power plant in Dublin, co-located with ESB's existing North Wall power plant.

The Inflation Reduction Act: what it means for clean energy
15 December, 2022
It is estimated the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) could more than triple US clean energy production, with about 40% of the USA’s energy coming from renewables by 2030, with some 550 GW of renewable capacity added in less than ten years. It also provides a more stable 10-year window for incentives and marks a move away from the “boom and bust” nature of the previous support regime

Synchronous condensers restore grid inertia in two major European projects
14 December, 2022
The global transition to renewable energy is reducing the availability of system inertia vital for the stable operation of power grids. Synchronous condensers are well proven devicesthat are restoring the balance in two diverse installations

Fusion ignition breakthrough achieved at NIF
13 December, 2022
The US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration announced on 13 December the achievement of fusion ignition at the Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, in what is considered a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. On 5 December a team at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted what is said to be the first controlled fusion experiment in history to reach this milestone, by briefly producing more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.

German government proposes changes to CCS legal framework
13 December, 2022
Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that in a bid to achieve its climate targets, the German government aims to bet more strongly and more quickly than previously thought on the controversial technologies of carbon capture and storage or use (CCU/CCS). A draft assessment report by the economy ministry on the country’s CO2 storage law and international developments on the technologies is currently being co-ordinated among ministries.

Coal the largest source for generation for 15 states
13 December, 2022
In 15 US states last year, coal was used to generate more electricity than any other energy source. Twenty years earlier, in 2001, coal was the largest source of electricity generation in 32 states, but the USA has shifted away from coal-fired generation since it peaked in 2007, and toward natural gas and renewables.

ERCOT creates voluntary curtailment programme
13 December, 2022
As part of continued improvements to support grid reliability, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid operator) is implementing a voluntary curtailment programme allowing large flexible customers, such as bitcoin mining facilities, to reduce their power use during periods of high demand.

Wärtsilä to supply a 100 MWh battery storage system to the UK
13 December, 2022
Wärtsilä has signed a contract with EDF Renewables UK and Ireland to deliver a new grid-scale energy storage facility in Sundon, Bedfordshire, UK. The 50 MW/100 MWh project will form part of a new ‘Energy Superhub’ in the region. Construction is expected to start in spring 2023.

First two pumped storage units at Jinzhai commissioned
13 December, 2022
GE Hydro Solutions has been contracted by Anhui Jinzhai Pumped Storage Power Co, one of the divisions of State Grid XinYuan, to supply four new 300 MW Pumped Storage turbines, generator-motors as well as the balance of plant equipment for the Anhui Jinzhai Pumped Storage power plant located in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, China. The first two units have now been delivered to the project, have passed the trial operation period, and are connected to the grid.

Global BESS capacity to exceed 2 TWh by 2033
13 December, 2022
In the latest version of its market report, ‘Batteries for stationary energy storage 2023–2033’, IDTechEx predicts that by 2033, global cumulative stationary battery storage capacity is set to exceed 2 TWh.

Germany sets renewable power record in 2022
13 December, 2022
Germany will produce a record 256 TWh of electricity from renewable sources this year, but at that rate will still fall short of its 2030 targets, according to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Preliminary data by its Working Group on Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat, an organisation made up of experts from various federal ministries and agencies which consolidates data on the development of renewable energy in Germany) show that sunny weather during the year has boosted solar PV production 23 % compared to 2021, while wind power production also increased. However, to stay on track to reaching about 600 TWh by 2030 – 80 % of total power consumption – renewables would have had to produce around 270 TWh this year.