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Another milestone for Canada’s green hydrogen ambitions
17 April, 2024
World Energy GH2 and Export Development Canada (EDC), on behalf of the government of Canada, have signed a definitive agreement to develop Project Nujio’qonik*, Canada’s first commercial-scale green hydrogen/ammonia facility, to be located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL).

HRSG design, installation, and O&M: lessons learned
10 April, 2024
Adoption of best practices based on in-depth experience of HRSG project challenges can yield significant benefits, including higher efficiency, less emissions and reduced maintenance requirements.

Detecting LV-grid pre-faults
03 April, 2024
Electricity networks face a constant challenge to minimise downtime and prevent outages from storm-related faults, which can be as many as 100-200 per day in the UK, for example, with its reputation for heavy rain. Permanent monitoring equipment can however detect pre-faults and their location, assisting network operators in performing proactive repair work.

Hydrogen, the burning issue at Tallawarra
03 April, 2024
Following a two year construction period, GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and EnergyAustralia have announced entry into commercial operation of the $300 million 320 MWe fast-start Tallawarra B power station. It is located in Yallah on the western shore of Lake Illawarra in New South Wales, about eight miles southwest of Wollongong.

Making the energy transition a reality
27 March, 2024
Energy transition initiatives abound in Rotterdam.

ABB sees potential in gravity energy storage
13 March, 2024
ABB has signed an MoU with Gravitricity with a view to collaborating on accelerating the deployment of gravity energy storage systems in former mines.

Germany’s energy transition: why big batteries must be included
06 March, 2024
A study by Frontier Economics – commissioned by Fluence, BayWa r.e., ECO STOR, enspired, and Kyon Energy – provides valuable insights for advancing the energy transition in Germany.

sCO2 on the horizon in the EU
06 March, 2024
As reflected in a current series of webinars organised by ETN Global (with the ETN, previously European Turbine Network, now standing for Energy & Turbomachinery Network), there is some very interesting R&D going on in Europe in the area of supercritical CO2, much of it with EU funding coming from the Horizon research and innovation programme. Nine leading European sCO2 research & development projects are outlined here, with additional R&D initiatives to be profiled in a future article. sCO2 power cycles are a promising research area due to potential benefits such as higher thermal efficiencies, reduced costs, lower emissions, and more compact components compared to conventional power generation technologies.

Fossil fuels to be banned
06 March, 2024
Eight years after the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015 kicked off climate change as a global issue, COP28 delegates agreed a viable route to a ban on all fossil fuels for power generation by 2050.

Waste trucks become active players in UK grid
29 February, 2024
Recent vehicle-to-grid trials in the UK have shown how the batteries installed in parked electrified waste collection trucks can operate as stationary energy storage capacity, providing valuable services to the grid.

‘Breakthrough’ for energy storage launched
28 February, 2024
A new energy storage technology, described by its maker as ‘cutting-edge’, has been developed by green energy company Superdielectrics Group. The technology stems from an ongoing collaboration with leading researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, who identified and validated the key mechanisms involved.

Looking ahead to the 2024 World Energy Congress
22 February, 2024
Q&A with Jeroen Van Hoof, leader of the organising committee for the 2024 World Energy Congress, to be held in Rotterdam, 22-25 April.

Funding breakthrough for Energy Dome
21 February, 2024
Energy Dome, developer of CO2-based thermo-mechanical energy storage technology – which it sees as “the only viable alternative for long-duration energy storage today” – has announced funding commitments for its first commercial scale system. To be located in Sardinia, Italy, it is expected to enter operation in Q3 2024.

sCO2 and CO2 as working fluids for power generation and storage
15 February, 2024
Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is clearly a problem. But using the thermodynamic properties of this versatile molecule in modern power systems can be an opportunity.

Zinc–manganese: a much needed alternative to lithium–ion?
15 February, 2024
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg) in Ulm has joined forces with partners to create the ORRCABATT project, with the aim of developing an alternative rechargeable battery technology not dependent on scarce resources. The ORRCABATT project will focus on zinc–manganese dioxide batteries for stationary applications. The advantage of this battery technology is that the only metals required are manganese and zinc. These metals are widely available and more eco-friendly than lithium, with well established recycling paths, says ZSW.

Adding carbon capture for negative emissions
14 February, 2024
The addition of carbon capture technology to energy-from-waste and biomass plants is attracting increasing interest, with Aker Carbon Capture emerging as a key player.

Hitachi Energy’s HyFlex: the diesel engine killer
14 February, 2024
Data centres are among the applications envisaged for Hitachi Energy’s HyFlex(TM) fuel cell based hydrogen power generator, developed in partnership with Gothenburg based fuel cell manufacturer PowerCell Group (Volvo spin-out).

Cooling supercomputers: a new role for old mines
14 February, 2024
A feasibility study, part of the Edinburgh Geobattery project, is underway to see if waste heat from the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) can be stored in disused mine workings near the facility and used to warm homes.

Saft helps Microsoft go diesel free
13 February, 2024
Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has delivered a battery energy storage system to replace diesel backup gensets at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden. The system can be seen as a key milestone on Microsoft’s path to diesel-free data centres by 2030.

EU market redesign: pivotal for storage
12 February, 2024
On 14 December 2023, the Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement to reform the EU’s Electricity Market Design (EMD), with the goal of reducing dependence on volatile fossil fuel prices. The text emphasises energy storage as a key solution in achieving energy security and decarbonisation, says EASE (European Association for Storage of Energy).